Lay Readers

Lay Reader Training in 2010

Though these courses are designed with Lay Readers in mind, all lay people are welcomed to these Saturday workshops.  The brochure

The cost is $10 and is payable at the door.
Please bring your own lunch for the day.
Saturdays at MDTC, from 9 am to 2:30 pm.

Visit the Lay Readers website at: www.layreaders.org

The Rev. Tim Smart is the Pastor to the Lay Readers.
If you wish to know more about becoming a Lay Reader,
please contact him.

Saturday, January 23rd

“What is Anglicanism?” 

with Professor Torrance Kirby of the McGill Faculty of Religious Studies

 

Saturday, February 27th

“The Genius of Anglican Liturgy”

with Archdeacon  Peter Hannen

 

Saturday, March 20th

"Passion Narratives and Resurrection Stories"
with the Rev. Dr. Ellen Aitken, Dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill Unversity

 

Saturday, May 15th

“Preaching with Purpose”

with the Rev. Karen Chalk of St. Andrew and St. Mark’s, Dorval

 

Saturday, September 25th

“Working with the Biblical Text”

with the Rev. Neil Mancor of St. George’s, Ste. Anne de Bellevue

 

Saturday, October 23rd

“Being Beheld by God: Spending Time with Julian of Norwich”

with the Rev. Holly Ratcliffe of Christ Church in Sorel

 

Saturday, November 20th

“Lay Readers’ Study Day and Commissioning Service. “

Location and Speaker TBA.  

All Saturday Workshops take place at the Montreal Diocesan Theological College, 3475 University, Montreal, Quebec. 
  
Coffee and Registration beginning at 8:30 am, course from 9 am to 2:30 pm. Please bring your own lunch.

Registration for Saturday workshops, please contact Sue Winn at 514-457-0736.
 
Costs: Free registration for 1st year Lay Readers. All others, $10 per workshop.

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Our Lay Readers's Retreat:

“Being Anglican in the 21st Century”
April 30th to May 2nd, 2010

Retreat Leader: Patricia Bays is a graduate of Trinity College, University of Toronto, in Arts (English Literature) and Theology. She received an M.A.
in English from the University of Manitoba, and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Saskatchewan, working for some years as an elementary school teacher librarian. A layperson, she has worked in many different capacities in the Anglican Church, primarily in the work of theological education, teaching Pastoral Theology at the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad, Saskatoon, and Anglican Studies at St. Paul University, Ottawa.

She served on many committees of the Anglican Church of Canada and was for seven years the Canadian lay member on the international Anglican Consultative Council.

Patricia is the author of a number of books about Anglicanism and of resources for Christian Education, and is a workshop and conference leader.  She is an EFM Trainer and Mentor.  In 1988 she received the degree of Doctor of Divinity (honoris causa) from Trinity College. In 1991 she received the Anglican Award of Merit, an award given to Canadian Anglican laypersons for service to the national and international church. In 1993, she was made an Honorary Fellow of the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad.

To register for the retreat please contact Geraldine Kavanagh:
geralka@videotron.ca     450-477-0964