CBC Ottawa Morning dropped by St. Al’s @ 5 for our U2Charist: “That’s the traditional eucharist infused with a whole lot of Bono.”
Frosh crawl churches, not pubs at the University of Ottawa
About 70 University of Ottawa students visited St. Joseph’s Church at the corner of Laurier Avenue East and Cumberland Street Saturday night to participate in the school’s first annual Church Crawl. The 3-hour event offered incoming students an alternative to the popular pub crawls, as well as a chance to get to know the churches near the school.
OTTAWA — Swap booze and bars for food and churches and you’ve got the University of Ottawa’s newest frosh week event.
Stumbling from pub to pub after one — or more — shots of tequila too many wasn’t on the agenda for about 70 students participating in Saturday night’s church crawl, a more civilized alternative to the typical frosh week bar hop.
Twenty-one churches of various denominations took part in the scavenger-hunt style event. Both incoming frosh and current students canvassed the area around the university, stopping at church buildings as well as street-side stations set up by churches that were too far to reach on foot.
Diocesan youth listen for ‘voice in the wilderness’
Participants of the retreat took part in many outdoor activities, including snowshoeing, skating and tobogganing.
Voice in the Wilderness, a weekend youth retreat planned by the OMG network of parish youth leaders, was all about escaping the noise of our lives.
After an initial delay due to inclement weather, over 20 young people and leaders descended on Christ Church Cathedral’s parking lot early on the morning of Feb. 9 to begin our journey in search of God’s “voice” in the wilderness.
This was not meant to be some flight of fancy searching for mythical creatures or listening for audible voices “from the heavens” amid the beautiful wooded backdrop of Val des Monts, Que. Over the course of the weekend those who attended weren’t listening for something tangible or earthly. In fact, we were doing quite the opposite.
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Ottawa’s homeless moving back into a familiar living room
By: Teresa Smith, Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — Ottawa’s homeless community has a brand new “living room” in the revamped basement of St. Alban’s Anglican Church at 454 King Edward Ave.