BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260823T132622Z UID:590-6881290@stmarysmetchosin.ca DTSTART:20261124T163000Z DTEND:20261126T010000Z CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260820T120000 DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nRegistration\nProgram\nBursaries and funding\nAccommo dation\nSpeakers\nVolunteering\n\nThe Anglican Diocese of Islands and Inle ts (British Columbia) is excited to invite you to be part of a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Priesting of Women in the Anglican Church of Canada. Come and join us as we give thanks for the many ways women have contributed to the life of the Church as presbyters and look to the futur e to examine the challenges that lay ahead for women in the Church and Can adian society.\nWe look forward to welcoming you to Vancouver Island later this year!\nDates: November 24-25\, 2026 \nLocation: Christ Church Cat hedral at 930 Burdett Ave.\, Victoria.\nRegistration\nRegistration is now open. Please click HERE to complete the form. Registration for this even t will close October 12\, 2026.\nThere is no longer a cap on the number of registrants. We look forward to welcoming anyone who would like to be a p art of this exciting event. \nThe registration fee is $210.00. Participan ts are responsible for making all their own travel and hotel arrangements. This includes transportation into Victoria from the airport. We will crea te a Facebook page where people can connect to arrange carpooling. \nProg ram\nThe event will officially begin at 8:30am on Tuesday\, November 24 at Christ Church Cathedral.\nIt will officially end with the celebratory Euc harist at Christ Church Cathedral on Wednesday\, November 25. The service will start at 4pm and will be livestreamed.\nMore details about the progra m and the service will be shared soon. \nBursaries and funding\nThere is money for bursaries that has generously been made available through grants from the Anglican Church of Canada and the Anglican Foundation of Canada. An application for bursaries is available HERE. If you are applying for bursary funding\, please do not register until you are notified regarding your application. Applications will be accepted until September 15\, 2026. Successful bursary applicants will be notified by September 30\, 2026.\nP lease note that we aim to have participation from across Canada which mean s travel costs will vary considerably. We respectfully ask that you take a dvantage of any continuing education funds or other sources of financial a ssistance so that we can use bursary funds to assist people coming from fu rther afield as much as possible.\nAccommodation \nWe have negotiated cor porate rates with three hotels in the city. Please note that these rates m ay change before the event. Please call and let the hotel know that you wa nt the corporate rate negotiated by the Diocese of British Columbia for th e nights associated with the event (23\, 24\, 25 November 2026). The hotel s are:\n\nInn at Laurel Point: starting at $184/night+tax. The Inn is on V ictoria’s beautiful Inner Harbour. It is approx. a half hour walk to the conference venue. (www.laurelpoint.com) Please reference the 50th Anniver sary rate when booking. You can call 1-800-663-7667 or email reservations@ laurelpointinn.com to book.\nBest Western Plus Carlton Plaza Hotel: starti ng at $155/night+taxes and fees. The BW is in downtown Victoria. Approx. 1 0-minute walk to the venue. (www.bestwesterncarltonplazahotel.com). Please note: if you want to book the Best Western\, you must use THIS LINK. The front desk staff will not have this information! They have offered a vari ety of rooms including a suite with a kitchenette. The link will work unti l October 23\, 2026.\nQuality Inn Downtown Inner Harbour: $140/night+tax. The Quality Inn is in downtown Victoria and approx. a 15-minute walk to th e venue. (www.choicehotels.com/en-uk/british-columbia/victoria/quality-inn -hotels/cn376)\n\nSpeakers\nPatti Brace\n\nPatti is the rector of the Parish of Mahone Bay\, a semi-rur al multi-point parish in the South Shore region of the Diocese of Nova Sco tia and Prince Edward Island\, and chancellor of Thorneloe University\, an Anglican theological college in Sudbury\, Ontario. \nWhile fairly recent ly ordained (deacon 2018\, priest 2019)\, she remembers the excitement of the first ordinations of women in Canada and the first in her home diocese of Niagara. While her own sense of call emerged toward the end of high sc hool\, she didn’t quite know what to do with it and headed down the path of academia\, earning a BA in English at Trent University\, followed by a n MA and a PhD from Queen’s.\nShe taught early modern literature at Laur entian University in Sudbury for 20 years and did research on sixteenth-ce ntury English women writers and the London print market. It was during a s abbatical in 2012-13 that God’s call returned very insistently and\, hav ing taken a number of theology courses from Thorneloe “for fun\,” she began seminary at the Faculty of Divinity at Trinity College\, Toronto\, w hile teaching and raising a teen-aged son.\nAfter ordination in the dioces e of Algoma\, she served as deacon associate at Christ Church\, Lively and St. John the Divine\, Copper Cliff (2018-19) and then as interim at St. M ary\, Nipigon\, where she discovered a love of small-town ministry. She\, her dog\, and two cats moved to Nova Scotia in late 2021. Patti enjoys cho ral singing\, cycling\, camping\, and playing the fiddle (as yet) ineptly. \nVolunteering\nInterested in helping with the event? Contact The Rev. Can on Jeannine Friesen at jfriesen@bc.anglican.ca.\n~\nA poster is provided below should you wish to post something at your parish.\nA Facebook Group has been started for this event. Join us at: Let's celebrate 50 yrs of th e Priesting of Women in the ACC!\nThe organizers gratefully ack nowledge a grant from the Anglican Foundation of Canada in support of this event.\n \nPhoto Credit: J. Abram Photography\n\n\n \n LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T120000 LOCATION:Christ Church Cathedral - 930 Burdett Ave.\, Victoria SUMMARY:Celebrating 50 Years URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.stmarysmetchosin.ca/events/celebrating-50-years/2 026-11-24 ATTACH;FILENAME=Copy of The Priesting of Women in the Anglican Church of Ca nada (2).png;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0.cloudfront.net/2026/0 8/20/18/57/02/776c5fad-9470-4948-b68c-6cf44e68fe6b/Copy%20of%20The%20Pries ting%20of%20Women%20in%20the%20Anglican%20Church%20of%20Canada%20(2).png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR