Being Church and Keeping Connected: September 13th, 2020

Returning to In-Person Worship: Staying Safe and Well

St. Luke's first in-person worship service, with restrictions and safety precautions, will be next Sunday, September 20th, 2020 at 10 a.m.

Pre- registration is requred. If you've not yet indicated that you will attend, you can do that by contacting Helen Cathcart (familylibrarian@yahoo.ca)

What will in-person worship be like?

We hope the information below will be helpful as you consider in-person worship in September!

Before you arrive:

•The number of people is limited to 50 (including clergy and other participants). Only people who have pre-registered will be permitted entry to the service. (See above)

•Bring your own mask. If you don’t have a mask, or forget it, disposable masks will be available at the entrance to the church.

•In order to help ensure the health and safety of everyone who comes to our service, the church building will be thoroughly cleaned and sanitized before and after each service.

•Before you attend a service, please screen yourself for COVID-19 symptoms. If you feel unwell or are in a high-risk group, please stay home.

•All prayer books, hymn books and soft furnishings will have been removed.

•When you register you’ll be asked to provide your name, and your telephone number or e-mail address. We are required to collect this information to help with contact tracing in case someone is later found to have COVID-19.

When you arrive:

•Please arrive in advance of the service, entering via the Bell Street door, unless you require the elevator. In that case, please make your way to the Somerset door. Greeters will be at both doors, and you will sign-in at a registration table.

•You will be asked if you have any COVID-19 symptoms or have been exposed to anyone who is ill in the last 14 days. If you have, you will not be admitted to the service.

•There will be hand sanitizer dispensers at the entrance of the church. You’ll be asked to sanitize your hands on entering the church.

•Please sit in one of the designated places. Chairs will be set up in appropriately distanced groupings according to social “bubbles” indicated at registration time.

During the service:

•Physical distancing must will be maintained at all times. There must be no touching at any point before, during or after the service.

•An offering plate will be available as you enter the church but it will not be passed during the service. We encourage on-line donations as a safe way to make your offering.

•The congregation is not permitted to sing.

•Only the priest will administer the Eucharist. She will sanitize her hands several times both before and after the distribution of communion, which will be by wafers only.

After the service:

•Following the organ postlude, the sidespeople will indicate the flow of people to exit through the Somerset door, starting at the back of the church, keeping aware of physical distancing. There will be no coffee hour or receiving line.

•Only the upstairs washroom (through the “Green Room”) will be open. The rest of the building remains closed.
•To keep everyone safe and healthy, you are asked not to gather in the building before or after the service and to maintain physical distancing at all times.

•Links to online services will continue to be offered in the newsletter.

Questions or concerns?
Feel free to contact Rev. Victoria (victoria@stlukesottawa.ca) or a member of the Pandemic Planning Team:

John Price (john.price@sympatico.ca)
Helen Cathcart (familylibrarian@yahoo.ca)
Robert Jones (music@stlukesottawa.ca)
Ron Clow (clowron9@gmail.com)
Gerry Dalton (gdalton8609@gmail.com)
Laraine Paradis (laraineparadis@gmail.com)

A Message From Rev. Victoria

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Today's Music

Prelude:   Andante   (by Jan Albert van Eijken)

Hymn 381: Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven (Tune: Praise, My Soul)

Postlude:   Fantasia in E Minor   (by John Stainer)

Jan Albert van Eijken (1823-1868) was a Dutch organist who studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (which was founded by Mendelssohn). The Andante is from his (first) Sonata in C minor which he dedicated to his teacher, Johann Schneider.

Sir John Goss was organist of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, from 1838-72. The hymn Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven (CP 381) dates from 1868 and the text is based on Psalm 103, the appointed psalm for today. Unlike most hymns, Goss provided different accompaniments for each verse of Praise, My Soul; each reflective of the text. In June 1869 it was reviewed in The Musical Times: In days like the present, when composers of hymn tunes are so numerous and prolific, it is as difficult to attempt to assign any definite place to a composition of this description. Yet we cannot refrain from saying that in our experience we have never come across a hymn tune in which the charm of the melody has been more happily seconded by musicianly harmonies, as in the setting of the hymn Praise, My Soul by Mr. Goss”.

Sir John Stainer followed Goss as organist at St. Paul’s, holding that position from 1872-88. Unlike his immediate predecessors, he had control over the choir (choosing the music, and convincing the adult members to come to rehearsals)! As a result the improvement in the choir was quite noticeable. He was an excellent organist. Hubert Parry wrote in his diary, "Stainer played the last 3 movements of the Sonata in B-flat (Mendelssohn) afterwards most gloriously". He was employed to play solo organ works at weekly concerts at Crystal Palace and took part regularly in the Three Choirs Festival. His Fantasia comes from The Organ–a book he wrote on learning the organ, containing numerous exercises and pieces.

