March 2024 Issue
Housing working group endorses expert panel’s recommendations to ease the rental housing crisis
Increased homelessness, rapidly rising rents and extreme shortages of purpose-built rental housing are creating a crisis for many Canadians, especially young people, seniors, Indigenous peoples, ...
“We are the living stones….Do not forget us”
This year I celebrate the twentieth anniversary of my relationship with our companion Diocese of Jerusalem. My first pilgrimage the land of the Holy One ...
Dean Richard Sewell shares view of the war in Gaza and Israel and urgent need for ceasefire
As news of the war in Israel and Palestine and humanitarian disaster in Gaza worsens daily, Bishop Shane Parker shared and commended a recent video ...
Clergy and staff news
Clergy News The Rev. Dr. Anne Quick is retiring (for the second time), effective April 15, 2024. Staff News Staff from Ascension House visited and ...
Uniting in mission and compassion: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
The parish of St. George and St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church hosted the worship service for the 2024 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The ...
St. James Manotick puts healing and reconciliation into action
At St. James, Manotick, 2023 was a year of planting, growing and learning in an effort to deepen and live out the Church’s commitment to ...
Cultural field trips stimulate appetites and conversation
On a snowy evening in late January, about 30 hungry and curious souls arrived at the T&T Asian supermarket market on Hunt Club Road. As ...
St. Vincent’s Hospital celebrates Garth Hampson’s 60 years of volunteering
For many years, there has been a continuing Anglican ministry at St. Vincent’s Hospital (SVH), and this tradition remains undiminished. On the second Monday of ...
Archives exhibit for Black History Month 2024
by Glenn J Lockwood Promised Land? 1833-1880 Two years ago, the Rev. Canon Hilary Murray proposed an exhibit to celebrate Black Anglicans in the Diocese ...
Celebrating women’s leadership in the church
Looking ahead to International Women’s Day on March 8, Crosstalk spoke with Executive Archdeacon Linda Hill, the link for the ecclesiastical province of Canada in ...
Remembering the Rev. Canon Dr. Alice Medcof
Anglicans in Canada and in many parts of the global Communion mourned the death in July 2023 of the Rev. Canon Dr. Alice Medcof, a ...
St. Aidan’s and St. Thomas send gifts to Dempsey women’s shelter
St. Aidan’s Anglican Church teamed up with St. Thomas the Apostle Anglican Church to, once again, prepare gift bags for the women staying at the ...
New Time of Prayer resources added online each month
There was a lot of excitement at the past two Synods when members talked about finding new ways for Anglicans to engage with their communities ...
Holy Communion is a joyous gift
Lent is a precious gift of time in the midst of our often overly busy lives. We are invited to intentionally step back from the ...
Saint Matthias, Ottawa — Ottawa West Deanery
Here we see the massive structure of the Church of Saint Matthias taking shape, with construction well underway in Nepean Township in 1948. What may ...