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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. 

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

The Cathedral will be closed on Monday, November 11 in observance of the statutory holiday for Remembrance Day.

We pause to remember and give thanks for those who have served and sacrificed for the cause of peace. Regular office hours will resume on Tuesday, November 12.

The Cathedral’s office elves are hard at work preparing the bulletins for our sacred and busy Advent and Christmas. With this in mind, our office will be open from 10 AM to 2 PM, Monday through Friday.

Even though you can see our elves hard at work at their desks after 2 PM, we are giving them this uninterrupted time to create the service bulletins that make worship at the Cathedral a smooth and deeply spiritual experience for all.

Thank you for your patience and support.

Gentlemen! Our next Men's Breakfast is coming up on Saturday, November 8th at the Cathedral.

Doors open at 8:00 AM, and breakfast is at 8:30 AM. We will start our session at 9:00 AM and wrap up at 10:15 AM. 
 
This session will build on our conversation last month with the Rev. Alisdair Smith exploring challenges to DEI programs. This month, we're going to examine some similar issues, but from a different perspective, through the lens of a Ted Talk by Richard Reeves titled: "How to solve the education crisis for boys and men." We will be showing the Ted Talk as part of the session, but you are welcome to pre-view the presentation at: TED Talks | Richard Reeves
 
We ask that you please bring $20 to cover the costs of the breakfast. To assist us with planning, please RSVP to Ron Bowles: ronbowles7@gmail.com.
 
As always, we look forward to an engaging and thought-provoking conversation. 
 
The Squadron

Come to our 40-min forum to learn more about how metals needed for future development of digital technology and renewable energy are causing environmental havoc, and how we can do better.

What has my cell phone got to do with the environment?

Mining has always been important in the Canadian economy. Today, demand for both...

Spend four evenings in Advent taking a journey with the pilgrim characters of the Advent season: Mary, Elizabeth, Joseph, and John the Baptist. Archbishop John will offer teaching on their stories and the Prologue from the Gospel of John. The sessions will include small group discussion and use scripture, image, song, and poetry to help us deepen our own pilgrim journeys as we search for Emmanuel.

This series takes place on Zoom.

WHEN: Tuesday Evenings from November 25 to December 16

TIME: 7pm

Register here.

During the 10:30 AM service, children are invited to come downstairs to the Park Room for a Godly Play* lesson. They will come back upstairs and rejoin parents for communion. 

*Godly Play is a beautiful and thoughtful Montessori-informed approach that nurtures children's spirituality as they engage with the stories and sacraments of the church. It was developed by Dr. Jerome Berryman, an American Anglican priest. 

Join us on Sundays at 12:30 PM in the Park Room (or the Chancel if the Park Room is booked. The Chancel is at the front of the church, near the altar). Bring your lunch or buy your lunch in between coffee hour and the start of our discussion group.

Revs. Areeta and Claude will be facilitating small, informal group conversations about the Christian faith, spiritual practices, the Anglican tradition, and more. They’re always open to hearing whatever else you would like to learn more about!

This group is ideal for those who are...

Are you looking for a way to deepen your spiritual life? Every weekday morning at 9:30 AM the Cathedral holds Morning Prayer.

We will follow a simple liturgy with a Psalm, a Reading, Prayer and Silence. This form of regular, daily prayer is used in the Anglican Communion and a number of other church denominations. All are welcome to start the day in prayer with us.

Morning Prayer takes place online via Zoom. To join in, please click HERE at 9:30 AM on weekdays.

The weekly Upper Zoom Bible Study resumes on Thursdays at 7:30 PM. We gather online for a time of learning, reflection, and conversation about the upcoming Sunday's readings, using a method inspired by Lectio Divina. It’s a wonderful opportunity to grow in faith and connect with one another, even from the comfort of home.

All are welcome to BYOB (Bring Your Own Bible) and join!

Please email The Rev. Claude St-Denis, claude@thecathedral.ca if you would like more information.

The Cathedral will be hosting a Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop, from 9:30 AM to 4 PM on Saturday, November 8th. Participants are invited to also attend four continuing sessions which will be held from 7 PM to 8:30 PM at the Cathedral on Tuesday Nov 18th, Nov 25th, Dec 9th and Dec 16th.

The suggested cost of the workshop is $225. This includes the workshop (refreshments & lunch will be provided), community of practice continuing sessions and a paperback copy of Open Mind, Open Heart by Thomas Keating. 

Please note: Bursaries are available. Please contact Rev. Areeta for more info (areeta@thecathedral.ca)

It was a quintessentially English May evening - gentle breeze, warm sunlight, lengthening shadows, an impossible number of songbirds singing their closing chorus from the trees.

Exeter’s Higher Cemetery, in the corner that holds the graves of Great War soldiers, was empty and peaceful, the greenery between the gravestones tidy, the gravestones themselves simple and unadorned.

Except for one...

Join us for an all-ages Advent Wreath Workshop following the 10:30 AM service on Sunday, November 30

Enjoy lunch in the Park Room, then take part in these activities in the Parish Hall:

• Advent Wreath Making Station 
• Children's Activity Station 
• Maundy Café Station: decorate cards and bags for the Maundy Café Christmas giveaways

Suggested donation: $10 for the Advent wreath

Join accomplished Canadian authors Brian Bartlett and Susan McCaslin as they read selections from their most recent books of poetry, exploring the interplay between natural, human, and spiritual ecologies.

Brian Bartlett has published sixteen collections and chapbooks of poetry, including...

In the autumn, the temperature drops, the days get shorter and the trees around us start an important change. Beautiful fall colours begin the transition with our deciduous trees losing their leaves – this will protect them later from the weight of snow and ice. Another reason trees lose their leaves is to reduce the loss of water during winter. Water is as important for...

Alongside Hope: Anglicans and partners working for change in Canada and around the world (formerly PWRDF).

Anglican Church of Canada Fund for Development and Relief.

Christ Church Cathedral’s Alongside Hope Committee with Jeremiah Mwangi as CCC’s Coordinator (a committee of 8, with 5 folks from Kenya), chose this Kenya Agricultural Women’s Partnership to focus on, as an educational fundraiser at CCC from September until November.

We will have a special Kenyan dessert/coffee gathering and presentation after the 10:30 AM service on November 16, 2025. 

For more information about the Cathedral's role in the Kenya Project, please email the office (reception@thecathedral.ca) and we will connect you.

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

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.

For the week of November 10 to November 14

MON 10 | Upper Level Open 10AM–4PM

TUES 11 | CLOSED for Remembrance Day

WED 12 | Upper Level Open 10AM–4PM

THURS 13 | Upper Level Open 10AM–4PM

FRI 14 | Upper Level Open 10AM–4PM

The Cathedral Office will be open from 10 AM to 2 PM. Staff contact information is available here. 

REGULAR SUNDAY SERVICES

Holy Communion | 8:00 a.m.

Choral Eucharist | 10:30 a.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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