Danish Lutheran Church of Toronto

Have you forgotten how wonderful a Danish Easter egg with real marzipan tastes? Then come to our bazaar Saturday March 27th between 11 am and 2.30 pm. Here you can buy lots of Danish food, imported and homemade, find great things at our Silent Auction, and visit many interesting booths. 

We had a great Annual General Meeting this year with many uplifting reports.

The highlight of the afternoon was the presentation of our new "Velkommen - Welcome" brochure. If you would like to see the brochure please download it here or use the menu to navigate to About->Brochure.

If you would like to have some brochures to share with family and friends or to distribute in a place where Danes meet around the Greater Toronto Area, please contact Pastor Elisabeth or any member of the board (for phone numbers, e-mails and addresses go to the contacts page). You can also be a member of the church by contacting any of us.

We look forward to hearing from you!

The Church Board and Pastor Elisabeth

Palm Sunday, March 28th 10.30 am

The Holy Week starts as always with Palm Sunday, this year as something new and extra festive Children’s Hour has joined the church choir for a palm leaf procession.

Maundy Thursday, April 1st 12 noon

In keeping with tradition the Golden Age Club will celebrate Maundy Thursday followed by their famous lunch. Everyone is welcome. If you would like to join the lunch, please phone Else Staal Nielsen at 905 619 2456.

Good Friday, April 2nd 10.30 am

The liturgical and quiet service on Good Friday prepare us for the joyful Easter morning. As always the confirmands and members of the congregation read the passion story. Our own choir as well as a church choir coming all the way from Sweden will sing some contemplative pieces for us during the service.

Easter Sunday, April 4th 10.30 am 

Rejoice! Christ has risen. The church choir, trumpeter Patrick Boyle, organist Michael Sharkey and bassoonist Kiera Galway will with their great music make our souls rise with Christ on Easter morning.
Also the Children’s Hour has been busy preparing for Easter. At the beginning of the service they will bring daffodils to the altar. After the service they will serve us a homemade lunch and entertain the congregation. The money collected at the lunch table will be sent to Christian Children's Fund to purchase chickens for needy people around the world. 

According to the calender the winter ends on March 20th. As a celebration of that spring will soon begin, we will on the last Sunday of Winter, on March 14th, serve a hot bowl of soup after the church service.

A group of ladies from the Golden Age Club will prepare this delicious light lunch for us.

 So come to church Sunday March 14th at 10.30 - remember it is the day when Daylight Saving Time begins! 

 The Danes have been invited to join the Finnish and the Swedish Lutheran churches for their Ash Wednesday celebration. In the Danish Lutheran Church we usually only celebrate Fastelavn before Lent. Most other Lutherans churches all over the world also celebrate Ash Wednesday, which is 46 days before Easter (40 days not counting the Sundays). 

The Danish Church in Toronto will again this year like to invite all Danish families in greater Toronto area to Fastelavn. The celebration takes place Sunday February 14th in the middle of family weekend. If you and your family wants to experience a real family event during family weekend, come to church!

Atter i år inviterer den Danske Kirke i Toronto alle danske familier i Toronto og omegn til Fastelavn. I år foregår det søndag d. 14. februar midt i "family weekend". Hvis du og din familie vil have en rigtig familieoplevelse denne familieweekend, så kom til den Danske Kirke.

Kirkehilsen February-March 2010 is available for download as a PDF-file here (right-click and choose "save as.." to save it to your computer).

To be able to open and read the file you need Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click here and download it for free.

Thanks to Paymon Sani for the pictures.

Juleaftensgudstjeneste

24. december kl. 2.30

Christmas Eve Service 

December 24th, 4.00 pm

Juledagsgudstjeneste 

25. december kl. 11.00

Efter gudstjenesten mødes vi i Kongesalen og ønsker hinanden glædelig jul over et glas vin

Nativity Play - Christmas Party

Krybbespil og Juletræsfest

December 27th, 10.30 am

Children and adults will again this year revive the good old Nativity Play. Afterwards we will meet in the Royal Hall to dance around the Christmas tree and play Danish singing games.

Remember to bring leftover cookies and goodies from Christmas.

Epiphany and New Year's Service

January 3rd, 10.30 am

After the church service we will watch the Queens New Year's Speech and wish each other Happy New Year according to Danish manner with champagne and "kransekage".

Glædelig Jul og Godt Nytår

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year