Please plan to join us, tonight, December 24, 2011 at 9:30pm for our candlelit service.

In anticipation of this wonderful night, please enjoy this delightful video – a slightly different pageant from the one we were invited to enjoy last week. Children tell the story of the incarnation:

Our Blue Christmas service offers space to acknowledge this pain and remember those we particularly miss this time of year.

Come join us tonight, December 23, 2011, at 7pm. Before we welcome the light of the world, let us acknowledge the darker corners of our lives.

A closing prayer from Ted Loder, Guerillas of Grace:

O God of all seasons and senses, grant us the sense of your timing to submit gracefully and rejoice quietly in the turn of the seasons.In this season of short days and long nights,
of grey and white and cold,
teach us the lessons of endings;
children growing, friends leaving, loved ones dying,
grieving over,
grudges over,
blaming over,
excuses over.

O God, grant us a sense of your timing.
In this season of short days and long nights,
of grey and white and cold,
teach us the lessons of beginnings;
that such waitings and endings may be the starting place,
a planting of seeds which bring to birth what is ready to be born—
something right and just and different,
a new song, a deeper relationship, a fuller love—
in the fullness of your time.

O God, grant us the sense of your timing.

(poem found on Daily Episcopalian)

Blue Christmas: when Christmas hurts: sometimes Christmas makes us even more aware of the holes in our lives, and the pain of what our life is not seems hard to bear. This service is a quiet, contemplative service with time to grieve what is not. All are welcome.

Noël bleu: quand Noël fait mal: parfois, la saison de Noël nous rends d’autant plus conscient de tout ce qui n’est pas parfait dans nos vies. Ce service tranquille et contemplatif est pour ceux qui peuvent trouver la joie de Noël difficile à vivre. Tous sont la bienvenue.

On Nov 6 – All Saints and All Souls – we will have special prayers for those who have died in the past year. There will be the opportunity to have prayers at the graveside of anyone in our cemetery, by request.

We meet for worship on Sunday at 10am. Please join us!

Upcoming services

Sunday, February 13, 2011         10am    Holy Eucharist (6th after Epiphany)Sunday, February 20, 2011         10am    Morning Prayer (7th after Epiphany)

Sunday, February 27, 2011         10am    Holy Eucharist (8th after Epiphany)

Sunday, March 6, 2011                  10am    Holy Eucharist (Last Sunday after Epiphany)

Upcoming services

Friday, December 24, 2010     7:30pm Holy Eucharist – Christmas Eve (Messe de Noël)

Saturday, December 25, 2010      no service

Sunday, December 26, 2010   10am   Morning Prayer with carol-sing (Christmas 1)

Sunday, January 2, 2011           10am    Holy Eucharist (The Epiphany)

Sunday, January 9, 2011           10am    Holy Eucharist (The Baptism of the Lord)

We are also known as Grace, Saints Michael and Margaret Church, and we are part of the Laurentians deanery of the Anglican Diocese of Montreal.

Our priest is the Rev. Maïda Vandendorpe.

We meet for worship on Sunday at 10am. Please join us!

Nous sommes une communauté chrétienne bilingue dans la tradition anglicane, situés à Mascouche, au nord de Montréal. Nos services sont le dimanche à 10h. Venez nous visiter!

You can reach us at mascoucheanglican@gmail.com and by phone at 450-477-5326.