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Our services for the next few weeks are scheduled for: 6 November 2005 - The Solemnity of All Saints 11am Morning Prayer, St. Andrew's, Neil's Harbour 7pm Evening Prayer, St. John's, Ingonish 13 November 2005 - The Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost 11am Morning Prayer, St. John's, Ingonish 7pm Evening Prayer, St. Andrew's, Neil's Harbour These services will be led by the Lay Leaders of the Parish. I will be away on vacation. Our Lay Leaders are very good at what they do so please come and support them in their ministries. As always all are welcome at our services of worship.

Our services this week are scheduled for: 11am Holy Eucharist, St. Andrew's, Neil's Harbour 7pm Evening Prayer, St. John's, Ingonish All are welcome at our services of worship!

Our services this week are scheduled for: 11am Holy Eucharist, St. John's, Ingonish 7pm Evening Prayer, St. Andrew's, Neil's Harbour This week will see the launch of the Every Member Division of the Diocesan Capital Campaign . We will have a video presentation from Bishop Fred Hiltz to help us and encourage us to give to this valuable work. All are welcome at our services of worship.

My dear Sisters and Brothers, This month is a very busy one for our parish it will see three couples make their commitment to each other, and God, in Holy Matrimony. It will also see our Church Schools return to activity. It will see the launch of the much-anticipated “Every Member Division” of the Leap for Faith Capitol Campaign . As well, it will, hopefully, see the return of the Western Window of St. Andrew’s from repair by Sattler’s Glass . This month we have many things to be thankful for. On the 9th of October we mark the festival of Harvest Thanksgiving. We mark this day to remind ourselves where it is that all things come from. We remind ourselves that without God there would be no harvest of land and sea. We remind ourselves that we have much to be thankful for. Let us use this time to re-evaluate how it is that we give back to God from what He has provided for us. On the 16th of October the Leap for Faith Campaign will be launched in this parish. I...

Thanksgiving is a time to remember where all things come from. Our services for this week are scheduled for: 11am Holy Eucharist, St. Andrew's, Neil's Harbour 7pm Holy Eucharist, St. John's, Ingonish All are welcome to attend our services. As well, all baptized Christians are invited to make their communion at our services of Holy Eucharist.

Our services this week are scheduled for: 11am Morning Prayer, St. John's, Ingonish 7pm Evening Prayer, St. Andrew's, Neil's Harbour All are welcome at our services of worship.

Services of the parish are scheduled for: 11am Morning Prayer, St. Andrew's, Neil's Harbour 7pm Evening Prayer, St. John's, Ingonish. All are welcome at our services of worship.

This week in our Parish is a very special week. We are having a Special Service of the whole Parish during which 14 of our young people will be making their commitment to take on their baptismal vows in the sacrament of Confirmation. We will be blessed to welcome The Right Reverend Sue Moxley, Suffragan Bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, into our midst. The service of Confirmation and Holy Eucharist will be held at 10am at St. Andrew's Church, Neil's Harbour. All are welcome to come and support our young people as they make their commitment to look after their own faith. Also, as always, all baptized Christians are invited to make their communion at our services of Holy Eucharist.

Our services this week are scheduled for: 9am Holy Eucharist, St. Andrew's, Neil's Harbour 11amHoly Eucharst, St. John's, Ingonish All are welcome at our services. And all baptized Christians are invited to make their communion at our services of Holy Eucharist.

The stories coming out of the American South are harsh and frightening. We humans can degrade into horrible creatures all too quickly. What strikes me the most is that it is the poorest of the poor who are affected the most. The rich could afford to escape but the poor had no means by which they could have avoided this terrible scene. The longer this goes on, meaning the longer the homeless are helpless the more they will turn to violence to solve their problems. If reading The Lord of the Flies taught me anything it taught me that we humans will degrade all too quickly and rely upon our instincts for survival of the fittest. I also weep when I read such terrible stories that try to find blame for this disaster. To pin it on a religious group, or sexual persuasion, or on God Himself is seeking to ignore the real reason that this disaster happened. We have been treating the earth that God gave us with such disrespect and abusing nature so much that we have brought this horrific ...