Welcome to our parish website. Located directly across from the Donlands subway station, just north of the Danforth, we are a diverse community that comes together each week as one to worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Our Sunday Eucharist takes place each Sunday at 11am.

Christmas Service Times:

Sunday, December 21st at 11am: A Service of Christmas Lessons and Carols

Wednesday, December 24th at 7pm: Christmas Eve Sung Eucharist

Thursday, December 25th at 11am: Christmas Day Sung Eucharist

If you are looking for a church to attend, please consider worshipping with us. You will find a warm welcome.

Christmas Letter from the Priest-In-Charge

Christmas 2025

Dear parishioners and friends of St David’s and St Andrew’s,

St Francis of Assisi is credited with popularizing the three-dimensional nativity scenes that we have long since come to associate with the celebration of Christmas: showing baby Jesus in the manger, wrapped in swaddling clothes lying on the hay, surrounded by Mary and Joseph, shepherds, livestock, and angels.

In his 13th century context, St Francis wanted to give people a chance to engage the truth of the Incarnation using all of their faculties and senses.  St Francis especially wanted people to imagine and experience all of the details of the first Christmas scene because he wanted people to know that Christmas is about God drawing near to us in our ordinary lives, the crèche scene (his including live animals) depicting the sort of humble, agrarian life that many of those people there at the first crèche he set up would have known very intimately.

The Christmas crèche that we set up in front of the altar in our parish each Christmas, as well as those that we might set up at home as part of our own holiday decorating, all remind us that the birth of Christ is a gift for each one of us, a gift intersecting with the very stuff of our day-to-day lives, the extraordinary and humdrum, our sorrows and joys, and everything in-between.

St Francis also recognized, however, stemming from one particular, decisive moment in his life, that the coming of Christ was about God’s drawing near to us for a specific purpose: that purpose being to renovate a fallen world, to restore us as children of God and brothers and sisters of all God’s many creatures, including our lowly and suffering human neighbour.

That decisive moment happened while St Francis was praying inside the church of San Damiano, a very old church, which had fallen into disrepair and was on the verge of collapse.  There, praying before the crucifix, three times he, to his great surprise, heard a voice, saying, “Francis, go and repair my house which, as you see, is falling into ruin.”  And, understanding this call from God as specifically referring to rebuilding of that church building which needed repair but also as a call to help re-build the Church of God in a time of needed rejuvenation, that is exactly what St Francis, aided by divine grace, went on to do.

As we come together to celebrate Christmas this year, to mediate upon and celebrate the humble birth of the Son of God to Mary and Joseph in a stable in Bethlehem, St Francis comes to mind, not only because of his emphasis on the Incarnation, but also because the time has come for us to repair our beloved church building in the hopes that, in God’s time, by God’s grace, our humble parish might play its role in the revitalizing of God’s Church in the years to come. 

Following up on the stained-glass restoration completed this fall, starting in 2026, much needed work will begin to address long standing issues having to do with water run-off problems, particularly along the south wall of the church by the rood screen where paint is peeling and water is seeping through the wall during heavy rain. 

With more details to come by the time of this year’s annual vestry meeting in February, this work will allow us to protect our beautiful parish church from falling into further disrepair as a foundation for building up the life of our parish to the glory of God for years to come. 

As we celebrate the birth of Christ this time around, inspired by St Francis and surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses who have come before us in faith, I ask for your prayers as we together discern God’s call for our parish moving into the future, grateful for your ongoing, generous support and God’s faithful provision.  

Wishing you a blessed Christmas,

 Fr Christopher D’Angelo