This Sunday there will be a quiet, said Holy Eucharist (BCP) at 8:30 am, and Festal Eucharist (BAS) at 10:30 am to celebrate our Feast of Title (the day after which our Cathedral is named). The Very Reverend Beth Bretzlaff will preach.

Readings: Jeremiah 23:1-6; Canticle 19 (Luke 1:68-79); Colossians 1:11-20; Luke 23:33-43

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

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).

Belong Ottawa is not doing gifts bags this year but they are looking for donations of new personal hygiene to be distributed over the Christmas season and beyond. Such items help provide cleanliness, care, dignity and a sense of normalcy.

What is needed: socks, mittens and gloves, warm hats, underwear, shampoo and conditioner, toothbrushes and toothpaste, bars of soap, towels.

Please bring in your donations to the office or to the basket at the entrace to the Cathedral until December 21st. Thank you for your generosity!

In the middle of the pandemic, our Cathedral bookkeeper moved out of the country and no one wanted to work part-time. Thankfully, Laura agreed to come and help out. Not only did she take on the bookkeeping but she also helped with many other admin tasks, offered advice on moving forward, revamped our bookkeeping system, and provided much needed support to our volunteers, staff, and clergy. It was always the plan, that should we hire a Director of Operations and Development with finanical acumen, the bookkeeping would come under that role. With the appointment of Nicholas, that idea has become reality and Laura's job will be wrapping up on December 20th. We look forward to Laura continuing to sing with Voces and participating in the life of our community. Please thank Laura when you see her!

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!

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

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 Communion Forest and Compass Rose; Ascension House staff and the Diocesan Archivist; All Saints, Westboro, The Veneral Kathryn Otley, The Reverend Chung Yan Lam.
Canadian Cathedrals
St. Paul's Cathedral, Kamloops, BC, The Very Reverend Kyle Norman.
Anglican Church of Canada (ACC)
The Most Reverend Shane Parker, Primate; The Most Reverend Anne Germond, Metropolitan of Ontario; Secretary General and staff of the Anglican Communion Office.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC)
The Right Reverend Dr. Larry Kochendorfer; The Right Reverend Carla Blakley; General Secretary and staff of the Lutheran World Federation.
Moravian Church
Unity Synod, and the president and members of the Unity Board.
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 30th | First Sunday in Advent | Year A | Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:36-44

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.