February 2018

New manager of major gifts, legacy giving

The Anglican February 1, 2018

Michael Cassabon is the new manager of major gifts and legacy giving for the Anglican Diocese of Toronto Foundation, which provides financial support for the ...

David Harrison sits on a grassy hill overlooking a road.

A holy moment on the way

The Rev. Canon David Harrison February 1, 2018

It took 1,136,875 steps for me to walk the 800 kilometres of the Camino de Santiago through northern Spain last spring. And it meant climbing ...

The Rev. Augusto Nunez, holding a soccer ball, next to Bishop Riscylla Shaw, both in vestments, outside St. Saviour's Church.

We all need Christ

The Anglican February 1, 2018

The Rev. Augusto Nunez is the priest-in-charge of St. Saviour, Orono. One of the highlights of my ministry came when I was appointed priest-in-charge at ...

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Grants help re-imagine Church

The Anglican February 1, 2018

The diocese’s Our Faith-Our Hope campaign has provided $10.5 million in grants, in addition to the portion kept by the parishes. Here is how some ...

A group shot of ODT recipients, bishops and others in St. James Cathedral.

Laity receive Order of the Diocese of Toronto

The Anglican February 1, 2018

The Order of the Diocese of Toronto, an award created in 2013, honours members of the laity in the diocese who have given outstanding service ...

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Live into our vows this Lent

Bishop Kevin Robertson February 1, 2018

It’s never too late to go back to school, as the three not-so-new suffragan bishops in our diocese can attest. Since our consecration as bishops ...

Meet Jesus in John’s gospel

Archbishop Colin Johnson February 1, 2018

When I was in seminary four decades ago, I spent part of Lent meditating on the life of Jesus. Over the period of those six ...

The Rev. Canon Philip Hobson, OGS (left) and the Very Rev. Fr. Geoffrey Ready stand in front of a copy of a Byzantine icon in the chapel of Trinity College, Toronto.

Priests hope to restart chapter

Stuart Mann February 1, 2018

An Anglican-Orthodox group that hasn’t been active since the 1960s is starting up again. The Toronto chapter of the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. ...

An overhead shot of people sitting in the pews of St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto during a service.

Concert pays tribute to Healey Willan

Stuart Mann February 1, 2018

Canon Giles Bryant remembers his first year as the choirmaster at St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto. It was 1968 and he was succeeding the great Healey ...

The Rev. Andrea Budgey, Jacob Hounsell and the Rev. Maggie Helwig hold large plates of food in an industrial ktichen.

End of OFOH grants in sight

Martha Holmen February 1, 2018

Seven years after it first launched, the Our Faith-Our Hope campaign is beginning to wind down. The last chance for parishes and individuals to apply ...