Parish News

Cemeteries are generally quiet places, but not during musket fire. Yet, what more fitting way to honour the memory of three militia men who served ...

The Rev. Canon Christopher Greaves, incumbent of Christ Church, Oshawa, and his wife Dianne attend Morning Prayer with their daughter Clarissa Greaves and their granddaughter ...

Marcel Bridge, with parents Kyle and Camille and brother Darius, is baptized at Holy Family, Heart Lake in Brampton on Aug. 8. Photo courtesy of ...

Holy Trinity, Guildwood hosts its first Emancipation Day celebration with MPP Mitzie Hunter as the keynote speaker and award-winning musician Shelley Hamilton as the featured ...

Stuart Budgell runs the weekly book sale at St. George, Hastings in August. The sale runs every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and has a few ...

Members of the Peterborough Children’s Chorus rehearse in the Memorial Garden at St. John the Evangelist, Peterborough in August. The chorus’s artistic director, Julie Deck, ...

Andrew Jull of St. Augustine of Canterbury, Toronto, loads donations of clothing destined for All Saints Church-Community Centre and New Circles Community Services. The church ...

When she couldn’t talk to parishioners indoors during the pandemic, the Rev. Lucia Lloyd of St. John, Bowmanville invited them to stop by for “Lucia’s ...

Yvonne Tait, the bell ringer at St. John the Baptist, Norway in Toronto, takes part in a worldwide celebration June 20 highlighting the invention of ...

Members of St. Mark, Port Hope add a knot garden to the Elias Smith Memorial in the churchyard in June. Boxwood shrubs were planted in ...

Members of St. John, Willowdale hold a drive-by celebration for June Hunter’s 100th birthday in July. Photo courtesy of St. John, Willowdale

Five church teams play in the 60th annual Scarborough Anglican Youth Movement baseball tournament finals at Jack Goodlad Park in Scarborough on Aug. 21.

The Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation will celebrate Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s 90th birthday on Sunday, Sept. 26 at 2 p.m. at Grace Church on-the-Hill, ...

As Bob Sanderson, mayor of Port Hope, said at the ribbon-cutting celebration on June 12, the sign says it all: In this garden we grow ...

St. Jude, Bramalea North is a community parish in Brampton. Since it opened in 1977, St. Jude’s has become more multicultural, alongside the surrounding area. ...

St. John the Baptist, Lakefield has stood stately at the corner of Queen and Regent streets since 1866. St. John’s has a great location. People ...

What do you do when you’re a small rural parish in snowmobile country, anticipating the arrival of your new incumbent from Turks and Caicos? (That’s ...

In the spring of 2019, Church of the Resurrection, Toronto was awarded a city PollinateTO grant. The church’s garden team was excited to have the ...

David Miller, Toronto’s former mayor and author of Solved: How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis, discussed the themes of his book ...

On a beautiful sunny day in June – the first day of summer – St. Timothy, Agincourt held an uplifting service to celebrate 110 years ...

Hundreds of seniors in Markham are signed up to receive their anti-coronavirus vaccinations, thanks to a ground-breaking initiative at Grace Church, Markham. In early March, ...

For a couple of decades, the metal roof of St. James, Caledon East (built in 1901) had been a source of embarrassment. It was not ...

For the past 30 years, St. Dunstan of Canterbury’s Pastoral Care Group has been donating hand-made gifts to patients in Centenary Hospital in Scarborough and, ...

Before condo towers dotted the skyline in midtown Toronto, there was a church on a hill. Some say its bell tower marked the highest point ...

If this pandemic has taught us nothing else, it is how to do traditional events in a new way. St. Peter, Erindale has a longstanding ...

With spring on the horizon, Cathy Pearson reflects on the joy that the garden at St. Stephen, Maple has brought to parishioners and members of ...