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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!

Please note that incense will be used during the 10:30 AM Reign of Christ service this Sunday, November 23. 

We’re splitting our newsletter into two editions to help highlight our Advent services more clearly.

The Chronicle – Advent Services Edition will now be published on Fridays at 7pm, offering a focused look at upcoming music and worship.

We hope this new format makes it easier to stay connected during the Advent season.

Join Shawn Bullock to reflect on a Christian ethical response to Artificial Intelligence (AI). What concerns about AI might we have from a Christian perspective?

Shawn will be ordained as a deacon at the Cathedral on December 6. He has experience as a professor of education, has an academic background as a physicist, and...

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...

Bishop Anna, Bishop of the Isles and Inlets, will be leading a 40-min forum. Examine Advent and Christmas through the lens of Empire: “When Quirinius was Governor of Syria”. Join Bishop Anna as we reflect on the political context of the birth of Christ and ponder in our hearts how we are called to live as Christians in these turbulent 2020s. 

Join Rev. Dr. Rob James for a three-session Advent series that brings together scripture, collects, and poetry to illuminate the story of the Incarnation. In each session, we’ll read, reflect, and listen for the voice of hope and surprise that shapes the season and leads us towards our Saviour’s birth. 

Thursdays, 7:30 PM - 9 PM | December 4, 11, 18

On Zoom (link will be sent out to those who register).

Registration link: Advent 2025 Google Form

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!

With Advent instruction by Rev. Dr. Rob. Please email rob@thecathedral.ca if you would like more information. 

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.

As part of the Cathedral’s Hub & Spoke ministry, Dean Chris Pappas will be preaching and presiding at Holy Cross Anglican Church on Sunday, November 16, 2025.

The Hub & Spoke model allows the Cathedral to share clergy leadership and formation resources with other parishes across the diocese and province. This Sunday, the Rev. Clare Morgan, Vicar of Holy Cross and half-time Nave Missioner at the Cathedral, will be preaching at the Cathedral while Dean Chris ministers at Holy Cross.

Through this collaborative exchange, the Cathedral continues to use its blessings of people, resources, and gifts to strengthen and support ministry throughout our wider Anglican community.

Did you know that the Cathedral’s newest ministry operates entirely through the generosity and creativity of its members? With handcrafted beading work at its heart, the ministry has already created beautiful, all-Canadian rosaries—like those recently gifted to our Primate and the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral—using BC jade, BC rhodonite, and Canadian mixed agate.

Beginning in December, a selection of ...

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

The Cathedral serves lunch three times each week for less fortunate women and men in the  downtown community. Each year Maundy Café volunteers give a Christmas gift bag to each of our guests. We include new warm socks, gloves/mittens, scarves, hats, toothbrushes and toothpaste. This year the number of guests has increased so we will need more donations than ever before.

There will be a basket for donations in the Narthex on Sunday, November 16, 23, and 30. If you prefer to give funds for us to shop for most needed items, please mark your donation Maundy Café Gift Bags. Thank you for helping to give our guests a warmer winter.

On Remembrance Sunday this year, Dean Chris called upon us then (and later reminded us in The Chronicle) “. . . to live differently . . . not to glorify war . . . [but to hear] the voice of Christ saying, ‘Follow me’. We went on, following that day’s Eucharist, to listen to the...

Date: Friday, November 28th, 2025
Time: 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Location: Christ Church Cathedral, 690 Burrard Street (at Georgia)
Admission: By Donation

Christ Church Cathedral is pleased to announce the first in a series of four chamber music concerts featuring Nancy DiNovo & Friends, presenting works for piano and strings. For this Beethoven and Beyond event...

Bill McKibben is a 30+ year veteran in climate activism in the US. The following is an excerpt from his newsletter. 

In a rational world, it would have made sense for the rich countries to take the lead in fighting climate change. After all, rich countries got that way precisely by burning fossil fuel in the two centuries since the Industrial Revolution, and it’s the global south that is paying most of the price in terms of drought, flood and...

We mourn the loss of Noelle Sandra Wilking, whose memorial service was held at the Cathedral on Novemeber 18, 2025. 

We remember Fay Forrester, whose memorial service took place at the Cathedral on Novemeber, 15, 2025. 

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.

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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