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Pandemic doesn’t stop outreach

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as Queen’s Park was implementing public health measures and essential service providers were closing their doors, Angie ...
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Walk raises funds for FaithWorks

The Rev. Phil Gearing has a routine. He leaves his house every morning at 6 a.m. and walks 5.5 km, and then walks another 5.5 ...
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‘I would do it all over again’

When he was just five years old, Bishop Peter Fenty told his family that he would like to be a priest when he grew up. ...
The Anglican

Bishop to host conversation about future of rural churches

“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” Genesis 8:22I sit here ...
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Anglicans help most vulnerable

Anglicans continue to do good work to care and advocate for the most vulnerable at this critical time. While the COVID-19 pandemic has shuttered church ...
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Moments that inspired us

We asked clergy and laity in our diocese to tell us about a moment during the COVID-19 pandemic that inspired them. Neighbours hold street isolation ...
The Anglican

Parishes asked to alter practices due to virus

Due to the spread of the coronavirus, Bishop Andrew Asbil wrote a pastoral letter to parishes in the diocese in early March, asking them to ...
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Indigenous ministry welcomed to new home

On the feast of the Transfiguration, Feb. 23, more than 115 people gathered at Holy Trinity, Trinity Square to formally welcome Toronto Urban Native Ministry ...
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Youth, leaders seek support for CLAY trip

About 25 youth and youth leaders in the diocese plan to travel to Calgary this summer to take part in one of the biggest Christian ...
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Bishop chosen for global gathering

Bishop Riscylla Shaw, the area bishop of Trent-Durham, is one of two people chosen to represent the Anglican Church of Canada at the World Council ...
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Jubilee service celebrates Black heritage of Church

On the last Sunday in February, about 700 members of the diocesan family and the wider community gathered at St. Paul, Bloor Street for the ...
Judith Alltree in front of a snowy lake and the Toronto skyline.

Big changes coming to Toronto’s port

Last year will not go down as our favourite year, but as it’s now 2020, I think we can say that we made it through, ...
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Homeless memorial adds 1,000th name

Many Anglicans were among the nearly 200 faith leaders, advocates, frontline street workers and community members who gathered outside Holy Trinity, Trinity Square at noon ...
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Happy day

Newly installed honorary canons of St. James Cathedral join the diocese’s bishops, bishop’s chaplains and dean after the service on Jan. 19. Front row, second ...
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Spiritual gap year gives women space to reflect, deepen faith

One is a music therapist, recently graduated from Wilfried Laurier University. The second is a spiritual director from Hong Kong. And the third, from Lethbridge, ...
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Indigenous elder honoured

Members of Toronto’s Indigenous community and many non-Indigenous friends and colleagues came to pay tribute to a beloved elder, the Rev. Canon Andrew Wesley, on ...
The Rev. Canon Joanne Davies in the chapel of Our Lady and St. John at St. John’s Rehab in Toronto

Committee to link healing ministries

The newly re-formed Bishop’s Committee on Healing Ministries is expanding its vision and looking to connect with people and parishes across the diocese that are ...
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Diocese doubles youth ministry apprenticeships

One of the diocese’s most successful programs – and best kept secrets – is doubling in size. Since 2009, 37 people have gone through the ...
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Process helps churches take ‘missional stretch’

Janet Tennant says the diocese’s Mission Action Planning process has not only helped her church but revived her faith. “I feel like I’m part of ...
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Vestry motion helps us care for creation

It’s time to get serious about creation care. From widespread fires in Australia and the Amazon to the flooding of Venice’s council chambers, the disrupting ...
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Christian vocation counter-cultural, says theologian

Noted American author and theologian the Rev. Dr. William Willimon spoke at Grace Church on-the-Hill, Toronto, on Nov. 16 on the topic “The Calling of ...
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Youth leaders learn faith, skills

About 50 youth ministry leaders from the dioceses of Toronto and Niagara gathered at Trinity and Wycliffe colleges in Toronto on Dec. 1 for a ...
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Church to provide emergency shelter in York Region

Holy Trinity, Thornhill is taking seriously its commitment to stand in solidarity with those living in poverty. In a special meeting on Oct. 20, its ...
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Dinner raises funds

Guests at the 58th annual Bishop’s Company Dinner enjoyed food, friendship, speeches – and an impressive display of fire eating by Bishop Andrew Asbil. The ...
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Justice is church work: speaker

The “radical, revolutionary” message of Jesus can sustain us when the signs of the times can cause us to lose hope, said Thea Prescod, the ...
The Anglican

Black Anglicans form new group

A new organization, Black Anglicans of Canada (Bl.A.C.), has been formed following two years of contemplation, collaboration and prayer to encourage a focus on the ...
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Youth leaders gather to share ideas

Youth leaders from around York-Credit Valley gathered at St. John, Dixie on Oct. 5 for the second annual youth leaders summit. About 35 people turned ...
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