May 2024 Issue
Diocese celebrates success creating more than 150 affordable housing units
			The Anglican Diocese of Ottawa is celebrating the success of its 125th anniversary campaign to create 125 new deeply affordable housing units. Three projects scheduled ...		
				 
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						David Humphreys					
				Centre 105 celebrates important renovation
			Centre 105 hosted a celebration on April 12, thanking the Ontario Trillium Foundation for a $106,000 capital grant, which has paid for the construction of ...		
				 
					Written by
										
						Leigh Anne Williams					
				Bishop urges federal government to do more to house those in greatest need
			Bishop Shane Parker has asked the federal government to do more to combat homelessness and the shortage of affordable housing. In a letter to Housing ...		
				 
					Written by
										
						David Humphreys					
				Jazz fundraiser returns to St. Matthew’s on May 11
			On the afternoon of Saturday, May 11, St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in the Glebe will be filled with the sultry sounds of Ottawa jazz singer ...		
				 
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						Margret Brady Nankivell					
				St. Helen’s Fine Art Fair supports local artists and an international cause on June 1
			For its fourth annual Fine Art Fair on June 1, St. Helen’s parish is once again giving local artists a venue to show and sell ...		
				 
					Written by
										
						Brian Glenn					
				St. John the Apostle, VanKleek Hill to host 2025 World Day of Prayer Service
			Each year, a different church in Hawkesbury or Vankleek Hill hosts an ecumenical prayer service to mark World Day of Prayer. This year’s service was ...		
				 
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						Perspective					
				Diocesan Canons, Bylaws and Regulations updated and online
			Anyone who has a question about the Canons, Bylaws and Regulations (CBR) of the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa should now be able to find the ...		
				 
					Written by
										
						Leigh Anne Williams					
				Diocesan Time of Prayer gathering introduces online resources
			Clergy and parishioners from across the diocese came together for the first online Time of Prayer gathering on March 20. Launched at Synod 2023, the ...		
				 
					Written by
										
						Leigh Anne Williams					
				Cathedral Labyrinth Guild explores ways to reconnect to the natural world
			The Work that Reconnects is an inspiring process developed by Joanna Macy and her colleagues to help empower people and bring them into a stronger ...		
				 
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						Roxanne Delmage					
				Creating fields of love and new life as followers of Jesus
			The hall at the Church of the Ascension (pictured below) is a testament to my love of things green and growing. The whisper of ferns, ...		
				 
					Written by
										
						The Rev. Victoria Scott					
				A new website for the Ottawa Pastoral Counselling Centre
			  The OPC is excited about the engaging look and feel of our new website.  People often seek counselling during difficult moments in their lives. ...		
				 
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						Heather Fawcett					
				St. Leonard, Rockingham — Deanery of the Northwest
			In the late 1850s, Canada West (now Ontario) decided to push a series of colonization roads through the southern portion of the Canadian Shield to ...		
				 
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						Glenn J Lockwood					
				












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