The Church of St. Mary Magdalene is an Anglo-Catholic parish of the Anglican Church of Canada located in Toronto. It is famous for its association with composer Healey Willan and was immortalised as "St. Aidan's" in Robertson Davies' novel The Cunning Man. ... Anglican Church of Canada The Anglican Church of Canada (the ACC) is the Canadian branch of the Anglican Communion. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Established: March 6, 1834 Area: East to West: 43 km North to South: 21 km629. ... Healey Willan, CC (October 12, 1880 - February 16, 1968) was a Canadian organist and composer. ... Robertson Davies in 1984 Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC (born August 28, 1913 at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. ... The Cunning Man, published in 1994, is the last novel written by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. ...

The church was founded in 1888 by a group from the nearby Church of St. Matthias lead by the Rev'd Charles Darling. The church building was designed by the Rector's brother--noted Toronto architect Frank Darling. The exterior of the church building was completed in 1908. In the 1990's a substantial addition to the building added additional spaces for instruction, meeting, and church administration.

The church is known for supporting a variety of worship including daily Masses and Morning and Evening Prayer, as well as Solemn Masses on Sundays and important feasts of the Christian calendar. Far from being limited to traditional language liturgies, however, the parish also celebrates contemporary language liturgies based on the Canadian Book of Alternative Services. The Eucharist or Communion or The Lords Supper, is the rite that Christians perform in fulfillment of Jesus instruction, recorded in the New Testament, to do in memory of him what he did at his Last Supper. ... The Liturgy of the Hours is particularly popular in monastic communities. ... The liturgical year, also known as the Christian year, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in some Christian churches which determines when Feasts, Memorials, Commemorations, and Solemnities are to be observed and which portions of Scripture are to be read. ... The Book of Alternative Services is the contemporary, inclusive-language liturgical book used alongside the Book of Common Prayer (1962) in a number of parishes of the Anglican Church of Canada. ...

The current Rector is the Rev'd Canon Harold Nahabedian. The Rev'd William Tay Moss serves as Associate Priest. Dr. Willis Noble is the Director of Music. The word rector (ruler, from the Latin regere) has a number of different meanings. ... A canon (from the Latin canonicus and Greek κανωνικωσ relating to a rule) is a priest who is a member of certain bodies of the Christian clergy subject to a rule (canon). ...

Further reading

Grieg, David (1990). In the Fullness of Time, a History of the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Toronto, Toronto: The Church of Saint Mary Magdalene. ISBN 0969434618.

External link

Church of St. Mary Magdalene Parish site