PARISH OF RICHMOND

9 November 2025

“Not only with our lips but in our lives”

Services This Sunday
November 9, 2025
Altar Colors:  Green
Remembrance Sunday
Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost

• 9:00 AM - Parish Communion Service at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Hartland, NB [see bulletin]

• 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, Lynn, Melba, Michelle, Peggy, Phyllis, Shirley, Steven

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

This coming week’s birthdays:  Bonnie Sparks

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:  Did you know that, during the first 9 months of 2025, Richmond’s contributions to Valley Family Services (the Food Bank) are only about half of what the total was in 2024? We can do much better. Let’s fill those boxes and show gratitude to God by sharing with neighbours the blessings we have been given.

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

LEARNING OPPORTUNITY
ADVENT 2025:  Unto us a Child is Born.  Four weekly Learning Together Training Sessions available beginning November 24th.  Click/tap [here] to view the schedule and location details.

Forthcoming occasions ~

• Sunday 16 November:  Deadline for bringing Operation Christmas Child boxes to church
• Sunday 16 November: Maria Shepherdson installed as canon of Christ Church Cathedral and collated as territorial Archdeacon of Woodstock, 4:00 PM
• Saturday 20 December: Christmas with The Beatles at St Luke’s, 3:00 PM

This coming Sunday’s Richmond service will be at Holy Trinity, 9:00 AM.

The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund – now renamed as Alongside Hope – offers many ways to show generosity to those in less fortunate parts of the world this Advent/Christmas season.  Its gift catalogue is here:  [link].  Some NB parishes challenge themselves to see how many goats or bee colonies etc they can provide.  Financial gifts to Alongside Hope may also be made through our weekly offerings, either envelope or e-offering.  E-transfers to Alongside Hope are now possible:  etransfer@alongsidehope.org.  Be sure to include your name, postal and email addresses if you would like a tax receipt.

Likewise, when making interac transfers to parishofrichmond@outlook.com, put your your name & email address in the comments window and, if 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.

This year’s Advent retreat as sponsored by the Synod Office will be led by Stephen Andrews, former principal of Wycliffe College, one of the leading evangelical academies in the world.  He is a polished, thoughtful leader whose decision to retire to NB is a boon to the diocese.  This 24-hour retreat on praying the way through Advent runs from 4:00 PM Friday 5 December to 4:00 PM Saturday 6 December at Villa Madonna, Rothesay.  Registration details are at [link]

Services Next Sunday
November 16, 2025
Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost
Altar Colors:  Green

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

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

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

Parish Outreach:

Used eye-glasses?  There is a depository at Progressive Credit Union, Richmond Street, Woodstock.

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KEEPING INFORMED