PARISH OF RICHMOND

3 September 2026

“Not only with our lips but in our lives”

Services This Sunday
September 6, 2026
Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost

• 9:00 AM - Communion Service at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Hartland, NB [view latest bulletin]

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

Find Bible readings at [link]

This coming week's birthdays:  Ken Tompkins, Ronda Foster

This coming Sunday’s public worship in the parish will be at Holy Trinity, Hartland, (9:00 AM).

The Richmond Compassion Fund has purchased backpacks destined for needy students in local schools. Congregants are asked to bring in school supplies to go along with them. Some of the backpacks are in each church.

Forthcoming ~

• Saturday 12 September:  Mass ordination at Christ Church Cathedral, 3:00 PM
• Thursday 17 September:  Vestry meets at the Rectory and on Zoom, 7:00 PM
• Sunday 20 September:  Blessing of Animals service at St John’s, 4:00 PM
• Monday 21 September:  Free soup/roll lunch at St Luke’s hall, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
• Thursday 24 September:  Do Drop In(n) at the Parish Centre, 10:00 AM.  Conversation, fun or quiet – your choice
• Sunday 27 September:  Memorial Service at St John’s (9:00 AM) and St Mark’s (3:00 PM)
• Monday 26 October:  Free soup/roll lunch at St Luke’s hall, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
• Thursday 29 October:  Do Drop In(n) at the Parish Centre, 10:00 AM.  Conversation, fun or quiet – your choice
• Tuesday 3 November:  97^th anniversary of the consecration of Holy Trinity
• Saturday 7 November:  Diocesan Synod, Christ Church Cathedral, 8:45 AM
• Monday 23 November: free soup/roll lunch at St Luke’s hall, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
• Monday 21 December:  Free soup/roll lunch at St Luke’s hall, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Home visits – In times of crisis the rector will be there. Other visits can be arranged by speaking to her or leaving a call back message at 506-328-3042.

There is good news. Last evening a service of Harvest Songs of Praise brought to a close the parish’s 16^th edition of summer mid-week services.  Fittingly, the largest attendance of the season was present to welcome Archbishop and Debbie Edwards back from their extended family duties in Britain.  It was pleasant to find present a (young) old friend from the US and to be ministered to in music by the dazzling Marjorie Burtt Lyons and friends from Woodstock parish.  The evening ended with a pumpkin treat from Judy Clark that was almost literally hot from the oven.  The message of the readings was harvest abundance, God’s supernal generosity in sending Jesus to teach a better way, and our obligation to respond generously to the needs of community, near and away.  In the prayerful country quiet of a late-summer evening, it was a privileged time to be together.

This week’s photos show the Archbishop, Debbie and mother Blanche, and, at the base of the (“borrowed”) sunflowers, Blanche’s collection of traditional corn dollies (“corn” being the old word for wheat).