Weekly Announcements

 

Week of April 13, 2026

*Office Hours: Tues 12:00 - 2:30  PM /Fri 9:30-1:00 PM​​​​

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• Office hours

  • Sophia Oldford, Parish Administrator:

    • Tuesday 12:00 – 2:30 PM, Friday 9:30 – 1:00 PM

  • Father Jordan:

    • Tuesday, 12:00 - 2:00 PM, Wednesday 9:00 - 11:00 AM

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• Monday, April 20 at 6:30 PM - Parish Council: Please note date change.  Parish Council meetings have been moved to the third Monday of the month, unless otherwise noted.

 

• Sunday,  April 19 at 3:00 PM – Classical Concerts presents The Blackwood Duo. Peter Togni (piano) and Jeff Reilly (bass clarinet) will present a program that is “Mystical, dark and full of heart”.  Blackwood is bass clarinetist Jeff Reilly with pianist Peter-Anthony Togni who between the two of them share 4 JUNO nominations. Togni and Reilly describe a path from the page to the soul by exploring the liquid melodicism of Jeff Reilly’s bass clarinet with Peter-Anthony Togni’s transcendent keyboard virtuosity. Their twilight concert was featured at the 2022 Elora Festival in Ontario, being one of the best attended events of the festival. In August 2024, Blackwood had a number of engagements in BC performing “Day’s Last Glow”, their program for bass clarinet with piano. They have released concertos for bass clarinet and choir on the German label ECM, as well as creating string orchestra concertos and full-length works for solo bass clarinet and vocal quartet on the Montreal-based label ATMA Classique. Blackwood’s “Lost & Found” CD, a program of haunting, atmospheric music performed on bass clarinet with piano (and/or pipe organ) is a mix of new and old; music composed and improvised on a foundation of jazz, Gregorian Chant, and Minimalism of pure emotional accessibility. Reilly and Togni have also toured the world with the trio Sanctuary, playing concerts in Russia, China, Europe and North America and performing in a range of contexts: jazz, contemporary classical, choral, orchestra, string orchestra, and Gamelon orchestra. In this program, lost medieval sonorities fuse with jazz and contemporary sounds, finding a home in a new palette, both earthly and celestial. Join Blackwood as they take you on a sonic journey that defies stylistic boundaries with virtuosity, musicality and sensitivity. An exciting concert, to be sure! Admission is by donation.

 

• Friday April 24 at 7:30 PM:  "Sacred, Secular and Silly XVIII" is a fund-raising concert sponsored by the Annapolis Valley Centre RCCO (Royal Canadian College of Organists) featuring performances by singers and instrumentalists from the Annapolis Valley at the Dawn Oman Art Gallery, 298 Granville St., Bridgetown. A free-will offering will be taken to support the Centre's Organ Scholarship Fund.

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• April 7 - 24: Voting open for Trinity Anglican Church in Digby to compete in Canada’s National Trust’s Next Great Save Competition. The National Trust holds this nation-wide competition, which aims to help to protect cherished heritage spaces. Trinity Anglican’s project,  (please see their website for details: nationaltrustcanada.ca/what-you-can-do/nextgreatsave). Twelve groups from all over Canada are competing to win $65,000 worth of prizes. Trinity Anglican’s project, “Save Trinity’s Rose Window,” hopes to win the top prize of $50,000 for the church’s south wall, which houses the Rose Window and three other stained glass panels, is significantly degraded, and is in urgent need of restoration. To win the competition, they must gain the greatest number of votes during the voting period of April 7 to 24. To vote, go to tinyurl.com/DigbyTrinityChurch

 

• Blessing Box: Please consider picking up a little extra food for the Blessing Box next time you are shopping. Hunger never sleeps.   

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