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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. 

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Sunday, November 30: Deacon Kevin away.

Some moments in our life together at the Cathedral don’t arrive with trumpets or headline fanfare. They just settle in quietly and remind us who we are. Christ the King Sunday gave us one of those moments.

As part of our ongoing...

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.

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. 

If you're doing last minute shopping for the children in your lives, or if you just love children's literature, join Rev. Areeta for this Sunday's forum on contemporary children's books on faith and spirituality.

Rev. Areeta will explore titles recommended by local bookseller, KidsBooks, as well as some of her personal favourites. 

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.

Why is there a disconnect between Christians in the West and the birthplace of Christ?

While Muslims everywhere know where Mecca is, many Christians are at a loss to describe Bethlehem as a city in Palestine, let alone one under siege. Many Palestinian Christians feel abandoned by their Western brethren. There is often a jarring dissociation between the place and the biblical ideal—both real and mythic, actual and...

As we prepare to celebrate Christmas, we invite you to contribute financially toward the flowers that help make our Cathedral home warm and welcoming for this sacred season.

We’ll be collecting financial contributions after the 8:00 AM and 10:30 AM Sunday services on November 30, December 7 and 14. You’re also welcome to donate by calling the Cathedral office and speaking with Vanessa.  

Thank you for your generosity, and many blessings to you during this Advent & Christmas season. 

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 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.

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...

Fay Forrester’s Committal Service will take place on Friday, November 28, at 1 PM in the Cathedral Memorial Garden. 

With sadness, we share the news of the death of Charlotte Murray, renowned Heritage Architect and friend of the Cathedral. Through her firm, the Iredale Architecture Group, Charlotte was the Architect of record for the Cathedral’s interior heritage restoration completed in 2003/4. Charlotte was a sensitive yet pragmatic heritage conservationist, and led the Cathedral team through the design development, and the intensive discussions and negotiations with Vancouver City Planning and the Vancouver Heritage Commission from 1995 to 2004. Her efforts helped produce the stunning interior restoration, restoring the original nave flooring, the hammer beams and structural elements, revealing and cleaning the cedar ceiling, and preserving many other heritage elements. Charlotte sensitively introduced new elements such as ramps and an extended Altar platform, a new Organ loft and gallery, and incorporating and hiding key seismic and utility components.

Her Memorial service and a Celebration of her Life will be held 11:30 AM Dec 1 at St. Philip's Anglican Church, 3737 West 27th Avenue.

Link to her obituary:

Charlotte Murray Obituary | Vancouver Sun and Province

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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