May 2024 Issue

The Rev. Gillian Hoyer holds her son Thomas while her daughter Lily waters a seedling.

Greening the diocese and supporting a PWRDF partner in Uganda

Written by

Janet Allingham

A group of people surround Kate Jackson as she cuts a purple ribbon to open the new residence.

Diocese celebrates success creating more than 150 affordable housing units

The Anglican Diocese of Ottawa is celebrating the success of its 125th anniversary campaign to create 125 new deeply affordable housing units. Three projects scheduled ...

Written by

David Humphreys

Cornwall Mayor Justin Towndale, Millennial Contracting's Matthew Daigle and Shawn Kyer, MPP Nolan Quinn, the Rev. Canon PJ Hobbs, the Rev. Adam Brown, Centre 105 board chair Maria Crosby, Ontario Trillium Foundation representative George Christoff, and Centre 105 executive director Taylor Seguin.

Centre 105 celebrates important renovation

Centre 105 hosted a celebration on April 12, thanking the Ontario Trillium Foundation for a $106,000 capital grant, which has paid for the construction of ...

Written by

Leigh Anne Williams

The path forward as we change, learn and thrive

I have written before of how the people and clergy of our diocesan church joined me in a three-year long journey of honestly assessing where ...

Written by

Bishop Shane Parker

Exterior of Cornerstone's new emergency shelter on Carling.

Bishop urges federal government to do more to house those in greatest need

Bishop Shane Parker has asked the federal government to do more to combat homelessness and the shortage of affordable housing. In a letter to Housing ...

Written by

David Humphreys

jazz singer Diane Nalini and bassist Adrian Cho

Jazz fundraiser returns to St. Matthew’s on May 11

On the afternoon of Saturday, May 11, St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in the Glebe will be filled with the sultry sounds of Ottawa jazz singer ...

Written by

Margret Brady Nankivell

St. Helen’s Fine Art Fair supports local artists and an international cause on June 1

For its fourth annual Fine Art Fair on June 1, St. Helen’s parish is once again giving local artists a venue to show and sell ...

Written by

Brian Glenn

Donna McMillan and Caroll Carkner accept the World Day of Prayer candle.

St. John the Apostle, VanKleek Hill to host 2025 World Day of Prayer Service

Each year, a different church in Hawkesbury or Vankleek Hill hosts an ecumenical prayer service to mark World Day of Prayer. This year’s service was ...

Written by

Perspective

Diocesan Canons, Bylaws and Regulations updated and online

Anyone who has a question about the Canons, Bylaws and Regulations (CBR) of the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa should now be able to find the ...

Written by

Leigh Anne Williams

Diocesan Time of Prayer gathering introduces online resources

Clergy and parishioners from across the diocese came together for the first online Time of Prayer gathering on March 20. Launched at Synod 2023, the ...

Written by

Leigh Anne Williams

Cathedral Labyrinth Guild explores ways to reconnect to the natural world

The Work that Reconnects is an inspiring process developed by Joanna Macy and her colleagues to help empower people and bring them into a stronger ...

Written by

Roxanne Delmage

Plants flourish in the hall at Ascension.

Creating fields of love and new life as followers of Jesus

The hall at the Church of the Ascension (pictured below) is a testament to my love of things green and growing. The whisper of ferns, ...

Written by

The Rev. Victoria Scott

Top of the Ottawa Pastoral Counselling Centre's home page

A new website for the Ottawa Pastoral Counselling Centre

The OPC is excited about the engaging look and feel of our new website. People often seek counselling during difficult moments in their lives. ...

Written by

Heather Fawcett

St. Leonard, Rockingham — Deanery of the Northwest

In the late 1850s, Canada West (now Ontario) decided to push a series of colonization roads through the southern portion of the Canadian Shield to ...

Written by

Glenn J Lockwood