FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
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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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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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SERVICE OF PRAYER FOR HEALING
Sunday, June 28th
Online
In this challenging time, our Cathedral is offering a prayer service for healing and comfort. Click
here to be directed to the service, then simply scroll down at your own pace, saying the service alone or with others (appropriately distanced, in a virtual meeting, or on the phone). There are a number of audio files of both music and the spoken word, click on the links to listen. Grace and peace to you as you share in the worship of the Church.
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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, Mieke; Myla Mayita, born to Miranda and George; Marge Patterson (Bishop Dennis Drainville's mother-in-law) who has died, and all who mourn; all who suffer discrimination based on race; all who are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our Diocese
Shane, our Bishop; St Paul’s, Refrew, The Reverend Carol Hotte; St Paul’s, Shawville, Holy Trinity, Radford, Holy Trinity, Danford Lake, St James, Otter Lake, The Reverend Eric Morin, The Reverend Susan Lewis; St Thomas the Apostle, Stittsville, The Reverend Lee Lambert.
The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC)
Linda, our Primate; Anne, our Metropolitan; Bishops David Parsons, Joey Royal, Annie Ittoshat, Lucy Netser, clergy and people of the Diocese of the Arctic.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada (ELCIC)
Susan, Presiding Bishop; the dean, council, and congregations of the Prince Albert Conference of the Saskatchewan Synod.
Parish Prayer Group
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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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COFFEE WITH BETH+
**Thursday, July 2nd**
10 am, Zoom
Due to Canada Day, Coffee is on a different day this week. 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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SING AND LAUGH
Enjoy the trials, tribulations, and novelty of being in a virtual choir. Inspired by members of the St Giles' Festival Choir, have fun with this video: "The Birth Of The Virtual Choir".
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LEARN
Watch Professor David Miller (a St John's parishioner) explain how fungal toxins affect our food supply in this very interesting
episode of Carleton's Online Science Café: "When the bread of life becomes the scepter of death."
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CONSIDER
COVID-19 has illuminated inequities that have put poor people, in both low-income nations and in rich countries, at the greatest risk of suffering. Pope Francis recently pointed to that in an interview: “This is the moment to see the poor.” This excellent
article helps us to reflect.
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DISCOVER
In three Sunday sessions with David Whyte beginning on July 12th, discover the phenomenon of courage combined with movement - the need to stay grounded in new qualities we might have discovered through the suspension of our ordinary lives.
Register online for: "A Road Always Beckoning - New World: New Challenges and the Call to New Ventures."
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PLAY A GAME
Want to connect with family and friends and play a game online?
Here are some great suggestions for rainy day entertainment.
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WARDEN NEWS
These pandemic days offer time for reflection and realignment of our lives. Bev Humphries has made the decision to step down from being People's Warden at this time. Thank you to Bev for her wisdom, insight and enthusiasm to serve.
At Parish Council this past week, Stephen Giles was elected People's Warden. Thank you, Stephen, for offering your gifts and time to this role.
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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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ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
ANGLICAN CHURCH
154 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, ON K2P 0H8
613-232-4500
office@stjohnsottawa.ca
On facebook! here --->
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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
Stephen Giles
, People's Warden
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