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What is the old saying? “What do you do when life gives you lemons? Make lemonade!” While it is most unfortunate that our church is closed for the next while, we are looking at ways to make the best of a bad situation. This new reality has given us the opportunity to do some maintenance and renovations. Our first big job is to re-wax the floors in the church.…

March 27, 2020 To help prepare ourselves to celebrate the 5th Sunday of Lent, we invite you to view “Opening the Word” which is available on FORMED.org If you haven’t already signed up for FORMED.org, it is easy to do. Please note this is free to all Annunciation of the Lord parishioners. Simply click on the link FORMED.org, click on Sign Up Select I belong to a Parish or…

March 26, 2020 Yesterday we held our first drive-thru Confession at our parish. Here’s a few quotes and videos on the experience from our Pastor, Fr. Rob and a parishioner, Maria: “It was so good to see you all again, it was so nice to see people smiling and interacting [from a safe distance], despite the oddity of this whole situation.” Fr. Rob,…

In honour of Our Lady and our parish, we will be hosting mass at 6pm today online through YouTube. Make sure to check our YouTube site for 6pm. Annunciation will also be offering drive-by confession today, Wednesday, March 25th from 7-9pm. See you there! PAX,   Fr. Rob, Fr. John and the…

Dear Parishioners, As you may have heard by now, the churches within the Ottawa Diocese must be closed, even for private prayer. Unfortunately, starting today, the doors of Annunciation will no longer be open to the public until further notice. Please click this link to read the Notice on the Closing of Churches in the Archdiocese of Ottawa dated March 23, 2020. For a…

One of the things we like to do with Companion of the Cross first-year seminarians is to take them to our novitiate at “The Farm” and remind them just how BIG God is! Whether the vastness of the cosmos or the minute detail of the molecular structure, the Grace of God is vast, detailed, and omnipresent.   This is a timely reminder that the…

What are the things that I can actually do? Clean the house? Do some laundry? Make a pot of soup? And, share that. Use your sphere of influence to do some good. We all have more time than we thought we would. Let’s us it well. Let’s celebrate Christ in a new and creative way.

When God is working through me, or through others, that’s a feeling that you can’t really replace. It’s the greatest feeling that we can have. Come and join us for Alpha! To register and find out more click here.