St John's Anglican Church

Father John Lockyer
2023-07-09 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-07-16 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-07-23 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-07-30 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | St. John’s Church Sanctuary

Reverend Stephanie Pellow
2023-08-06 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-08-20 10:00 - 11:00

Archdeacon Elizabeth Hardy
2023-08-13 10:00 - 11:00

Reverend David Bryant
2023-08-27 10:00 - 11:00

Reverend Canon Stephanie Pellow
2023-12-10 10:00 - 11:00
Leading worship at our Live-streamed Choral Eucharist Service at 10 AM.

Bishop Peter Fenty
2023-12-17 10:00 - 11:00
Leading worship on Advent III for this Live-streamed Choral Eucharist Service.

Bishop Peter Fenty
2023-12-24 16:00 - 17:00
Joining us to lead our Choral Eucharist Service at 4 PM on December 24.

Live-Stream of the Choral Eucharist Service for the First Mass of Christmas, December 24
2023-12-24 16:00 - 17:00
Bishop Peter Fenty returns as Guest Presider and Preacher for this 4 PM Choral Eucharist Service of the First Mass of Christmas, with our Music Director Zacharia Dekker and Lay Reader and Intercessor Audi Geadah. Greg Finlayson reads the Old Testament lesson from the Book of Isaiah 9:2-7, and Carol McLean the reading from Titus 2:11-14. Zach sings the verses for Psalm 98 while the congregation joins for the refrain, “All the ends of the Earth have seen the salvation of our God”. The Gospel is from Luke 2:11-14. Our hymns for this service: O Come, All Ye Faithful; The First Nowell; Away in a Manger; and, Joy to the World. The choir Anthem, sung towards the end of Communion, “On a Night in Bethlehem”, is composed by Sandra T. Ford. St. John’s, East Orangeville is located in Caledon, Ontario Canada, and is a parish within the Anglican Diocese of Toronto. Please Note: This service is in place of the usual Sunday 10 AM worship.
https://youtube.com/live/5oznGpyGn2A?feature=share

Live-Stream of the Service of Lessons and Carols for Christmas Morning
2023-12-25 10:00 - 11:00
This Service is led by one of our Lay Readers, Kirk Hearder (Order of the Diocese of Toronto), and Music Director Zacharia Dekker. Eight lessons read by members of the congregation are interspersed with: Once in Royal David’s City; The People That in Darkness Sat; Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming; ‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime; Angels from the Realms of Glory; Stay, My Child, My Body Sharing; Away in a Manger; While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night; and, See Amid the Winter’s Snow. St. John’s, East Orangeville is located in Caledon, Ontario Canada, and is a parish within the Anglican Diocese of Toronto.
https://youtube.com/live/W5lCNCZaUOY?feature=share

Bishop Fenty: Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany, January 28, 2024
2024-01-28 10:00 - 11:00
Bishop Peter Fenty will be Guest Presider and Preacher for this Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany, January 28, with our Music Director Zacharia Dekker. This service will be live-streamed, with instructions how to access it in that item in the News/Announcements column next to this. Join us for fellowship and refreshments in the hall following the service.

Ash Wednesday Service
2024-02-14 10:00 - 11:00
The Reverend Canon Stephanie Pellow will preside and preach. This service will be live-streamed.

Lent I and Annual Vestry Meeting
2024-02-18 10:00 - 11:00
Reverend William Willis, former incumbent at St. Paul’s, Shelburne, leads our Choral Eucharist worship on this First Sunday of Lent, February 18, 2024. Our Music Director is Zacharia Dekker. This week’s Lay Reader and Intercessor is Audi Geadah Ogley, and the lessons are read by Audi and Todd Hillhouse.
Vestry: There will be a brief Coffee Hour following the service, before a pizza lunch is served, by which time our Priest-in-Charge, Canon Darrell Wright, will have arrived from his own church to chair our annual Vestry Meeting.

Lent II with Canon Stephanie Pellow, February 25
2024-02-25 10:00 - 11:00
We are pleased to welcome the Reverend Canon Stephanie Pellow as Guest Presider and Preacher to close out our February Sunday services. We understand this will most likely be Canon Pellow’s last service with us for some time, as she returns to her duties as one of the Honorary Assistants at St. Mark’s in Orangeville, the Diocese of Niagara. Thank you, Stephanie, for the many services in which you have led worship.

