THIS WEEK AT
ST JOHN'S
ASCENSION DAY
SPECIAL EDITION
ASCENSION DAY PARISH VIDEO
FROM GARY+ & GORDON
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Happy Ascension - and Eid Mubarak - from St John the Evangelist Anglican Church in Ottawa.

This week's Parish Video for the day of the Ascension includes the Statement by the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem (May 9, 2021), regarding the recent violence taking place there.

In addition, you are invited to consider supporting the petition by the National Canadian Council of Muslims which asks the Canadian government to take a public position. You will find this petition at www.nccm.ca.

Please join us for our worship service for Ascension Sunday, 16 MAY 2021, 9:30 a.m. on YouTube. This is also Jerusalem Sunday in our tradition. The service will focus on the significance of Jerusalem, both at the time of Jesus' departure and in the challenges of today.
MUSIC FOR ASCENSION
Choir of St John's - Ascendens Christus in altum

How often do you hear music written by a woman from the Renaissance period?! Raffaella Aleotti was born around 1574, the daughter of an architect. She studied music with Ercole Pasquini, who suggested she be placed in the Augustinian convent of St Vito, renowned for its excellence in music. The date of her death is uncertain, but she was still living in 1646, when A. Faustini praised her abilities as an organist.

Although the feast of the Ascension is not much celebrated today, it is one of the seven Principal Feasts of the Anglican Church of Canada. When our church building was constructed in 1882, the largest stained glass window above the west door was dedicated to the Ascension.
SPECIAL SERVICE AT 8AM
Sunday, May 16, 2021

This Ascension Sunday, in addition to the 9:30am Video on YouTube, you are invited to a live Zoom service at 8:00am. This brief worship service - in the language of the Book of Common Prayer as customary at the St John's 8:00am service - will include the Ascension readings and prayers followed by visiting. Bring your coffee for the whole service!
CALL FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SUBMISSIONS

Some of you may have noticed a great deal of activity on St John's Social Media pages this past week. One of Cara's new projects is to help St John's inspire and engage our Church Community, the Community of Centretown, and the greater Ottawa Community. Our goal is to grow St John's' online presence in the hopes to attract new members and to build stronger relationships with people, organizations, and businesses within our community. And we also want to celebrate submissions from you, our parishioners!

For those of you who are new to social media, we recommend that you sign up for a facebook and/or instagram account and follow us by clicking the icons below. If you already have an account, please check our pages each day and "like" our posts!

The more "likes," "shares" and comments we receive, the more our posts will be shared with the wider community.

Ideas for submissions:
  • Garden photos
  • Photographs taken on walks in the area
  • Cooking/Baking photos
  • Artwork
  • Recipes
  • Inspirational Scripture & Quotes
  • Christian Jokes
  • Travel Pictures
  • Pictures of Past Events/Occasions

Let's flood our social media with a rainbow of colour and inspiration from St John's!

If you have a photo/submission you wish to share, please send it to Cara at
caragilbertson@yahoo.ca

Submissions will be featured in future newsletters and on our Facebook and Instagram pages. Please keep in mind that Cara might use discretion on what/where/when to post...for example: "Sorry Wendy W-S, we will not publish pictures of your Christmas Trees and Snowmen Armies in May!"
ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
ANGLICAN CHURCH

 154 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, ON K2P 0H8
613-232-4500
office@stjohnsottawa.ca

The Reverend Gary van der Meer, Rector
The Reverend Dr Caroline Ducros, Deacon 
The Reverend Michael Hicks, Honourary Assistant Emeritus
Dr Gordon Johnston, FRCCO, Organist and Choirmaster  
Detlef Dransch, Rector’s Warden 
Stephen Giles, People's Warden