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Ordinary Time

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Monday, May 25 to Saturday, November 28, 2026

Ordinary Time, also known as the Season After Pentecost, comes after the Easter season and lasts until Advent. It is a season for the Church to engage its renewed reality as the resurrected body of Christ empowered by the ongoing presence of the Holy Spirit to keep us active in God’s mission in the world. It is called ‘ordinary’ not because it is not unusual, but rather because the Sundays are ‘ordered’ numerically. The Season of Creation is a time of special devotion to God’s acts in creation and our ministry of care of God’s creation, and takes place midway through Ordinary time, in September.

Observances throughout Ordinary Time

Includes liturgical dates from the Book of Alternative Services (BAS) and Sundays, Holy Days and Pentecost Ember Days from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), as well as select secular and ecumenical observances (in italics).

  • May 25: Bede (BAS); Monday after Pentecost (BCP)
  • May 26: Augustine (BAS); Tuesday after Pentecost (BCP)
  • May 27: John Charles Roper (BAS); Pentecost Ember Day (BAS, BCP)
  • May 29: Pentecost Ember Day (BAS, BCP)
  • May 30: Roberta Elizabeth Tilton (BAS); Pentecost Ember Day (BAS, BCP)
  • May 31: Trinity Sunday (BAS, BCP)
Additional background on specific Principal Feasts, Holy Days, Memorials and Commemorations from the the BAS is available in For All the Saints.

Includes liturgical dates from the Book of Alternative Services (BAS) and Sundays and Holy Days from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), as well as select secular and ecumenical observances (in italics).

  • June 1: The Visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth (BAS)
  • June 2: Martyrs of Lyons (BAS)
  • June 3: Martyrs of Uganda and Janani Luwum (BAS)
  • June 4: John XXIII (BAS)
  • June 5: Boniface (BAS)
  • June 6: William Grant Broughton (BAS)
  • June 7: Second Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); First Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • June 9: Columba (BAS)
  • June 11: St. Barnabas (BAS, BCP)
  • June 14: Third Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Second Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • June 16: Joseph Butler (BAS)
  • June 18: Bernard Mizeki (BAS)
  • June 21: National Indigenous Day of Prayer (BAS); Third Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • June 22: Alban (BAS)
  • June 24: Birth of St. John the Baptist (BAS, BCP)
  • June 28: Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Fourth Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • June 29: St. Peter and St. Paul (BAS, BCP)
Additional background on specific Principal Feasts, Holy Days, Memorials and Commemorations from the the BAS is available in For All the Saints.

Includes liturgical dates from the Book of Alternative Services (BAS) and Sundays and Holy Days from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), as well as select secular and ecumenical observances (in italics).

  • July 3: St. Thomas (BAS)
  • July 5: Sixth Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Fifth Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • July 6: Thomas More (BAS)
  • July 11: Benedict of Nursia (BAS)
  • July 12: Seventh Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Sixth Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • July 13: Henry (BAS)
  • July 19: Eighth Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Seventh Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • July 22: St. Mary Magdalene (BAS, BCP)
  • July 25: St. James (BAS, BCP)
  • July 26: Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Eighth Sunday after Trinity (BCP); Emancipation Sunday
  • July 29: William Wilberforce (BAS)
Additional background on specific Principal Feasts, Holy Days, Memorials and Commemorations from the the BAS is available in For All the Saints.

Includes liturgical dates from the Book of Alternative Services (BAS) and Sundays and Holy Days from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), as well as select secular and ecumenical observances (in italics).

  • Aug. 2: Tenth Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Ninth Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • Aug. 3: St. Stephen (if not kept on Dec. 26, BAS)
  • Aug. 6: Transfiguration of the Lord (BAS, BCP); Memorializing the Apology, 1993 (BAS)
  • Aug. 7: John Mason Neale (BAS)
  • Aug. 8: Dominic (BAS)
  • Aug. 9: Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Tenth Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • Aug. 10: Laurence (BAS)
  • Aug. 11: Clare of Assisi (BAS)
  • Aug. 12: Consecration of Charles Inglis (BAS)
  • Aug. 13: Jeremy Taylor (BAS)
  • Aug. 14: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Maximilien Kolbe (BAS)
  • Aug. 15: St. Mary the Virgin (BAS)
  • Aug. 16: Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Eleventh Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • Aug. 17: John Stuart (BAS)
  • Aug. 20: Bernard (BAS)
  • Aug. 23: Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Twelfth Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • Aug. 24: St. Bartholomew (BAS)
  • Aug. 25: St. Bartholomew (transferred from Aug. 24, BCP)
  • Aug. 27: Monnica (BAS)
  • Aug. 28: Augustine of Hippo (BAS)
  • Aug. 29: The Beheading of St. John the Baptist (BAS)
  • Aug. 30: Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • Aug. 31: Aidan (BAS)
Additional background on specific Principal Feasts, Holy Days, Memorials and Commemorations from the the BAS is available in For All the Saints.

Includes liturgical dates from the Book of Alternative Services (BAS) and Sundays, Holy Days and Holy Cross Ember Days from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), as well as select secular and ecumenical observances (in italics).

