PARISH OF RICHMOND

1 May 2025

“Not only with our lips but in our lives”

Services This Sunday
May 4, 2025
Third Sunday Of Easter
Altar Colors:  White

• 9:00 AM - Communion Service at St. John's Anglican Church, Jackson Falls, NB

• 11:00 AM - Communion Service at St. Luke's Anglican Church, Woodstock, NB

Find Bible readings at [link]

On most days the rector offers a brief morning prayer time live at 8:30 AM (and viewable at any time later). See Parish of Richmond and Woodstock - YouTube

Among those we uphold in prayer:  Allen, Cole, Connie, Doris, Ivan, Joyce, Lawrence, Lynn, Melba, Michelle, Nadine, Peggy, Phyllis, Ronnie, Shirley, Steven

Please advise Pat Margison (506-328-8146) of name deletions as well as name additions.

Who doesn't know someone in hospital?  There’s a convenient way to get a cheery greeting to the hospitalized.  The hospital delivers it.  Parishioners receiving these notes have mentioned how important they are.  Check out:  [Link]

This coming week’s birthdays: Trina Weeks

Anniversary:  Mac & Marg Wilson

Food Bank  Let’s fill those boxes and show gratitude to God by sharing with our neighbour the blessings we have been given.

Have you checked the parish’s Facebook page lately?  [Facebook]

This Sunday (4 May) Richmond’s service will be at St. John’s at 9:00 AM (note time).  For the first time it will use Common Praise hymnbooks kindly donated by parishioners of the late St. Philip’s church, Moncton.

This coming Monday (5 May) the World Day of Prayer service (with Debec UCC) takes place at St. John’s (7:00 PM) preceded by optional potluck supper (6:00 PM).  Special speaker:  Philip Shepherdson

Celtic Spirituality: Why It Matters Now is the title of a talk to be offered by well-known Celtic teacher and writer John Philip Newell.  It is hosted by Christ Church Cathedral on Wednesday 7 May, 6:00 PM, and it is Newell’s only Canadian engagement. See [link].

Baptism  With joy renewed we greet last Sunday’s news of yet another adult baptism at St. Luke’s.

The US government has ended most of its foreign aid to crises and development projects around the world. In response Alongside Hope (better known as Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund) is inviting Anglicans to contribute to a Resilience Fund that will pick up a bit of the slack. An anonymous donor stepped forward to match the first $250,000 that people contribute. Visit [link].

Details on the four nominees to be the next primate of the Anglican Church of Canada are available at [link].

Materials now include short videos from each of them setting out ideas on the role of the General Synod and the office of Primate. To see the videos, click on a nominee’s photo, then activate the link at the bottom of the enlarged photo.

April’s issue of the River Valley Sun contains two items of special interest.

• Page 8 shows Patti Connors and Mary Whiteway accepting a Community in Bloom award for their admirable summer work at St Luke’s. It’s the highlight of Woodstock’s Main St.

• Page 26 carries an interview with Ernest & Nancy Clarke reflecting on their exhibition of painting and carving at Woodstock’s Fisher Library. (Exhibit continues for a little longer.)

Tokens of Spring abundance are suddenly upon us – forsythia, daffodils and the millions of white bloodroot filling woodside ditches and announcing that fiddleheads are close behind. This week’s e-News shows the blaze of bluebells in a parishioner’s dooryard.

RICHMOND Next Sunday
SuNday, May 11, 2025
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Altar Colors:  White

• 9:00 AM - Communion Service at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Hartland, NB

• 9:00 AM - Morning Prayer Service at St. Mark's Anglican Church, Jackson Falls, NB

• 10:30 AM - Morning Prayer Service at St. John's Anglican Church, Richmond Corner, NB

• 11:00 AM - Morning Prayer Service at St. Luke's Anglican Church, Woodstock, NB