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Good Friday
The first service of Good Friday at Christ Church Cathedral is designed to tell the story of Christ’s passion to children, engaging their imaginations, their empathy, and their senses as we move around...
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Easter Sunday!
Easter Sunday is always a special celebration and is a great service for children. The energy is high, the music is fun, everyone is in a good mood. At Christ Church Cathedral, as in many places, we...
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Now the Green Blade Riseth
After the success of last year’s Pennies for Haiti appeal, Christ Church Cathedral Sunday School launched its Lent Appeal, Now the Green Blade Riseth. Proceeds from the appeal will go to PWRDF (The...
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We Will!
Between the beginning of May and the middle of July, I am presiding at two baptisms and three weddings as well as attending a fourth wedding and an inter-faith family covenanting ceremony (and missing...
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On becoming a parent – and perhaps anything else, too
Becoming a parent is not something that stops—it’s not the work of a moment but the work of a lifetime. As my own son moves steadily onward, becoming more and more himself but also somehow becoming a...
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The 1st Annual Summer Sunday School Art Exhibition!
On Sunday, Sept 22nd, an enthusiastic and appreciative group gathered in the Atrium for the opening of the Summer Sunday School Art Exhibition (optimistically called the 1st Annual by our guest...
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An Oft Overlooked Symbol of Baptism
When I work with families to prepare them for the baptism of their children, the conversation always includes some time on the symbols of baptism—water for newness and life, oil for being set apart for...
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The Birth of Jesus – and every other birth (a sermon for Christmas)
I have some wonderful news - unto us a child is born! My sister gave birth to her first son just three days ago! He’s a fine little thing – fat and strong and healthy – 8lbs 12 oz! They named him...
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Chalking the Door – An Epiphany Tradition
Blessing the home on or near the feast of Epiphany is a tradition that dates from the middle ages. Using chalk, we mark our doorways with the inscription 20+C+M+B+14, calling to mind the wise ones,...
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Marking Lent in Sunday School
One of the key aims of our Sunday School is to help the children recognise that we are all one big worshipping community, adults and children alike – so that when the children attend the 5th Sunday...
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Holy Week with Children
We are preparing to enter the biggest week of the Christian year—the week in which we travel alongside Jesus for his entry into Jerusalem, his last meal with his friends, his encounter with his father...
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June 22nd – The launch of Weave a Net
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbour as yourself.” Once again we heard the story of the...
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July 13th – Summer Sunday School outside
… Just then some men came, carrying a paralyzed man on a bed. They were trying to bring him in and lay him before Jesus; but finding no way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the...
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August 3rd – Story of Creation
On the fifth day of creation, after the sun and moon and the land and the water had been created, God said, “Let the seas be full of living creatures and the sky be full of birds.” And there were fish...
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