NATIONAL INDIGENOUS DAY OF PRAYER
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A MESSAGE FROM
BETH+ AND GORDON
Please click on the photo to see a video from us!
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NEW WEEKLY PODCAST
Saturdays, Online
Bishop Shane will be exploring and conversing his way across the Diocese!
Tune in each Saturday to see where he is and what is happening around our vast and exciting Diocese.
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A LITURGY OF THE WORD FOR SUNDAY
Sunday, Online
Please worship with this
online service. Simply scroll down at your own pace, saying the service alone or with others (appropriately distanced, in a virtual meeting, or on the phone). With gratitude for our Cathedral and its ministry!
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PRAYER SERVICE
Sunday, 2 pm, Online
The Office of the National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop invites you to join us for an online video worship service to celebrate National Indigenous Day of Prayer. Come and see Indigenous Anglicans and friends from across Canada for prayer, singing and story. We hope you will join us for this first time ever event!
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Our Parish
Our clergy, staff, and members of St John's in this unusual season.
Those on Our Hearts
Michael, Michael, Gregory; Merrill Burnett, Donald Smiley (Beth's uncle) who have died, and all who mourn; all who suffer discrimination based on race; all who are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic; all fathers and those who share fatherly love.
Our Diocese
Shane, our Bishop; St John’s, Richmond, The Reverend Canon John Bridges, The Reverend Ryan Boivin; Parish of Maberly-Lanark; those who suffered the loss of St James Church, Parnham.
Our Companion Diocese of Jerusalem
Hosam Naoum, newly consecrated Coadjutor Bishop; St John the Baptist Church, Husun, Jordan.
The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC)
Linda, our Primate; Anne, our Metropolitan; Mark, our National Indigenous Bishop; The Provincial Synod of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert’s Land.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada (ELCIC)
Susan, Presiding Bishop; the dean, council, and congregations of the Saskatoon Conference of the Saskatchewan Synod.
Parish Prayer Group
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HONOUR
THE FOUR DIRECTIONS
Use this
prayer resource at home! It is based on the colours of the medicine wheel.
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COFFEE WITH BETH+
Wednesdays
10 am, Zoom
The Rector is looking forward to catching up with you virtually! Make yourself a cuppa and then either click on the photo or on this
link, to join the Zoom call from any internet browser on your smartphone, tablet, laptop or computer. Looking forward to "seeing" you!
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A CONVERSATION
ON RACISM
Wednesday, June 24th
7 pm, Zoom
Hosted by our Cathedral, Canon Hilary Murray and parishioners will lead this conversation.
Email your interest and you will receive the Zoom connection information.
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SPECIAL APPOINTMENT
Bishop Shane is glad to announce the appointment of Albert Dumont (Oshki Nodin), a member of the Algonquin Nation at Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, as Indigenous Advisor to the Bishop, effective June 21st, 2020, National Indigenous Peoples Day.
Albert is well-known and respected in our diocese as a spiritual teacher, and he will provide wise guidance and advice to Bishop Shane as we seek deeper reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.
Meegwetch, Oshki Nodin!
Click
here to listen to Canon Doug Richards in conversation with Albert Dumont on the banks of the Rideau River.
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WATCH
THE SUMMER SOLSTICE
For the first time ever, you can
watch the summer solstice at Stonehenge via livestream! Mark your calendar for Saturday night next week.
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TAKE A COURSE
Indigenous Canada is a Massive Open Online Course that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada. From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations.
Register for free!
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LISTEN TO A PODCAST
Here is a wonderful
conversation between Archbishop Michael Curry and Richard Rohr: Turning from Ego to Love.
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BE INSPIRED
"If this Time" is an inspirational video for times of uncertainty, change, faith, hope, and ascension of consciousness. Totally worth the time to watch or close your eyes and listen. Soak it all in.
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STAND IN SOLIDARITY
Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin of Dover addresses the Canterbury #BlackLivesMatter march.
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WALL COMPLETION
The final touches are being done on the replacement of the brick veneer. If you are able to
donate to the ~$40,000 cost for finishing the wall, it would be deeply appreciated.
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WAYYYY UP HIGH
A new look for the Chancel! Lightbulbs are being replaced and high level cleaning is being done. For scale, that is indeed a person way up on the left hand side. Fortunately, they aren't afraid of heights, like our Rector!
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ELGIN STREET
Almost completed, Elgin Street is looking fabulous! And right outside our front door are two new trees, four new seating blocks, and garbage/recycling containers. Thank you, City of Ottawa!
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SOCIALLY DISTANT PRAYERS
Click
here for Morning and Evening Prayer from Tim Watson's collection of poems, prayers and postures for these pandemic times.
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RESOURCES
FOR HOME PRAYER
To help keep you connected with prayer, faith and community in times of physical distancing, the General Synod (national office) has compiled a number of
resources.
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VIRTUAL SERVICES
IN OUR DIOCESE
In-person worship suspended? Prayers are still ascending! Here is a
list of virtual services in Diocese of Ottawa.
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From a need for order and control,
From the need to insulate ourselves from doubt,
From the need to appear invulnerable,
From that need for security which closes our minds:
Good Lord, release us.
From intolerance of others’ views,
From fear of others’ beliefs,
From fear and rejection of those who are not like us,
From letting our faith hinder our expression of humanity:
Good Lord, release us.
From skepticism of reason and argument,
From disregard of scientific exploration,
From fear of questions and discoveries,
From fear of research and experiment:
Good Lord, release us.
From fear of freedom,
From fear of the responsibility of free will,
From false humility which dishonours your creation,
From hypocrisy and any exaggerated sense of self worth:
Good Lord, release us.
From fear of any challenge to our faith,
From the certainty which blinds us to other possibilities,
From any attempt to claim all truth,
From fear of using all our gifts in worship:
Good Lord, release us.
(Dorrie Johnson)
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ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
ANGLICAN CHURCH
154 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, ON K2P 0H8
613-232-4500
office@stjohnsottawa.ca
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The Reverend Canon Beth Bretzlaff, Rector
The Reverend Dr Caroline Ducros, Deacon
BGen (Ret’d) The Venerable John Fletcher, Honourary Assistant
The Reverend Canon Dr Gary Hauch, Honourary Assistant
The Reverend Michael Hicks, Honourary Assistant Emeritus
Dr Gordon Johnston, FRCCO, Organist and Choirmaster
Laura Macdonald, Church Administrator
Detlef Dransch, Rector’s Warden
Bev Humphries
, People's Warden
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