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If you attend in person on Sundays, a special parking rate is available at the Park Place Parkade. The parking code for 2025 is 20254630. Rate details are available here. 

New Parking Rates (Effective August 1, 2025)

You can watch past live-streamed services on our YouTube channel — click to watch the ones you missed or rewatch the ones you enjoyed!

Rev. Areeta: away in the Yukon Aug 2–18

Rev. Christian: away July 15–August 5

Effective August 1, 2025, TLT will increase from 24% to 29%, as approved by the TransLink Board of Directors under the 2025 Investment Plan.

As a result of this change, all Park Place parking rates will be adjusted accordingly. The new weekend flat rate will be $5.25, and the Monday to Friday rates will $4.25 (hourly 6:00 am to 6:00 pm) and $18.75 (Daily max until 6:00 pm) starting August 1st.

Please note that this change is part of a regional initiative to fund public transit services through 2027 and reduce operating deficits. You can find further details in the official announcement from TransLink here.

Last meal is Friday, July 25. 

We will see you again on Friday, September 5. 

Christ Church Cathedral week at Sorrento Centre (July 20 to 25) brought about two dozen CCC parishioners together for daily worship, learning, and song.

Sorrento Centre is the Anglican retreat centre about 70 km east of Kamloops on the main arm of Shuswap Lake. Three large buildings have rooms for visitors, and there is alsospace for RVs, campsites for tents, and separate or duplex several cabins or cabanas, plus a swimming beach on the lake.

Morning Prayer for the whole Centre – both CCC members and as many others from both BC and Alberta – came at 9 am during the first four weekdays with special liturgies created by Dean Chris Pappas, Music Director Neil Cockburn, and the Rev. Clare Morgan.

Neil played a keyboard to help us sing hymns both traditional and modern, and Clare played her harp and led the singing along with a small choir that included...

You see us working every Sunday morning at the 10.30 service. We would love to recruit some more people (and kids!) to our ranks so if you would be interested in wearing an alb and carrying a cross or candle, or helping in other ways, or if you might be interested, but have questions before you decide, please let reception@thecathedral.ca know.

The Cathedral Choir: Choral Scholarships 2025/2026

The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver invites applications for Choral Scholar positions for the 2025/2026 season.

Up to four scholarships are available: one each of Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass.

The regular schedule for Choral Scholars is:

- Weekly on Thursdays: 7.30-9.30pm - rehearsal

- Weekly on Sundays: 9.30am rehearsal for the 10.30am Choral Eucharist (ending 11.50am approximately)

- Twice each month: 2.45pm rehearsal for 4pm Sundays @4

Additional rehearsals and services are scheduled according to...

Are you aware of how comforting a prayer shawl is to those who receive one? They are knit by volunteers in the congregation and are blessed at a Sunday service then stored in the office. They are available to anyone who wishes to receive one, or to give one to a friend or loved one in need of some prayers.

We recently had one returned to us by the husband of one of our dear parishioners who had died. It had brought great comfort to his wife and he wanted it to go back out to someone else. Grace upon grace…...

Yarn, knitting needles and instructions are all available if you don’t have any of your own on hand. Shawls are the main focus and we have even had some lovely baby blankets knit for car seats and strollers.

If you are a knitter, even a beginner, and would like to offer your time to this ministry, please contact Andrea Gailus through reception@thecathedral.ca with “Prayer Shawls” in the subject line for further information. We would be delighted to add you to the group and you don’t even have to come to a meeting! Just knit in the comfort of your home. We look forward to hearing from you.

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system". "The single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis" (Bill McKibben). In an essay that should be required reading for anyone worried about our climate future, one of the world's most influential environmental journalists describes solar power as a 'deep re-ordering' of the world’s energy system. Globally...

Joyce Fung Yan Lam passed away on July 19, 2025, at the age of 75. She was the wife of our parishioner Wilson Lam. Joyce was born on May 17, 1950, in Hong Kong. She is lovingly survived by her husband Wilson Lam, brothers NK and Stanley Wu, sisters Fung Ping and Fung Ling Wu.

A visitation will be held on July 26, 2025, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm at Glenhaven Memorial Chapel, located at 1835 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC, V5L1T3, Canada.

The funeral service will take place at the same location on July 28, 2025, from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. Following the service, Joyce will be cremated at Vancouver Crematorium, located at 5505 Fraser St, Vancouver, BC V5W 2Z3, Canada.

Rev. Richard R. Topping (Professor of Studies in the Reformed Tradition at Vancouver School of Theology) is teaching a class on Christian Theology this fall on Thursday afternoons. This is a great class for people interested in the basics of the Christian faith. It runs for 11 weeks every Thursday afternoon, starting September 11. We follow the Apostles’ Creed phrase by phrase, to discuss the faith Christians confess.

Topics like: what does it mean to be human, what is life for, what can we hope for and who is God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Many lay people have taken this course in the past and enjoyed it. The course is available on zoom and easily available to all.

Summer is here – or at least school is out! 

During the summer, our Sunday school (I'm still working on finding a good name for it) is on a summer hiatus. Sunday school will be on a summer hiatus starting on Sunday July 6 and will be back on Sunday August 31. 

We will have the mats in the Nave (where the 10.30am church service takes place) with quiet toys and books, where children and their grownups are invited to sit.

In the Anglican Church, we have a phrase: "lex orandi, lex credendi" – meaning the law of prayer is the law of belief. In terms of children's ministry and spiritual accompaniment, we believe that worshiping together teaches children lots of things about praying together and we also believe that children teach us about their place in worship when they worship with us. 

May your summer be a time of renewal, of slowing down, with moments of leisure. God bless you wherever your summer journeys lead.

Your friend in Christ, 

Areeta+

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P.S. Here is an excerpt from an article with...

Morning Prayer on Zoom | Monday to Friday | 9:30am to 10:00am

Fellowship for Parishioners of African Descent | Last Saturday of each month | 5:00 to 7:00pm

Summer Hiatus for Upper Zoom Bible Study - Resumes September 4, 2025  

As summer begins and some of us may be longing for some time to unwind, your Upper Zoom is also taking a break for a few weeks. After an amazing year studying our Sunday readings as well as the Book of Psalms, it is time for me to get ready for what comes next, and for you to enjoy the long expected summer.

Thank you for your presence week after week. Thank you for the knowledge and spiritual insights you shared through our conversations. The depth of this ministry comes from the group as a gift from God. We pause for the summer, but the Upper Zoom Bible Study will be back on Thursday, September 4, 2025.

In the meantime, the references for the Sunday readings are published online through our Canadian lectionary. Feel free to reach out to share your thoughts and questions through the summer. My email is claude@thecathedral.ca.

Blessings,

Claude

The Cathedral office is open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Staff contact information is available here. 

REGULAR SUNDAY SERVICES

Holy Communion | 8:00 a.m.

Choral Eucharist | 10:30 a.m.

St. Brigid’s Eucharist | 1:30 p.m.

Sundays@4 Choral Service | 4:00 p.m.

Compline | 8:00 p.m.

WEEKDAY SERVICES

Holy Eucharist | Monday—Friday
12:15 p.m.

Holy Eucharist | Thursday
7:30 a.m. (with breakfast following)

Rite of Reconciliation (Confession) | 4th Wednesday
11:00 a.m.—Noon

Healing Prayers & Anointing | Wednesday
Following the 12:15 p.m. Eucharist

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