The Emmaus Community Victoria
#1 - 1702 Belmont Ave. V8R3Z1 Victoria, BC, Canada

AbbeyChurch Online Premier - Good Friday - April 2, 2021

Send in your images/videos of resurrection joy!

Join us tomorrow for worship, livestreamed here on Facebook or on YouTube - https://youtu.be/CICx7JUJx0I - Sunday at 4pm as we continue in the holy season of Le...nt. Rob preaching. Meagan serving at Jesus' table. Caroline leads the band. Celine, our poet in residence chooses a poem. Members of the community read... Come. Into the wilderness. Be changed.

Hey friends - we welcome you to send us your short (10 sec) video of palm waving for our Palm Sunday procession - you can use branches or anything you can find, to welcome Jesus in this Sunday! Send it to us by Friday March 26.... Drop those files here! https://www.dropbox.com/request/qawyVb0vvNsdNRHGN0fj

Ash Wednesday...

Greetings Abbey Church friends! A reminder that daylight savings takes effect tonight - join us online tomorrow at 4 PM as we celebrate Laetare Sunday - refreshment in the midst of Lent! Watch us live here on FB or at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_QCPckMZXg The leaflet for our liturgy is here: https://tinyurl.com/2sjmsand

Kits available for pick-up today - or DM us if you can't get there and we'll work something out!

We have a little bit of a grassroots DIY monastic fundraiser coming up. Baskets, and even some beer! See the news. https://www.emmauscommunity.ca//emmaus-christmas-fundraise

Worship Sunday at 4pm...

Compline tonight at 9pm-9:30pm - 600 Richmond... Candles, incense and simple chanted prayer

Join us Sunday 4 PM for Eucharist and prayers of healing and anointing oil. https://mailchi.mp//weekly-update-october-18-2020-service-

Emmaus Community weekly news: November 8. https://mailchi.mp//the-emmaus-community-and-abbey-church-

Worship tomorrow 4pm - in person and livestreaming.

Sunday worship returning to 4 PM! (In person and online) https://mailchi.mp//emmaus-and-the-abbeychurch-weekly-upda

Tomorrow, Wednesday evening November 4th - traditional late-night chanted compline (night prayer) adapted from the Book of Common Prayer. 9-9:30pm. All welcome. * note, we use incense and candles for this service.... https://www.emmauscommunity.ca//chanted-compline/2020-11-04

Compline in the church starting tonight. Jesse, Mark, Marilyn and Sue make up the choir for this first time. Come all ye that are weary...

A reminder that we will begin our late night chanted compline tomorrow evening at 9pm. at 600 Richmond Please note that incense and candles will be in use during this worship. And appropriate distancing of course. Liturgy is available here: shorturl.at/inpDZ o... https://www.abbeychurch.ca/even/chanted-compline/2020-10-07

What’s happening in our common life...

We have a Bishop-elect!

Things happening in the community...

Come worship this afternoon. Matt serving at Christ's table. Anna on kids. Orange shirts if you've got 'em. Bike over and/or bring backpacks to have them blessed.... And we bless Liz (and Py) on their way! 3pm @ 600 Richmond and / or FB Live and YouTube.

This Sunday (finally!) Blessing of the Bikes and Backpacks and Orange Shirt Sunday 3pm - at the Church (600 Richmond)... Sylvia Keesmaat preaching for the season of creation. Livestream on YouTube and FB live. With the threat of rain all weekend, we've decided to just do this inside the church. If you're a student, teacher or administrator, bring along a backpack. If you bike - bring along your bike for blessing. Liz on music one last time before she moves (we'll be commissioning her as well) Matt Humphrey serves at Jesus' table. Wear your orange shirt if you have one in commemoration of Orange Shirt Day (https://victoriaorangeshirtday.com/)

Check out what we have been dreaming about these days https://bc.anglican.ca//the-burning-hearts-housing-coopera

Should be a good presentation and conversation. Join us if you can... Email us for zoom link to participate.

Emmaus Community & The AbbeyChurch - https://mailchi.mp/ea5a71d/emmaus-community-the-abbeychurch

Check out what we have been dreaming about these days https://bc.anglican.ca//the-burning-hearts-housing-coopera

Links for the ordination this Sunday (and we'll also be livestreaming from the church at 4:30pm)

This Sunday, the ordination will be streamed live from the Cathedral. We will be playing it at the Abbey church at 430pm due to limited numbers at the cathedra...l. God willing Bishop Logan will ordain Matt Humphrey and Gail Rodger! Matt will lead us in his first Eucharist on Monday the 21st at 7pm in the Abbey church space. Join us as we celebrate this amazing event! Ordination streaming on Facebook or the Diocesan Website. https://www.facebook.com/events/767481800694574/ https://bc.anglican.ca/live

Online worship at 3pm (reminder - in-person worship cancelled due to smoke)

In-person worship cancelled tomorrow due to smoke warnings (blessing of backpacks and bikes postponed until Sept 27th) - but join us for curated worship with Rev. Ingrid Brown of Weird Church, Cumberland preaching...

