All are welcome to join us for our regular Sunday Eucharist worship services at 9am each week. During school terms these include kids’ church and activities for families with young children. For those who can’t be with us in person, you are welcome to join our weekly Sunday worship online via Zoom.
Occasional joint services with St Margaret’s take place at 9.30am as noted in our church calendar.
Once again our joint choir (Holy Cross & St Margaret’s) is pairing with Canberra Community Voices for our annual choir concert. You are cordially invited to a Sunday afternoon program to enjoy a wide variety of music. Canberra Community Voices is conducted by Rodney Clancy and complements well our smaller choir – conducted by Susan Reid. Afternoon tea to follow.
Tickets ($20, $10 concession) at the door or reserve your seats now at: www.holycrosshackett.org.au/concert
Join us for the Sustaining Our Future Festival, 2-5 pm on Saturday 21 September. Talk to various action groups, “Active Travel” facilitators and ACT election candidates. Try eBikes and “BungyPump” Nordic walking. There will also be a Sausage Sizzle, and Afternoon Tea!
Forum
The communities of St Margaret’s Uniting and Holy Cross Anglican, in partnership with Dickson College are hosting a Candidates’ Forum on Active Travel from 4 pm to 5:30 pm on Saturday, September 21 as part of the 2024 North Canberra Sustainability Festival.
College students will pose questions to candidates standing in the electorate of Kurrajong, exploring ideas and views on local transport policy.
The students, first-time voters, will draw on their insights and experience of public transport and travel infrastructure and expect to learn from what political parties and their respective candidates have to say.
For anyone wishing to view the funeral of Althea O’Rourke today at 1.30pm via Zoom, please click on the link below:
To celebrate the Long Weekend, Holy Cross and St Margaret’s invite you to a very special Brunch Church at 9:30am.
There will be no communion service at Holy Cross this Sunday: anyone who especially wishes to receive the sacrament is warmly encouraged to take the opportunity to visit one of our sister churches, St. Johns Reid, All Saints Ainslie, or St Philips O’Connor.
The Sunday of the 4th week in Lent is linked to two beautiful medieval traditions: “Laetare Sunday”, when Christians take a day of celebration in the midst of their Lenten penitence; and “Mothering Sunday”, which isn’t actually about human mothers … but marks the day when servants were given leave from their duties to return to their home villages and attend their Mother Church.
Finally, as many of you know, Mothering Sunday is the traditional date for baking simnel cakes – if you are lucky, you may even find one on the menu at brunch! For more information check out: https://britishfoodhistory.com/2018/03/19/simnel-cake/
St Margaret’s is celebrating their 60th Anniversary on Sunday at 10.30 am and we have decided to join their service!
This means there will be no 9 am service on Sunday and instead we would love to celebrate with them and see you at 10.30 am!
Join us for the fabulous North Canberra Nativity Festival this weekend … and remind yourself of the meaning of the season!
There’s something for everyone on the Festival programme this year – including probably the best Carols by Candlelight in the Inner North.
For more info, check out the Festival FaceBook page.
