The Abbey Church

The Abbey Church an inclusive and Christ-centred worshiping community where all are welcome at Jesus' table. Come as you are!

We gather for communion (open table - all are welcome as they feel called) on Sunday afternoons at 4pm in Victoria BC. We are a part of the neo-monastic "Emmaus Community" and a shared ministry of the United Church of Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada.

06/21/2026

{Abbey of the Arts} : Summer Solstice + Self-Study Sale - https://mailchi.mp/abbeyofthearts/summer-solstice-plus-self-study-sale-june21-2026

In the northern hemisphere today is the celebration of the summer solstice. We might think of summer as the season of fire and stoking our passions. To honor the fullness of summer in ritual, consider facing the direction of the south and taking some deep breaths. Spend some time in meditation on what your own passions are. What would you like to kindle?

Explore the Sacred Seasons self-study retreat https://tinyurl.com/57da85cn

Read the full Solstice blessing on our Substack: https://abbeyofthearts.substack.com/p/summer-solstice

Join us tomorrow for the feast of PentecostVeni Sancte Spiritus / Come Holy Spirit4pm at AbbeyChurch (in the United Comm...
05/23/2026

Join us tomorrow for the feast of Pentecost
Veni Sancte Spiritus / Come Holy Spirit

4pm at AbbeyChurch (in the United Commons) - 932 Balmoral - enter from Quadra steps / entrance

Wear red if you'd like.

The band leading in the usual eclectic mix of contemplative hymnody and gospel.
Rob preaching, Matt presiding at Jesus' table
Abi and Amaya on kids
Josh on prayers

image: Image: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Ireland Muckross Church of the Holy Spirit 2025

Anarchism and Christianity: a Roundtable and Discussionprinciples and stories in a time of fascismWith Denise Nadeau - A...
05/23/2026

Anarchism and Christianity: a Roundtable and Discussion
principles and stories in a time of fascism

With Denise Nadeau - AbbeyChurch & Author of "Unsettling Spirit: A Journey into Decolonization" & – clergy at AbbeyChurch, former Catholic Worker
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Thursday June 11, 2026 – 7pm @ The Upper Room (AbbeyChurch office / Lending Library) – United Commons –
on the lands of the Songhees and Esquimalt (Xʷsepsəm) Nations. Masking encouraged.

Enter off the parking lot, up the metal stairs.
Call or text 778 977 7562 for barrier-free entry
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ALL Welcome
Masking encouraged / and masks available

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Email [email protected] for more info
sponsored by the abbeychurch

more about Denise here: https://denisenadeau.org/

see also rob's piece here: https://robshearer.org/event-anarchism-and-christianity-a-roundtable-and-discussion/

Blessing for Easter DayYou had not imaginedthat something so emptycould fill youto overflowing,and now you carrythe know...
04/05/2026

Blessing for Easter Day

You had not imagined
that something so empty
could fill you
to overflowing,

and now you carry
the knowledge
like an awful treasure
or like a child
that roots itself
beneath your heart:

how the emptiness
will bear forth
a new world
that you cannot fathom
but on whose edge
you stand.

So why do you linger?
You have seen,
and so you are
already blessed.
You have been seen,
and so you are
the blessing.

There is no other word
you need.
There is simply
to go
and tell.
There is simply
to begin.

—Jan Richardson

In the Breath, Another BreathingFor Holy SaturdayLet it bethat on this daywe will expectno more of ourselvesthan to keep...
04/04/2026

In the Breath, Another Breathing
For Holy Saturday

Let it be
that on this day
we will expect
no more of ourselves
than to keep
breathing
with the bewildered
cadence
of lungs that will not
give up the ghost.

Let it be
we will expect
little but
the beating of
our heart,
stubborn in
its repeating rhythm
that will not
cease to sound.

Let it be
we will
still ourselves
enough to hear
what may yet
come to echo:
as if in the breath,
another breathing;
as if in the heartbeat,
another heart.

Let it be
we will not
try to fathom
what comes
to meet us
in the stillness
but simply open
to the approach
of a mystery
we hardly dared
to dream.

—Jan Richardson
from Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons

Evening prayer with our confirmands! Join us in the upper room at AbbeyChurch March 30,31 and April 1 at 730pm.
03/18/2026

Evening prayer with our confirmands! Join us in the upper room at AbbeyChurch March 30,31 and April 1 at 730pm.

03/18/2026

I have a vivid imagination and one of the things I do to entertain myself when I’m waiting is make up stories about people using clues from what they are wearing, their body language, how they are interacting with those around them and whatever else my imagination can grab hold of. These harmless ...

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