June 2023

A map of Canada outlining the Anglican diocesan borders

Diocese awards churches for gardens

The Anglican May 30, 2023

HAMILTON – Climate Justice Niagara, an initiative of the Diocese of Niagara, has initiated a Garden Certificate program for churches in the diocese. Certificates are ...

Church celebrates ties to coronation

The Anglican May 30, 2023

STRATFORD – Just days before the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla on May 6 at Westminster Abbey, St. James Anglican Church ...

Church feeds students during exam week

The Anglican May 30, 2023

EDMONTON – Eating can sometimes be the furthest thing on a student’s mind when preparing for exams. But, for 10 days in April, students were ...

Clarification

The Anglican May 30, 2023

In last month’s issue, a photospread about clergy receiving stoles for their 25th, 50th and 60th years of ordination omitted the names of those not ...

Barrie seniors can help students

The Anglican May 30, 2023

SpacesShared (formerly called RoomEaze) is partnering with Georgian College in Barrie to help students find accommodation. They’re currently focused on building a pool of older ...

Diocese lifts vaccine mandate

The Anglican May 30, 2023

The diocese has lifted its vaccine mandate. Clergy, paid staff and unpaid volunteers are no longer required to provide proof of vaccination to engage in ...

Synod coming up

The Anglican May 30, 2023

The 162nd Regular Session of Synod will be held Nov. 17-18. Synod will be held in person at the Sheraton Parkway, Toronto North hotel in ...

A group of a couple dozen adults and children wave for a photo.

When human need came knocking

Stuart Mann May 30, 2023

Children displaced by the war in Ukraine are having fun and making friends at an Anglican church in Toronto. The children, some of whom have ...

A page sitting in a typewriter with the typed word "fiction."

Transfiguration, or How Mr. Perkins learned to use Zoom

The Rev. Daniel Graves May 30, 2023

Before the pandemic struck, Mr. Perkins, like many of us, had never heard of Zoom. He was content to offer services each Sunday to the ...

A group of people clustered around a cross on a street.

Stopping to pray

The Anglican May 30, 2023

Members and friends of All Saints Church-Community Centre take part in a walk in downtown Toronto on Good Friday, April 7, to memorialize those who ...

Priest writes memoir

The Anglican May 30, 2023

The Rev. Arthur Boers, an honorary assistant at St. Paul L’Amoreaux in Toronto, has written a memoir about coming of age in a Dutch immigrant ...

A banner in a church that reads "175 years of faith."

Parish marks 175 years of faith

The Anglican May 30, 2023

St. James, Caledon East is part of the territory of the Anishinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples, and the land of the Metis. The land ...

Roots of cricket festival run deep

Ranil Mendis, ODT May 30, 2023

The Church, cricket and Canada. Can you think of a connection there? You may not know this, but one of the earliest references to cricket ...

National church honours four

The Anglican May 30, 2023

Four Anglicans have been named to receive the Anglican Award of Merit, the Anglican Church of Canada’s highest honour for lay people who have demonstrated ...

Going strong

The Anglican May 30, 2023

David Kent, publisher of The St. Thomas Poetry Series, cuts the cake to celebrate 35 years of poetry readings at St. Thomas, Huron Street, on ...

Choristers in red cassocks and seated musicians at the front of St. James Cathedral.

Night to remember

The Anglican May 30, 2023

A concert is held at St. James Cathedral on the evening of May 6 to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III at Westminster Abbey ...

Seeking new home

The Anglican May 30, 2023

The Diocesan ACW’s Ecclesiastical Needleworkers recently received many items from a local church that recently closed. The items include beautiful frontals/super frontals with all the ...

Church marks century in community

The Anglican May 30, 2023

St. George on Yonge closed out a year of celebrating 100 years in the Willowdale community with Bishop Andrew Asbil presiding over its patronal service ...

Earth Week

The Anglican May 30, 2023

Teamwork In the garden

Group of nine people in reflective yellow vests, holding garbage bags, in a park.

Cleanup provides learning

The Rev. Jillian Ruch May 30, 2023

Earth Day was celebrated by St. Bride, Clarkson with a community cleanup and lunch on April 22. Our outreach committee chose the environment as one ...

People push large carts with supplies across Bloor Street West in downtown Toronto.

Carts connect with homeless

Martha Holmen May 30, 2023

Along busy Bloor Street West and through the upscale streets of Yorkville, two industrial tool carts loaded with food and supplies are bringing hope and ...

A table with items used in Indigenous ceremony.

Indigenous languages a sacred gift

The Anglican May 30, 2023

The Right Relations Collaborative, the newest bishop’s committee, was birthed in 2022 when the Rev. Maria Ling began to wonder about the possibility of translating ...

Progressively bigger stacks of coins grow plant shoots.

Let’s bring back the offertory plate

Peter Misiaszek May 30, 2023

Churches have experienced a noticeable and protracted change in giving patterns since the earliest days of the pandemic and beyond. Not only has there been ...

hands hold a candle next to a flyr that reads "talking about social justice"

Unhoused people must not be swept away

John Spragge May 30, 2023

“But Jesus said, ‘Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good service for me. For you always have the poor ...

A pair of hands hoving over the keyboard of a laptop

What do we truly treasure?

Murray MacAdam May 30, 2023

The silvery sheen is long gone, replaced by innumerable scratches and a dull finish, bearing the marks of decades of use. No matter. My late ...

A bin with containers of oatmeal sits on a metal cart.

Deepening poverty calls for advocacy

Elin Goulden May 30, 2023

Over the past few months, 123 parishes in our diocese have passed this year’s social justice vestry motion, calling on the provincial government to double ...

Five new deacons in dalmatics stand at the front of St. James Cathedral.

Ordained

The Anglican May 30, 2023

The diocese’s newly ordained deacons are presented to the congregation at St. James Cathedral on April 30. From left are the Rev. Chiung (Carol) Shih, ...