Christ is risen! Happy Easter from Saint John's, your friends in Montreal since 1861. 🕯️ 📸 Janet Best

Tonight is the Easter Vigil at Saint John's. Join us for the lighting of the Paschal candle, the blessing of the baptismal waters, and the first celebration of Easter. 🕯️ 📸 Janet Best

Today is Good Friday at St. John’s. Join us for the Mass of the Presanctified, with the prostration of the clergy, the unveiling and veneration of the Cross, and the procession of the Blessed Sacrament to the High Altar. How does your church observe Good Friday? 📸 Janet Best

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.

🕯️ Tomorrow is Maundy Thursday at Saint John’s. Join us for the washing of feet, the procession of the Blessed Sacrament to the Altar of Repose, and the stripping of the High Altar. How does your church observe Maundy Thursday? 📸 by Janet Best

🕯️ PALM SUNDAY 🕯️ Hosanna to the son of David: blessed be the King that cometh in the Name of the Lord.

Join us for Holy Week and Easter: 🕯️ Palm Sunday - Mar 29 10:30am 🕯️ Maundy Thursday - Apr 2 5:45pm 🕯️ Good Friday - Apr 3 12:00pm, Tenebrae 7:00pm 🕯️ Holy Saturday - Apr 4 Easter Vigil 8:00pm 🕯️ Easter Sunday - April 5 10:30am Full schedule below: 🔗 ⬇️

🕯️ Throwback Thursday! Nothing as sure as change. 📸 Downtown Montreal, late 20th c. / Today.

🕯️ THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT COMMONLY CALLED PASSION SUNDAY 🕯️ Give sentence with me, O God, and defend my cause against the ungodly people: O deliver my soul from the deceitful and wicked man: for thou art the God of my strength.

🕯️ THOMAS CRANMER, TRANSLATOR AND REVISER OF THE LITURGY, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, MARTYR 1556 🕯️ The Lord made with him a covenant of peace, and made him the chief of his people: that he should have the dignity of the priesthood for ever.

🕯️ CUTHBERT, MISSIONARY, BISHOP OF LINDISFARNE, 687 🕯️ The Lord made with him a covenant of peace, and made him the chief of his people: that he should have the dignity of the priesthood for ever. Lord remember David: and all his trouble.

🕯️ Throwback Thursday! As well as being a place of worship, St. John’s was also a boys’ school in its early years. Our founder Father Edmund Wood (top row, center) with staff and students in front of the church, 1885. 📸 Wm. Notman & Son, McCord Museum Collection.

Hello, Bluesky! The Church of St. John the Evangelist is your Anglo-Catholic church in Montreal, Quebec, est. 1861. 🕯️