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Public meetings leading up the episcopal election begin
The first of four public meetings with the three nominees for the episcopal election took place on the evening of Feb. 11 at St. Helen’s ...
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May 2024
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
From our Bishop
A letter to the clergy and people of our diocese
June 27, 2025 Dear Clergy and People of our Diocese, Our journeys in faith often bring us to a place where we are faced ...
An abiding sense of thanksgiving
In the early weeks following my consecration as your bishop on the Feast of Pentecost in 2020, we were in lockdown, and I was limited ...
The heart of prayer
This year, Ascension Day falls late in May (a couple of days before the fifth anniversary of my consecration as your bishop). I have always ...
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Reflection
Looking to the past for a vision of peace in the Holy Land
By the Rev. Canon Dr. Christopher Brittain Editor’s Note: Bishop Andrew Asbil of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto led a Canadian group on a pilgrimage ...
Pilgrimage: Three reflections on walking the Camino de Santiago
January is a time for resolutions, introspection, taking care of body and soul, spiritual journeys. In a happy editorial coincidence, three women shared their experiences ...
Some Advent thoughts on time
Time is a creation of God, just like the moon or the mountains or or the birds or our own selves. Time did not exist ...
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