Schedule

Wednesday, March 31st – Meetings in office and Mission to Seafarers Annual Meeting

Thursday, April 1st – Bible Reading Marathon (Diocese of Athabasca); University of King's College Board of Governors Meeting

Good Friday, April 2nd – Parish of Western Shore

Holy Saturday, April 3rd – Easter Vigil, Cathedral Church of All Saints

Monday, April 5th  – Day Off, Easter Monday

Tuesday, April 6th  – Meetings in Office

Wednesday, April 7th – Meetings in Office

We now have a dedicated page for Career Postings, under our About section.

You may view the page by clicking on this link;

https://www.nspeidiocese.ca/pages/433

Covid Update – NS

No changes from last week. For detailed information go to: Coronavirus (COVID-19): restrictions and guidance - Government of Nova Scotia, Canada

Covid Update – PEI

Post circuit breaker measures are in place until mid April 2021. The measures will be reassessed throughout. These restrictions override all other existing sector specific public health guidance. For detailed information go to: COVID-19 (coronavirus) in Prince Edward Island | Government of Prince Edward Island

Next week theEaster season begins, spring is sprung, and people are longing to be outdoors. These are three good reasons to encourage parishioners and the faith-curious to discover the Divine outside. Whether it's in small groups or as individuals, offering spiritual guidance to assist in communing with the Creator can nurture people in faith formation. Read Beth Norcross's article from Lewis Centre for Church Leadership, called Helping People Connect with God through Nature. Check out her free podcast too! htthttps://www.churchleadership.com/leading-ideas/helping-people-connect-with-god-through-nature/ps://www.churchleadership.com/leading-ideas/helping-people-connect-with-god-through-nature/

EASTERN SHORE REGION

April 04

Ecum Secum, Nova Scotia 
Archdeacon Marilyn Newport, Priest-in-Charge

            St. Barnabas’, Ecum Secum

            St. John’s, Necum Teuch

             St. Paul’s, Ecum Secum West

Diocesan Heating Oil Program

The Diocese of NS and PEI Heating Oil Program with Irving Oil offers Churches of the Diocese and eligible Diocesan Clergy and Diocesan Staff a discounted rate based on non-profit status. This rate is not offered to individual Anglican parishioners. For more information, please contact: The Centralized Commercial Account Manager for the Diocesan Heating Oil Program, Ms. Jennifer Bishop by name at 1-888-310-1924 or by email at Jennifer.Bishop@IrvingOil.com

The Furnace Oil price for the period March 27-April 2, 2021,  for: 

Nova Scotia                     $0.7084 plus applicable taxes

Prince Edward Island        $0.6937 plus applicable taxes

Primate Linda Nicholls and the ELCIC’s National Bishop Susan Johnson have prepared a video message for Easter. The video is available on the Full Communion website, https://anglihttps://anglicanlutheran.ca/2021-joint-easter-message/canlutheran.ca/2021-joint-easter-message/ . You are invited to include the message in upcoming services or events; or to share it on your own (i.e., as a standalone video). Various formats are available for download, depending on data and bandwidth capabilities in your communities or regions.

Have a blessed Holy Week and Easter!

Provincial Synod meets in June, 2021 via Zoom with Anglican lay and clergy representatives from across the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada (Atlantic Canada and Quebec). We’ve been asked to share some of our experiences and lessons learned through the pandemic. Is there something you or your Parish or ministry has experienced through all of this that is a cause for joy? Have you begun a new ministry or revitalized an existing one? Have you learned new ways to communicate with your parishioners? Or to deepen relationships with them? Or to reach out beyond your Church doors? Or to worship together (either in-person or online?) How has the pandemic changed the way you understand or experience ministry? Send us some of your stories (a short paragraph is fine) and we’ll pass them on (please be sure to maintain confidentiality as appropriate). We need to receive these by mid-April to prepare our Diocesan report to Provincial Synod.

Here is a prayer from the Diocesan Environment Network. 

Praying for our Environment:

Patient God,
Ten degrees they need to rise,
For the world, I must be wise.
Help me to resist the rake
Until the pollinators wake.

Carole Aylard, The Church of St Andrew and DEN Communications Officer: 

A number of clergy and parishes have been asking whether there may be a way to lift restrictions on the administration of wine to members of the congregation during the celebration of the Eucharist. As Holy Week approaches, there are also questions about preparing and distributing Palm crosses, whether a service of foot-washing can take place on Maundy Thursday and how to offer Easter communion to parishioners who are worshipping from their homes. A sub-group of the Bishop’s Advisory Council (Archdeacons) is working on Liturgical Guidelines and will issue those prior to Holy Week. If you have questions you’d like answered in these guidelines, please forward them to: bishopsoffice@nspeidiocese.ca by Monday, March 15th.

