Join us this Saturday at 6 pm for a lively and joyful Eucharist service in Spanish followed by an informal Potluck in the hall!

Join us on Sunday, May 24^th at 7 pm for our next Jazz Vespers service that will feature accomplished pianist Karel Roessingh and double bassist Joey Smith. Karel and Joey have played together ever since Joey moved to Victoria over 35 years ago.  They have accompanied many singers and instrumentalists, recorded together, and played in clubs, festivals, with orchestras and big bands, and in many other circumstances, but have rarely performed as a duo.  They'll play well known and original songs related to togetherness, support, love and friendship.

Bring your friends and come join us for our monthly community lunch held in the Main Hall from 12 to 1 PM.

Our Ladies Guild will have prepared for you a delicious homemade soup, sandwiches, dessert, coffee and tea. You won't want to miss it!

Doors open at noon and it's $12 per person.

See you there!

Sunday May 31st is the end of our Sunday School year before we break for the Summer.

Parents, please ensure that your children are at church to receive their certificates!

We'd love for teachers to be present, so that we can thank you!

All are welcome to join us on the church lawn at the back of the church after the 10:00 service on May 31st for the end of the Sunday School year.

The church will provide hamburgers and hotdogs. Sign-up sheets for attendance, sides and desserts are in the Narthex. Bring along your camping chairs and sun hats to join us for games and lunch.

Our annual Strawberry Tea and Craft Fair is coming soon, on Saturday, June 13th, from 10 to 3 pm.  For $12, you will enjoy freshly made strawberry shortcake served with coffee and tea in china cups.  You can shop at our always popular bake table as well all the local crafters.   Please invite your friends and family to this lovely event, and help to spread the word by taking some posters from the entranceway table.    Three kinds of help are needed to make this day a success: preparing lots of baking for the bake table, assisting with the set-up on Friday evening, June 12th, from 6 – 8 pm, and helping out at the tea on Saturday, June 13th.  Please check out the sign-up sheets on the entranceway table and add your name if you’re able to help in any of these ways.  Any questions, please call Mary Wills at 250-727-8358.

Sun 13 Sept - Community Parish History/Memory Workshop

Fri 27 Nov - Anniversary Celebration Dinner/Dance.  (catered, offsite)
Sat 28 Nov - Anniversary Parish Appreciation Tea (afternoon)
Sun 29 Nov - Anniversary Eucharist Service, (combined) 10 AM
                      with Bishop Anna. (Group portrait of the congregation)

Sun 13 Dec - Community Christmas Carols (afternoon) – all local churches invited

2027: Sun 30 May - Free Colwood Community Family Fun Day (afternoon) – fundraising for project partner

Projects: During two Sunday services, parishioners are invited to participate in making four fibre-art wall-hangings for the chapel in liturgical colours. We will also be having special parish t-shirts printed to order.

Want to help? We are looking for people to join teams to make one of these projects/events happen. Anything interest you? Sign up from next week in the narthex.

My Life with the Saints

James Martin S.J.

In this book, which Publisher’s Weekly called “an outstanding and often hilarious memoir” while naming it one of their best books of the year, the well-known Jesuit author and commentator James Martin describes how he got to know the saints of the Catholic Church. It is both a series of mini-biographies of these remarkable individuals and a description of Father James’s own life from his childhood through his novitiate in the Society of Jesus and beyond.

A conscious relationship with the saints is uncommon in Anglicanism, but not unknown, and it is not limited only to those people with St. in front of their name. All baptized Christians are part of the communion of saints, which encompasses the entire Church in space and time. One Christian may therefore take another as a model in their Christian life, or ask any Christian (living or dead) to pray with them or for them, provided they remember that Jesus is the ultimate pattern and that it is to God that they are praying.

The closing chapter is especially helpful in describing how every Christian is called to sainthood, but how each is “holy in a different way.” God calls each person to their own unique path and to live in harmony with others who are called to a different role.

My Life with the Saints was first published in 2006. It is currently displayed on the Top Shelf, and its regular location is in the Biography section of the library, shelf code BIOG MAR.

To borrow this or any other book, please fill out a green loan slip from the small bookcase in the narthex, and put it in the pink box. The loan period is 6 weeks. If you have one due for return, please fill out a yellow return slip instead, and leave your book beside the box.

All are welcome to join us on Thursdays for our relaxed, lively and interesting Zoom online Bible Study, to discuss the readings for the upcoming Sunday. The readings are posted in this newsletter.

No experience or prior knowledge is needed.

Time: 6 PM - 7 PM.

Zoom Link:  https://bc-anglican-ca.zoom.us/j/88378461340?pwd=cU9wSUNEZG02M3h3bGVrUmpyMjRNZz09

Meeting ID: 883 7846 1340
Passcode: 4743031

Readings for this Sunday's services:

NUMBERS 11:24-30

PSALM 104:25-35, 37

ACTS 2:1-21

JOHN 20:19-23

Read Sunday's readings online:
1. Go to https://lectionary.anglican.ca/  
2. Select next Sunday's date in the space at the bottom.
3. Click "Link to full text for this day".

May 23 Spanish Service & Potluck, 6 pm

May 24 Jazz Vespers, 7 pm

May 27 Community Lunch, 12 pm

May 31 8:30 Breakfast, Room C
              Recognition of Sunday School learners and teachers
              Sunday School Picnic, 12 pm         

Jun 6  Taize Service, 5 pm

Jun 10 Community Coffee Social, 9:30 am-11 am

Jun 12 Strawberry Tea Prep Day

Jun 13 STRAWBERRY TEA & CRAFT SALE, 10 am – 3 pm

Jun 16 Book Club, St. John’s Rm, 10 am
            Parish Council Mtg, St. John’s Rm, 6:45 pm

Jun 25 Prayer Shawl Mtg, St. John’s Rm, 10 am

Jun 27 Spanish Service & Potluck, 6 pm

Jun 28 8:30 Breakfast, Rm C

Jul 11 Agnes Richardson Funeral 2 PM

Sunday
 8:30 AM - Traditional Eucharist, Book of Common Prayer
(no choir) Chapel

10:00 AM - Contemporary Eucharist, Book of Alternative Services,
with choir 

First Saturday of the Month
5:00 PM - Taize service with singing  Chapel (First Saturday of every month at 5 PM, except August.)

Fourth Saturday of the Month
6 PM - Spanish Language Anglican Eucharist Service.
            There is no service in December.

For any issues to report concerning the condition/maintenance of the church building and grounds, please email the parish office directly at admin@colwoodanglican.ca, or record them in the maintenance logbook that is located on the parish office door.

Office hours are Mondays  - Thursdays
from 9.30 am until 12.30 pm.