We gather on Sunday at 4:00 pm at the United Commons Sanctuary!

This Sunday begins our Summer Series exploring 'How We Worship.'  You can watch a brief Intro video for the series here.

It's also Pride Sunday ahere in Victoria, so our worship will have elements of LGBTQ2SIA+ song and liturgy.

Starting this week, we will worship every other week (the full schedule is below) and explore the four main movements in our worship: gathering, proclaiming, celebrating, and being sent.  

This week, Rob and Lynn help us to explore what it means to Gather into worship each week! 

Matt presides at Jesus' table of welcome!

The band leads us in joyful song...

Youth and Children gather with Lucy, Amaya and June as leaders...

There will be bread and wine. Come.

Join us in house for 4:00pm or livestream online at this link.

We will worship in July and August, gathering every other week. 

Our series will explore 'How We Worship.'  Click to watch the Intro video here (YouTube). 

We gather at United Commons for worship on the following Sundays:

July 6 - We Gather 

July 20 - We Proclaim

August 3 - We Celebrate

August 17 - We are Sent 

(all at 4pm here in the AbbeyChurch Sanctuary). 

Mark your calendars! 

The annual Victoria Pride Parade is happening tomorrow, Sunday July 6!  

Our friends at the Anglican and United Churches both have places to march and have invited us to join them. 

Drop us a line [admin@emmauscommunity.ca] if you'd like to walk this year and bear witness in this way!  

Check out the sermon at the link below, or head to our archive on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AbbeyChurch

And read along with the liturgy at this link.

+ Mondays at 9am - Morning Prayer with Centering Prayer @ The Upper Room (aka 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 @ the Upper Room (off the Balmoral parking lot, metal stairs up) - in-person and zoom.  

+ Thursdays at 8:15am - Morning Prayer - @ The Upper Room  (off the Balmoral parking lot, metal stairs up) / hybrid zoom.

+ Fridays at 8:15am - Morning Prayer - on-line on 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.

A happy birthday to The Emmaus Community - the monastic-inspired intentional Christian community -  as we celebrate our 11th anniversary.   Emmaus is the 'parent' community of AbbeyChurch. 

A small group, taken under the wing of Anglican nuns, discerned a rule of life committing to prayer, presence and simplicity and prayed together for the first time on the Monday after Pentecost Sunday in 2014.

Next week, Emmaus will hold a day long retreat, set their new 'customary' (shared practices for the next year) and are also quietly looking at properties which have potential for their monastic hub and cooperative housing.  

Please continue to hold the Emmaus Community in your prayers.

We've at Emmaus and AbbeyChurch have been a part of helping out on hampers for a while.  If you can help out somewhat regularly, please do drop them a line!

Next Gathering: Monday July 14th at 4pm at the Church! 

This twice-monthly event will include opportunities to run and get our energy out, play games together, work on homework together, engage in spiritual practices, and cook and eat a meal together.

Youth can come straight from school to the United Commons, and come into the large gymnasium directly off of the main doors at the parking lot.

Any questions? Call or text Lucy at 587-700-6470

We're grateful for your contributions to our common life as both Emmaus and the AbbeyChurch.

We are  our own registered CRA charity and have our own bank account!

We  accept e-transfers to treasurer@emmauscommunity.ca for charitable donations.  If you'd like a charitable receipt, please email your contact information to that same address or fill out this form so we can send you a receipt at tax time.

In addition to the many ways to participate, there are a number of ways you can give finanically - including PAR (monthly withdrawl), CanadaHelps (one-time giving) and by cash or debit (via Square) on Sundays at AbbeyChurch. 

You can read more about the options and a bit about our finances here. 

The 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'.

YouthTREK VERNON is a three-day gathering that will bring youth (12-15yrs) and their leaders together! We’ve been dreaming, planning, and gathering, all to make these events full of joy.

What will we do, you ask?

Play, sing, worship, gather around food, talk about things that matter to us, support the community, meet new friends, and greet old ones, all in a place of radical, inclusive Christian welcome, and so. Much. Joy.