The service will also be livestreamed.

A copy of the bulletin is here:  Sunday February 23, 2025

The Service livestream can be found here:

St. Catherine's Website Services Page

Previous livestreamed services, and sermon notes can be found here:

St. Catherine's Website Past Services Page or

St. Catherine's YouTube Channel 

We are gathering on February 23rd, 2025 at 10 am for a short Morning Prayer Service, followed by a finger lunch (provided and cash donations appreciated) and our Annual Vestry Meeting (AGM).

If you have been part of the community for 3 months or more, then you are invited to give your opinion and share your ideas at this meeting of members. 

The Vestry will be Livestreamed and will be at the same link as the Sunday service for February 23rd, 2025. If you would like to vote from home, please register with the office (scadmin@shaw.ca) and Natasha will send you a number to text or an email to message.

You can find that link below or here: LIVESTREAM LINK FEBRUARY 23RD SERVICE AND VESTRY

In preparation, you might like to:

(1) familiarize yourself with the reports of the ministries of the parish:

You can find these here: LINK TO 2024 YEARBOOK

(2) read the vestry material - agenda, minutes, financials, and budgets.

You can find these here: LINK TO VESTRY PACKAGE

(3) preview the budget presentations.

On Sunday February 16th, 2025, following the 10 am, Gordon and Billy reviewed the operating budget and property development budget for 2025. The link to the video is here: LINK TO BUDGET PRESENTATIONS

Thank you for being part of such a vibrant community! See you Sunday.

Rev. Sharon 

For any who will be attending the Vestry remotely, by watching the livestream.

Here is the link for the livestream: https://www.saint-catherines.org/news/meeting-of-members-of-the-parish-vestry-2025

In order to vote remotely please send your votes (yes, no or abstain ): by text to 604-222-4167 or to the following email  address:  rev.sharon.anglican@gmail.com

Alison Watt or Rev Sharon will be monitoring the remote voting.  Please respond when the chair person of vestry prompts you.

If you have any questions please email Rev Sharon (rev.sharon.anglican@gmail.com) Sunday before 9 am.

Presider and Preacher: Rev. Sharon Smith

Musician: Hyejung Jun and Choir 

Altar Guild: Bonnie Grundy

Greeters: Sharon Fedorak and Gillian Holland

Readers: Penny Zuk and Hugo Lago 

Intercessor: Linda Robertson 

Coffee Team: Penny Zuk, Lynn Spence, and Elizabeth Barratt

Livestream: Ashkon Vahedi

Sunday School: Shaunti Bains

Just a reminder the 2024 ROTA stays in effect until Easter.  If you would like to join the 2025 ROTA please let the office know.

In our prayers this week, 2nd Sunday before Lent Sexagesima Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil

We pray for our Companion Diocese:  The Episcopal Diocese of Northern Philippines, The Right Rev Benny Lang-akan, Bishop. We pray for our companion cluster parish of St. Catherine of Siena in Cervantes and The Rev. Gladys Pag, Bunga, Tadian.

In Canada we pray for Acting Archbishop Anne, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada the Rev. Dr. Eileen Scully, Director, and the staff of Faith, Worship, and Ministry; Bishop Michael Pryse, the people and rostered ministers of the Eastern Synod; The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and the ecumenical work and witness of our churches

In our Province we pray for our Metropolitan, Archbishop John. 

In our Diocese we pray Archbishop John,  St Brigid @ Christ Church Cathedral – The Revd Clare Morgan, · All Saints, Agassiz, The Revd Philip Barker,  The Justice and Peace Unit - The Revd Margaret Marquardt, The Revd Gail Newell

This year we will once again join Highlands United Church in their Gym (3255 Edgemont Blvd, North Vancouver) for Food, Fun and Funds.

Doors Open 5:30 pm and Food starts at 6 pm.

With a suggested donatio of $10.00.

This year we are encouraging folks to empty their pockets (small change for PWRDF - world relief initiatives - link here) and their pantries (items for the Saint Catherine's Emergency Food Program - listed below). 

Be great to see you there.

Food items to bring: 

pasta or curry sauces, noodles, canned meat, tuna or salmon, oatmeal, canned soup, or other one can meals, canned fruit, cereal, granola or power bars, juice in tetra packs, honey or jam toothbrushes, soap, personal care items

We will honour Ash Wednesday with two short (30 minutes) services - prayers, readings, poetry and signing ashes in the shape of a cross on our foreheads. We use the words: from dust we are formed, and to dust we shall return.

 Services will be in the Saint Catherine's Anglican Church at noon and 5:30 pm.

What is Ash Wednesday? 
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the forty days of Lent. Christians have been preparing for the celebration of Easter by walking through a “Holy Lent” since ancient times. This is patterned after Jesus temptation in the wilderness.
Lent is a season of self-restraint and self-reflection. Lent and Ash Wednesday are a time in which human beings, remind themselves of grace, and our need to be honest with God, with ourselves, and with each other. Ash Wednesday is the day in which Christians gather to receive the sign of ashes. Ashes on the head signify honesty about mortality. In biblical times they signified a turning toward light and in some cases mourning after a loss.  

Ashes are the result of burning. They remind us that we are living in a fragile world, and that we are made from dust.