• Services this week
• This evening at 6: Taizé prayer
• This Sunday Newcomers' Welcome Lunch
• Tax receipts are ready to pick up
• 22 Feb Threshold Ministries new director commissioning service
• 25 Feb St Philip Parish AGM (Vestry) 2024
• Thanks from Judith 
• 3 Mar Syrian Sponsorship fundraising concert
• Shrove Tuesday - photos
• This week in prayer
• Useful links

Sunday 18 February 2024, Lent 1

• 8am Holy Communion
• 9am Community Prayers in the Youth Room 
• 9.30am Family Eucharist, in-person and live streamed [LINK]

Tuesday 20 February

• 10.30am Contemplative Prayer

Thursday 22 February

• 10am Holy Communion, followed by book study

Prayer team is available during Communion at the 9.30 Sunday service, and please join us for fellowship and coffee after.

All are welcome to a candlelit service of song, silence and contemplation at St Philip, in the style of the Taizé Community  on Friday 16 Feb at 6pm -  offering ‘a moment of silence…like a holy stop, a sabbatical rest, a truce of worries.’  ’ www.taize.fr

For further information, contact Margaret O’Donnell, Coordinator. 250 361 9228   margodonnell@shaw.ca

What's Taizé prayer like at Taizé?  Saturday evening prayers are live streamed (and recorded) from the Church of Reconciliation every Saturday on YouTube.

Everyone new, or feeling new, to St. Philip is warmly invited to a Newcomers' Lunch on Sunday February 18^th at noon.  It will be at Ceal & Ged McLean's, 2018 Romney Rd. [MAP]

If you are new to the church in the past year or reconnecting after some time away, please join us!  The lunch will introduce you to new people and let you learn more about your new church home.  So we can anticipate numbers (and allergies), please sign up on sheets in the narthex, call Ceal 778 967 2473 or email cmclean@stphilipvictoria.ca or contact the church office.

And if you're wondering - hmm, does this definition of "newcomer" include me? - yes, it does! 

2023 tax receipts are ready for collection on the table in the narthex. Please contact Betty Davidson, our Offerings Secretary, with any questions: offerings@stphilipvictoria.ca

St Philip Oak Bay will hold its AGM (also known as the Annual Vestry Meeting) in the hall after the 9.30am service on Sunday 25 February 2024. We are working on a remote option for those not able to attend in person. Lunch will be served. We will receive reports, vote on a budget for 2024, and elect our Parish Council. We look forward to 2024 as we serve God by meeting the needs in the world.

The 2024 agenda, 2023 annual reports, and 2024 budget will be circulated via email ahead of the meeting. Print copies will be available in the narthex.

Hello everyone

I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to you all for your support in the past two months while I have been recovering from a hip and femur fracture.  Your prayers, the many meals provided, and assistance in so many other ways, has contributed so much to my recovery.  With my deepest thanks.  My recovery is ongoing but I hope to be back at church in the coming weeks. 

Judith Armstrong

Victoria Shows Love Syrian Sponsorship group

- fundraising concert- 

Featuring West My Friend, Sari Alesh, Habbous & Jordie, Island Song choir

St Philip Anglican Church, Sunday March 3  from 6:30 to 9:30 pm.

$25 pp

www.victoriashowslove.ca

www.icavictoria.org/

Readings and prayers for Sunday 18 February and the following week:  click here

Rev. Jay Sidebotham for Church Pension Group

• Live Streams: via the parish website or direct from YouTube at  https://www.youtube.com/@st.philipchurchvictoria1351/live
• Service outline: for those viewing the live stream, the coming Sunday's 9.30 service outline is online here
• Service recording & sermon transcript: choose any past Sunday here (listed most recent first)
• More news & events from our church neighbours and wider community: click here
• Previous parish newsletters: click here
• Parish Council minutes: click here , see under Downloads
• Staff contacts: via the parish website
• Liturgy for the Islands and Inlets: click here for full text
• Salal + Cedar (Diocese of New Westminster): click here
• Diocesan Comings & Goings: read latest
• Inclusive Christians at UVic: read latest
• Faith Tides: click here for latest issue
• Contemplative Society: latest news
• L'Abri Canada: read latest
• Sorrento Centre news: click here
• PWRDF updates: read latest
• KAIROS Canada: read latest
• Anglican Church of Canada news: click here
• Anglican Journal: click here for latest articles

The Welcome pew leaflet, weekly parish news, Anglican Journal, Faith Tides, Parish Council minutes and more are all available in print in the narthex. Please let Anna know if more print copies are needed, on Sundays or for sharing with those who don't use email.

Candles: S. Hermann & F. Richter, NoName_13 on Pixabay
Tax receipts: Photo by Loren Biser on Unsplash 
Pancakes: Barb Evans-Ehricht, Anna Sander
WelcomeSixteen Miles Out on unsplash
Annual reports: Gerd Altmann on PIxabay
AGM: Image by claude_star from Pixabay
Footer painting: Caitlin Ambery, 2007