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June 2025 Issue

View of The Church of the Good Shepherd, Wakefielf from a kayak.

Diocesan youth invited to a summer gathering

The Reverend Al Budzin, Katherine Shadbolt Parker and Bishop at a recent parish visit in St Paul’s Osgoode.

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 ...

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,” ...
Carole Breton

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 ...
St. John's parishioners gather by the Mādahòkì sign.

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 ...
Brian Perkins; Marc Girouard, Carebridge operations director; The Rev. Canon Ken Davis; David Kroetsch of St James, co-chair of CCHIP; Rob Eves, Carebridge CEO and Claire Smith, CCHIP co-chair of fundraising.

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. ...
Centre 105 volunteers, Shelley Seguin, Wendy Lewis and Nate Terriah

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 ...
Naloxone kits in a bathroom

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 ...

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 ...
Paul Lex offers HR guidance

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, ...
close view of The Thinker statue by August Rodin

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 ...
Embroidered Pentecost dove

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 ...
A large tree and river with Church of the Ascension in the distance

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 ...