Sunday, September 13th, 2020
The Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost

Readings: EXODUS 14:19-31; PSALM 114 OR EXODUS 15:1B-11, 20-21; ROMANS 14:1-12; MATTHEW 18:21-35

Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa
Anytime, Online
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Here is a list of virtual services in the Diocese of Ottawa

Travel virtually to share prayer and worship experiences across Canada and around the world! During the time of physical isolation, take the opportunity to visit other places and share in daily and weekly prayers and reflections here.

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A Liturgy of the Word with Lectio divina

Wednesdays at 11 a.m. on Zoom

Please note that we will continue to meet on Zoom on Wednesdays in September, even as we move into the AMBER phase and return to in person worship with restrictions and safety measures and procedures in place. Please check this space each week for updates and additional information.

Click here for the order of service. Click here for the Zoom link. Please email Rev. Victoria if you have any questions.

“Forgiveness is an attitude of forgiving reality for being what it is, forgiving an imperfect world…there is a fly in the ointment of reality, and it’s in your struggle with the wound that you move from unconsciousness to consciousness.”

(Richard Rohr)

Our Parish

Our clergy, staff, and members of St. Luke's; participants and staff of St. Luke's Table in this unusual and challenging time

Those on Our Hearts

Brad; Inez; teachers, students and all those impacted as schools return; all who suffer discrimination based on race; all who are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic; all those on our hearts

Our Diocese

Shane, our Bishop; St Helen’s Orleans, The Venerable Susan Churchill-Lackey and The Reverend Canon Peter Lackey and all Open Table Ministries for university students

The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC)
Linda, our Primate; Anne, our Metropolitan; Archbishop Melissa Skelton, people, and clergy of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada (ELCIC)

Our Companion Diocese
The Diocese of Jerusalem,and the Middle East and its Archbishop++Suheil Dawani, and their Bishop, The Rt. Rev. Dr. Hosam Naoum.

Would you like to connect with another member of the community but aren’t sure how to reach them? Contact Helen Cathcart at familylibrarian@yahoo.ca, or leave a message on the church answering machine and we’ll make the connection.
We can get through this together!

Church Calendars

Calendars are in! Email Joan Scott (joanscott.5@outlook.com) to reserve one or more. Cost $5.00.

The generosity of all of you who have made the extra effort required at this time to continue your financial support is appreciated so very much. It is making all the difference. Thank you!

You can donate online through Canada Helps here. If you have problems or questions please contact Susan Reid at susanreid@bell.net.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free, and realize the prisoner was you.

(Anonymous)

Theologian's Almanac for Week of September 6, 2020
“Theologian’s Almanac"

A weekly selection of important birthdays, holidays, and other upcoming milestones worth marking. Check it out here.

Click here for a thought-provoking opinion piece from the New York Times by Dr. David Bentley Hart.

St. Luke's Table is working hard to continue to meet needs, continuing to make deliveries all over the neighbourhood from Monday to Friday.

Please continue to keep staff and participants in your prayers.

Click on the image for news from SWCHC.

Click here to read all COVID related news from our Diocese. Updates are posted on Wednesdays.

If you haven't already, please have a look at:

Letter from Bishop Shane
The Plan
The Plan Checklist

New Weekly Podcast

Saturdays, Online

Bishop Shane is exploring and conversing his way across the Diocese! Tune in each Saturday to see where he is and what is happening around our vast and exciting Diocese.

In this time when we are meeting and worshipping in digital space, we each stand on solid ground. Our Diocese is on unceded Algonquin and Mohawk land. Visit this website to learn more about the land you're on.

Our National Church

Click here for the latest news from our National Church

Click on the image for the latest news from the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund, including how you can give to Beirut Explosion Disaster Relief.

Additional Resources

Click here for a series of prayers from the Corrymeela Community

St. Luke's Anglican Church
760 Somerset Street West
Ottawa, ON
K1R 6P9
613-235-3416
www.stlukesottawa.ca

Pastoral Emergencies 613-698-6083
Incumbent: The Reverend Victoria Scott 613-698-6083 or victoria@stlukesottawa.ca
Honorary Assistant: The Reverend Canon Christine Piper
Organist & Choir Director: Robert Jones 613-220-3420 or music@stlukesottawa.ca
Rector’s Warden: John Price 613-724-3846 or john.price@sympatico.ca
People’s Warden: Anne Wright 613-791-5494 or awright1093@gmail.com
Deputy Wardens: Sarah Whitehead 613-240-9736 or sarahthefantastic@hotmail.com
and Helen Cathcart 613-228-1411 or familylibrarian@yahoo.ca
Treasurer: Susan Reid 613-832-2755 or susanreid@bell.net
Offering envelopes/PAR: Lynn Jones 613-448-1647 or kearn@personainternet.com
Office Administrator: Debbie Dugas 613-235-3416 or officestlukesottawa@gmail.com

ST. LUKE’S TABLE

Executive Director: Rachel Robinson 613-238-4193 or stlukestable@gmail.com