Parish Life

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!

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’.

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

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.

By Rev. Canon Stewart Murray

published in the March 2018 issue of ‘Crosstalk’

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

published in the February 2018 issue of ‘Crosstalk’

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

published in ‘Crosstalk’, January, 2018

Here is a complete recording of From Darkness to Light: An Advent Procession with Carols, held Sunday 10 December 2017

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

published in ‘Crosstalk’, December, 2017

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

published in ‘Crosstalk’, November 2017

The season of Advent, the first four weeks at the beginning of the Church’s liturgical year, often get lost in the rush to Christmas. However, unlike Lent – which still holds a unique place in our spiritual lives – Advent is like an eccentric relative who comes to family dinners but we are not sure what to do with them.