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Setting Sail-- INSIDE THIS ISSUE -- Sunday Worship This week at Saint George's New Ministry Developer! Treasurer's First Quarter Financial Report 2023 Holden Evening Prayer Spring Showcase Wonderful Wednesdays Men's Breakfast May 2023 Outreach: Anglican Indigenous Healing Fund Pantry Program for May Summer @ Sorrento - A Christianity to Call Home Saint George's Social Media Reflections by Herbert O'Driscoll (This week's image: From an Ethiopian Biblical Manuscript circa 20th cent, housed in the University of Oregon.) |
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This Week at Saint George'sThursday, May 18 10 - 11 AM - Prayer Shawl Meeting - Zoom 5.30 - 7.30PM - Irish Dance - Upper Hall
Friday, May 19 4:15 - 7:45PM - Victoria Children's Choir - Church 4:15 - 6 :15PM - Victoria Children's Choir - Lower Hall
Saturday, May 20 8 AM - Men's Breakfast - Church
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Holden Prayer and DinnerHolden Prayer returns! Join us for a short contemplative sung prayer service on Wednesday 17th of May at 5PM. We will be reflecting on the Ascension. After the service, all are welcome to join in a meal together. This time, we've invited UVic's Inclusive Christian group to sing, pray and eat with us. |
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Spring ShowcaseJoin us for a spring showcase of the talented young artists who use Saint George buildings every week. At 1:00pm on May 27, on the Saint George's front lawn, there will be an Art Walk and Sale, presented by students of Arts Calibre Academy. Beginning at 2:00pm is a performing Arts Showcase featuring Arts Calibre Academy, O'Brien School of Irish Dance, Victoria Children's Prelude Choir, and Miss Mame's School of Music. Drinks and light snacks will be provided. Please contact Joy Carroll (250-889-7000) to help with our hospitality. Hope to see you there! |
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Wonderful Wednesdays: MayJoin us for 4 Wednesdays in May (3, 10, 17, 24) to take a little romp through the New Testament, with Lynn Mills as our guide. We will set the New Testament in its historical timeline, looking at what books were included in the canon, review various critical methods of biblical study, and see how they apply to the Gospels, Acts and letters. Bring your questions and your bible (if you have one)! We gather at 9:45am with coffee, tea and snacks and begin our study at 10am. Lynn Mills is a graduate of the Master of Arts in Theological Studies program at the Vancouver School of Theology and has completed a PhD at Trinity College Dublin, researching cleansing by water and spirit in the Dead Sea Scrolls and New Testament. She is currently in the ordination process in the Diocese of British Columbia. |
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Anglican Indigenous Healing FundAnglican Indigenous Healing Fund For more than 25 years, the Anglican Healing Fund has financially supported local, community-led healing projects. We have taken the following words directly from the website to give you concise information. “The Healing Fund was founded as a response to the on-going legacy of the residential school system.” “Grants from the healing fund are made to encourage and initiate programs that help healing of language loss, cultural abuse and other forms of hurt and oppression.” “Join us in renewing our commitment to healing.” Please use the following link to read about the most recent programmes that have been funded: “Language School, Cradle Board Making, Reclaiming Ancestral Roots, The Buffalo Sundance, Native Men’s Residence, NEECHI Circle and Music for the Spirit.” https://www.anglican.ca/healingfund/projects/recent-projects/ More information about Indigenous Ministries can be found at this link: https://www.anglican.ca/im/ The work of the Anglican Indigenous Healing Fund is a commitment, as well as an acknowledgement, of the pain and loss suffered by Indigenous people throughout Canada. Your prayers and donations are much needed for this national healing programme. From your Social Justice and Outreach Team, with thanks. |
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The Shelbourne Community Kitchen has a special request for May….The Shelbourne Kitchen tells us…… "Summer is when our donations dip to the lowest all year but it's also a time when many families access our services whose children would normally receive school meals throughout the week. Last year we launched this campaign and encouraged local schools to collect donations for The Kitchen with great success. This year we are encouraging schools as well as community partners to participate.” |
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A Christianity to Call HomeAugust 6-12 (Week 5) Recent census data reveals that over half of the population in BC identify as ‘no religion.’ People who have spent some or all of their life in Christianity feel less and less at home there. For 60 years, many have imagined that Christianity isn’t so much dying as going through a once in an epoch shift. Join Bp Anna and Rev Christine for a week of theological exploration towards A Christianity to Call Home. We’ll revisit some of the progressive theological texts of the 20th century (Religionless Christianity, Secular City, Honest to God, Comfortable Pew) to see what they have to say to us 60 years later. We’ll also tune into some of the theological voices of our own age (Richard Rohr, Ilia Delio, James Smith, Christina Cleveland, Kate Bowler and others) to see what new life-giving theology is emerging in these turbulent 2020s. CLICK HERE for registration information for this and all of Sorrento programs. |
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Saint George's Social MediaThis week, the Saint George's instagram and facebook accounts have made a post about when St George's was in the newspaper in 1981 for our new standing altar. Every week, these pages posts events, news, photos and art. |
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Reflections by Herbert O'DriscollReflections on the readings for Sunday, May 14, 2023 – Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year A Greetings all, Spiritual needs are basic to humans. Everyone has such needs, even when not clearly articulated. All human needs, whether physical, mental, or moral, are deeply intertwined with the spiritual, since anyone fully alive has to forge meaning out of the labours and trials of human existence. We all seek happiness and joy; we all recognize spiritual nourishment and elation, and each of us has to cope with pain, loss, suffering and spiritual distress. Yet beyond the spiritual awareness of individuals, there also runs a deep awareness through many contemporary social movements. Often this remains a vague longing for something that cannot be clearly named or pointed to. The vast waves of migrants, the countless struggles for more freedom and just governments in so many countries, the drive for more education and to a "materialistic consumer culture". They can be read as signs of a vast tidal wave that hides secret hopes for a painful new birth of consciousness and spirit". Blessings on your ministry. |
