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Clocks spring forward!Remember to turn your clocks ahead an hour |
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Services this weekSunday 10 March 2024, Lent 4
Tuesday 12 March
Thursday 14 March
Prayer team is available during Communion at the 9.30 Sunday service, and please join us for fellowship and coffee after. |
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Holy Week 2024During Lent we journey with Jesus towards his destiny in Jerusalem. This is far more than simply “remembering incidents along the way” but more an “inhabiting these stories” so that we feel their existential pull in our souls. Once Jesus arrives in Jerusalem, the Gospels do an interesting thing: narrative time starts to slow down. This is so that we will recognize that these events are central, but this also helps us “inhabit these stories” with a deliberation that is a step up from what we’ve been doing during the rest of Lent. Drawing from the Jewish tradition of physically enacting the central feasts, the early Church recognized that the Holy Week stories were more than stories, they were a “sacred space” within which a congregation could physically live into the events described. This physical enacting is not some religious ritual which we perform for its own sake, but for the purpose of deepening our experience and love for Christ. I have found that parishioners who regularly participate in the events of Holy Week find that the rest of the Church year is informed by and interpreted by these events; they become a lens through which we understand God’s love for each of us and what it means for God to be “all in” with respect to the world. Our Holy Week schedule:
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Jesus calls us here to meet himHere's a sneak peek at a worship song that's new to St Philip for this coming Sunday, Jesus calls us here to meet him, by John Bell and Graham Maule of the Iona Community. Link to a Youtube recording with both words and music below, score here (click Preview) |
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Spring Break Ideas for Church Hall UseSpring Break is March 15-April 1. The preschool will be closed during that time – which means the church hall is free for us to use all day during the week. If you would like to see the hall used for a tea, board games, bridge, card games, lunch, an activity for kids or anything else, please let Allen (incumbent@stphilipvictoria.ca), Ceal (cmclean@stphilipvictoria.ca) or Larry (lanthony@stphilipvictoria.ca) know. If some good ideas emerge, we can work with you to find other team members to make it happen. Thanks |
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Family activity - Easter ButterfliesAs we bring our church to life at Easter with a celebration of flowers and greenery and other decorations, this year we will include bright paper butterflies as a sign of new life and transformations. Everyone can join in to create a “flock” of beautiful paper butterflies! Shapes to colour will be at the back of the church and downstairs at coffee time. Take a sheet (or several), colour/paint/decorate with your favourite medium, and return them to the church over the next 3 Sundays, until March 24, Palm Sunday. They will be cut out and wired for use in the beautiful Easter decorations . For templates to print and decorate at home, click here - Jenni Jennings |
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12 March Oak Bay Community Association Housing forumPanel: Ravi Kahlon, BC Housing Minister Moderator: Dr Michael Prince, University of Victoria Tuesday March 12, 2024, 7.30 pm St Philip Anglican Church Email for more info or to submit questions for the panel: oakbayconnector@gmail.com Help spread the word: if you live or work in Oak Bay, please take some leaflets from the table in the narthex for your neighbours or a poster for your workplace |
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13, 20 March at St George's: “Where did all the young people go?”Fr Allen notes - if you're looking for a Lenten study, consider attending this: For decades we’ve been wondering and worrying about our young people leaving our beloved church. For 4 Wednesday mornings this Lent, join Bp Anna and Rev Christine to explore the social, spiritual, religious and theological movements of the late 20th century. What happened in the wake of the great optimism of the 1960’s? Why haven’t any of the many approaches we’ve tried to engage young people over the decades worked in the long term? And finally, what are some of the emerging ideas and practices of 21st century Christianity and beyond? Where might we go from here? The second session covered the societal paradigm shift (particularly in North America) of the 1990s, and how it affected church life, thought, and attendance. Links cited: Emerge podcast Dates: Wed. March 13, 20 (shocking spoiler alert: there is no silver bullet solution!) There will be a St Philip contingent at future sessions, online and in person - see you there! |
