Healing
“Our people need healing.”
This was something our founder, John Corston, often used to say. Many of our members are residential school survivors, so it is only natural that healing, and its relationship to reconciliation, are central to virtually everything we do. Our venues and events for healing have helped people embrace their Indigenous identities and acquire a sense of wholeness, connectedness and feeling of belonging in God’s Creation.
Outreach: We connect with communities both in the Archdiocese of Ottawa and across Canada to share, worship and undertake spiritual development and discernment.
Community Ministry: We provide corporal mercy through Indigenous masses, hospital and home visits to the sick and dying, as well as funeral and bereavement support.
Hospital Visits: We support Indigenous families with children undergoing hospital treatment.
Ceremonies and Sacraments: We practice both Christian and Indigenous traditions to help allow God’s Divine Grace to become more tangible in our lives.
Journey to Wholeness: We bring in experienced Elders and other specialists to facilitate monthly workshops that promote wholeness.
Conferences: We provide organization, music, testimony, sharing, ceremony and mass for our Annual healing and reconciliation conferences and the John Corston gathering.