This Sunday @ Beacon Hill Park - Blessing of Backpacks and bikes - and Season of Creation outdoor physically-distanced communion... And a Wild Church / AbbeyChurch online curated mashup for those who can't be with us in person with Rev. Ingrid Brown of Weird Church, Cumberland preaching...

Worship this afternoon - simple, distanced in-person communion at Wilows Beach and alo online - curated Wild Church Victoria / AbbeyChuch mashup - youtube link below Zoom Morning prayer is ON tomorrow for Labour Day - and we'll be in-person Tuesday and Thursday at AbbeyChurch / St. Matthias (600 Richmond) - let us know if you are coming so we can prepare properly to ensure spacing, etc. Zoom continues Monday, Wed, Friday and Saturday. Traditional candle-lit compline (night prayer) starting in October on Wednesday evenings in the church...

Here are some Fall plans - check out what's happening for Season of Creation and so much more...

Check it out! Worship and lots more...

Worship tomorrow, 3 PM - in person and online! Join us!

Worship with us tomorrow at 3 PM in person or online!

Reminder there is no in person gathering for worship tomorrow. Join us online at 3 PM!

AbbeyChurch Worship tomorrow at 3pm - livestream here, youtube or in-house with covid precautions.

Join us for worship with our AbbeyChurch tomorrow afternoon - either in-person at 600 Richmond or streaming on YouTube or FB live

Worship tomorrow - in-person or streaming + AbbeyKids + elixirs and more

AbbeyChurch worship tomorrow...

A reminder about the Wild Church Victoria retreat day tomorrow... DM Matthew Humphrey for all the details...

National Indigenous Day of Prayer tomorrow with Murray Pruden and Music from Indigenous Anglicans + Re-opening plans and more...

Into the ordinary... AbbeyChurch re-opening July 12... Livestream worship tomorrow...

Our "Romans Disarmed" book study starts this Wednesday at 7:30pm (PST). Details in the link. Rob will be facilitating most of our sessions - and we're hoping to get Syvia and Brian to join us for some sessions too... email [email protected] if you'd like to join in.... https://www.abbeychurch.ca/events/romans-disarmed/2020-06-10

Join us for worship this afternoon... and (if you are able, which we know many are not) you're invited to join Emmaus and Abbey folk in the Rally after...

Be careful what you pray for - a wee outtake from yesterday's abbeychurch livestream... and watch the whole service here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXUIygsZ7CU

Somethings things get weird on Pentecost. Be careful what you pray for... Come Holy Spirit.... An outtake from this afternoon's Pentecost worship - streaming with live and pre-recorded elements at 3pm. https://youtu.be/dXUIygsZ7CU

A reminder that this is happening Saturday... Let us know if you're participating...

Submit your photo / video for this Sunday's pentecost video...

Vanessa Caruso offered us this poem, which was written, in part, referencing her entry into Emmaus Community... we share it, in its beauty, here...

Yesterday we worshiped around the theme of the Emmaus story, with some members from Emmaus leading the worship. There was some internet lag - but this version is fixed. Check it out.

This afternoon we commemorate the story of Emmaus, our 'patronal' feast! Join us for worship at 3pm on the AbbeyChurch youtube channel with Matthew Humphrey, EC preaching it live!

Emmaus Community and The AbbeyChurch - https://mailchi.mp/4d4/emmaus-community-and-the-abbeychurch

Emmaus Community Co-Prior Marilyn M Gough, EC speaks about the Emmaus Story!

Praying for the Emmaus Community: for all those who would have been received into the community this weekend, those who are discerning and for those of us longi...ng to be physically present in each others lives once more. You have been and continue to be a light in my life! May you truly celebrate this Sunday with the joy of hearts on fire! Blessed are you who bear the light Blessed are you who bear the light in unbearable times, who testify to its endurance amid the unendurable, who bear witness to its persistence when everything seems in shadow and grief. Blessed are you in whom the light lives, in whom the brightness blazes your heart a chapel, an altar where in the deepest night can be seen the fire that shines forth in you in unaccountable faith, in stubborn hope, in love that illumines every broken thing it finds. Jan Richardson from Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons. janrichardson.com