Good day,

This Wednesday, Nov.6, 4pm, there is a free webinar called “Preaching the Liturgy” offered up by Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission. This is an excellent organization and I highly recommend to you anything they offer. Here is the link for more information and to register:  https://liturgyandmission.org/2024/10/09/november-webinar/#more-4058

Saturday, Nov.9, 8:30am at the Trinity Centre is the Guild of St. Joseph breakfast. It’s always a great time…See you there.

Mon., Nov. 11th at 10am is the Remembrance Day service at the GFL Memorial Gardens in Sault Ste Marie.

Advent Zoom Bible Studies begin on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 7pm. 

Advent Retreat at the Trinity Centre, Saturday, Nov.23, 9am – noon.

A Liturgical Note For You:

With Remembrance Day approaching it is important to know what we should do in our churches on the Sunday before (Nov.10).

Remembrance Day is a very important and solemn occasion that we should, indeed, mark with ceremony. You can check with your closest Legion Branch to find out the details of the ceremonies taking place on November 11 (I’ve noted the one for the Soo above).  

What about in our churches? Congregations could choose to have a Remembrance Day service on November 11 and then process to a war memorial, cenotaph, or graveyard for prayers of remembrance.  But what about on Sunday, Nov.10? It is appropriate to have a Holy Eucharist or Morning Prayer worship service that contains an Act of Remembrance. Immediately before the “Sending of the Church” would be the time to name the parishioners who have died in war and served in war. Prayers for the faithful departed can be said along with a prayer for the peace of God to come and end all wars and other violence.  

Please note that this Sunday worship service is not a Remembrance Day service – it is not meant to replace the cenotaph service or Legion Branch service that takes place on November 11.  The Sunday worship is the commemoration of the departed within the context of the usual Sunday Feast of our Lord.  

For Your Devotions:

Monday, November 4th is the memorial of The Saints of the Old Testament.  Today we remember that our faith did not begin with the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem but with Abraham and Sarah long before. The Roman Martyrology has a long list of those considered “saints” of the Old Testament which may sound odd in our ears because we never refer to them as saints…people like Moses, Elijah and King David.  You may wonder at calling some of them saints – Moses killed a man, David took another man’s wife. Living a life according to the will of God is what they all have in common. If you would like to read a bit more, see page 334 here: http://c2892002f453b41e8581-48246336d122ce2b0bccb7a98e224e96.r74.cf2.rackcdn.com/ForAlltheSaints.pdf

Thursday, November 7th is the commemoration of Willibrord, the Archbishop of Utrecht, Holland, and missionary who died in 738. We actually don’t know very much about Willibrord but I find it amazing that way back then someone born in England could study in both France and Ireland when traveling must’ve been difficult, lengthy, and dangerous. Speaking of dangerous, Willibrord began his missionary work in Frisia in 690 and had to leave the region several times because of war. He died a natural death but other missionaries to the area weren’t so lucky (Boniface was martyred in 754).  http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/279.html

In the hope of Christ,

Susan