Diocesan News

Faith Tides is taking a break

Please note that there will not be an issue of Faith Tides in March. Faith Tides will be back in April and in the meantime, ...
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Photo gallery: All Saints Synod 2024 opening worship

Below is a gallery of images from the opening worship service for Synod 2024, held on Nov. 1, the Feast of All Saints. It is ...
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Jonathan Thomas installed as dean of the diocese and rector of Christ Church Cathedral

Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024 marked the 95th feast of the dedication of Christ Church Cathedral. A fitting day, then, for the installation and induction of ...
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Women’s fall retreat — ‘Looking at the ordinary and seeing the extraordinary’

On a summery fall weekend (Oct. 4–6), 28 women came together at Camp Pringle. Following the Franciscan practice, Bill Tarter, a Franciscan brother in our ...
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Rebecca Yeo and Mona Smart ordained to the sacred order of deacon

On Sept. 15, Rebecca (Reba) Yeo and Mona Smart were ordained to the Sacred Order of Deacon (transitional) at Christ Church Cathedral. Mona Smart lives ...
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Anglican Deacons Canada conference well attended by local deacons

For three days in mid-June, Anglican and Lutheran deacons from all over Canada converged on the Sorrento Centre, in the interior of BC, for a ...
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Day school Survivor calls for justice and true reconciliation

Between 1865 and the turn of the millennium, 699 federally-funded day schools operated in almost every Indigenous reserve across Canada. Unlike at residential schools, students ...
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Primate visits the diocese

From April 19 to 24, Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, visited the Diocese of Islands and Inlets. During that time, ...
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Bidden or not bidden, God is present

The Women’s Spring Retreat, held at the picturesque Camp Pringle, Shawnigan Lake on 19-21 April, had thirty-two attendees. The retreat facilitator was Archbishop Linda Nicholls, ...
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Cathedral appoints new Dean and Canon

Following Ansley Tucker’s retirement in October 2022, a cathedral search committee and Bishop Anna undertook an extensive search process to find and appoint a new ...
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Bringing together Christians in our community

As part of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Christ Church Cathedral held a special service that bought together Christians from different denominations. These ...
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Thank you, Padre

In one of the parishes I served in this Diocese of Islands and Inlets, I was honoured to get to know Douglas Kendell. Dougie, as ...
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Let’s talk faith and justice

How to use podcasting to have public conversations about theology   For over a year, Boston Laferté and I dreamed about producing a podcast featuring themes ...
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Naomi Racz returns as editor

This issue (February 2024) sees the return of Naomi Racz as the editor of Faith Tides. Naomi spent 2023 on maternity leave, having welcomed a ...
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