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Love yourself as your neighbour

A few years ago, I was feeling uncertain about a sermon I wrote for the Baptism of Jesus (Matthew 3:13-17). The Gospel reading itself is ...
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Church of the Epiphany, Barry’s Bay — Deanery of the Northwest

Here is Church of the Epiphany, Barry’s Bay, photographed by Brian Glenn on 23 June 2010.  It appears rather unusual for an Anglican house of ...
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Le Credo de Nicée

Quelqu’un m’a demandé il n’y a pas longtemps pourquoi nous récitons le Credo ou Symbole de Nicée lors de l’Eucharistie dominicale. Pourquoi introduire dans un ...
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Seasons and cycles

As each calendar year progresses, we mark time with hours, days, weeks and months. In our diocese we are blessed to experience all four seasons ...
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Le repentir : Le chemin de la vie

English translation Tout au long des Écritures, nous entendons l’appel à la conversion par la repentance. Jean le Baptiste a appelé les gens à une ...
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Cover of the Rev. Frank Uhlir's book The Call of the Cross

Temple Pastures — Deanery of West Quebec

This 1970s photograph is a reminder of a man who was not your standard Anglican, yet who for a generation operated a facility that helped ...
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Archbishop Hosam Naoum and Bishop Shane Parker in Jerusalem. Photo; Contributed

An appeal from our partners in Jerusalem

The Old City of Jerusalem has eight gateways, each one offering a distinctive portal into the place where many generations of pilgrims remember the death ...
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Deanery of East Ontario — Church of the Nativity, L’Orignal

Anglican services in L’Orignal began in the 1850s, and from 1870 were held at the Prescott and Russell courthouse. Peter H. McIntosh donated land for ...
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Nativity window from St. Bartholomew's Ottawa

Waiting for the light that shines in the darkness

Susan Wojciechowski’s book The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey is about a lonely, brooding wood carver, haunted by the loss of his wife and child. ...
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