How this northern Ontario church puts reconciliation on display
On Manitoulin Island, a church combines Catholic and Indigenous traditions to create a service unlike any I’ve seen
I have seen the Catholic mass performed at the Vatican as well as in churches across Europe and Canada. But I have never seen another mass performed the way they do it at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in M’Chigeeng, on Manitoulin Island.
M’Chigeeng, a community of 2,600 people (including nearly 1,000 on-reserve) on the north channel of Lake Huron, was once known as West Bay. But in 1974 it was renamed with an Ojibway word meaning “village enclosed by stepped cliffs” (the picturesque Cup and Saucer Trail is nearby)[…]