Chapelle Ste-Marthe

Worship services are held twice a month and they are bilingual - French and English. Sunday services  are held in an Anglican cathedral, but they are multidenominational and open to all. Worship is led by young adults but are open to people of all ages.

Services include music from all gendres, inspiring messages by peers, honest prayers, and communion.

•  Community Eucharist - 1st and 3rd Sunday Evenings During the School Year 
• Supper and Bible Study - Wednesday evenings*

*Please note that times and locations may vary. As well, due to weather and health concerns, in person events may be changed to online gatherings. Please email sarah@stemarthe.ca for the latest information about gatherings!

Ste-Marthe is a community of young adults in downtown Montréal who are from all over the world. Its participants and leaders speak many languages. This community includes students and professionals, workers and the unemployed. Some live away from home and some live with their parents.

This community is rooted in Christian tradition, but everything that they do is open to young adults of any beliefs, or no beliefs at all. Ste-Marthe welcomes diverse views as they study, worship, pray, play, and talk. Ste-Marthe works with local churches. Some participants actively attend church and some do not. This is a community that is honoured to have people feel at home with them, but they do not ask anyone to call it their only home. 

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This community is LGBTQ+ affirming and it strives to be more genuinely inclusive in all that they do.

Ste-Marthe is supported by the Anglican Church of Canada, the United Church of Canada, and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Canada, but they welcome young adults of any or no faith community.

Sarah Wicks-Potter (Interim Director & Chaplain)

Sarah has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Bachelor of Theology from McGill University. She is currently working on finishing her Master of Divinity at the Montréal Diocesan Theological College. She has a passion for working with children, youth, and young adults. She also has a passion for ecumenical ministry having worked for the Anglican Diocese of Montréal, the United Church of Canada in Ontario and Québec, and the Disciples of Christ. She lives in Montréal with her husband.  

Esther Guillen (Associate Chaplain for Christian Education)

Esther is a PhD Candidate in History and Classics at McGill University. Her research focuses on the textual and philosophical relationships between the Gospel of Matthew and the writings of Justin Martyr, and the particular social and scholastic milieu of the second-century Roman Empire. Esther works as a lay worship leader and educator in the United Church of Canada. She has had a life-long commitment to ecumenism; her spiritual home is the United Church, she has spent time as a choral scholar and congregation member in the Anglican Church of Canada, and she has attended worship in Methodist and Presbyterian churches in Canada, Britain, and Israel/Palestine. She loves to participate in the spiritual questing of university students and the wider world. Esther leads education activities, preaches, and helps us to have honest conversations about what the Bible and church history teach us. 

Rev. Heather Liddell (Associate Chaplain)

Since January 1, 2023, Rev. Heather Liddell has been the Incumbent of St George’s Place du Canada and the Associate Chaplain at St. Martha's Chapel. Heather comes to Chapelle Ste-Marthe from the Diocese of Edmonton where she served a dual-pronged ministry working as the Anglican Educational Chaplain at the University of Alberta and the Rector of St Peter’s Westmount/Inglewood. She was the Regional Dean of Edmonton West, Chaplain to the Diocesan youth camps, the organizer and facilitator of PUBtheologies, Death Cafes and endless Bible studies. In the summer of 2022 she spearheaded a mural project for St Peter’s church hall that pulled together local artists and community members for a week of programming in the church parking lot alongside Edmonton’s city-wide Mural Massive project.

As a young adult, she earned her B.A. in Political Science and Creative Writing from the University of Alberta and pursued an M.Div from Wycliffe College (University of Toronto), during which she spent seven months at Trinity College (Singapore), and a month at Pusey House (Oxford). Heather was a member of the Interfaith Chaplains Association, a former Regional Coordinator for Messy Church, a 2016 Canterbury Scholar, a 2019 FASPE Fellow (Fellowship at Auschwitz for Professional Ethics), and she is a published poet (you can find some of her poems at Earth & Altar magazine). She loves tea, her cat Tom Bombadil, and good books.

As Rev. Heather often says, since her ordination in 2014 she has been blessed with a life full of more surprises and joys than she could have imagined. She never expected she would relocate to Quebec and fall in love with the city of Montréal but she is so glad she did. Rev. Heather adores Chapelle Ste-Marthe and hopes that you will too.