St. Jimmy’s Table is meeting Friday, May 30 at 5:30 pm at St. James Parish Hall. Our theme this month is ‘Celebrating Creation,’ thinking about the story of Noah’s Ark and the beautiful promise of this spring season. As always, there will be fun, fellowship, food and faith-formation, and it is ALL FREE! ALL ARE ALWAYS WELCOME! We look forward to seeing you at the end of the month. 

The Annual BIG GIVE Event is Happening on June 7!

We are excited, once again, for St. James to be part of the annual Big Give event. Our contribution to this movement of generosity on June 7 will be happening from 10 am to 11:30 am. We are thrilled to have hot dogs, tasty treats and drinks available along with musical offerings, crafts, games and a car boot sale. Everything is FREE! This is a wonderful opportunity for us to give back to our community.

If you would like to be part of the FREE car boot sale at the event, please contact Lynn Hyndman at [email protected]. If you would like to volunteer at the event or contribute to it, please reach out to Kate Sweeney at [email protected]. We can’t wait to make this best BIG GIVE event yet!

For information on the Big Give movement, please visit: https://thebiggive.ca

Holy Week in the Area Parish of Mississippi Lake

Maundy Thursday (April 17)
Potluck begins 5:30 pm
Service begins 7:00 pm
Location: St James Carleton Place.
Sign up at your church or with the church office for the potluck please.

Good Friday (April 18)
11 am. St James Carleton Place
11 am. Christ Church Ashton
1:30 pm. St George’s Clayton

Holy Saturday (April 19)
Location: St John’s Smiths Falls
Time: 7:30 pm.
Car pooling available.

‘Maundy’ is derived from the latin ‘mandatum’ which means basically “commandment.” Because Thursday night of Holy Week corresponds to the Last Supper, it includes Jesus saying, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another as I have loved you.”  This is the night of that New Commandment. Maundy Thursday services traditionally include a focus on the Last Supper, not only as the beginning of the Triduum (the Great Three Days), but also as the institution of the Lord’s Supper, Eucharist, Communion. In many places, a foot washing service is included, and the service often ends with the Stripping of the Altar. Maundy Thursday ends with the starkness of the empty, bare altar. Our souls are bare as well, as we begin to walk through the rest of the weekend.

As part of our observance of Lent, we will be holding a potluck beginning at 5:30 pm April 17 at St. James CP in the parish hall. In keeping with the solemnity of the beginning of the Passion of Christ, we are planning to keep this meal simple.

Parishioners are asked to bring their own dinnerware and cutlery which you will take home to wash, keeping clean up to a minimum.  After the meal, we will move quickly and quietly to the church for the service beginning at 7:00 pm.

Suggested potluck dishes might include lentil soup, flatbread, salad, dates, fruit.

There will be signup sheets at the entrances of our parish churches starting Sunday March 30^th so you can indicate what you might bring.

For more information, please contact Brenda Million [email protected] or 613-451-0572

St James Carleton Place Spring Fair:  Saturday, April 26- 10 am- 2pm
This spring we are not confident the weather will be reliable for strictly a plant sale- so we are engaging other ideas to make it successful & interesting.
We are looking for: perennials, house plants, decorative containers for plants. Flea market items (NO furniture please); books (gardening, plants). We will have a bake table (cookies, muffins, sweet loaves, etc). Arrangements will be made if your require someone to pick up your donations! 
Please contact Ronette Vines if you are interested in participating—everyone welcome!  613-257-9186

Pysanky (Ukrainian Easter Egg) Workshop

Saturday April 12, two sessions 9:30-12:00, 1:00-3:30

$10 /person plus donation to the food bank (21 person limit at each session)

Registration required [email protected]