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AbbeyChurch Worship This Week - Easter Sunday - April 20thBring your bells to ring and your flowers to decorate our Cross as the Joy comes in the morning!!! Rob preaches on the Paschal mystery and the empty tomb... Matt presides at Jesus' table of welcome... Reba brings a poem... Lucy is with the youth and Tressa is with the younger children... The band leads us in joyful song... There will be bread and wine. Come...
The order of service leaflet is available here. Join us in house for 4:00pm or livestream online at this link.
Image: Resurrection 2007 - Source Unknown |
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Bring your bells and flowers to decorate the Cross!We encourage folk to bring a handful of flowers as we decorate the Cross with signs of new life! |
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Easter Sunrise - meet at 5:45am!We gather to worship the Risen Lord and greet the rising Sun! Gathering at Willows Beach at 5:45am - carry a candle to the beach, throw the rock of your burden into the sea, and hear the amazing story of the empty tomb! Breakfast potluck to follow! (We meet near the tea house and find a spot)
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Martyn Joseph Live - Thursday, April 24, 2025We're excited to bring Martyn Joseph to town for a sixth time in 2025 - it's just a few weeks away. Tickets are going fast - get yours after church this Sunday.
AbbeyChurch / The United Commons (Formerly the space of First Met UC)932 Balmoral (Quadra and Balmoral)Tickets *$28 (advance sales only)Online tickets available from Eventbrite . Or, to avoid the additional Eventbrite fee, tickets are available from The Local General Store at 1440 Haultain during business hours for $28 (cash preferred). Tickets are only available in advance - no door sales due to liquor permitting. Refreshments, including alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and snacks will be available - as well as Martyn's merchandise. Some parking is available on Balmoral and around the North Park Neighbourhood or paid parking at the city lot at Vancouver and Caledonia (about a 5-10 minute walk). Accessibility: If you require barrier-free access, please email us in advance so we can arrange entry from the 932 Balmoral entrance, as the main, front Quadra doors are not barrier free and have steps. *** More on Martyn: Martyn Joseph is a completely unique and mind blowing artist. Take everything you think you know about singer songwriters....and rip it up. For one man and a guitar he creates a performance with a huge far-reaching sound that is energetic, compelling and passionate. Be it to two hundred people or twenty thousand, he blows the crowd away night after night. |
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Weekday Morning PrayerNO MORNING PRAYER MONDAY APRIL 21st! + Mondays at 9am - Morning Prayer with Centering Prayer @ AbbeyChurch office (off the Balmoral parking lot, metal stairs up) - in-person only. There is not usually AM prayer on holiday Mondays. + Tuesdays at 9am - Morning Prayer @ AbbeyChurch office (off the Balmoral parking lot, metal stairs up) - in-person and zoom. + Thursdays at 8:15am - Morning Prayer - @ AbbeyChurch office (off the Balmoral parking lot, metal stairs up) / hybrid zoom. + Fridays at 8:15am - morning prayer - on-line zoom only
Our weekday common prayer is liturgical in nature and based on ancient monastic practices. It's open to all who wish to join in-person or online. We sometimes chant the psalms, listen to a reading or readings assigned for the day, have a short period of silence, sharing and intercessory prayer.
The liturgies and psalter for weekday prayer are posted here. Please do email for a zoom link if you are joining online. |
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Collective Care in A Time of FascismCollective Care in a Time of Rising Fascism In this series of six workshops, we learn embodied practices that sustain spiritual grounding and provide individual and community resources for the long haul. We explore skills that help us build relationships and support a practice community for collective liberation. The program draws from politicized somatics, active mindfulness, art, ritual, and group sharing. Facilitators Denise Nadeau (she/her) is a movement therapist, somatic educator, practical theologian, and activist whose work for the past twenty-five years combines expressive art therapies and spiritual practices in the repair of racist, sexist and colonial violence (denisenadeau.org). She is of Western European ancestry from Quebec and currently resides as an uninvited visitor in lək̓ʷəŋən territories. Karen Fraser Gitlitz (she/her) is an art therapist at creativeupwelling.com and a community minister with the Unitarian Universalists. Her experience includes community art making and ritual as well as building bridges between spiritual and secular justice communities. A cis-gendered person of European descent, Karen is an uninvited guest on the lands of the W̱SÁNEĆ people. When: six Thursdays April 10 to May 15, 4 pm – 6pm Where: 932 Balmoral, Victoria, BC - The United Commons (formally First Met) Accessibility: all genders washroom, walker accessible (no automated doors) Cost: Sliding scale $20-$90 includes snacks and art supplies |
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About UsThe Emmaus Community, which is a neo-monastic intentional community of ordinary people who commit ourselves to following Jesus in ways akin to the monastic life. The AbbeyChurch is a Sunday worship expression of the Emmaus Community. Not all AbbeyChurch folks are part of Emmaus - you're welcome to be a part of AbbeyChurch regardless of connection to Emmaus! As a witness to unity and diversity, we are an ecumenical shared ministry of The United Church of Canada and The Anglican Church of Canada. We intentionally draw on the 'jewels' of these traditions, as well as the wider church. The Emmaus Community and the AbbeyChurch acknowledge that we worship, take action and pray on the stolen territory of the Songhees and Xwsepsum (Esquimalt) Nations, the Lək̓ʷəŋən peoples'. |
