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DESCRIPTION:The cornerstone of our week\, this Sung Eucharist anchors our w
 orship life and prepares us for the week ahead. During the summer\, music 
 is led by organ with a soloist. Sunday School is not offered this weeken
 d.\nAvailable both in-person and online.\n \nAbout Emancipation Sunday\nE
 mancipation Sunday is celebrated on the last Sunday in July in the Anglica
 n Church of Canada (July 26 in 2026)\, as formally designated by the Gener
 al Synod in June 2025. Emancipation Sunday commemorates the coming into ef
 fect of the Slavery Abolition Act on August 1\, 1834—Emancipation Day
 —freeing approximately 800\,000 enslaved people in British colonies\, in
 cluding Canada.\nFor more than 180 years\, Black communities across Canada
  have celebrated Emancipation Day with church services\, parades\, outdoor
  festivities\, protests\, speeches\, entertainment and more\, taking the o
 pportunity for reflection on the struggle for freedom and justice\, past a
 nd present. By designating an Emancipation Sunday\, the General Synod invi
 tes Anglicans in Canada to join in that celebration and to support initiat
 ives that address anti-Black racism within our ecclesial structures and in
  society at large.\n 
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SUMMARY:Holy Eucharist Commemorating Emancipation Day
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