Outdoor Eucharist & Celebration of Baptisms
Sunday, May 29 at 11am
Bring your own lawn chair and join in this happy celebration!
Feast of the Ascension
Parish Events
Journeying Alongside Shingwauk Indian Residential School
Workshop and Dinner
Saturday, May 14th 3-6:30pm
All My Relations-Ascension Circle invites you to continue our listening and learning about the history of Shingwauk Indian Residential School and to receive an update about the unmarked burials sites on the grounds of the former school. We will be joined by Irene Barbeau, President the Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association.
We will have an opportunity to make a gesture of reconciliation through art on small wooden tiles, originally part of the Project of Heart, which will be added to our prayer screen. [tiles made at a previous workshop pictured above]
For those who can join, we plan to share a meal together at the end of the workshop. For more information and/or to register contact the All My Relations-Ascension Circle co-chairs by email at allmyrelations@churchoftheascension.ca.
Co-creators in God’s Garden
Children’s Church Service
Sunday, May 8th from 9-10am.
All are welcome to this special outdoor communion service, designed particularly with our youngest members in mind. We will pray, sing, hear God’s story, share communion, and get our hands a little dirty in the garden!
We will move indoors only in the event of a downpour so come prepared for the weather.
Masks are required indoors.
Prayers for Good Friday Video
Good Friday Labyrinth Walk
an invitation to engage your body, mind and spirit
in prayer and reflection on the seven last words of Christ
11am-noon
Please join us on Good Friday to reflect on the seven last words of Christ, using a poetry and image resource entitled “Seven Christs” created by Steve de Paul. A series of portable cards with “Seven Christs” will be available for those who wish to walk in the outdoor labyrinth.*
“Seven Christs” will also be available inside the church on a video loop along with “lap size” paper labyrinths for those who chose to remain indoors.
Beyond Good Friday, the outdoor labyrinth will be permanently available, painted on Ascension’s driveway, just outside the backdoors. Resources for using the labyrinth will soon be available on the website.
Our thanks to Hans Posthuma for painting the labyrinth.
*Diana Partridge and Linda Posthuma will be facilitating the outdoor walk and the indoor “walk” will be self-directed.
Click through to learn more about the history and practice of labyrinths.