Algoma Deanery Week of October 12, 2025

Hello, I’m sending this later than usual since I’m still getting used to needing to remember to send on Thursday now instead of Monday… Coming Soon: Saturday, October 18th, 9:30am at Holy Trinity, SSM: The Guild of St. Joseph breakfast. This one is for the men only. Ladies will be welcome next month. Also on…

Algoma Deanery Week of September 15, 2025

Good day! This Week: Free Preaching Webinar offered by APLM (Associated Parishes For Liturgy and Mission), Thursday, Sept.18, 4pm Eastern, on the Vocation of Preaching with Gordon Laithrop. You can register here: https://liturgyandmission.org/2025/07/09/webinar-with-rev-gordon-lathrop-on-the-vocation-of-preaching/ Lay Presiders’ Workshop!! Saturday, September 20, 10am – 2pm at the cathedral. Come to enjoy learning about our liturgies – what we do…

Algoma Deanery Week of September 8, 2025

Good day, Coming this weekend!  Saturday, September 13, The Guild of St. Joseph breakfast, 9:30am in the Trinity Centre. Also on Saturday, the Apple Festival at St. James in Goulais, 1pm-3pm.  It’s that time of year…Our local churches have been once again asked to help raise money for the Alzheimer Society through participating in the…

Algoma Deanery Week of September 1, 2025

Good day, September is looking good so far.  Prayer Study: Thursday, September 4, 4-5pm in the Trinity Centre. Guild of St. Joseph breakfast: Saturday, September 13, 9:30am in the Trinity Centre. Lay Presiders’ Workshop: Saturday, September 20, 10am – 2pm at the cathedral. Lay Readers’ Annual Conference: Friday, September 26 and Saturday, September 27 at…

Algoma Deanery Week of August 18, 2025

Good day, I’m busy relaxing at my dad’s place today (and I will be again tomorrow)  Next Prayer Study: Thursday, September 4, 4-5pm at the Trinity Centre. Continuing our exploration of contemplative prayer. First Guild of St. Joseph breakfast of the fall season: Saturday, September 13, 9:30am at the Trinity Centre. Lay Presiders’ Workshop: Saturday, September 20, 10am –…

Algoma Deanery Week of August 11, 2025

Hello, Well, I’m liking the fact that there are a lot of important women being celebrated this week (please have a look in the “Devotions” part of things to learn of their accomplishments). Also, the official beginning of the Anglican Church of Canada is acknowledged this week…something to celebrate for sure.  Prayer Study: Exploring contemplative…

Algoma Deanery Week of July 28, 2025

Hello, It looks like it’s going to be a beautiful day!  Just one thing to tell you about: Prayer Study next Thursday, August 7, 4-5pm at the Trinity Centre (continuing our exploration of contemplative prayer – practicing the presence of God).  Slavery?? You’ll see in the calendar observances below that one Christian – William Wilberforce…

Algoma Deanery Week of June 9, 2025

Hello, Welcome to the first day of “Ordinary Time” after the 50 days of Easter. The colour of the hangings in our worship spaces now changes to green – for the most part. Why green? Green is the color of natural, living things. It is the color of grass and leaves, youth, flowering, hope, and…

Algoma Deanery Week of May 12, 2025

Happy Fourth Week of Easter (Day 23 of the 50 Days of Easter)! At Synod this week, I had a conversation with a young woman who had announced to all of us that she had found our Synod gathering a “work of art”. She told me that she had moved from her denomination to Anglicanism…