An abbreviated worship schedule for September is on the right sidebar of the HOME page. An August-September-October worship schedule is available for download from the right sidebar of the RESOURCES page.

Commemorations and feast days are part of the Book of Common Prayer calendar throughout the year. On Tuesday, September 8th, we commemorate The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The story of Mary’s birth is fictional, supplied by an anonymous Christian writer in the second century in a document called The Protevangelium of James. Nevertheless, it provided an account much treasured by Christians who had little knowledge or understanding of theology but were devoted admirers of the Mother of God.

On Thursday, September 10th, we remember Edmund James Peck, Missionary to the Eskimo, 1924. Father Peck served the Inuit, as we now know them, for nearly forty years in the eastern Arctic. The late Brother David Allen of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist wrote:

“The Great Commission…has long been considered among Jesus’ most significant instructions to his Apostles for carrying the message of the Gospel into the world. Such Mission work needs to be Christ-like…From the information I have been able to read about Edmund Peck’s missionary work it fits exactly as being a sharing of the Gospel message.”

This year, two commemorations fall on Sunday, September 13th. In other years, the calendar notes Cyprian, Doctor, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr 258, and the opening of the first General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, 1893.