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The Wearing of the Green

by Rev. Canon Stewart Murray, Incumbent at St Barnabas, Ottawa

in May 2018 issue of ‘Crosstalk,' the newspaper of the Angican Diocese of Ottawa

The season after Pentecost or Trinity is called by some the long season of the green. They are referring, of course, to the colour of the church year that we will use until Advent. During the Easter season, we have had almost a riot of colours – white, gold, and red – but for the next six months, it will be the Wearing of the Green!

The Holy Trinity

By Rev. Canon Stewart Murray, Incumbent at St. Barnabas, Ottawa

(published in the April issue of ‘Crosstalk’, the newspaper of the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa)

The celebration of the Easter season concludes with the Ascension of Christ and the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Many parish communities celebrate Pentecost with great fanfare and energy: birthday cakes, balloons and variations on the theme of ‘tongues of fire’.

Service schedule for Holy Week

Poster of Services for Holy Week, 2018

Here is a schedule of services for Holy Week 2018:

Palm Sunday: 25 March

  • 8 am Morning Prayer
  • 8:30 am Low Mass
  • 10:30 am Solemn High Mass

Monday 26 March

  • 9:30 am Morning Prayer
  • 10 am Mass

Tuesday 27 March

  • 9:30 am Morning Prayer
  • 10 am Mass
  • 8 pm Tenebrae

Wednesday 28 March

  • 4:45 pm Evening Prayer
  • 5:15 pm Mass

Maundy Thursday: 29 March

  • 7:30 pm Solemn Liturgy of Maundy Thursday

Good Friday: 30 March

In The Image

By L.K. O’Connor (published in the March 2018 issue of ‘Crosstalk’)

One Saturday in the fall of 2017 and one Saturday in January 2018, the doors of St. Barnabas, Ottawa opened to welcome artists to an art day called In the Image.

Lady Day

by Rev. Canon Stewart Murray, Incumbent at St. Barnabas, Ottawa

published in ‘Crosstalk’, January, 2018