The Next Lenten Morning Prayer - March 6 at 11 AM
2024-03-06 11:00 - 12:00
This is a lay-led service of Morning Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), and will occur in the sanctuary of the church at 11 AM on March 6, 13, and 20, with the final one a Taizé Stations of the Cross service at 7 PM on Wednesday, March 27.

Lent IV with Reverend Canon Stephanie Pellow
2024-03-10 10:00 - 11:00
Join us in person if you are able—or online—for this Sunday’s Choral Eucharist Service at 10 AM, with Music Director Zacharia Dekker at the organ. All are invited to the hall following the service for fellowship and refreshments.

Lenten Morning Prayer at 9:30
2024-03-13 09:30 - 10:30
This week’s lay-led Morning Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) will be held at 9:30 Wednesday morning, March 13, instead of the usual 11 AM time.

Lent V with Bishop Peter Fenty
2024-03-17 10:00 - 11:00
Bishop Fenty returns to lead our Choral Eucharist service and preach at 10 AM this coming Sunday, March 17, with Music Director Zacharia Dekker working his magic at the organ. Bishop Fenty will also be with us for Palm Sunday and our Maundy Thursday service at 7 PM on March 28.

Lenten Morning Prayer
2024-03-20 11:00 - 12:00
Our lay-led Lenten Morning Prayer Service from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) returns to its 11 AM time this Wednesday, March 20. Our final one, on Wednesday, March 27, will be at 7 PM, and see a return of Taizé worship to St. John’s with the ‘Stations of the Cross’. Short, cantored Taizé pieces sung by the participants will be interspersed among the stations as we move around the church.

Taizé 'Stations of the Cross' on March 27
2024-03-27 19:00 - 20:00
On Wednesday, March 27 at 7 PM St. John’s is pleased to resume lay-led Taizé services following our last one in January 2020. During Holy Week this is combined with readings and prayers marking the 14 Stations of the Cross depicted on the plaques on the walls of our sanctuary marking Christ’s journey to the cross and tomb. Six short, contemplative pieces from the Taizé Community in France are cantored and then sung together as we proceed through the stations. This service does not lend itself to live-streaming.

Maundy Thursday with Bishop Fenty
2024-03-28 19:00 - 20:00
This service at 7 PM on Thursday, March 28 will include ritual foot-washing for those who wish, and traditional stripping of the altar. The choir will sing the anthem, ‘Into the Woods My Master Went’, by Sidney Lanier and Gilbert M. Martin. The service will be recorded rather than live-streamed, then posted following editing.

Good Friday with Reverend David Bryant
2024-03-29 10:00 - 11:00
Join us in person if possible or online for this service at 10 AM with Reverend David Bryant leading our worship and preaching. This service will include a seven-person reading of the Gospel. The choir anthem is, “Into the Woods My Master Went”, by Sidney Lanier and Gilbert M. Martin.

Easter Sunday with Reverend Bryant
2024-03-31 10:00 - 11:00
Join us in person if possible or online for this 10 AM Choral Eucharist service of joy and music.

Easter II this Sunday with Reverend Bryant
2024-04-07 10:00 - 11:00
Join us in person if possible or online at 10 this Sunday morning for our Choral Eucharist service with Reverend David Bryant and Music Director Zacharia Dekker at the organ. A light lunch will be served in the hall afterward. Being the first Sunday of the month the service will include the Litany of Healing.

Easter III with Bishop Peter Fenty April 14 at 10 AM
2024-04-14 10:00 - 11:00
We are pleased to welcome our Retired Suffragan Bishop Peter Fenty to lead our Choral Eucharist Service for Easter III at 10 AM this coming Sunday morning.

Easter IV with Reverend Canon Stephanie Pellow at 10 AM April 21
2024-04-21 10:00 - 11:00
Please join us in person or if that is not possible, online, at 10 this coming Sunday morning when we are blessed to have Reverend Canon Stephanie Pellow, Honorary Assistant at St. Mark’s in Orangeville, return to lead our Choral Eucharist worship on Easter IV.

Taizé Service April 23 at 7 PM
2024-04-23 19:00 - 20:00
This will be a ‘regular’ Taizé service as opposed to the special ‘Stations of the Cross’ service held during Holy Week. The intention is to make these monthly on a Tuesday evening as they occurred pre-Covid. It will be followed by one for May (probably on May 21…yet to be confirmed), then a break over the summer before resuming in the Fall. This is a lay-led service of contemplation, prayer, and readings, interspersed with short cantored Taizé pieces repeated by the participants.
