Maundy Thursday 2020

Maundy Thursday is the first day of the Triduum - the Great Three Days.

Our doors may be closed because of the restrictions placed on us by the COVID-19 virus, but the work of worship, praise, and prayer continues.

Our Maundy Thursday liturgy may be found HERE.

If you would like to participate, you can find the leaflet HERE.

Tenebrae - Holy Week 2020

With our resources as small as they are this year, we are only able to offer you a single Tenebrae service (and an abbreviated one at that), but we hope it will help you enter into this Holy Week, as strange as it is this year.

We offer you Tenebrae of Maundy Thursday (sung on Wednesday Night).

Organ Recital "in progress" - "Grand chœur dialogué" (Gigout)

The sixth part of Andrew's online organ recital is here, with a little taste of Easter before the Vigil!

Grand chœur dialogué by Eugène Gigout, played by Andrew Adair on the Salisbury Cathedral Hauptwerk sample set by Milan Digital Audio.

The French organist-composer Eugène Gigout (1844-1925) was born in Nancy, and died in Paris. Gigout studied with Camille Saint-Saëns, and was organist of Paris’s Eglise Saint-Augustin for 62 years.

Palm Sunday 2020

We offer you the Liturgy of the Palms and the Gospel of the Passion, with a sermon from Fr David.

You can join us HERE.

If you would like to participate, you can find the leaflet HERE.

As part of our efforts to reduce the spread of COVID-19, the Bishop has asked all churches in the Diocese of Toronto to cease the celebration of mass in public. In solidarity with this request, we are reducing the number of times we offer mass online. We will continue to offer prayers, reflections, music, and more (watch this space!), and we will continue to be present, always.

We are still in need of your support, even if we cannot open our physical doors, and anything you can spare us is gratefully received. Would you consider giving through Canada Helps?

(On 13 March 2020, the Diocese of Toronto suspended all public worship services as part of the effort to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Here at SMM, in this difficult time, we are trying to offer ways of participating in the daily life of our parish, even if we cannot be present physically.)

Organ Recital "in progress" - "O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross" (Johann Sebastian Bach)

The third part of Andrew's online organ recital is here! (Andrew has a marvellous home organ that has been set to recreate the sound of the great organ in Salisbury Cathedral, and which allows him to record directly to a computer, and he is offering up these musical meditations as part of our efforts to find ways to keep you connected in this very strange and difficult time.)

Today, we present O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß by Johann Sebastian Bach, played by Andrew Adair on the Salisbury Cathedral Hauptwerk sample set by Milan Digital Audio.

Johann Sebastian Bach’s (1685-1750) setting of the chorale O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß BWV 622 comes from the Passion section of the Orgelbüchlein. The Orgelbüchlein was composed from 1713-1716 during Bach’s time as court organist in Weimar; this chorale is often played at St. Mary Magdalene's at the conclusion of Palm Sunday.

(Andrew has a marvellous home organ that has been set to recreate the sound of the great organ in Salisbury Cathedral, and which allows him to record directly to a computer, and he is offering up these musical meditations as part of our efforts to find ways to keep you connected in this very strange and difficult time.)

Palm Sunday for Children & Youth

Mother Johanna takes us through the story of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem.

You can watch the video HERE.