November 2025 Issue
Construction begins for Perth affordable housing project
			Construction is under way on the 15-unit affordable housing project in Perth that has been led by St. James the Apostle parish. Shovels were literally ...		
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						David Humphreys					
				Service of thanksgiving honours Archbishop Shane Parker’s time as Bishop of Ottawa
			Clergy and parishioners from across the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa gathered at Christ Church Cathedral on September 20, the last day of Archbishop Shane Parker’s ...		
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						Leigh Anne Williams					
				Observing the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2025 across the Diocese
			Anglicans from parishes across the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa found different ways to meaningfully mark this year’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Clergy including ...		
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						Perspective					
				Clergy news — November 2025
			Archbishop Shane Parker appointed two new regional deans, effective Sept. 17, 2025.   The Rev. Dr. Caroline Ducros has been appointed Regional Dean of West ...		
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						Perspective					
				Parish outreach work making news
			In a largely secular, information-overloaded culture, many Anglican parishes are engaged in compassionate outreach work, helping their neighbours or those in need, but that work ...		
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						Leigh Anne Williams					
				Irish delights begin St. Mark’s fall outreach program
			Coffee, Company and Conversation, a community outreach program for older adults that St. Mark’s Anglican Church in Ottawa has offered weekly for six years now, ...		
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						Perspective					
				St. Matthew’s Online Treasures Auction returns
			Excitement is mounting. St. Matthew’s in the Glebe’s 2025 Online Treasures Auction will open for bidding on Thursday, Nov. 13, and run till Sunday, Nov. ...		
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						Margret Brady Nankivell					
				Remembering Loyalist history
			CRYSLER – In a quiet but moving ceremony on Sept. 7, a Loyalist burial site plaque was dedicated near the entrance of St. John’s Anglican ...		
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						Carol Goddard					
				Canon theologian shares some thoughts on pastoral care and MAiD
			This spring, Archbishop Shane Parker appointed the Rev. Canon Dr. Christopher Brittain, Dean of Divinity at Trinity College at the University of Toronto as Canon ...		
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						Leigh Anne Williams					
				Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted
			The Ottawa Pastoral Counselling Centre is one of the five Anglican Community Ministries, but because of the confidential nature of counselling, it is a challenge ...		
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						Leigh Anne Williams					
				St. Augustine, Beachburg — Deanery of the Northwest
			What we see here seems straightforward enough.  This is Saint Augustine’s Church, Beachburg, as photographed by Brian Glenn on 23 January 2007. So picture perfect ...		
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						Glenn J Lockwood					
				











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