Easter 3 – 4 May 2025

Blessings to the St. George’s community,

For me and I imagine for many of you this has been a very full and sometimes stressful week with the terrible event at the Filipino Lapu-Lapu festival in Vancouver, the federal election, preparation for the Anglican Church Women’s Annual General Meeting with the Archbishop as guest, planning for the Spring Fair and Strawberry Tea, and the Eco Pilgrimage and Diocesan Synod are not far off. Many of us have struggles with health or family, as well and we often don’t know who is having a very difficult day. In times when so much is going on, we need to be kind and patient with one another.

I see so many of you embodying the words of Ephesians 4. “You walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received: with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love.”

And I am grateful,

Rev. Laurel