Stewardship Month — November 15, 2026
We hear often the Church is not a building and indeed, the Church is the mystical Body of Christ. Yet as Catholic-minded Christians, however,we know the importance of the tangible to encountering God. And as the priesthood of all believers, we are called to consecrate the world to the glory of God.
Therefore, it is no small matter to say this building on Gore and Cordova is consecrated to God’s glory. But I suspect many of us know this intuitively. We recall the first time we set foot here, and we see it still in visitors – widening eyes drawn from the narthex to the rood cross and the High Altar.
During the Great Depression, our forebears built this church in faith, consecrating the wood and stone on this plot of land to the glory of God. Nearly 100 years later, my generation (and younger!) are still drawn through the narthex to the rood cross and the High Altar.
Yet every generation is also called to steward their inheritance. At nearly 100 years old, this church home of ours predictably needs careful stewarding! Several flat roofs – from around the parish centre, the organ, to the altars – are in critical condition with repairs projected to cost around $70,000. Meanwhile, the emergency repair of fire doors is estimated to cost around $10,000. Heating this old building alone costs over $2,000 monthly.
While these and other issues are concerning, these are not calls for panic but invitations to join the generations before us in offering up what we have received – time, money, prayer – to building up this church for the glory of God. And through what we offer in faith now, may generations in another 100 years likewise join us here in offering the world to be consecrated to God, saying in praise and thanksgiving “all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.”
-Joanna Lam, for the Stewardship Committee