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New Parking Rates (Effective August 1, 2025)

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August 31: Rev. Areeta at Holy Cross Vancouver

August 31: Rev. Kevin at St. Mary the Virgin, Sapperton

September 7: Rev. Kevin accompanying Archbishop John to St. Mary the Virgin, South Hill

Early in 2025, we started a weekly service of musical Evening Prayer at the Cathedral. Sundays @4 features music of different styles and traditions, from traditional Choral Evensong with the Cathedral Choir to Taizé, Holden Evening Prayer, Organ Vespers, and even Broadway Vespers.

Now that Sundays @4 is in full swing, we invite volunteers to join our team of greeters and servers. The time commitment is Sunday from 3.15pm until approximately 5pm, and we would be delighted for team members to commit to one Sunday each month.

• Greeters meet congregation members at the door and distribute service bulletins, and they assist with receiving and counting donations

• Servers participate in setting up the liturgical space, and they robe for the service to assist the Presider, including the lighting of candles, the ceremonial use of incense, and the reading of scriptures.

Compline - Weekly on Sunday at 8pm, Christ Church Cathedral

We also invite volunteers to join our team of greeters and services for our long-established services of Compline, weekly on Sundays at 8pm. The tasks are...

At Christ Church Cathedral we are discovering that the Spirit’s imagination often stretches wider than our own. Increasingly, we are called not only to serve as a parish church in downtown Vancouver, but also as a resource hub for ministry that extends far beyond our own walls.

This is what we have come to call the hub and spoke model of ministry. In this model, the Cathedral is the “hub”—a place with resources, leadership, and formation to offer—while “spoke” communities are parishes, congregations, and partner organizations who connect into that hub in a mutual way. Each spoke is unique, with its own strengths, gifts, and challenges, but together we form a shared network of ministry.

What this looks like in practice

• Holy Cross, Vancouver: The Rev. Clare Morgan serves half-time as priest-in-charge at Holy Cross and half-time as Cathedral Nave Missioner. The Cathedral provides preaching, presiding, and vacation coverage (Dean Chris is covering this Sunday, and the Rev. Areeta Bridgemohan on August 31). Holy Cross parishioners are also invited to join Cathedral formation events and special services.

• St. Mary’s, Sapperton: Once a month, the Rev. Kevin de la Mare serves as deacon among this vibrant Filipino congregation, ensuring they have the sacramental and pastoral leadership that would otherwise be missing.

• Whitehorse, Yukon: In collaboration with...

Saturday, November 8, 2025

Centering Prayer is a receptive method of silent prayer that prepares us to receive the gift of contemplative prayer, in which we experience God’s presence within us, closer than breathing, closer than thinking, closer than consciousness itself. Centering Prayer adds depth of meaning to all prayer and facilitates the movement from more active kinds of prayer into a receptive prayer of resting in God.

The Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop familiarizes participants with the method of Centering Prayer and its conceptual background and offers two opportunities to experience the prayer. The workshop consists of four presentations led by Contemplative Outreach commissioned presenters.

1. Prayer as Relationship
2. The Method of Centering Prayer
3. Thoughts and the Use of the Sacred Word
4. Deepening our Relationship with God

The Four Community of Practice Sessions
Participants are invited to attend four Continuing Sessions which provide support, teaching and the time needed to establish a personal Centering Prayer Practice. The Sessions also include the opportunity to share the initial Centering Prayer experience with others who have made a similar commitment.

Community of Practice Sessions are led by an experienced facilitator and includes a period of Centering Prayer and group discussion. Details regarding the Continuing Sessions will be offered by the Workshop Presenter.

Cost: $225 (scholarships are available). This includes...

Sunday, September 14, 2025, at 9:15 in the Park Room

How anxious are you about the state of the world? If you worry about climate chaos, heartbreaking warfare and political uncertainty or the future for your children, you are not alone. How can we as Christians continue to live in hope while facing such challenges? The next speaker at the upcoming CATS 40-minute forum at CCC will be speaking about just that.

Speaking from his studies and research, as well as having a wide experience in contemplative practice, Dr. Jason M. Brown will explore ways we can stay connected with each other and love the world more deeply, even as we struggle with a sense of loss.

Dr. Brown teaches courses at SFU in religious studies and ecological humanities. He studied anthropology as an undergraduate at Brigham Young University. His master's work is in forestry and theology from Yale, and he completed his PhD in 2017 from the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of...

Picture this: it’s early morning and the deafening sound of chainsaws jolts you awake. Looking out, you see every tree on your street being cut down. Shocking isn’t it?

That unsettling picture is, in fact, the reality in Canada’s boreal forest, one of Earth’s greatest forests, where millions of trees are logged each year, mostly for paper.

But what does that have to do with us here at the Cathedral?

During The Season of Creation, August 31 - October 4th, we will be initiating a small change together. Guided by our Music Director, Dr Neil Cockburn, and supported by Cathedral staff, clergy and CATS (Climate Action Through Stewarding) ministry, we’ll return to using the hymnals in our pews (the large blue books found nearby in every pew) rather than printing every hymn in the Sunday 10:30 service bulletins.

This latest effort to reduce ...

The United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP30, is being held this year in Belém, Brazil, from November 10th to the 25th.

The theme for this year’s conference is “Addressing Global Climate Change for a Sustainable Future.” While there are several environmental topics that will be discussed, the main item is “countries to make progress towards securing a global treaty to end plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.”

On August 16th, Anglican Rector Emilie Smith (St Barnabas in NW) began a pilgrimage to COP30. She left from Coast Salish Territories and is travelling in green, sustainable ways by bus, boat, bike, train, and burro to attend the conference. We will be following her during her journey and...

Education for Ministry (EfM), celebrated its 50th anniversary this summer. This September it launches a new, totally revised programme. Although our Diocese does not have on-site groups at present, EfM remains available to us through On-Line EfM.

Every 10 years the materials have gone through revision, reimagination or new formats. The programme remains the same: studying the Scripture, the History and Tradition of the Church, and in the 4th year a new focus: Ethics and Spirituality. The method remains the same as we gather in small ‘cohorts’ committed to being “safe and brave” learning spaces for each other for the next nine months. Materials change, faces change but EfM continues its mission of “equipping the saints for the work of ministry.” (Ephesians 4:12)...

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

Upper Zoom Bible Study | Resumes Thursday, September 4

Maundy Café |  Resumes Friday, September 5 

Those seeking prayers for themselves or others may email the Cathedral Prayer Link at prayerlink@thecathedral.ca to have their name added to the list.

Please Note: Unless otherwise requested, names are removed from the prayer list after three weeks. The Prayer Link ministry sincerely appreciates any updates on recovery or changes in circumstances.

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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