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Services this week9 March 2025 - First Sunday in Lent 8am Holy Communion 9am Community prayers downstairs in the youth room 9.30am Eucharist, in-person and live streamed via Facebook Live [LINK]
Please join us downstairs in the hall for coffee and fellowship after the 9.30 service. 11 March, Tuesday 10.30am Contemplative Prayer 13 March, Thursday 11am Holy Eucharist followed by book study starting at noon |
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Clocks go forward!Remember - clocks go ahead an hour on Saturday night!
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Scent-Free ChurchDear St Philip Family, As we gather together in worship and community, we want to ensure that everyone feels welcome and comfortable in our church. For some members of our congregation and visitors, the chemicals in strong scents can cause discomfort or health issues. We kindly ask that you help us create a scent-free environment and workplace by being mindful of the fragrances you wear or bring with you into church. This includes avoiding use of perfumes, colognes, scented lotions, and other fragrant products. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Together, we can make our church a place where everyone can feel at home. Thanks to Merle Campbell for the prompt! |
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This Sunday: Missions Committee meetingSt Philip's Missions Committee will meet after the 9:30 service on Sunday March 9 in the church. If anyone is interested in attending, you are more than welcome. If anyone would like to propose a new mission for funding, please speak to Karen Van Rheenen or Jackie Prowse and we will send you an application form. Remember, we prioritize missions with which our parishioners are actively engaged. If you are volunteering somewhere…. That counts! For more details about the missions St Philip has been supporting, please see the Missions Committee's Year End Report and/or see the Missions page - Jackie Prowse for the Missions Committee
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News Roundup on the websiteEspecially for Shaw & Hotmail subscribers - please share: If you are still not receiving the weekly St Philip e-newsletter on Fridays, PLEASE CHECK THE PARISH WEBSITE Most news and events items in the newsletter are routinely posted on the News and Events sections of the website first. New feature on the website: news roundup, all the newsletter items together, published on Fridays. This is mainly to help those whose Shaw email still isn’t letting the e-newsletter through. Photo by Natalia Łyczko on Unsplash |
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Contemplative PrayerPlease join us on Tuesday mornings, 10:30 - 11:30, meeting in the choir area of the nave (at the front of the church), for a 20 minute contemplative sit with a time of prayer following.
Photo by Dawid Zawiła on Unsplash |
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Thursday Eucharist at 11am for the next 3 weeksOn 13, 20 and 27 March 2025, the Thursday Eucharist will begin at 11am. Following the service on those 3 Thursdays, please join us at church at 12 noon for Diocesan Book Club, via Zoom on the big screen. 10am start time will resume on Thursday 3 April.
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Diocesan Book ClubDiocesan Book Club Book: No Matter What: Crisis and the Spirit of Planetary Possibility by Catherine Keller March 13- Week 2: Dis/Closures of Democracy and Earth with Brendon Neilson
*The author will be here in Victoria in late April to speak at the first session of the John Albert Hall Lectures event, at Christ Church Cathedral: MORE HERE |
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Volunteer opportunity: Offerings Coordinator & CountersOur long-serving Offerings Coordinator, Betty Davidson, is looking for a successor who would like the opportunity to serve the St Philip community in this essential role. The role could be shared and training and support will be provided. We are also looking for volunteers to join the team of offerings counters - this is always done with another person, and can be arranged for either after the 9.30 service on Sunday or on a Monday afternoon. Photo by John McArthur on Unsplash |
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Volunteer opportunity: Building Maintenance groupChurch Maintenance! A group of motivated parishioners is planning to meet next week to discuss church maintenance needs for the coming year. We will discuss how we can coordinate with each other, identify priorities and to come up with a bit of a plan for action. If you’re interested to lend a hand and enjoy the fellowship of other like minded folk working on physical projects around the church please come and join us. 7:00pm Thursday March 13 at the church. If you can’t make it to the meeting but would like to participate in the work, please contact Ged McLean gedmclean@gmail.com.
