June 2025

Centre 105 board members welcome people to fundraising breakfast

Breakfast served with a smile

There was no shortage of either food or people attending the fundraising breakfast in support of Centre 105 which was held on Thursday June 5 ...
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The Reverend Al Budzin, Katherine Shadbolt Parker and Bishop at a recent parish visit in St Paul’s Osgoode.

An abiding sense of thanksgiving

In the early weeks following my consecration as your bishop on the Feast of Pentecost in 2020, we were in lockdown, and I was limited ...
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A large tree and river with Church of the Ascension in the distance

Church of the Ascension, Ottawa — Deanery of Central Ottawa

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if context in most situations is everything, setting may also reveal a great deal. It is no accident ...
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Embroidered Pentecost dove

Listening to and following the Holy Spirit

In what the Rev. Dr. Jesse Zink, principal of Montreal Dio College, calls this time of polycrisis, we are still called to rejoice in the ...
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close view of The Thinker statue by August Rodin

Qui suis-je ?

À la fin de mon adolescence, j’ai participé à un programme d’été organisé par l’Ordre of the Holy Cross, la Society of St John the ...
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Paul Lex offers HR guidance

Governance and human resources workshop offered in Pembroke

Clergy, churchwardens and other parish leaders attended a Learning Commons workshop on governance and human resource issues held at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Pembroke, ...
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Godfrey Hewitt’s choral music published

A new book has just been published containing all of the sacred choral music composed and performed by Dr. Godfrey Hewitt through his nearly five ...
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Naloxone kits in a bathroom

Belong Ottawa and Cornerstone feel the impact of supervised consumption site closure

Anglican Community Ministries in downtown Ottawa are witnessing the consequences of a provincial government decision to close the Consumption and Treatment Service (CTS) in the ...
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Centre 105 volunteers, Shelley Seguin, Wendy Lewis and Nate Terriah

Day programs struggle with increasing need and rising costs

Rising costs and increasing numbers of people in need of their services made 2024 a very challenging year for Belong Ottawa and Centre 105. Both ...
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