St. Mary's Regina

THE SUNDAY AFTER EASTER

April 16, 2023

CHRIST IS RISEN! HE IS RISEN INDEED, ALLELUIA!

LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.

GETTING READY FOR SUNDAY: PREVIEW OF THE READINGS.

THE LESSON: 1 John 5:4-12

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is the truth. There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has borne witness to his Son. He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne to his Son. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who has not the Son of God has not life.

THE HOLY GOSPEL: John 20:19-23 

When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.’ When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’

PARISH LIFE NOTES

EASTER OFFERING. The Vestry has designated that our Lenten alms that form our Easter offering will be given to Souls Harbour Rescue Mission. Please use the yellow envelopes provided. 

PARISH FAMILY MEETING follows the service next Sunday. Please join us for update and news from the Vestry.

SUNDAY OF THE RESURRECTION

April 9, 2023

ALLELUIA! CHRIST IS RISEN! HE IS RISEN INDEED, ALLELUIA!

LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.

Continue reading “Easter 2023 – Bulletin”

Palm Sunday

April 2, 2023

GLORY BE TO JESUS CHRIST! GLORY FOREVER!

LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.

PARISH LIFE NOTES

BLESSINGS AND THANKS to our palm-cross folding crew – John and Roberta, Hilary, Sharon, and Alan – who met on Friday morning in preparation  for our service today!

Continue reading “Palm Sunday, 2023 – Bulletin”

FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT- PASSION SUNDAY 

March 26, 2023

GLORY BE TO JESUS CHRIST! GLORY FOREVER!

LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.

PREVIEW OF SUNDAY’S READINGS.

The last two weeks of Lent are known as Passiontide, where the focus of our worship, prayer, and meditation is on the suffering and death of  our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ. In our lesson today from the Letter to the Hebrews, the mystery and necessity of Christ’s Passion is presented with reference to the pattern of worship set out in the Law of Moses. 

Continue reading “Lent 5, 2023 – Bulletin”

Fourth Sunday in Lent

March 19, 2023

GLORY BE TO JESUS CHRIST! GLORY FOREVER!

LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.

PREVIEW OF SUNDAY’S READINGS

In our Epistle lesson for today, St. Paul underlines the gift that is our ours through baptism into Christ’s death and resurrection: adoption as children of God and the heirs of the promise which serves as a motivation to “cast out”  from our lives all the sin that enslaves, and become spiritually free.

Continue reading “Lent 4, 2023 – Bulletin”