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Taizé prayer Friday 15 March, 6pm at St PhilipAll are welcome to St Philip Oak Bay for a candlelit service of song, silence and contemplation, in the style of the Taizé Community. - Friday 15 March, 6pm |
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Found: earringThe earring shown is on the table in the narthex. |
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Easter flowersStarting next Sunday, March 17th and 24th, a member of the Altar Guild will be in the narthex following the 8am and 9.30 services to collect monetary contributions for flowers to decorate the church for Easter. It is so joyful walking into a celebration of flowers and colour! - Karen Fenimore Photo by Sheelah Brennan on Unsplash |
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Agape Meal & Maundy Thursday serviceAgape Meal – Thursday March 28 Our Agape Meal on Maundy Thursday, beginning the three holy days leading to Easter, will be held in the hall downstairs on March 28th, with 2 sittings of a simple meal of lentil soup, bread, cheese and wine accompanied by spiritual readings and reflections. After the second sitting, we'll transition to a special worship service upstairs, starting about 8pm. Soup makers, food buyers, set up and take down people, dish washers, and an event coordinator are needed. Sign up sheets will be available from Sunday, March 10. Everyone is welcome! - Ceal McLean |
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St Mary's Churchmouse Books - Giant Spring SaleBrowse books and puzzles, meet Victoria Writers’ Society members, enjoy live music, share a cup of coffee or hot dogs or the Archdeacon’s famous pulled pork or vegan sliders from the grill, and a chat with your neighbours. The Churchmouse Bookshop, open every Saturday, 10am - 1pm, receives good-quality used books from the Greater Victoria community and makes them available to new owners in return for cash donations, in support of St. Mary’s charity efforts and partners. In 2024 we continue our support of the Food Bank at St. John the Divine, Threshold Housing, Our Place Society, and more. Admission is free, book sales by donation. Donations of books iare welcome, received on Saturdays 10am-1pm. |
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St Dunstan's - fundraising with PurdysLast call: Do you like to give (or indeed eat) Purdys chocolates for Easter? If so, you could support our neighbours at St Dunstan's in Gordon Head at the same time through their fundraising link, below. Orders must be placed by 10 March, and will be ready to pick up at St Dunstan's from 24 March. |
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Fr Allen recommends: Diocesan conference 13 AprilRegistration for We Together 2024 is open! This year the Conference will be at St. John the Divine in Victoria on April 13th. We Together is our regular (once every other year) diocesan conference to remind us of the ways we are connected; we are stronger together. We are bound in countless ways, in our structures, in our prayers, and through the stories we tell. We are each other's concern, and we are each other's gift. This year we are continuing to focus on our context, building on the "here in this place" theme from We Together 2022 we will be looking at what it means to serve and minister in the most non-religious context in North America. We have unique challenges, and unique opportunities. The conference will begin on Friday evening April 12th with an evening banquet at the Baumann Centre followed by an opening address by our Executive Director, Brendon Neilson. On Saturday we will gather at St. John the Divine in Victoria featuring our keynote speaker John Thatamanil, our Diocesan Theologian. John will be presenting two sessions with small group dialogue following each. We will end our time with the celebration of the Eucharist with Bishop Anna preaching and presiding. |
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Volunteers for We Together 2024 NeededThe synod office is looking for volunteers to support We Together 2024. Below are a list of volunteer shifts with assigned tasks. Those interested in volunteering may attend the conference (both April 12-13) free of charge. Fri 12 Apr - evening: table & chair setup, setting tables, collecting used glasses, general cleanup and takedown |
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This week in prayerReadings and prayers for Sunday 10 March and the following week: click here |
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Time Change Song - Dean McIntyre |
Useful links
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. News items for the bulletin are always welcome - deadline Thursday noon. More parish, diocesan and community notices on the News and Events sections of the parish website.
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Rector: Rev. Allen Doerksen
email incumbent@stphilipvictoria.ca, cell 236-508-2928 Rector's day off: Friday
Wardens: Larry Anthony and Ceal McLean - email wardens@stphilipvictoria.ca
Office Hours: Mon 1-4.30, Wed & Thurs 9-4.30
250-592-6823
admin@stphilipvictoria.ca Subscribe to St. Philip emails Parish website Live stream link Facebook page |