  • Sept. 1 to Oct. 4: Season of Creation
  • Sept. 1: Feast of the Creator (BAS)
  • Sept. 2: Martyrs of New Guinea (BAS)
  • Sept. 3: Gregory the Great (BAS)
  • Sept. 4: First Anglican Eucharist in Canada (BAS)
  • Sept. 6: Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • Sept. 8: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BAS)
  • Sept. 10: Edmund James Peck (BAS)
  • Sept. 13: Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • Sept. 14: Holy Cross Day (BAS)
  • Sept. 16: Ninian (BAS); Holy Cross Ember Day (BAS, BCP)
  • Sept. 18: Founders, Benefactors & Missionaries of the ACC (BAS); Holy Cross Ember Day (BAS, BCP)
  • Sept. 19: Theodore of Tarsus (BAS); Holy Cross Ember Day (BAS, BCP)
  • Sept. 20: Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • Sept. 21: St. Matthew (BAS)
  • Sept. 22: St. Matthew (transferred from Sept. 21, BCP)
  • Sept. 25: Sergius (BAS)
  • Sept. 26: Lancelot Andrewes (BAS)
  • Sept. 27: Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • Sept. 29: St. Michael and All Angels (BAS, BCP)
  • Sept. 30: Jerome (BAS); National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Additional background on specific Principal Feasts, Holy Days, Memorials and Commemorations from the the BAS is available in For All the Saints.

Includes liturgical dates from the Book of Alternative Services (BAS) and Sundays and Holy Days from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), as well as select secular and ecumenical observances (in italics).

  • Oct. 4: Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • Oct. 10: Paulinus (BAS)
  • Oct. 11: Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost or Harvest Thanksgiving (BAS); Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • Oct. 13: Edward the Confessor (BAS)
  • Oct. 15: Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross (BAS)
  • Oct. 17: Ignatius (BAS)
  • Oct. 18: Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); St. Luke the Evangelist (BCP)
  • Oct. 19: St. Luke the Evangelist (transferred from Oct. 18, BAS)
  • Oct. 23: James of Jerusalem (BAS)
  • Oct. 25: Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Twenty-First Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • Oct. 26: Alfred the Great (BAS)
  • Oct. 28: St. Simon and St. Jude (BAS); St. Simon the Zealot and St. Jude with St. Jude the Brother of the Lord (BCP)
  • Oct. 29: James Hannington and Companions (BAS)
  • Oct. 30: John Wyclyf and Jan Hus (BAS)
  • Oct. 31: Saints of the Reformation Era (BAS)
Additional background on specific Principal Feasts, Holy Days, Memorials and Commemorations from the the BAS is available in For All the Saints.

Includes liturgical dates from the Book of Alternative Services (BAS) and Sundays and Holy Days from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), as well as select secular and ecumenical observances (in italics).

  • Nov. 1: All Saints’ Day (BAS, BCP)
  • Nov. 2: All Souls’ Day (BAS)
  • Nov. 3: Richard Hooker (BAS)
  • Nov. 4: Saints of the Old Testament (BAS)
  • Nov. 7: Willibrord (BAS)
  • Nov. 8: Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost or Remembrance Sunday (BAS); Twenty-Third Sunday after Trinity (BCP); Indigenous Veterans’ Day
  • Nov. 10: Leo the Great (BAS)
  • Nov. 11: Martin of Tours (BAS); Remembrance Day
  • Nov. 12: Charles Simeon (BAS)
  • Nov. 14: Consecration of Samuel Seabury (BAS)
  • Nov. 15: Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (BAS); Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Trinity (BCP)
  • Nov. 16: Margaret of Scotland (BAS)
  • Nov. 17: Hugh (BAS)
  • Nov. 18: Hilda of Whitby (BAS)
  • Nov. 19: Elizabeth of Hungary (BAS)
  • Nov. 20: Edmund (BAS)
  • Nov. 22: Last Sunday after Pentecost: The Reign of Christ (BAS); The Sunday next before Advent (BCP)
  • Nov. 23: Clement of Rome (BAS)
Additional background on specific Principal Feasts, Holy Days, Memorials and Commemorations from the the BAS is available in For All the Saints.

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Acknowledging the land and God’s creation

This acknowledgement is crafted in light of the Principles of Reconciliation by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, as we seek to live faithfully in Christ and in right relationship with all. 

We give thanks to the Creator for this land, its waters, forests and all living beings, and for the abiding presence of Christ among us. From coast to coast to coast, these have been cared for and nurtured by First Nations, Inuit and Métis through countless generations. 

We honour the enduring relationship Indigenous Peoples have cultivated with these lands and waters, and the treaties and agreements that reflect these sacred bonds. We acknowledge the harms caused by colonial expansion, through frameworks like the Doctrine of Discovery and structures like the residential school system. We recognize our past failures as a Church, including disruption of connections to the land and suppression of Indigenous spiritualities. 

Guided by the gospel of Jesus Christ, we confess our need for healing. We commit ourselves to seeking truth, pursuing reconciliation and nurturing harmony with all creation. We place our trust in Christ, through whom all things are reconciled to God. 

May God strengthen us to live faithfully as stewards of the Earth. Let us walk in love, justice and reconciliation, joining in God’s work to restore all creation.