June 2025 Issue
Ellwood House celebrates progress in housing expansion
A new sign has been installed outside the Ellwood House property on Braeside Avenue in Alta Vista. Ellwood directors call it “the sign of progress,” ...

Written by
David Humphreys
Diocese appoints Carole Breton as its director of communications and development
In April, Carole Breton joined the diocesan staff at Ascension House as the director of communications and development. With a focus on fostering both internal ...

Written by
Perspective
Visiting Mādahòkì Farm and the Spirit horses
A group of parishioners from St. John the Evangelist in Ottawa made a trip to Mādahòkì Farm on a chilly, grey day at the end ...

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Perspective
The Rev. Canon Ken Davis retires after spearheading Perth housing project
The Rev. Canon Ken Davis is ending his decade of ministry at St. James the Apostle Perth with the mixed emotions of disappointment and gratification. ...

Written by
David Humphreys
Day programs struggle with increasing need and rising costs
Rising costs and increasing numbers of people in need of their services made 2024 a very challenging year for Belong Ottawa and Centre 105. Both ...

Written by
Leigh Anne Williams
Belong Ottawa and Cornerstone feel the impact of supervised consumption site closure
Anglican Community Ministries in downtown Ottawa are witnessing the consequences of a provincial government decision to close the Consumption and Treatment Service (CTS) in the ...

Written by
Leigh Anne Williams
Godfrey Hewitt’s choral music published
A new book has just been published containing all of the sacred choral music composed and performed by Dr. Godfrey Hewitt through his nearly five ...

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Perspective
Governance and human resources workshop offered in Pembroke
Clergy, churchwardens and other parish leaders attended a Learning Commons workshop on governance and human resource issues held at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Pembroke, ...

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Perspective
Qui suis-je ?
À la fin de mon adolescence, j’ai participé à un programme d’été organisé par l’Ordre of the Holy Cross, la Society of St John the ...

Written by
Le révérend chanoine Kevin Flynn
Listening to and following the Holy Spirit
In what the Rev. Dr. Jesse Zink, principal of Montreal Dio College, calls this time of polycrisis, we are still called to rejoice in the ...

Written by
The Rev. Margo Whittaker
Church of the Ascension, Ottawa — Deanery of Central Ottawa
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if context in most situations is everything, setting may also reveal a great deal. It is no accident ...

Written by
Glenn J Lockwood
An abiding sense of Thanksgiving