Sunday, Oct 4, 10am
Bring your pets to the screen to receive our admiration and a blessing during our Zoom church service on Sunday, October 4th!
Email Adam to sign your furry friend up.
Bring your pets to the screen to receive our admiration and a blessing during our Zoom church service on Sunday, October 4th!
Email Adam to sign your furry friend up.
All My Relations – Ascension presents archeologist Ian Badgley, Heritage Program National Capital Commission and Albert Dumont, Algonquin Spiritual Advisor.
Indigenous people have gathered along the shores of the three rivers that meet in the Ottawa-Gatineau area for thousands of years. Archeological digs in the National Capital Region find many artifacts dating back 1,500 to 2,500 years, but such artifacts here and across the country are in danger of being lost to shoreline erosion due to climate change. That loss jeopardizes contemporary Indigenous rights and land claims and diminishes our understanding of Indigenous history.
Learn about the connections between land, history, creation care, and present-day justice for Indigenous peoples.
We all eat, hopefully, several times a day. Many of us also pray for wisdom, discernment, and courage in growing God’s Kingdom. These are related actions, but what does eating, salvation, creation, and our own callings have to do with each other?
In the words of Wendell Berry “These are religious questions, obviously, for our bodies are part of the Creation,…. But the questions are also agricultural, for no matter how urban our live, our bodies live by farming…”
Together we will explore how growing God’s Kingdom on earth can be done every time we eat. We will look at what scripture has to say about our mission to the rest of creation, what it means to extend grace to creation and our role in making all things new. Participants will learn not only about our call to care for creation but also why it is that is news to so many. When we are done participants will be better able to explain how care of the environment fits within the Church and be better equipped to continue to grow in knowledge about restoring right relationships with creation.
Jerremie Clyde is a farmer and academic from Calgary Alberta. His research interests are linked to food, whether in history or media studies, and increasingly theology. When not at the University of Calgary he can be found looking after 164 acres of creation just North of Sundre. The farm is set in a knob and kettle mix of forests and pastures. Together with his family they raise grains, a dozen different varieties of potatoes, and good grass to feed their herd of yak. Jerremie also volunteers in the Diocese of Calgary organizing and facilitating creation care related talks, conferences, and events.
Jerremie joins us as our guest preacher on Sunday, Sept 13 and for a more in-depth presentation on Thursdays, Sept 17 and Oct 1.
All New Story at the Rectory
July 2, July 30, August 6 at 7:30pm
Iconography is one of the earliest shared languages of the church. For thousands of years icons have revealed sacred truths, proclaimed the Gospel, passed on traditional wisdom, and helped reflect back to us our own experiences, illumined by the light of God. On July 2, July 30, and August 6, Adam will lead a discussion group on Zoom, first talking about iconography in general, and then exploring specific icons later on.
Bishop John Chapman has announced that the Rev. Adam Brown will continue his Assistant Curacy at Church of the Ascension, effective June 1.
Adam is a recent graduate of Trinity College at the University of Toronto, and was ordained to the transitional diaconate in December of 2019. Born and raised in rural Southern Ontario, Adam obtained a BA (Hons) in Sociology from Trent University in Peterborough. After seminary he moved to Ottawa, where he began his Assistant Curacy at All Saints Westboro.
Adam is a passionate advocate for social justice; he will join us in worship on Sunday, June 7.
Church of the Ascension is a parish of the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa,
and the Anglican Church of Canada.
We stand on the traditional and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnabe nation.