Eternal Hope Anglican Church

31/10/2026

17/10/2026

Whose Face?

If you have a loonie in your pocket, you're carrying a face. Around the edge, in small Latin letters, are the words D.G. REGINA or D.G. REX: "by the grace of God." Most of us have carried that quiet confession for years without ever really looking at it.

In the last week of his earthly life, Jesus was handed a coin very much like it. His enemies had set a trap: "Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" He didn't have a coin of his own. They did. And when they produced it, he asked them a question: "Whose likeness is this?"

It is a question that reaches far deeper than our pockets. Come and hear where it leads.

Morning Prayer with Holy Eucharist
Sunday, October 18 · 10:30 a.m.
Psalm 96 · 1 Thessalonians 1:1–10 · Matthew 22:15–22

Eternal Hope Anglican Church, Carleton Place. Whoever you are, you are welcome here.

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10/10/2026

It's easy to give thanks when the table is full. But what about when it isn't? 🍂

In July 1578, more than forty years before the Pilgrims' famous feast, about a hundred English sailors and miners gathered in Frobisher Bay, on Baffin Island. They had lost a ship and their plans were in pieces. There was no harvest. Yet they gave thanks to God and received Holy Communion. It was the first recorded Protestant Thanksgiving in North America.

This Sunday we ask what they knew, and what St Paul learned in prison: the secret of giving thanks in plenty and in want.

📖 "Learning the Secret" · Philippians 4:4–13
🕙 Sunday, October 11 · Holy Eucharist · 10:30 a.m.
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Bring the family. All are welcome. Happy Thanksgiving!

04/10/2026

Good morning, friends!

In the ancient Greek games, the champion's prize was a crown of wild celery. Years of training, a roaring crowd, and within a week the crown had wilted.

This morning, Paul invites us to run for a prize that never fades. He admits he isn't there yet, and tells us why he keeps running anyway: because Christ has already taken hold of him.

Join us at 10:30 this morning as we continue our autumn series, How Great an Inheritance, with "Held for Glory" from Philippians 3:12–4:1. We'll hear about where our lives are pointed, where we truly belong, and the promise at the very heart of our inheritance.

Come as you are. There's a place for you at the Table.

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03/10/2026

Please be advised of our parish expectations regarding children at the Divine Liturgy:

If your kids are loud, please still come to Liturgy.
If you’re running late because getting everyone dressed and out the door was a battle, please still come to Liturgy.
If your toddler won’t sit still, please still come to Liturgy.
If your baby needs to eat, please still come to Liturgy.
If your child asks questions at the least convenient moment, please still come to Liturgy.
If someone cries, drops a toy, or has to make their third trip to the bathroom, please still come to Liturgy.
If your child doesn’t know all the prayers, responses, or exactly when to sit or stand, please still come to Liturgy.
If you feel like you spent the entire Liturgy managing your children and heard approximately 12% of the homily, please still come to Liturgy.
If Sunday morning feels messy instead of peaceful, please still come to Liturgy.
If you’re worried your children are distracting the people around you, please still come to Liturgy.
If your child has a disability or special needs, please still come to Liturgy.

Children do not learn how to be part of the Church by staying home until they can sit quietly. They learn by being here.

They learn the Sign of the Cross by watching us make it.
They learn the prayers by hearing us pray them.
They learn the Scriptures by hearing the Word of God proclaimed.
They learn reverence by watching us bow and make prostrations.
They learn that Christ is truly present in the Holy Eucharist by seeing the love and reverence with which we approach the Holy Chalice.
They learn that the Church is their home because we make room for them here.

The wiggles, whispers, crying babies, and little voices are not signs that children don’t belong at Liturgy. They are signs that the Church is alive.

So bring the babies. Bring the toddlers. Bring the big kids. Sit where the little ones can see. Step out when you need to, but always come back in.

At Baptism and Chrismation, these children became full members of the Body of Christ. They belong here. They need the grace of the Holy Mysteries, the example of their parents, and the love and patience of their parish family.

Children are not simply the future of the Orthodox Church. They are part of the Church right now!

28/09/2026

Our latest sermon from September 27.

Paul says that Jesus "emptied himself." Of what? Many of us assume ...

26/09/2026

At the Name of Jesus

Tomorrow we come to one of the oldest things in the New Testament — a poem about Jesus that the church in Philippi may well have been singing before Paul ever quoted it back to them.

It traces a descent. From the form of God, to the form of a servant, to a cross — and not just any death, but the one Rome reserved for slaves and rebels. And then it turns. The Father gives him the Name above every name, and one day every knee will bow.

Here is the question we'll be asking of it: what does God look like when he is most himself? We assume, most of us, most of the time, that the answer is upward.

Paul's answer is downward.

Morning Prayer with Holy Eucharist
Sunday 27 September · 10:30AM
Psalm 25:1–14 · Philippians 2:1–13 · Matthew 21:28–32

Eternal Hope Anglican Church, Carleton Place. Whoever you are, you are welcome here.

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05/09/2026

Tomorrow we come to the last Sunday of our summer in Matthew.

Eleven weeks ago we began with a King who said he had not come to bring peace but a sword — and ended that same morning with a cup of cold water given to somebody small. Tomorrow the Kingdom comes into a room with two people in it, and one of them has to speak.

Our Gospel is Matthew 18:15–20. It comes immediately after the story of the shepherd who leaves ninety-nine sheep to go into the dark after one that wandered off. And then Jesus turns to the people in front of him and hands them the shepherd's own word: go.

We usually read this passage as the fine print on church discipline. It is something else. It is a search — and the one who sends us searching has just told us he does not intend to lose anybody.

Holy Eucharist, Sunday 6 September
Eternal Hope Anglican Church, Carleton Place

Everyone is welcome. If you have been away over the summer, this is a good Sunday to come back.

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31/08/2026

A video of Sunday's sermon:

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29/08/2026

Last Sunday, Peter said the truest thing anyone says in Matthew's Gospel: You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus called him blessed. He named him the rock. He handed him the keys.

Three verses later, Jesus calls him Satan.

What changed in between was not Peter's love for his Lord. It was that he loved him — and could not bear what he had just been told.

This Sunday at Eternal Hope we continue Now and Not Yet: A Summer in Matthew with "Losing to Find," on Matthew 16:21–27. Morning Prayer, with the Great Litany — the first prayer the Church of England ever prayed in its own tongue. We'll sing Psalm 26 to Anglican chant.

Join us in person in Carleton Place, or watch the livestream: https://tinyurl.com/mrytyxyr