February 2023 Issue
A Colourful Lent
One of the most intimidating moments for a painter is staring at a blank canvas. Devoid of colour, line, or shape, the blank canvas represents ...
Special Presentations at St. Alban’s Anglican Church, Grand Bank
The Rev’d Charlie Cox ended the second Sunday in Advent service at St. Alban’s in Grand Bank with presentations to two members of the congregation. ...
Let’s ignorE Negative Thinking
A number of years ago, while in the days of searching and seeking other Christian denominational traditions, one of the things that I used to ...
Southwest Coast Ministerial Eccumenical Carol Service
On December 2nd, 2022, the Southwest Coast Ministerial Association held an Ecumenical Carol Service at St. James’ Church in Port aux Basques. Six churches took part ...
A Visit To the Extended Care Unit
On December 8th, the ACW Ladies of St. James’ Church in Port aux Basques, NL, visited the Extended Care Unit at the Dr. Charles L. ...
A Donation of Candles
At St. Augustine’s in Margaree-Fox Roost we had donations of flameless candles, in memory of brothers William and Peter Ingram, who spent years dedicated to ...
Thanksgiving Cold Plate in Rocky Harbour
It was a little past Thanksgiving, but St. Matthew’s, Rocky Harbour, did get its Thanksgiving dinner in on Thursday, November 3rd with 54 people enjoying ...
Reasonable and Probable Grounds to Believe
In the aftermath of the Kosovo war, involving the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the former federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), the ...
Stepping Back So That Others Can Step Up
Last year, I wrote about how we need to stop talking about people working for the church as if they were ‘volunteers’ and start talking ...
Queen’s College 2023 Appeal–Growing in Faith
We are very thankful to Jon-Michael Windsor for permission to use his artwork The Tree for our Queen’s College Appeal 2023. The work is the perfect ...
Maison Dorcas / City of Joy Project
In the Book of Acts, Dorcas was a woman of great charity who helped widows and may have even been a widow herself. In those ...
Taking A Risk
When I took this job, I decided that it wouldn’t be fair to talk about my own parish a lot. It’s worth saying though that ...
New Wine Gospel Group Performs at Christmas Events
CHRISTMAS CANTATA – St. Paul’s Church of the Grand Bay Parish presented the annual Christmas cantata on December 11th at the church. It told the ...
Our Archdeacon Buckle Memorial Archive
The Archdeacon Buckle Memorial Archive (ABMA) is in the church of St. Mary the Virgin on Craigmillar Avenue in St. John’s. It is our mandate, ...
How Will You Be Remembered?
For the last month or so, I have been working on revising the old planned giving brochure, which was called “Introduction to Planned Giving.” That ...
Induction of The Rev’d Josiah Wade Noel as Rector of St. John the Evangelist, Topsail
On December 4th, 2022, at St. John the Evangelist Church in Topsail, Bishop Rose, Rev’d Noel, invited guests, and active members of the parish assembled ...
Temptation
February is the beginning of Lent. The tradition in my family and many Christian families is to give up something for Lent. As a teenager, ...
What Keeps Us Motivated?
Where does motivation come from? Are motivation and inspiration the same thing? How do we get it? Does it just happen to us when we ...
