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‘It is easier to talk about reconciliation than to do reconciliation’

Anna Greenwood-Lee — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:42:44 +0000

Dear friends, At the end of 2023 the Yellowhead Institute, which monitors progress on the 94 Calls to Action from the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission, issued a report saying that in 2023 no Calls to Action were complete. Their report noted that “there are limits to how many times you can write a report […]

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Day school Survivor calls for justice and true reconciliation

Naomi Racz — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:41:24 +0000

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 went home at the end of the day. However, as with residential schools, the goal was cultural assimilation — to “kill the Indian in the child” — and many of […]

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Primate visits the diocese

Naomi Racz — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:40:56 +0000

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, the Primate took part in the Women’s Spring Retreat, which you can read about in this issue, and presided over Choral Evensong at Christ Church Cathedral. You can see a […]

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Churches across the diocese celebrate Holy Week 2024

Naomi Racz — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:39:12 +0000

Below is a selection of photos from the Holy Week 2024 events and celebrations held by churches across the diocese. Cowichan/Mid-Vancouver Island St Michael and All Angels, Chemainus parishioner brings family’s lamb cake tradition to the island Words by Jodie Phillips In 2017, while visiting my mom in Chicago and looking in her pantry, I […]

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Planted in the earth itself

Anna Greenwood-Lee — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:38:18 +0000

Below is a selection of photos and an excerpt from the transcript of Bishop Anna’s closing sermon at the May 2024 We Together diocesan conference. You can also watch the morning and afternoon sessions on the diocesan website. As we bring this time together to a close, I would like to leave you with an […]

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