Upcoming Events
Advent Services and Events
Monday, November 28th, 2011December 4th - Second Sunday in Advent
(5:00 p.m. Saturday December 3 Holy Eucharist)
8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
4:00 p.m. Evensong with potluck to follow
December 11th - Third Sunday in Advent
(5:00 p.m. Saturday December 10 Holy Eucharist)
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
10:00 a.m. Christmas Pageant and Pot Luck to follow in the
Parish Hall
December 18th - Fourth Sunday in Advent
(5:00 p.m. Saturday December 17 Holy Eucharist)
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
10:00 a.m. Lessons and Carols with Holy Eucharist
December 24th - Christmas Eve
7:00 p.m. Family Service
9:30 p.m. Traditional Holy Communion
December 25th - Christmas Day
9:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
Community Dinner
Friday, July 22nd, 2011Community Dinners are held on the 3rd Sunday of each month (except December when St. Francis de Sales offers their Christmas meal and at Easter and Thanksgiving when our meal is served on the holiday Monday at 1:00 p.m.) St. John’s ministry of Community Dinners which began as a stopgap measure has sustained itself and grown in response to Jesus’ call to his church to feed the hungry, welcome the lonely and be an instrument of God’s care for all people.
Holiday Monday - Thanksgiving Day Community Dinner (doors open at 12:30 with the meal at 1:00 p.m. Please join us as this parish outreach ministry puts faith into action.
Diocesan Synod
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007October 20-22, 2011 Diocesan Synod in Ottawa
“Hear Then the Parable of the Sower”-Matthew 13:8 (Proclaiming, Nurturing and Growing Together)
In our Anglican spiritual tradition, we do not have a centralised authoritarian organisation or have decisions made for us based upon a few written-in-stone “faith” statements. Instead we make decisions carefully over time as a community. Representative groups of both clergy and lay people meet together under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and reflect on Scripture and Tradition in the light of Reason when making decisions. We consider a variety of positions and emphases to be healthy within the family of our world-wide communion. Diocesan Synods are one example of how the Anglican way works.