PARISH OF RICHMOND

24 April 2025

“Not only with our lips but in our lives”

Services This Sunday
april 27, 2025
Second Sunday Of Easter
Altar Colors:  White

• 9:00 AM - Morning Prayer Service at St. Mark's Anglican Church, Jackson Falls, NB

• 9:90 AM - Morning Prayer Service at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Hartland, NB [view latest bulletin]

• 9:30 AM - Communion Service at St. John's Anglican Church, Jackson Falls, NB

• 11:00 AM - Communion Service at St. Luke's Anglican Church, Woodstock, NB

Find Bible readings at [link]

On most days the rector offers a brief morning prayer time live at 8:30 AM (and viewable at any time later). See Parish of Richmond and Woodstock - YouTube

Among those we uphold in prayer:  Allen, Cole, Connie, Doris, Ivan, Joyce, Lawrence, Lynn, Melba, Michelle, Nadine, Peggy, Phyllis, Ronnie, Shirley, Steven

Please advise Pat Margison (506-328-8146) of name deletions as well as name additions.

Whom do you know in hospital?  There’s a convenient way to get a cheery greeting to the hospitalized.  The hospital delivers it.  Parishioners receiving these notes have mentioned how important they are.  Check out:  [Link]

This coming week’s birthdays: Mark Carpenter

Food Bank  Let’s fill those boxes and show gratitude to God by sharing with our neighbour the blessings we have been given.

Have you checked the parish’s Facebook page lately?  [Facebook]

This Saturday (26 April) Richmond parishioners are invited to gather for Dream with God visioning at the Parish Centre, 10:00 AM.

Celtic Spirituality: Why It Matters Now is the title of a talk to be offered by well-known Celtic teacher and writer John Philip Newell.  It is hosted by Christ Church Cathedral on Wednesday 7 May, 6:00 PM, and it is Newell’s only Canadian engagement. See [link]

Baptisms:  With joy we greet news of adult baptisms at St. Luke’s and St. Mark’s on Easter morning.  What can this mean?  What is happening?

The US government has ended most of its foreign aid to crises and development projects around the world.  In response Alongside Hope (better known as Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund) is inviting Anglicans to contribute to a Resilience Fund that will pick up a bit of the slack.  An anonymous donor stepped forward to match the first $250,000 that people contribute. Visit [link]

From the late Pope Francis:  In Sharing the Wisdom of Time: “Death is one more step in life.  If you are sure that the Lord will not betray you, then you can go forward with courage.  The Lord himself will give you the grace to see life in death.  There will be a meeting or encounter at the end of life.  It’s a meeting I may or may not have had in life, and it’s a meeting that I’ve been looking forward to or not looking forward to in my life.  But in the end, we will meet God face to face.”

Details on the four nominees to be the next primate of the Anglican Church of Canada are available at [link].

Materials now include short videos from each of them setting out ideas on the role of the General Synod and the office of Primate. To see the videos, click on a nominee’s photo, then activate the link at the bottom of the enlarged photo.

April’s issue of the River Valley Sun contains two items of special interest.

• Page 8 shows Patti Connors and Mary Whiteway accepting a Community in Bloom award for their admirable summer work at St. Luke’s. It’s the highlight of Woodstock’s Main St.

• Page 26 carries an interview with Ernest & Nancy Clarke reflecting on their exhibition of painting and carving at Woodstock’s Fisher Library. (Exhibit continues for a little longer.)

St Viola – Many items in the Lives of the Saints series that ran in last year’s Richmond e-News were from the diary of Viola Bell (1896-1988) of Weston. Attached today is a write-up from the NB Provincial Archives on Bell’s life and literary remains.  [Tap or Click to view the document]

Also circulating with this e-News are images of a crown of thorns plant at Holy Trinity on Good Friday, the rector at Christ Church on Saturday, and the vested altar awaiting dawn light on Easter morning at St Mark’s.

RICHMOND Next Sunday
SuNday, May 4, 2025
Third Sunday of Easter
Altar Colors:  White

• 9:00 AM - Communion Service at St. John's Anglican Church, Richmond Corner

• 11:00 AM - Communion Service at St. Luke's Anglican Church, Woodstock, NB