January 2024 Issue

Youth connect with Inuit art and culture

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Perspective

Archbishop Linda Nicholls preaching in Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa.

Hold on to faith and trust in 2024 says Archbishop

Keeping up a long-standing tradition, Archbishop Linda Nicholls, Primate of the Anglican Church in Canada, delivered her New Year’s Day homily at Christ Church Cathedral ...

Written by

Leigh Anne Williams

Christ Church Cathedral unveils a new logo

Christ Church Cathedral is rebranding with a new logo. Introducing the new symbol in her sermon on Nov. 26, Dean Beth Bretzlaff spoke about how ...

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Leigh Anne Williams

Three people work in the new kitchen facility at Hollyer House.

Hollyer House project seeks $500,000 to reach funding goal

A campaign to raise $500,000 to complete financing of Hollyer House, the affordable housing and community resource centre in Bells Corners, is in full swing. ...

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David Humphreys

Variety of calendars and a novelty clock where the numbers have fallen off

Spending more time in God’s time

As we begin a new calendar year, having begun a new liturgical year a month ago in Advent season, many of us will reflect on ...

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Bishop Shane Parker

St.-Bernard-de-Clairvaux parish moves to Trinity Church, Ottawa

Bishop Shane Parker announced that after much discernment with both parishes, la Communauté de St-Bernard-de-Clairvaux would move to Trinity Anglican Church at 1230 Bank St. in ...

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Perspective

Planting trees — here, there and everywhere

This spring, the diocesan Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) Working Group hopes to help people across the diocese plant 500 trees. And as ...

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Leigh Anne Williams

St. Barnabas in Centretown opens its doors to Anglican Community Ministries during their times of trouble

First there was the plague of the pandemic, then the fire at St. Luke’s Anglican Church in Ottawa that displaced St. Luke’s Table, then there ...

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Leigh Anne Williams

Cathedral choirs sing Fauré’s Requiem for All Souls in Pembroke

When Christ Church Cathedral music director James Calkin reached out to clergy in the diocese to see if a parish would like to host the ...

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Leigh Anne Williams

Members of the Diocesan Altar Guild gather.

Bishop thanks Diocesan Altar Guild members for their service

Diocesan Altar Guild members met at Christ Church Bells Corners (CCBC) on Oct. 14 for their annual meeting and lunch. Sheila Dunlop and CCBC’s Altar ...

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Debbie Tweedle

Statue of Jesus sleeping on a bench in front of Christ Church Cathedral

The state of the streets

As director general of the Anglican Community Ministries, Canon Hobbs spoke to Synod in October and offered this view of the dire situation many vulnerable ...

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The Reverend Canon Dr. Peter John Hobbs

Archivist Glenn Lockwood in the Archives at Christ Church Cathedral

Preservation and order at the Diocesan Archives

At most archives new holdings accumulate quickly. At the Diocesan Archives we have a 25-year backlog on top of our daily work of assisting the ...

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Glenn J Lockwood

Christ Church, Huntley, celebrates its 185th birthday

Parishioners at Christ Church, Huntley celebrated the 185th birthday of the church on Nov. 9. In her remarks, the Rev. Mary-Cate Garden said that in ...

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Leigh Anne Williams

Saint John the Evangelist, Ottawa

Here we are in downtown Ottawa in the mid to late 1870s in the upper storey of a building on Rideau Street, looking north along ...

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Glenn J Lockwood

Hold on to faith and trust in 2024, says Archbishop

Keeping up a long-standing tradition, Archbishop Linda Nicholls, Primate of the Anglican Church in Canada, delivered her New Year’s Day homily at Christ Church Cathedral ...

Written by

Leigh Anne Williams