PARISH OF RICHMOND

17 October 2024

“Not only with our lips but in our lives”

Services This Week
October 19-26, 2024
Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost
Alter Colors:  Green

• On Saturday, October 19, 2024

  • 6:00 PM - Parish Harvest Supper and Communion at the Parish Centre, located at St. John's Anglican Church, Richmond Corner, NB

• On Sunday, October 20, 2024

  • 9:00 AM - Morning Prayer Service at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Hartland, NB (view the bulletin)

  • 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

  • Find Sunday 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:  Alice, Allen, Betty, Cecil, Christine, Cole, Connie, Debbie, Doris, George, Græme, Helen, Ivan, Joyce, Lawrence, Lynn, Melba, Michelle, Murray, Nadine, Nicole, Peggy, Phyllis, Ronald, Shawn, Sheldon, Shelley, Shirley, Steven, Tara

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 week’s anniversary: Charles & Sharon Lutwick

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? The Anglican Parish of Richmond, Diocese of Fredericton | Facebook

Vestry meets tonight at the Rectory, 7:00 PM.

This week’s Diocesan e-news notes that Canon Ross Hebb (who offers monthly services in the Parish of Canterbury) launches his latest book on New Brunswickers in World War I at the Provincial Archives (UNB Campus, Fredericton) on this Saturday 19 October, 2:00 PM.  It’s the autobiographical account of a New Brunswick priest serving with the North Shore Battalion, 1916-1918.  See The Red Vineyard | Anglican Diocese of Fredericton

Also on Saturday, parishioners are invited to join in a Harvest Supper.  It’s a service of Communion followed by a potluck supper at the Richmond Parish Centre, 6:00 PM.  (There is no Sunday service at St John’s.)

Next Talking Tuesday discussion (which is this coming Tuesday 22 October) will be on the conundrum of Unanswered Prayer:  2:00 PM at the Parish Centre and 7:00 PM at St. Luke’s.

Next Wednesday 23 October Synod delegates and substitutes convene at this area’s Greater Chapter meeting at Good Shepherd (Florenceville), 7:00 PM. This is in preparation for the 139^th meeting of the Diocesan Synod at the Cathedral on Saturday 2 November.

The Synod Office is organizing an overnight Advent retreat. It will be held in Rothesay Friday/Saturday 13-14 December.  Leader will be the gifted Bishop Sandra Fyfe of Nova Scotia/PEI. Register via Advent Retreat | Discipleship Resources | Anglican Diocese of Fredericton

For another month parishioners are asked to participate in Operation Christmas Child by filling the familiar shoe boxes with small items useful or interesting to a girl, boy or either.

The familiar blue Seafarers' Mission boxes are appearing in our churches. They solicit donations for seafarers from distant parts who arrive at the port of Saint John. Donations are unwrapped. With each box is a list of suggestions, such as toiletries, warm items (esp gloves, scarves), playing cards, game books, individually-wrapped candy, and all such. Financial donations are also accepted. Bev from the Mission is amazed each year that our landlocked parish supports this outreach to welcome strangers to NB.

This week the e-News shares Thanksgiving service photos from St. John’s and Holy Trinity.

Parish Outreach:

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

To join the 1000+ people who already subscribed to the diocese’s Tuesday evening e-newsletter, visit the eNews section of http://anglican.nb.ca/news.

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