This Sunday is known as "the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost." For nearly half the Sundays in the year, the liturgical colour has been green. We have a green banner at the entrance to the church, the altar is decorated with green cloth, and the clergy wear green vestments.

Next Sunday we will celebrate The Reign of Christ and the colour will be white. Then comes the blue of the Advent season commencing December 1st.

Green is my favorite colour - it speaks to me of the health of the earth, and green is the colour of the environmental movement.

But, after 23 weeks of green (with a few exceptions like white for All Saints), it is refreshing to have a change of colour. After all, God's good creation contains all the colours, and all colours point us to God, the creator of the earth.

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This year our pledge Sunday is on December 1, 2019. A package of material will be available for you to take home this Sunday. It includes a letter from our Rector, a brochure about St Agnes, and a pledge form.

St Agnes thrives because of the generosity of our members. Your gifts of time, talent and treasure as an expression of gratitude to God are gratefully received. Thank you!

Come and enjoy our annual Christmas Fayre. Every year, people come from far and wide to buy homemade jam, baking, gift baskets, pointettias, and more. Delicious soup is served from 11 am to 1 pm.

Come early for best selection.

Rick Haaland is participating in the annual 'Movember' campaign to help fund groundbreaking work in prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention. He has done this the last few years, which is why you will see him wearing a mustache in November.

Let's help Rick meet his goal of $500!

We celebrated two notable birthdays last Sunday. Don Riecken, 90, and Ed Mulock, 91, share a birthday on November 5, Guy Fawkes Day. Happy birthday!

Advent is the season to celebrate the birth of Jesus. The scriptures and hymns also point us to the central event we are expecting in Advent: the future coming of Jesus Christ.

This is the time of fulfillment, the time of the reign of God in all its wholeness, the time of final judgement which will bring justice and mercy to all.

This is the event we await in Advent.

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Each day will include a selected image, hymn, or poem that evokes the actions of Advent: waiting, longing, anticipating, expecting, and preparing.

Awaken your imagination to renew your journey through Advent.