March 2022

Pivoting and looking forward to spring

Donna Rourke March 1, 2022

How quickly things can change. I think we have learned so much from the last two years of living in a pandemic and our ability ...

Calendar

Perspective March 1, 2022

Mar. 3 Designing your social media plan for Easter 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Hosted by Anglican Diocese of Ottawa Workshop registration: https://bit.ly/34jmYx6 Mar. 5 Youth ...

Saint Paul, Osgoode Station

Glenn J Lockwood March 1, 2022

Dificulties of Definition This postcard from circa 1910 is the only known visual record of the first Saint Paul’s Church, Osgoode. Our momentary impression ...

Resources for Lent

Perspective March 1, 2022

In case you would like your Lenten journey to have an environmental focus, here are a few resources: PWRDF invites you into a Lenten Conversation ...

A detail from a window at St. Matthew’s, Ottawa

Praying the Lord’s Prayer during Lent and beyond

Paul Dumbrille March 1, 2022

Without doubt, the prayer that Christians know the best is what we call the Lord’s Prayer. It appears twice in Scripture, with slight differences, in ...

The ironing board pulpit is still in place at St. Stephen’s

Singing ‘Forty Days and Forty Nights’

The Rev. Canon George Kwari March 1, 2022

Dear friends, As I write this, I wonder how much the world may have changed by the time you read this article. We have lived ...

Refugee Ministry has opportunities to help Afghan refugees

Leigh Anne Williams March 1, 2022

Travel restrictions during the pandemic slowed the work of the refugee ministry down, but co-ordinator Ishita Ghose said in an interview that 12 or 13 ...

Maritsa Odabashian greets her aunt, uncle and cousin Janpier at the Ottawa International Airpor

Syrian family reunited

Reinhard Rosch March 1, 2022

St. John’s Richmond has welcomed a third Syrian family who came to Canada as sponsored refugees. Fady Milan, his wife Amina Awed, sons Joseph and ...

Kairos Blanket Exercise in West Quebec

The Rev. Susan Lewis March 1, 2022

Our parish experience with the Kairos Blanket Exercise was formative, emotional and bridge building. While we as a parish had previously celebrated National Indigenous History ...