Holy Week Services
If you wish to attend one of the Chapel services during Holy Week, please contact the Guest House Manager by phone at 416-226-2201 ext. 305 or by email at guesthouse@ssjd.ca.
Schedule subject to change.
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March 29 / Palm Sunday |
8AM: Palm Sunday liturgy with Holy Eucharist |
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March 30 / Grace Day |
No chapel services |
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April 1 |
8:30 AM: Morning Prayer 12 Noon: Eucharist 5 PM: Evening Prayer/Compline |
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April 2 / Maundy Thursday |
8 AM: Morning Prayer 12 Noon: Midday office with contemplative prayer 7 PM: Maundy Thursday Liturgy |
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April 3 / Good Friday |
8:30 AM: Morning Prayer with Stations of the Cross 12 Noon: Good Friday Liturgy with veneration of the Cross Until 3 PM: Silent Meditation 5 PM: Evening Prayer/Compline 6:45 PM: Compline |
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April 4 / Holy Saturday |
8L30 AM: Morning prayer with Stations of the Cross 12 Noon: Holy Saturday Liturgy 4:30 PM: Evening Prayer 7:45 Lighting of the New Fire and Vigil of the Resurrection |
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April 5 / Easter Sunday |
8 AM: Great Liturgy of Easter 12 noon: Mid-day praise Note: Easter Sunday lunch is by invitation only. |
Please do not attend Convent events if you experience the following symptoms (cough, sore throat, etc.). Thank you.
As a contemporary monastic community, we have a daily rhythm of prayer. Guests are encouraged to join the Sisters in the Chapel of Saint John for Morning and Evening Prayer, Compline (night prayer), and the daily Eucharist. The chapel is also available for private prayer when not in use by a group. Here is our usual weekly schedule. Occasionally times of prayer change for special circumstances. If you want to be sure, phone the Guest House at 416-226-2201 ext. 305.
SUNDAYS
8:00 Holy Eucharist
12:15 Contemplative Mid-day Office
5:00 Evensong
8:00 Compline
MONDAYS – Sisters’ Grace Days – No Worship in Chapel
OTHER DAYS
8:30 Morning Prayer
12:00 Holy Eucharist
5:00 Evensong
8:00 Compline (Night Prayer) – Except Saturdays
Ordo
Calendar of Saints’ Days and Special Observances in our Worship
HOMILIES & WORSHIP NEWS
Recent homilies are posted to the Homilies Blog
MUSIC
The Sisters have a rich liturgical and musical tradition, which has grown into an eclectic worship style drawing on traditional monastic plainchant, Anglican choral music, new forms of chant (e.g. Taizé, and Iona), contemporary hymn writers (including several of our own sisters), and contemporary worship music. Most of our music is accompanied by piano or organ.
Chapel Organ
Our organ, engineered and built in 2006 by Halbert Gober of Elora, Ont., is a fully-mechanical tracker-action
Organ Specifications
| MANUAL I | MANUAL II | PEDAL | |||
| Principal | 8′ | Viola da Gamba | 8′ | Bourdon | 16′ |
| Bourdon | 8′ | Stopt Diapason | 8’ | ||
| Octave | 4′ | Recorder | 4′ | ||
| Fifteenth | 2′ | Fife | 2′ | ||
| Cornet | III * | Trumpet | 8′ |
