September 2023 Issue
News
New ministry serves children, youth
A group of parishes in the eastern part of Toronto is banding together in an innovative ministry serving its youngest members. Ignite Family Ministry is ...
News
Season seeks to rekindle faith
The Diocese of Toronto is planning to hold a Season of Spiritual Renewal to help Anglicans re-energize their faith. “I am really excited by it,” ...
News
Tasty potluck
AURA (Anglican United Refugee Alliance) celebrates World Refugee Day with a potluck at St. Peter and St. Simon the Apostle in Toronto in June. The ...
News
Staff changes made at diocese
There have been some staff changes at the diocese. The Rev. Canon Susan Haig, associate priest of Church of the Redeemer, Bloor St., is the ...
News
Group provides housing for seniors
A dedicated group of Anglicans has been working for the past seven years to create affordable housing for seniors, and its efforts are beginning to ...
Comment
Humour enriches our spiritual life
As soon as I see a new issue of Sojourners in my mailbox, my heart leaps. It’s an award-winning Christian magazine from the U.S., full ...
Feature
Farm feeds neighbours
Residents of the Flemingdon Park neighbourhood welcomed another season of free, locally grown produce from the Common Table Farm this year. The farm, a project ...
Comment
Lament starts grief journey
Therefore the land mourns, and all who live in it languish; together with the wild animals and the birds of the air, even the fish of ...
News
Journalist to speak at Earthsong service
This year’s Season of Creation at Church of the Redeemer, Bloor St., begins with its annual EarthSong service on Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. This ...
Comment
I am an advocate for God’s creation
My climate advocacy began quite by accident in 2015. The Lord works in mysterious ways! At a meet-and-greet of Toastmasters in Richmond Hill, an attendee ...
News
What is the Season of Creation?
Christians around the world are invited to give particular attention to praying and caring for God’s creation as part of the global Season of Creation, ...
Comment
Hiking church connects us to creation
On a blustery day in Lent, 17 Anglicans took a silent walk in the Duffins Creek watershed. It was the first hiking church event hosted ...
News
Bishop’s Company Dinner returns in person
After a three-year hiatus, the Bishop’s Company Dinner is back in person. The dinner, which raises funds for clergy in need and other important causes ...
Parish News
Team effort
Members of St. James Cathedral prepare and serve food at the cathedral’s annual Canada Day barbecue for the neighbourhood on July 1. The barbecue was ...
Parish News
Clergy walk in Pride march
The main street in Port Perry was abuzz early on June 10 as many gathered to walk together in the first Pride march, organized by ...
Parish News
Church holds first art silent auction
For the first three Sundays in June, Christ Church, Campbellford held its first, and hopefully not last, art silent auction. The Anglican Church Women had ...
Parish News
Teams visit dozen churches in steeplechase
Saturday, June 10 was a beautiful, sunny day for clergy, parishioners and the community to get to know people from other parishes and the buildings ...
Parish News
Food, book nook help neighbours
St. David Anglican-Lutheran Church, Orillia remains intent on sharing love to its community, one veggie or book at a time. The congregation gathered on June ...
Parish News
Church hosts mapping exercise
St. Paul, Lindsay hosted “Mapping the Ground We Stand On,” facilitated by Cheryl Marek of the PWRDF, on June 24. The church welcomed about 20 ...
Parish News
Back at last
Volunteers and migrant workers have a meal and worship together at St. Saviour, Orono in June – the first time in three years, due to ...
Parish News
Church hosts tea for regional ministry
On the morning of June 25, members from Trinity, Barrie, St. Margaret, Barrie and the Good Shepherd in Stayner gathered for an outdoor service and ...
News
Advocates urge action for disabled
Holy Trinity, Guildwood hosted a town hall meeting in June to raise awareness of the proposed Canada Disability Benefit. The event was held with Community ...
Parish News
Primate visits parish
St. James, Caledon East welcomed Archbishop Linda Nicholls, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, at a special Sunday morning service on June 4 to ...
News
Laity in mood for change, renewal
As they emerge from the pandemic, many lay members of the Diocese of Toronto are in the mood for change and renewal – to cast ...
News
Church helps bird guide with hearing
KINGSTON – “I will again hear those sweet voices from nature. I will be able to hear my birds in the forests.” With those words, ...
News
New church space opens
HAMILTON – On Palm Sunday, Bishop Susan Bell did something that hasn’t happened in the Diocese of Niagara in nearly a quarter of a century. ...
News
Cathedral spire renovation finished
MONTREAL – The restoration of Christ Church Cathedral’s iconic spire is finished. “The spire has, at long last, been unwrapped from its scaffolding and is ...
News
Ukrainians celebrate in Anglican cathedral
FREDERICTON – More than 100 members of the Ukrainian Catholic Church met for a joyous Easter celebration at the Anglican cathedral in Fredericton. Their usual ...
Fiction
Birthdays
In church-land there are certain little customs that seem to develop over time. At first, they are innocuous, charming, even quaint; but it doesn’t take ...
Parish News
Recital celebrates cathedral’s new organ console
In July, St. James Cathedral received its new organ console from Létourneau Organs after two years of detailed planning, carving and sophisticated electrical and computer ...
News
Proud Anglicans
Anglicans walk and ride in the Pride Parade in downtown Toronto on June 25, with tens of thousands of people lining the route.
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