Dinner and ecumenical celebration for students in Sandy Hill

Open Table/Night Church is a joint initiative spearheaded by the Open Table Ecumenical Ministry, All Saints Anglican Church in Sandy Hill and the young adult community at Saint Joseph’s Parish. Our goal is to welcome students back for another year at university and share the rich spirituality and concern for social justice common to many faith traditions around the world. Our open, ecumenical program begins at 4:30pm on Sunday, 29 August 2010, at All Saints’ Church (317 Chapel Street) with a free barbecue dinner open to all. Participants are then invited to grab a bowl and walk over together to St. Joseph’s Church (174 Wilbrod Street) for dessert and Night Church programs.

Night Church is an opportunity for students moving to Ottawa to learn about their new home and community, as well as a time for participants to experience meditative prayer, origami art projects, music, bread making and bread tasting, and to explore social justice issues.  By combining dessert sundaes with a Sunday night at church, origami with meditation, bread-making with social justice and music with ritual prayer, we hope to bring together some of the elements shared by all faith backgrounds and create a spiritual home in Ottawa for students and young people.

Open Church/ Night Church Program

4:30PM – 6:30PM: Free BBQ at All Saints Anglican Church in Sandy Hill

6:30PM –10:00PM: Night Church activities and free dessert at St. Joe’s

10:00PM – 10:30PM: Ritual prayers

Contact:

Rhondda MacKay, Pastor at All Saints’ Sandy Hill – email: rmackay@bellnet.ca Tel.: 613-234-1686

Mary Murphy, Pastoral Associate at St. Joseph’s – email: mary@st-josephs.ca Tel.: 613-233-4095

Christopher Adam, St. Joseph’s Young Adult Community – email: christopheradam@sympatico.ca

Ottawa Laziest Book Club meets on 28 July 2010

Gay Catholics, Christians and Allies in Ottawa

The Gay Catholics, Christians and Allies at the University of Ottawa is looking for supporters willing to march with the club in the Capital Pride this year (August 29). The club: i) builds an inclusive community, ii) spreads the message: God’s love is in all people regardless of their sexual orientation, iii) wants gay persons to be welcomed by the official Christian churches.

Please join us at the Pride and help make this message heard: all people (gay and straight) have the same gift of love to share! E-mail: clgbt@uottawa.ca

It is an ancient Catholic tradition that all are welcome

University mass at St. Joseph’s Parish brings together undergraduates and graduates from the University of Ottawa, Carleton and Algonquin and young adults from all professional backgrounds to form a diverse and inclusive community. Each year, we welcome first year university students living away from their parents for the first time, graduate students working on their theses and dissertations, as well as recent university graduates searching for the right career path. Our community includes engineers and artists, marketing students and theologians, chemists and poets, the laity and the religious, coming together from all walks of life.

University mass during the 2010-2011 academic year begins on 12 September 2010 at 7:30pm and continues each Sunday at St. Joe’s Church, until late April 2011.   We look forward to welcoming you this year!

Address: 174 Wilbrod Street, (at the corner of Cumberland) in Sandy Hill.

University Mass: Sundays at 7:30pm, starting on 12 September 2010.