This Sunday we begin our annual journey through Holy Week with Palm and Passion Sunday. We warmly invite and encourage all members of our parish community to participate in as many of our Holy Week liturgies as you are able, as together we seek to enter more fully into the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

Holy Week services in the Parish of the Valley will be offered at the following times and locations.

Palm Sunday - April 13

• 8am - Holy Trinity Pembroke
• 9am - St. Thomas Rankin
• 9am - Ascension Killaloe
• 9:30am - St. George’s South Alice
• 10am - Holy Trinity Pembroke
• 11am - St. Paul’s Cobden
• 11am - St. John’s Eganville
• 11am - Epiphany Barry’s Bay (Morning Prayer)
• 11:15am - All Saints Petawawa

Maundy Thursday - April 17

• 7pm - Holy Trinity Pembroke
• 7pm - St. John's Eganville

Good Friday - April 18

• 9am - St. Anthony’s Whitney
• 10am - St. John’s Eganville followed at 12:30 by an Ecumenical Way of the Cross procession beginning at St. James the Less Catholic Church
• 11am - St. George’s South Alice
• 11am - St. Paul's Cobden
• 11am - Epiphany Barry’s Bay
• 1pm - All Saints Petawawa
• 3pm - Holy Trinity Pembroke
• 3pm - Ascension Killaloe

Easter Vigil with Baptisms (Saturday, April 19)

• 7:30pm - Deanery of the Northwest Vigil at Holy Trinity Pembroke - with Holy Baptism

Easter Sunday - April 20

• 8am - Holy Trinity Pembroke
• 9am - St. Thomas Rankin
• 9am - Ascension, Killaloe
• 9am - St. Anthony’s Whitney
• 9:30am - St. George’s South Alice
• 10am - Holy Trinity Pembroke
• 11am - St. Paul’s Cobden
• 11am - St. John’s Eganville
• 11am - Epiphany Barry’s Bay
• 11:15am - All Saints Petawawa

You are invited to come and hear from Daniel and Florence Mayapi from Zambia as they share about their ministry with Impact Zambia. We will be hosting a reception on Tuesday, April 22 from Noon-2pm at Holy Trinity Pembroke. Enjoy a free luncheon kindly offered by the Holy Trinity ACW while we meet.

To assist with numbers, please RSVP to ACW President Maggie Jacques at jacquesp@nrtco.net or call 613-401-1100.

We are still looking for some hosts for when Kenneth Kasule from Wide Smiles for All Through Education in Uganda will be visiting with us in the Parish of the Valley.

Kenneth will be with us from April 25 through June 20. In addition to a number of speaking visits across our parish and opportunities to join in fellowship and hear Kenneth speak about his work for children's eduation in Uganda, we are looking for households willing to host Kenneth as a guest in your home.

While he is with you, we hope that you will be able to offer him meals and fellowship, perhaps some sight-seeing in your area, bringing him to church if he is with you over a Sunday, making connection with the next host, and offering the opportunity to do laundry etc. as needed.

To learn more about hosting Kenneth, including finding out exact dates when we still need hosts and to sign up for a period of time as a host, please contact Carol Clark of St. John’s Eganville at 613-625-2755. Thank you for considering this ministry of hospitality as we welcome Kenneth to our parish community.

Our first issue for 2025 of our parish's quarterly newspaper, Revelations, is now available.

Hard copies can be picked up at your local church, and a digital copy can be downloaded here.

May you be blessed as you read about all of the ways that God continues to bless us across our parish, and may God's presence be ever near as we prepare our hearts for the mysteries of Holy Week.