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January 2024

Three young girls dressed up as angels.

Inspired

January 2, 2024
In November, Penny Nutbrown of St. John the Evangelist, Port Hope, posted a photo on the church’s Facebook page of three angels in the parish’s ...
A map pointer with the image of a church

Service celebrates Christian unity

January 2, 2024
A special service marking the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity will be held on Jan. 21 at 4 p.m. celebrating the theme “You shall ...
Members of the Trinity Bach Project in the Trinity College Chapel.

Breaking down barriers to Bach

January 2, 2024
A recent poll of 174 living composers called J.S. Bach the “greatest composer of all time.” That would make Bach the Shakespeare of music. But ...
A cross and an open bible.

Diocese considers capital campaign

January 2, 2024
In his Charge to Synod, Bishop Andrew Asbil spoke about the diocese holding a capital campaign, the first since Our Faith-Our Hope nearly 15 years ...
Image of overlapping fish with a cross in the middle, labelled "Good new of Jesus Christ." The four fish are labelled "Renewing spirituality," "inspiring faith in action," "transforming diocesan culture" and "reimagining ministry."

Synod endorses vision, calls

January 2, 2024
Synod endorsed Cast the Net’s vision and 20 calls to all parts of the diocese. The vision and calls will help guide the diocese as ...
Bishop Andrade hands a plaque to Bishop Andrew Asbil.

Let’s dream together: Brasilia bishop

January 2, 2024
The Diocese of Toronto recently welcomed a special guest, with the hope of soon establishing a companion relationship with Anglicans 7,300 km away. The Rt. ...
Bishop Andrew Asbil speaks.

It is the Lord who has brought us to this moment in time

January 2, 2024
O God, take our lips and speak through them. Take our minds and think through them. Take our hearts and fill them with love for ...
The procession enters the ballroom at the start of the Eucharist.

All Together

January 2, 2024
Worship, display tables, food, singing, music, presentations, friendship and more are all part of Synod 2023, held at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North hotel in ...
Synod members stand and applaud.

Synod 2023

January 2, 2024
The Diocese of Toronto’s 162nd Regular Session of Synod was held Nov. 17-18 at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North hotel in Richmond Hill. The theme ...
A pair of hands hoving over the keyboard of a laptop

Opening ourselves to an interfaith world

January 2, 2024
We live in a world fractured by deep divisions involving wealth, race, political views, cultural values and, all too often, religious divisions. What can we ...
A line of folded paper houses

This year’s vestry motion and the human right to housing

January 2, 2024
The fact that Canada is in a housing crisis is indisputable. Across our diocese, rents are rising higher than inflation, with the average monthly rent ...
Shelley McVea and Jeanette Lewis on an airplane.

Outbreak of war changes plans for pair in Holy Land

, January 2, 2024
After a year of excited planning, we arrived in Tel Aviv early in the of morning on Oct. 4 and journeyed to St. George’s College ...
Supporters gathered outside the encampment at St. Stephen in-the-Fields.

City clears encampment outside church

January 2, 2024
After a year of intermittent threats to clear the encampment of unhoused people at St. Stephen-in-the-Fields in Toronto, staff from the City of Toronto’s Encampment ...
Bishop Andrew Asbil hugs the Rev. Canon Samantha Caravan.

Together again

January 2, 2024
It was well worth the wait. After four long years, Synod convened in person again on Nov. 17-18 in Richmond Hill. And what a time ...