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Victoria Sketch Club Annual Art Show and SaleVictoria Sketch Club 116th Annual Art Show & Sale March 18-23 2025 Glenlyon-Norfolk School New Gymnasium, 1701 Beach Drive over 140 original paintings for sale Artists will be in attendance Opening Tues 18 March 4-7pm, show continues Wed-Sat 10-6, Sun 10-3 Door prize draw noon Sunday 23 March |
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Metchosin Challenge 2025St Mary’s Metchosin has put together its 9th annual Lenten Challenge, a speaker series, designed for a general audience on a wide range of topics. This year, we are exploring modern religion: what are some of the issues, different forms of worship and big issues facing us? Time: 7pm Tuesday nights during Lent, March 11th - April 15th Place: St Mary’s Church, 4125 Metchosin Rd (across from the Golf Course). All but one of the presenters will be there in person, but we offer a Zoom option as well so those not in Victoria can attend. Here is the zoom link. https://vst.zoom.us/j/89279807957?pwd=ITcX9fLKiSCEhVJj7mAJHoC8bMLitz.1 Schedule: March 11th: The Venerable Dr. Lon Towstego: religion as community and in the community March 18th: Margaret O’Donnell: the Taizé way of being together March 25th: The Rev Dr. Ross Lockhart: challenges of the secular Pacific Northwest (on Zoom) April 1st: The Rev Dr. Travis O’Brian : Mystery and modern faith. April 8th: Patricia Lane: how the Canadian Churches can or should respond to President Trump. April 15th: Cathedral Dean Jonathan Thomas: what is spirituality? Some presentations from past years are available on our website. |
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Congregation Emanu-El Refugee Project - Syrian-Palestinian refugee sponsorshipTo contribute, see link below to make a tax deductible donation through the Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue, or write a cheque to Congregation Emanu-El. 1461 Blanshard Street, Victoria, V8W 2J3. With a comment in the note section saying: "For Refugee Family CE25". https://congregationemanuel.shulcloud.com/payment.php?donation_type_id=7603841 In the Payment Details section, under Type, ensure that Refugee Family CE25 is selected from the drop-down menu. To learn more about this initiative and the family, click here Please contact us with any questions at CEE.Refugee@gmail.com New: Members of a recently sponsored family are looking for a used stand mixer and spare tools to help with employment. Shalom/Salaam Robert Oppenheimer |
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An Evening of Arabic, Celtic & Jewish MusicA Peace and Solidarity Evening of Arabic, Celtic & Jewish Music Fundraising Concert Sponsoring a Syrian-Palestinian Refugee Family A Multi-Faith Collaboration of Congregation Emanu-El, Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 7 pm Middle Eastern Delicacies served during intermission Admission by Donation - doubled with matching funds |
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Issues with Shaw emails not receiving weekly newslettersIf you, a friend, or someone in your household use(s) a Shaw email address, and you haven't been receiving weekly newsletters recently, please be aware that Shaw email suddenly started rejecting all - or most - messages sent from St Philip in early February. The other Anglican parishes on the Island, and probably other organizations, are having the same problem. Everybody’s email program will have different settings, but here are some things you can do: 1. check junk/spam mail folder and keep checking it regularly, mark as "Not Junk" any legit emails that get in there 2. adjust Shaw spam filter settings 3. add sender to whitelist and Contacts list 4. forward a previous newsletter e-mail to reportnotspam@shaw.ca 5. as a last resort, resubscribe with a non-Shaw email. Others don't seem to be affected, except some Hotmail users. You may need to do these more than once before it takes effect. It seems to affect a majority but not 100% of Shaw users, and is not 100% consistent for those it does affect. Others with the same problem report that they were able to use these instructions in Shaw Webmail . - Anna Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay |
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Shrove Tuesday PancakesThanks to Ceal McLean for the photos! |
Useful links
The Welcome pew leaflet, weekly parish news, current Anglican Journal, & Faith Tides, recent 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 lanthony@stphilipvictoria.ca and Ceal McLean cmclean@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 |
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Image creditsHeader: Christ Tempted - glass mosaic in Byzantine style, late 12th - mid-13th centuries, by local & Venetian masters. Duomo di Monreale, Palermo, Sicily. Text: si Filius Dei es dic ut lapides isti panes fiant [abbreviations expanded] - "If you are the son of God, tell these stones to become bread." More about |
