A collection of links shared by members of our community, to encourage, edify, and amuse each other during our COVID-19 period of separation.

Anglican resources

  • From the Diocesan newsletter: 'With parishes across the diocese scrambling to try to figure out how to be a church without walls, we want to assure you that we are all in this together and together, with God's help, we will create exciting opportunities to be church in new (and old) ways. We are collecting resource ideas and links and curating them on our diocesan website' here 
  • “Choose Faith Not Fear:” A sermon on our response to Covid, from Nicky Gumbel (who created the Alpha Course) here
  • Anglican Journal: news and responses from churches across Canada here
  • St George's Cadboro Bay, here
  • Music and reflections from St Mary's Oak Bay, here
  • "Thy Kingdom Come:” a global 10 days of prayer: intro video with Dr. Krish Kandiah, download the prayer app here, download of TKC morning and evening prayer, Help Light Up The World

Online services

  • Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria: streamed services and daily prayers here
  • St Dunstan's: streamed Sunday services and midweek updates with Jez here
  • St John the Divine: streamed services here 
  • St Luke's Cedar Hill: online services here
  • A sermon from Christopher Page, the priest at St. Philip in Oak Bay, here
  • Links to some regular streamed services from churches and cathedrals throughout the Anglican Communion via anglicansonline.org here
  • Canterbury Cathedral (UK) via YouTube here
  • Durham Cathedral (UK) via Facebook here
  • St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne (Australia) here
  • Choral Evensong from Selwyn College, Cambridge, for Trinity Term (April - June) 2020, here- musical direction and digital wizardry by Victoria's own Sarah Macdonald

More Christian resources

  • Easter Sunday with Bill Engvall, here
  • James Carey on the Resurrection, Bob Newhart-style, here

Music

  • The Rotterdam Phil experimenting with self-isolated performance here
  • A beautiful arrangement of "It Is Well With My Soul" here
  • Neil Diamond singing “Hands… Washing Hands” here
  • "Sound Of Music does Covid-19" here
  • Daily chorale preludes: If church organ music is your thing, one of Canada's top organists, Matthew Larkin (Ottawa) is posting a Geistmusik series - daily videos introducing and performing chorale preludes on different instruments around the city, for as long as possible here
  • Online music show from Chor Leoni in Vancouver, livestream Wednesdays at 7pm here
  • 'Always a Nurse - a Tribute from a Doctor',here
  • 'Stayin' Inside - a Coronavirus Bee Gees parody' by Brent McCollough, here
  • 'The Toilet Roll Reel' by the Lyon (France) branch of the Royal Scottish Country Dancing Society, here
  • 'The Bells of Banff' by Daniel Thomson, here, and carillonneur Heather Jean Jordan playing 'Farewell to Nova Scotia', on the bells at St George in the Pines, Banff, here
  • Juliet Beckwith and Nathan Malzon perform Schubert's 'Ave Maria' at Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, here
  • A virtual choir rendition of Down to the River to Pray, here
  • College Church (Wheaton IL) does the Quarantine Hallelujah Chorus, by Adam Billington, here
  • CORO NA MÁ - Coro de Clave Cuban Harmony Choir, here
  • Tad Calcara plays all the parts of 'Somebody Loves Me' (Gershwin), here
  • The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain plays their lockdown version of 'Crazy', here
  • Masterlink Remote Session cover of 'You can't always get what you want', here
  • Praise Song for the Pandemic, written and read by Christine Valters Paintner, from Abbey of the Arts, and music by Giants & Pilgrims, here
  • The Blessing, Canadian version,here

Looking after ourselves and others

  • Parish-specific requests and suggestions are in the weekly e-blast newsletter
  • Our Place Society needs donations and meal sponsorship more than ever, here
  • Shelbourne Community Kitchen also needs financial support, here
  • Six Daily Questions to Ask Yourself in Quarantine, by Brooke Anderson, here
  • Information, resources and things to do for seniors staying home in Victoria, here

More fun things

  • Some Noah’s Ark Fun here
  • Keep Calm and Serm On: vicar catches fire during livestream here (he's fine!)
  • the Social Distancing Festival
  • 'I am the very model of the locked-down clergy Anglican' by Margaret Pritchard Houston, Kathryn Fleming, Rachel Humphrey, Mary Hawes et al, here
  • 'Gruffalo stayed in the cave': Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson's coronavirus cartoons, based on the characters from their award-winning children's books, here
  • 'A Conference Call in Real Life' by Tripp & Tyler - strangely prescient from 2014... here
  • Breakfast eggs with an 'Easter egg', here
  • 'Boris Johnson, Secret Pianist', by Jules Benjamin, here
  • Topical adaptation of Leonardo's 'The Last Supper' as a Zoom Meeting,here
  • and 'The Last Supper among famous Renaissance works re-imagined as empty scenes by artist Bence Hajdu' in The Mail Online, here
  • 'Game of Bones' - tense canine sport commentary from Andrew Cotter, here
  • 'How I'm Handling Online Teaching' by makeshift.macaroni, here
  • Hello Spring from the CBC, here
  • Jill Ehlert curates an online exhibition of Victoria artist Kirsten Brand's work, via the Chapel Art Gallery at St Matthias, here
  • Explore the fabulous medieval stained glass at York Minster,here
  • Clever UVic swallows learn how to use automatic doors,here - video by our own Grant Hughes
  • A giggle at those of us attempting online services - Sermon Surfing by Swivelchair Theologian, here
  • a surprisingly moving audition for America's Got Talent, 10-year-old Amanne Beasha sings Nessun dorma,here
If you have other links to share with the St Dunstan's community via this page and/or the newsletter, please email Anna.