PARISH OF RICHMOND

12 June 2025

“Not only with our lips but in our lives”

Services This Coming Week
June 15-21, 2025

On Sunday, June 15, 2025
Trinity Sunday
Altar Colors:  White

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

• 9:00 AM - Communion Service at St. Mark'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, 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:  Karen Miller

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].  There is a series of lovely, creative shots of Camp Brookwood kids.

Graduates? Please let Pat Margison or Cindy Derksen know about any 2025 graduates with connections to our parish -- high school or post-secondary.

Forthcoming events ~

• Thursday 19 June:  Vestry meet at the Rectory, 7:00 PM

• Saturday 21 June:  Morning Prayer Celtic service marking Summer Solstice, Christ Church (Lr Woodstock), 8:00 AM (breakfast follows)

• Tuesday 24 June:  Talking Tuesday exploration of understandings of dying and death, at the Rectory (2:00 PM) and St. Luke’s hall (7:00 PM)

• Wednesday 25 June:  Between the Birches outdoor meditation at the Rectory, 7:00 PM

• Sunday 29 June:  Breakfast church at St. John’s (details tba)

The first Open Doors and No-Cost Tours event at Holy Trinity is this Saturday, June 14th from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM.  Next Open Doors event is Saturday, June 28th from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM.

Do you find it hard to break out of work and family routines, put away your cell phone and avoid other sources of social media in order to spend quality time with God?  Even Jesus had to retreat from everyday life to pray.  Consider the New Brunswick Christian Ashram as your opportunity, to go deeper in your faith relationship.  Held from August 7 – 10, 2025 at beautiful Beulah Camp and Conference Centre in Brown’s Flat, you will experience a leisurely, interdenominational Christian retreat in a conference setting well resourced to serve your needs.  To learn more speak to Cindy Derksen or visit www.nbca.ca.

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 people 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 who people contribute.  Visit [link].

Camp Brookwood ~ Summer is here and Camp Brookwood is looking forward to another great camping season.  Staff have been hired and are eagerly waiting for campers to return.  Weekly camping fees this year are $250 per camper.  To support a camper or donate to the operation of the camp, put your additional offering in the collection plate and it will get to the Camp.

There is good news.  Three weeks ago Archbishop Edwards presided over the election of the first francophone (and from Africa) as the coadjutor bishop of Montreal, then last week he was in Timmins (Ont) to join in consecrating a Newfoundland-born Micmac as bishop of the newly-reconstituted diocese of Moosonee, and just now we learn that the next bishop of Rupert’s Land (that is, the Winnipeg area) will be an immigrant to Canada from Zimbabwe.  The Church is changing.  How are we changing?

Circulating with this week’s e-News are three gorgeous shots of Holy Trinity on Pentecost Sunday.  Jack made a rare visit to the pulpit.

Also included are two striking representations of tongues of fire in windows at St Mark’s.

RICHMOND Next Sunday
SuNday, June 15, 2025
First Sunday After Pentecost
Trinity Sunday
Altar Colors:  White

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

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

• 9:30 AM - Communion Service at St. John's Anglican Church, Richmond Corner, NB

• 11:00 AM - Communion Service at Christ Church Anglican Church, Woodstock, NB