In a meeting this week, CoGS moved forward on several items, including the approval of a $500,000 contribution to the new National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to help secure a permanent home for Indigenous histories and reconciliation initiatives. anglican.ca/news/highlight…

On this the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, may we worship our Creator in sincerity and truth.

Give us courage to protest, the persistence to pray and the heart to love; through Jesus Christ, the true judge.

Happy Diwali to all those marking the start of the festival of lights today. May this season bring you and your loved ones joy, prosperity and good health.

Pour out your Spirit on young and old alike, O God, so that our dreams and visions may bring justice and peace to the world.

Who will be the first ones to church on Sunday? The folks who forget to turn their clocks back. (In areas that observe daylight saving, of course.) This is your reminder—see you in church! 😉

On All Saints' Day, we are reminded that God has knit us together—in communion and fellowship—with the extraordinary Christians who came before us. These blessed saints lived out the Gospel in various ways, often against great odds.

Faith like Abraham, a table graced by Christ, hearts open to God’s will—these are the gifts we bring in prayer on this Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, which may also be celebrated as All Saints' Sunday.

Anglicans will advocate to restore and protect the ‘lungs of the earth’ at this November’s COP30 in Belém in the Brazilian Amazon from 10-21 November. The advocacy focus on oceans, forests and ice landscapes as vital ecosystems has been developed in consultation with Anglican

All Souls' Day offers us something often missing in the rush of secular life: permission to sit with our sacred grief and feel it fully, in honour of those we have lost. Creator of us all: We ask you now to grant eternal rest to the souls who have returned to your care.

A conversation at Sacred Circle this summer, between a survivor and the Primate, planted the seed for a Church-wide vision. Each parish displaying a Survivors’ flag carries that conversation forward. anglican.ca/tr/survivors-f…

As we mark Indigenous Veterans Day (Nov. 8), Remembrance Sunday (Nov. 9) and Remembrance Day (Nov. 11), we give thanks for the courage of those who have served and remember those who died in war. May our remembrance deepen our commitment to peace in our time.

Help us, O Lord, to be lifelong students of your holy scriptures, always remaining open to the transformational work of the Holy Spirit on our hearts and minds.

In the peace of Christ, we remember. #RemembranceDay #LestWeForget #NoublionsJamais #JourDuSouvenir

Today we lift up our prayers to the God who sits alongside us at our darkest hour; who frees us from the bonds of sin and death; whose love is the light that can never be extinguished.

On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, we pause in lament + prayer. We pray for those who have lost their lives to violence + for all who live in fear or under threat, that they may know God’s protection + peace. As we remember, let us follow Christ faithfully in action. #TDoR

The Last Sunday after Pentecost, also called the Sunday Next before Advent, is the final Sunday in the church calendar. In these last days of the liturgical year, let us give thanks for Christ’s reign as King of Heaven, under whose gentle and loving rule we are brought together.

Anglican.ca will be unavailable on Saturday for system updates. If you need Sunday materials, please download beforehand. Other sites (lectionary.anglican.ca, archives.anglican.ca, findachurch.ca etc.) will operate as usual.

As we arrive at the threshold of a new liturgical year, we’re excited to share a new website with you. We really hope you like it—explore the updated site at anglican.ca. -- anglican.ca/news/new-year-…

In both the Book of Alternative Services and Book of Common Prayer, the collects for the First Sunday of Advent are prayed throughout the season, as we join the prophets of the Old Testament in waiting for the Word made flesh to dwell among us. anglican.ca/church-year/ad…