Sixth and Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Regular Services are as listed below
10:00 AM
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July 27, 2025 The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
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We gather in worship on Sundays at 10AM, with coffee time shared after the service.
Our worship service is Holy Communion also known as The Lord's Supper, Eucharist or The Mass.
The fourth Sunday of every month is celebrated with a soup and sandwich lunch held after the 10AM service.
We offer a Livestream for the 10 AM Sunday service if you cannot physically make it to church. Our worship includes Bible readings, prayers, sermon and songs.
You do not have to be baptized, or familiar with church procedures, to be welcome among us.
If we can help you by praying for you, whether you come to church or not, please contact our priest the Rev. Deborah Rivet.
We are an Anglican parish in the Diocese of British Columbia - The Diocese of Islands and Inlets - and a member of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost July 20 Morning Service
First Reading: Amos 8. 1-12
Psalm 52
Second Reading: Colossians 1.15-28
Gospel Reading: Luke 10. 38-42
Seventh Sunday after Pentecost July 27
First Reading Genesis 18. 20-32
Psalm 138
Second Reading Colossians 2.6-15, (16-19)
Gospel Reading Luke 11.1-13
Intercessions
We are thankful for:
- the beauty of Creation and resources from lands and sea
- the stable governance and economic development that Djibouti has experienced in recent years
- the many ways churches and humanitarian organizations have prayed for and responded to the needs in Somalia.
We pray for:
- protection of natural resources and coastal land
- an end to hunger, violence, crime and conflict in Somalia
- effective reconciliation and peace-building
- stable governments that further the common good for all the people
- those who have fled this area that they may be welcomed in new homelands.
Prayers
You who give sustenance to your creatures, O God,
Put water for us in the nipples of rain!
You who poured water into oceans, O God,
Make this land of ours fertile again!
Accepter of penance, who are wealthy, O God,
Gather water in rivers whose beds have run dry!
You who are glorious, truly bounteous, O God,
Our cries have undone us, grant a shower of rain!
You who are clement, truly worshipped, O God,
Milk water for beasts which are stricken with thirst!
Creator of nature who made all things, O God,
Transmute our ruin to blessing and good!
We have done much remembrance, O God who remembers,
Loosen upon us rain from the clouds!
You who are merciful and compassionate, O God,
Milk rain from the sky for those in need!
You who are truthful, Creator, O God,
We accept in submission whatever you say!
You who mete out good and evil, O God,
In this land we are broken, milk the clouds from above!
The earth and the sky you constructed, O God,
We cannot get water, bring forth drops of rain!
The darkness of night you transfigure, O God,
And make daylight follow; milk the sky lavishly!
You who open all and give sustenance, O God,
People have scattered; send forth healthy rain!
Almighty, perfector of counsels, O God,
Pour for us rain which would make the land wet!
You who are bounteous, the protector, O God,
We cannot survive drought, send us rain from your store!
You who drive the air which sways the trees, O God,
It is you whom we praised, grant us the goodness of rain!
You who are worshipped and answer prayers, O God,
Make the rain spread over the whole of the land!
Bestower of victories, benefactor, O God,
Bring us faultless rain which makes us dwell where it falls!
You who are one and are trusted, O God,
Provider of all, give water to your people!
You who spark off lightning from clouds you have loaded, O God,
It is you who have power over rain which satisfies abundantly!
You who fill water-holes dug in wadis, O God,
Milk rain on this land, cream-giving rain!
You who used to relieve the strangest plights, O God,
It is to you that I have turned for help!
(Somali, Somalia. Heart of Prayer, comp. Anthony Gittins, CSSp, Collins, 1985. Used with permission.)
Prayer from South Africa
God,
How wonderful it is, how pleasant,
to be healed of the corrosive disease of racism and separation;
and to live as your people together in harmony.
Your Spirit will then fill the hearts and the minds of all people.
Nobody will be judged any more on the basis of race or colour;
but all will be ruled with justice and integrity.
The war will end and the people together will rebuild the country.
There will be no reference to the colour of the skin,
for all will be regarded as the people of God,
the people created in your image.
And this will be the beginning of what you have promised –
the life that never ends.
God of Hope,
whose Spirit gives light and power to your people,
empower us to witness to your name in all nations,
to struggle for your own justice
against all principalities and powers
and to persevere with faith and humour
in the tasks that you have given to us.
Without you we are powerless.
Therefore we cry together:
Maranatha, Come Lord Jesus.
And grant that we may with one voice and one heart
glorify and sing praise to the majesty of your holy Name,
of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
(“An Invitation to Prayer” at the opening of the fifth assembly of the World Council of Churches, Nairobi, 1975.)
Did you know we celebrate the birth of St John the Baptist - just after the spring solstice as the days are getting shorter and John proclaimed in John 3.30 "He must increase but I must decrease."?
We celebrate the birth of Jesus after the winter solstice because the days are getting longer and "the true light has come into the world and the darkness will not overcome it".
The commemoration of the saints is an important part of our Anglican tradition. We commemorate the saints and acknowledge their contribution to the life of the Church through the inspiration they exemplify through Christ's living example found in their lives. We acknowledge their lives on the date of their death - which we also do for St John the Baptist on Aug 29th.
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