PARISH OF RICHMOND

11 September 2025

“Not only with our lips but in our lives”

Services This Sunday
September 14, 2025
Altar Colors:  Red or Green
Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost

• 9:00 AM - Morning Prayer Service at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Hartland, NB [view bulletin]

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

• 9:00 AM - Communion Service at St John's Anglican Church, Richmond Corner, 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, Cindy, Cole, Connie, Doris, Ivan, Joyce, Lynn, Melba, Michelle, Nadine, Peggy, Phyllis, Shirley, Steven

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

This coming week’s birthdays:  Wesley Margison, Roger Lutwick

Who doesn't know someone in hospital?
There’s a convenient way to get a cheery greeting to the hospitalized:  Hospital volunteers deliver it.  Folk receiving these notes have mentioned how important they are.  Check out:  [Link] 

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]

One of our Fall highlights will be a Creation service and Blessing of Animals at Holy Trinity’s back lawn next Sunday 21 September, 4:30 PM.  See attached poster.  Spread the word.  People may wish to bring a camp chair and, depending on weather, a blanket.

Thanks to the 22 parishioners who turned out for last week’s Dreaming with God discernment conversation. News will follow.

Forthcoming events/services ~

• Monday 15 September: Between the Birches outdoor meditation at the Rectory, 7:00 PM

• Tuesday 16 September: Talking Tuesday on God, Bible & Gender Orientation at the Rectory (2:00 PM) and St Luke’s (7:00 PM)

• Sunday 21 September: Blessing of Animals, Holy Trinity lawn, 4:30 PM

• Friday 26 September: Christmas with The Beatles first casting call at St Luke’s hall, 7:00 PM

• Sunday 28 September: Memorial service at St John’s (9:00 AM) and St Mark’s (3:00 PM)

• Monday 29 September: Christmas with The Beatles second casting call at St Luke’s hall, 7:00 PM

• Tuesday 30 September: How to “read” a church, at St Mark’s (2:00 PM) and St Luke’s (7:00 PM)

• Wednesday 8 October: Between the Birches outdoor meditation at the Rectory, 7:00 PM

• Wednesday 29 October: Between the Birches outdoor meditation at the Rectory, 7:00 PM

• Thursday 30 October: Do-Drop-Inn at the Richmond Parish Centre, 10:00 AM - Noon

• Saturday 20 December: Christmas with The Beatles at St Luke’s, 3:00 PM

Offerings and donations to the parish by interact transfer are now possible. Direct them to parishofrichmond@outlook.com (There is no longer a need to create a security question.)  In the Comments window, give your name, email address and, if you are a new donor, your postal address.  Donations will be directed to the parish’s Operating fund unless the donor directs otherwise.  Eligible donations generate a tax receipt early in the new year.

Historical tidbits ~

(1)  This was the week in 1885 when a Woodstock newspaper noted that St John’s church (Richmond Corner) had acquired a steeple bell. (But what was inscribed on it?)

(2)  Tomorrow is the 71^st anniversary of Hurricane Edna, which destroyed the Briggs’ mill (Oakville) for the final time.  Viola Bell’s photos of that scene are now in the Provincial Archives.  Her photographs of the mill’s earlier destruction in the great spring flood of 1923 are also in the Archives.

There is good news. Parish facebook photos from a few weeks ago show the old, decrepit cross that for decades had stood on Holy Trinity’s roof.  Just after, altogether mysteriously, it vanished from the corner of the nave where it had been placed.  It turns out that the contractor had taken it on himself to repair the cross, sheath it in white metal, and restore it to HT’s roof.

This week’s e-News marks our season of Creation with a photo of a dazzling display of sunflowers at the home of two parishioners.  Also shown are Holy Trinity’s old rugged cross now strengthened, refreshed and restored to the roof.  Another gives a rare view up into the entrance to Holy Trinity’s tower.  The wardens will soon be up there to inspect the new interior ladder being added and (we hope) to take some interior and exterior shots. Finally, we share a poster for the Blessing of Animals at HT next Sunday.

Services Next Sunday
September 21, 2025
Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Altar Colors:  Green

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

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

• 4:30 PM - Creation Service and Blessing of the Animals at Holy Trinity Anglican Church (on the lawn), Hartland, NB