Calendar

Dec. 3
Compline for Advent 

7 p.m. Christ Church Cathedral — (414 Sparks St., Ottawa)
Live-stream only at  https://www.youtube.com/c/christchurchcathedralottawa

Dec. 5
Advent II 

Christ Church Cathedral (414 Sparks Street, Ottawa)
8:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist

10:30 a.m. Choral Eucharist
4 p.m.   O Antiphons

Dec. 6
125th Anniversary Lecture Series

7:30 p.m. Zoom and YouTube
Guest speaker author Michelle Good

Not to be missed:
Michelle Good to deliver Anniversary lecture on December 6, 2021

Michelle Good, author of the powerful Governor-General’s Award-winning novel Five Little Indians, will deliver the first lecture in a series that commemorates the 125th anniversary of the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa on Monday, December 6, 2021 at 7:30 pm. The lecture is a joint presentation with All My Relations. It will be livestreamed on Zoom and on the ADO YouTube channel. See the diocesan website and social media posts for the link and further information.

Michelle Good is a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. After working for Indigenous organizations for twenty-five years she obtained a law degree and advocated for residential school survivors for over fourteen years. Good earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia while still practising law and managing her own law firm. Her poems, short stories, and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies across Canada, and her poetry was included on two lists of the best Canadian poetry in 2016 and 2017. In addition to winning the 2020 Governor General’s Award for fiction, Five Little Indians, her first novel, won the HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize, the Writers Trust Fiction Prize and the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.

Dec. 10
Compline for Advent 

7 p.m. Christ Church Cathedral
Live-stream only at  https://www.youtube.com/c/christchurchcathedralottawa

Dec. 12
Advent III

Christ Church Cathedral (414 Sparks St., Ottawa)
8:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist
10:30 a.m. Choral Eucharist
4 p.m. Nine Lessons and Carols

Dec. 17
Compline for Advent 

7 p.m. at Christ Church Cathedral
Live-stream only at  https://www.youtube.com/c/christchurchcathedralottawa

Dec. 19
Advent IV 

Christ Church Cathedral
8:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist
10:30 a.m. Choral Eucharist
4 p.m.   A Family Christmas Concert

Blue Christmas service

4:30 p.m. at All Saints Westboro (347 Richmond Road)
A special service for those who may find the holidays difficult, particularly if they are feeling loss or grief. The service is available for those who want to attend in-person or online.

Dec. 24
Christmas Eve 

Christ Church Cathedral (414 Sparks St., Ottawa)
4 p.m. Family service with Eucharist
7 p.m. Choral Eucharist
10 p.m. Festal Eucharist with Bishop Shane Parker

Dec. 25
Christmas Day

Christ Church Cathedral (414 Sparks St., Ottawa)
8:30 a.m.  Holy Eucharist
10:30 a.m.  Choral Eucharist with Children’s Homily at the Creche 

Dec. 26
Christmas I 

Christ Church Cathedral (414 Sparks St.)
8:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist
10:30 a.m. Choral Eucharist

Jan. 1, 2022
New Year’s Day 

Noon – Christ Church Cathedral (414 Sparks St., Ottawa)
Diocese of Ottawa’s 125th Anniversary Choral Eucharist with Archbishop Linda Nicholls, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada

Feb. 11-12, 2022
Marriage Preparation Workshop

The Marriage Preparation Course is designed to help participants to learn and grow through online presentations given by professional speakers, online small group discussions with trained facilitators, and couple conversations.

All couples are welcome, and participation is not limited by gender, age, or previous marital status.
Information and registration formss: https://www.ottawa.anglican.ca/marriage-preparation