This Sunday there will be a quiet, said Holy Eucharist (BCP) at 8:30 am, a Choral Eucharist at 10.30 am, and The Reverend Canon Doug Richards will preach.

Readings:  Isaiah 65:17-25; Isaiah 12 (as canticle); 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13; Luke 21:5-19

The 10.30 am service will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel. Please be aware that technological issues sometimes occur.

Cathedral Women invite you to participate in making pies to be sold at our Festive Market. A fun way to spend the day and support a great event! Please contact Jean Hudson (music1jean@icloud.com) to sign up and for details.

Emmanual Anglican Church in Arnprior has invited the Girls Choir to sing Evensong on the Reign of Christ - the last Sunday of the Christian year. James, Dean Beth, and family members will be with them. Travel up the line, join in a lovely service, and support our girls!

Come and enjoy the festive season! Shop for a wide variety of baking, preserves, soups, pies, along with knitting, jewellery, puzzles, board games and other treasures between 11.30 am and 3 pm. Enjoy delicious tea plates with tea or coffee to take-away or sit and enjoy for $20 per person between noon and 2.30 pm. Cathedral Carollers will provide Christmas music. Please share the poster with your friends and family!

Please consider donating items to sell: jewellery, puzzles, board games, treasures for the gift and travel tables. Donations may be brought to Reception and will be subject to review by the office team when dropped off. Please note that books will not be accepted. Thank you!

Begin the season with beautiful music in a gorgeous setting! The service of Advent Lessons and Carols features a candlelight procession to the four corners of the Cathedral, where scripture is read that helps us enter into anticipation and waiting. The music is rich and the voices of the Boys Choir, Girls Choir and Lay Clerks lift us out of darkness into the light of God's love. 

This service will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel. Please be aware that technological issues sometimes occur.

Come celebrate the magic of Christmas with some of the most beautiful traditional German songs, choral masterpieces by J. S. Bach, Jacobus Handl and Michael Praetorius, and such holiday classics as Silent Night and O Christmas Tree. Timeless melodies, shimmering polyphonies, and well-known carols are combined in a joyful experience in which the audience is invited to sing along with the choir, joining voices to rekindle the warm and festive atmosphere of Christmases past. Featuring the combined choirs of Christ Church Cathedral and the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal.

Tickets will be on sale Sundays at coffee hour after the 10.30 am service.

In the middle of the business of preparing for the coming Christmas Season, spend a day in the quietness of our Cathedral reflecting on the Great O Antiphons of Advent. Please bring a lunch with you. For more information please be in touch with Canon Doug (doug.richards@ottawacathedral.ca).

November
Sunday 23rd | 4 pm | Girls Choir Sings Evensong at Emmanuel Anglican Church in Arnprior
Saturday 29th | 11.30 am to 3 pm | Festive Tea and Market
Sunday 30th | 4 pm | Advent Lessons and Carols

December
Saturday 6th | 2.30 pm | A German Christmas Celebration | CLICK HERE to buy tickets
Sunday 7th | 4 pm | O Antiphons
Saturday 13th | 10 am to 2 pm | Advent Quiet Day on the O Antiphons
Sunday 21st | 4 pm | Nine Lessons and Carols
Wednesday 24th | 7 pm | Christmas Eve Reading of the Christmas Gospel, Carols, and Choral Eucharist
Wednesday 24th | 10 pm | Christmas Eve Festal Eucharist
Thursday 25th | 8.30 am | Christmas Morning Quiet Eucharist
Thursday 25th | 10.30 am | Christmas Morning Choral Eucharist with Children's Story

January
Thursday 1st | Noon | New Year's Day Eucharist and Festive Reception with our Primate

Make sure to purchase a calendar this year as Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa is featured on the November page! Thanks to Nicola Whitehouse for the awesome photo. Calendars are available from reception for $10. They will be a hot commodity so get yours now!

For those who donate by using offering envelopes and have requested them for this year, they are now available on Sunday in the foyer or during the week during office hours. If you would like to give in this manner, please email attention the Envelope Secretary at info@ottawacathedral.ca. Thank you for picking them up so that we can save on mailing costs!

Our Cathedral
All those who are ill or suffering, and those who care for them.
Our Diocese
For the guidance of the Holy Spirit as we prepare to elect a new bishop, for those discerning a call to let their name stand for election, for the nominees, for Members of Synod, and for our Diocesan Administrator, Bishop Michael Bird; Diocesan partners Alongside Hope and the Anglican Foundation; Church of the Epiphany, Gloucester, The Reverend Simone Hurkmans.
Canadian Cathedrals
The Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist, Saskatoon, SK, The Reverend Laura Marie Piotrowicz.
Anglican Church of Canada (ACC)
The Most Reverend Shane Parker, Primate; The Most Reverend Anne Germond, Metropolitan of Ontario; The Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples, The Most Reverend Christopher Harper, National Indigenous Archbishop, Sacred Circle Events, and the ministry of reconciliation; members of the Council of General Synod.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC)
The Right Reverend Dr. Larry Kochendorfer; The Right Reverend Carla Blakley; members of the National Church Council.
Moravian Church
Members of the Board of Elders of the Canadian District.
Companion Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East
The Diocese of Jerusalem, The Most Reverend Hosam Naoum; peace in Israel and Palestine.

Our Clergy and the Cathedral Prayer Team will pray for all requests sent to info@ottawacathedral.ca during the week.

Scripture Readings for Sunday, November 23rd | The Reign of Christ| Jeremiah 23:1-6; Canticle 19 (Luke 1:68-79); Colossians 1:11-20; Luke 23:33-43

Children's Worship Activities | Weekly worship bulletins, books and other activities are on the shelves at the entrance to the Cathedral. There is also a table in the Great Hall to use and the labyrinth to walk. If your child is interested in being a junior server, member of a choir, or a reader, please speak with our clergy.

Hearing Assist Sets | Are available at every service from our sidespeople.

Newsletter Deadline | Wednesdays at noon.

General Info | Please visit our office, call 613.236.9149, or email info@ottawacathedral.ca. Office hours are Monday to Thursday 9 am to 3 pm, and Friday from 9 am to noon, except on statutary holidays and during holiday seasons.

Parking | Street parking is free around the Cathedral on Sundays. Cathedral parking at the Vista on Sparks is off Queen Street, immediately east of the Cathedral, on the P1 Level. You MUST have the code to enter the parking garage and to re-enter and access the elevator (glass door across from the Cathedral's new east steps). The code is 4120. It will be posted at our reception desk and listed here each week. When it changes, there will be ample notification. If you enter the garage and there are no spots available, you will need to exit and find parking nearby.