January 2021 Issue

Diocesan Communications

Two years ago, I visited the Italian city of Ravenna, the world’s most significant region for mosaic icons of the ...

Daniel Tatarnic

I have been working on a book titled, For Others To Follow: An Ethos of Leadership Grounded In Faith. What ...

Paul Bates

“Human trafficking and slavery are evil, violent crimes against God, creation and humanity. They take root and grow where the ...

Deirdre Pike

In these winter days, we are well aware of the physical contrast between light and darkness. We are at a ...

Sharyn Hall

The first phase of the first #GreenMyCity project got underway in November at St. Matthew’s House – with big machinery ...

Diocesan Communications

One of the joys for me in recent years has been telling Bible stories to children and families at our ...

John Bowen

A new year, a new start, a new hope. It’s a time to look to what is to come but ...

Michael Coren

Sue Thibodeau, St. John’s, Port Dalhousie A Zoom version of Synod—not what I was looking forward to on the morning ...

Diocesan Communications

+ In the name of God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Well, let’s begin with a prayer. Loving God, ...

Susan Bell

“Enlighten the eyes of our hearts,” was the response to the opening prayers of the 146th synod of the diocese ...

Diocesan Communications

The beginning of 2020 was probably the worst time for us to make environmental resolutions. Climate Justice Niagara’s hope of ...

Sue Carson

Bishop Susan Bell has authorized for use in the Diocese of Niagara an interim rite to enable clergy to better ...

Diocesan Communications

“Old men ought to be explorers…” wrote T.S. Eliot in the East Coker section of the Four Quartets. I have ...

Max Woolaver

Bishop Susan Bell recently hosted Archbishop Linda Nicholls, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, for a special evening of ...

Diocesan Communications