I am pleased and excited to announce three tenure-track faculty appointments at Atlantic School of Theology, effective in the coming months. These three outstanding educators and scholars will help advance AST’s mission of shaping faithful and effective leaders, and will themselves assist in leading AST into the future for years to come.

Dr. Evangeline Kozitza Dean 

httphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sr4MKlpOaUs://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sr4MKlpOaU

Rev. Dr. Susan MacAlpine-Gillis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWvG9Kd2t_0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWvG9Kd2t_0

  Rev. Dr. Andrew O’Neill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUTBV9pYoos

A Virtual Lunch and Learn Series
Thursdays 1:00–2:00 pm
*Free of charge, with a special welcome to students
For a full schedule and to learn more, click here.

http:http://www.astheology.ns.ca/con-ed/2021.html//www.astheology.ns.ca/con-ed/2021.html

The following are the Services for the month of April  2021, all which will be held at St. Edward the Confessor Anglican Church, 1650 Highway No 1, Clementsport, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, all are most welcome to attend bearing in mind the Church is being fully sanitized/Social distancing is being respected….

Contact Information:   902-477-1783, emmanuelchurch@eastlink.ca

Holy Week Services:

All services are at the church unless otherwise noted. They will also be livestreamed on our website (www.emmanuelanglicanchurch.net) and Facebook page, except those not held in the church.

Palm Sunday, March 28, 8 am and 10 am Eucharist. If you wish to come to the 10 am, please pre-register

A Lenten activity from the Anglican Church Women Diocesan Board.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y3vI91ieqQfZ21DeEkUu-Vmtxu5Sxeqr/view?usp=sharing

The Winter 2021 issue of Keeping in Touch, the Anglican Church Women Diocesan Board Magazine.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wE0XDV_hkmQSwdaRn_a46geR0BIL5uWU/view?usp=sharing

Climate change is more than a science issue, it's a spiritual and moral issue too.  Our churches have an important role to play. Join this discussion group to learn more about how to lead or support your community of faith in engaging to make a difference for future generations.  To get a taste of the type of information and hope that you will encounter in the book, take a listen to Jim Antal interviewed by Laura Hunter, Minister for Justice and Mission at the United Church of Canada on her podcast “Making Hope Visible” .

The book study will take place via Zoom on Wednesdays April 7 to May 19, from 11:30 to 1:00pm.  Feel free to bring your lunch.  This initiative is Sponsored by the Anglican Diocesan Environment Network (DEN) of the Diocese of NS and PEI and St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Fredericton, NB.  All are welcome (this is not an Anglicans-only gathering).  To register Email: endionspei@gmail.com

The Rev. Marian Lucas-Jefferies
8282 Rte. 102 Public Landing NB E5K 4L1

Mobile - 902-483-6866
marian.lucas.jefferies@gmail.com
 

DEN BOOK STUDY

Climate Church, Climate World – an Invitation to an Online Book Study. Climate change is more than a science issue, it's a spiritual and moral issue too. Our churches have an important role to play. Join this discussion group to learn more about how to lead or support your community of faith in engaging to make a difference for future generations. To get a taste of the type of information and hope that you will encounter in the book, take a listen to Jim Antal interviewed by Laura Hunter, Minister for Justice and Mission at the United Church of Canada on her podcast “Making Hope Visible” .

Saturday, March 27 from 8:30-9:30 pm. Each of us can take part and our efforts combined will make a huge difference. What can you do? At 8:30 that night turn off anything that is using energy, TVs, lights, electronic devices, stoves, toasters, microwave ovens, coffee pots, etc. Also if possible unplug your devices as they are still draining power even if not in use.

Why are we doing this? The five most important issues facing us are air pollution & climate change, deforestation, species extinction, soil degradation and overpopulation. Individually we can’t deal with all of these but we can make a difference by recycling, using less plastic, using less energy, etc.

So, will we all join together for Earth Hour 2021 and help to protect this gift from God, our EARTH?

St. Margaret of Scotland in Halifax have extra copies of our red hymn book, a collaboration between our Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada.  We have 50 or so, in good condition.  Please call us if you can make use of them.  Rev. Marian 902 455-2451

For information on this month's activities at the Cathedral Church of All Saints, click the EVENTS tab on the website: www.cathedralchurchofallsaints.com