March 2022 Issue
St. James, Perth leads the way for affordable housing project
The parish of St James the Apostle is leading a bold initiative to create community owned and managed affordable housing in Perth, Ont. The goal ...
Clergy News
The Rev. Alana McCord, Associate Incumbent of St. Paul’s Kanata, has earned her PhD from Trinity College in Toronto. Her thesis is titled “Beauty Garlanded ...
Thirty years on the books
Bill Gilbert has marked his 30th anniversary working in the accounting department of the Diocese. He bikes to work, so even the downtown protests didn’t ...
Chelsea trail officially named
On February 1, 2022, Mayor Pierre Guénard and the Municipal Council of Chelsea, Quebec voted unanimously to approve the name Nakweyamàdiwin Mikàns, as the official ...
Centre 105 voted the top non-profit in Cornwall
Community Votes, an online platform in Cornwall, Ont., that recognizes local businesses, non-profits and service providers, has named Centre 105 the platinum winner for non-profits ...
Editor’s note
Due to an editing error, a version of Julia Thompson’s tribute ”Remembering Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu” (Feb.2022, pp. 8-9) that was not her complete and ...
Second stage of the Shape of Parish Ministry Consultation launched
As representatives from parishes across the diocese came together for the online launch of the second phase of the Shape of Parish Ministry Consultation (SPMC) ...
125th Anniversary Lecture—Church property: to have or to hold?
The church needs to rethink its relationship to land and draw on early Christian teachings to serve the interests of the whole community. This was ...
The Rev. Dr. Sam Wells to deliver final 125th Anniversary lecture on “Re-Imagining Church”
The Rev. Sam Wells is one of today’s most influential public theologians. He writes, speaks, preaches and broadcasts on a range of pastoral, political and ...
Fundraising for Community Ministries hits a new high
The 2021 Today for Tomorrow (T4T) fundraising campaign provided another inspiring example of the adage that people are most generous when times are tough. As ...
“Proud of Who I am….”
The purpose of the Healing and Reconciliation Fund, established in 2016, is to encourage and support projects in our diocese that educate about the legacy ...
Kairos Blanket Exercise in West Quebec
Our parish experience with the Kairos Blanket Exercise was formative, emotional and bridge building. While we as a parish had previously celebrated National Indigenous History ...
Syrian family reunited
St. John’s Richmond has welcomed a third Syrian family who came to Canada as sponsored refugees. Fady Milan, his wife Amina Awed, sons Joseph and ...
Refugee Ministry has opportunities to help Afghan refugees
Travel restrictions during the pandemic slowed the work of the refugee ministry down, but co-ordinator Ishita Ghose said in an interview that 12 or 13 ...
Singing ‘Forty Days and Forty Nights’
Dear friends, As I write this, I wonder how much the world may have changed by the time you read this article. We have lived ...
Praying the Lord’s Prayer during Lent and beyond
Without doubt, the prayer that Christians know the best is what we call the Lord’s Prayer. It appears twice in Scripture, with slight differences, in ...
Resources for Lent
In case you would like your Lenten journey to have an environmental focus, here are a few resources: PWRDF invites you into a Lenten Conversation ...
Saint Paul, Osgoode Station
Dificulties of Definition This postcard from circa 1910 is the only known visual record of the first Saint Paul’s Church, Osgoode. Our momentary impression ...
Calendar
Mar. 3 Designing your social media plan for Easter 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Hosted by Anglican Diocese of Ottawa Workshop registration: https://bit.ly/34jmYx6 Mar. 5 Youth ...
Pivoting and looking forward to spring
How quickly things can change. I think we have learned so much from the last two years of living in a pandemic and our ability ...
Listening for God to answer