Good day,

Wednesday, June 12, St. Vincent Place, from about 1:30pm onwards – St. Vincent Place dinner preparations and assembling for distribution. All are welcome to come help. 

Important Notice: Thursday, June 13, 7pm at St. Luke’s Cathedral – the installation of our new dean of the diocese, The Very Rev. Dr. Jay Koyle. the liturgical colour is white. Clergy and Lay Readers will vest. See you there. 

Happening this Saturday, June 15, 11am – 1pm: Father’s Day Brunch at Emmaus. Please check out the poster attached for more information. 

Final Worship Service at Holy Trinity in Sault Ste Marie: Sunday, June 16 at 10am.  It is the end of the building but not the end of the church. As of June 23, we’ll be gathering for worship in the Trinity Centre across the parking lot from the church until the new building is ready. 

St. James, Goulais River are having their annual Strawberry Festival on Saturday, June 22! Please see the poster for more information.

Not Exactly a Liturgical Note For You: 

I’ve run across a few people recently who have never been taught a little something about a certain entry in our vestry books so I thought I’d mention it to everyone…

The column in our vestry books that says “Day of the Christian Year” is actually not simply recorded as “Sunday” or “Wednesday” or whatever day of the week you are having a worship service. Those labels stem from gods of the ancient world – therefore, they are most definitely not a day in our Christian year. What do you write?  For now, during “ordinary time”, you would simply write “Feria” when there is no other calendar observance.

“Feria” is a Latin word that means “weekday”. We used to say that there were major ferias and minor ferias but, currently, “feria” is used to label the days of the week other than Sunday on which there are no other observances. So, today is a “feria” day but tomorrow would be labeled as The Holy Day of St. Barnabas the Apostle” or simply “St. Barnabas Apostle, HD” or even just “St. Barnabas”. 

For Your Devotions:

Tuesday, June 11th is the Holy Day of Saint Barnabas the Apostle. He was born and raised as a Jew named Joseph but, shortly after Christ’s crucifixion, sold his property, gave all of the proceeds to the newly formed “Christian” community and spread the Good News with Paul. It was Barnabas who stood up for Paul when Paul first met the disciples in Jerusalem (Barnabas vouched for Paul’s conversion). After Barnabas and Paul went their separate ways, we hear little about Barnabas. Most of what we know is conjecture and legend but it is interesting nonetheless. For more info…https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Barnabas

In the joy of Christ,

Susan