GEORGE GREENE As demand from the homeless and impoverished soars, the executive director of St. Michael’s Mission says Anglican participation is more vital than ever. See Page 3.

JAMES McDERMOTT Father Jim sings a hymn with his characteristic verve – and concertina. After six years of serving St. Mark’s in St. Laurent, he’s finally the incumbent. His induction had a Celtic flavour. See Page 6.

JULIET KOMBONI A Montreal lay readers reads scripture during the annual gathering of the diocesan Lay Readers Association – which had particularly distinguished visitors this year. For more on the Lay Readers, see Page 8.

January 2015 • A section of the Anglican Journal Official Publication of the Diocese of Montreal FRED’S MONTREAL WEEKEND

The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, was in Montreal November 21 and 22 primarily to help the Church of St. James the Apostle wind up celebrations of its 150th anniversary year. He was photographed by parishioner Martin Taylor with Howard Nerrie, a parishioner for 83 years, whom the primate described as probably a modern-day apostle. At centre right, Michel Gagnon photographed him on November 22 celebrating the Eucharist with Archdeacon Peter Hannen, honorary assistant at the parish, Bishop Barry and the rector, Archdeacon Linda Borden Taylor. For more, see Page 7. But there were other stops on his Montreal visit. He made a surprise visit to the annual gathering of the Montreal Lay Readers Association where Michel Gagnon photographed him, top right, with Archdeacon Sidney Black of Calgary, the speaker at the gathering, Lay Reader Yvonne Wakeland, Bishop Barry Clarke, and Lay Reader Donald MacDonald. For more on that gathering, see Page 3. Finally on the Sunday afternoon the primate was off to St. George’s Ste. Anne de Bellevue, where he discussed the food-security campaign with parish youth and local PWRDF activists. From left are Archdeacon Black, the Rev. Simpson Gabaud, visiting from Haiti, diocesan and parish activist Susan Winn, the primate, the bishop, the Rev. Roslyn Macgregor, a PWRDF leader, Verna Peris, chairperson of the diocesan PWRDF, and the Rev. Neil Mancor of St. George’s. See Page 4. 8 AnglicAn MOnTREAl • JAnUARY 8015

Remembering those with HIV Bisho p’ s Message

I extend to each of you a very blessed new year and I share this prayer with you. “Eternal God, to whom a thousand years are no more than a moment, renew us in your Holy Spirit, so that we may serve you with courage while we have life and breath, through the grace of Jesus, your Son, Amen” As I travel through the Diocese, I’m encouraged to hear stories and see actions that relate to God’s mission. We are a church participating with God in God’s mission. The face of God’s mission finds expression in many and diverse ways. First, God calls us into relationship by the grace of baptism and sustains us in our life in Christ Abioseh Cromanty lights a candle for people who live with HIV and people through word and sacrament. around the world who have died of AIDS. The annual World AIDS Day service We live our life in Christ as disciples. The guiding at Christ Church Cathedral was sponsored by the local unit of the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund. Dean Paul Kennington preached on a principles that inform our discipleship are those expressed in our Baptismal Covenant. liturgical formula he rephrased as “the joy of Jesus Christ, the love of God and In the Book of Alternative Services , they are expressed in this way: the communion of the Holy Spirit. The dean said HIV and AIDS challenged people with the fact that everyone is different. “We are all different but we Will you continue in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, stand together before God.” (Photo: Harvey Shepherd) and in the prayers? Will you persevere in resisting evil and, whenever you fall into sin, repent and return to the Lord? Two prison chaplains sought Will you proclaim by word and example the good news of God in Christ? Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your neighbour as yourself? Kairos Pneuma Chaplaincy, the non-denominational agency that since 2013 has been responsible for hiring and supporting chaplains for Federal Correc - Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every tional institutions, currently has two opportunities for full-time chaplains in human being? Quebec, both of them in the group of prisons at Ste Anne des Plaines, about Will you strive to safeguard the integrity of God’s creation, and respect, sustain and 40 kilometres northwest of Montreal. At the end of November, one full-time chaplain was required in the medium-security Archambault Institution, renew the life of the Earth? including the regional mental health unit. To each of these principles we respond: “I will with God’s help.” The second opportunity was at the multi-level Regional Reception Centre and its Special Handling Unit, designed for the most potentially violent At the beginning of a new year, it is important to ponder our faith and to reflect prisoners. Candidates should be bilingual and have a mandate or endorse - upon how we express this faith in our discipleship. I use the Baptismal Covenant as ment from their faith community and at least three years of professional a “Rule of Life”. pastoral ministry as a qualified representative of their faith community. Both opportunities are said to require an ability to work in a team in an As a “Rule of Life”, these vows keep me focused and encourage my growth as a inter-confessional context. follower of Christ. More information is available at www.kpc-inc.ca. In my address to Synod 2013, I called our church to a “radical discipleship”. The word “radical” means going to the ‘root’ or ‘origin’. In the world of our faith, it means forming a base or foundation for our beliefs and faith. I pray the Baptismal Covenant will enrich your discipleship. The Anglican Fellowship of Prayer – Canada I opened this letter with a prayer and I will conclude with a prayer. A Prayer from the Diocesan Representatives “God of time and eternity, as we enter this New Year day by day, open us to your new age”. “As The Christian I Pray” In the peace of Christ,

Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, unuttered or expressed, the motion of a hidden fire that trembles in the breast.*

A is for Adoration. We begin by praising God and His love for us and for all creation. Editor: Harvey Shepherd Gracious God, we praise your Holy name and exalt you Editorial Assistance: Peter Denis – Circulation: Ardyth Robinson in all that we do. You are continuously and constantly Production: Studio Melrose Editorial Office: 1444 Union Avenue, Montreal, QC H3A 2B8 at work here in the Diocese of Montreal, in our Phone: 514 843-6577 – Fax: 514 843-6344 parishes, and in our communities. May we join You in E-mail: [email protected] the tasks You have set before us in this New Year with The photo of Bishop Barry Clarke that appears with his message open and joyful hearts. Amen . was taken by Michel Gagnon of the Church of St. James the Apostle. Published monthly except July and August. The Montreal Anglican accepts display advertising. For more information on AFP-C, contact Official, Editorially Autonomous Rates are available on request. Valerie Bennett and Stacey Neale Newspaper of the Diocese of Montreal Send subscription changes to: Anglican Journal, Deadline for February 20 15 issue: 80 Hayden Street, Toronto, ON M4Y 3G2 January 5th at [email protected] Anglican Journal & Montreal Anglican $ 10.00 per year. A section of Anglican Journal. *Hymn 438 from the The Book of Common Praise (revised 1938, words Legal deposit: National Library of Quebec, National Library of Canada by James Montgomery) will be our guide through this sharing of Printed & mailed at Webnews Printing inc., North York, ON the Five Facets of the Prayer. AnglicAn MOnTREAl • JAnUARY 8015 9

Mission relies on church to ‘embody Jesus,’ and Anglican support is vital, director says

George Greene addresses “In other words, the church over 100 at dinner needs to embody Christ, so that when the hungry are fed, the mar - Harvey Shepherd ginalized are welcomed, the destitute are loved and the stranger in our The Anglican Church and its com - midst is shown hospitality, Christ is mitment to the mission of Jesus present and made known again in remain vitally important to St. the world.” Michael’s Mission in its 88th year of Mr. Greene paid special tribute to serving the homeless and otherwise two Mission volunteers, one of them unfortunate in downtown Montreal, Fred Wiegand, a retired surgeon, its executive director has told a select recipient of the Order of Canada, diocesan gathering. “my mentor and probably the While the Mission receives sup - funniest man I know,” who has cut port from a broad spectrum of hair as a volunteer for clients at the sources, George W. Greene told over mission for years. The other, whom 100 guests at the $200-a-plate Bish - Mr. Greene identified as Yashar, op’s Dinner November 28 that at from Iran, handicapped and a stu - least weekly some Anglican drives up dent at the Université du Québec à to the mission, in the basement of Montréal when he got help from the the red-roofed Church of St. John the mission in 2011, has been a full-time Evangelist, with the trunkful of volunteer for two years and “has supplies, whether shoes, baking been my example of what the Red supplies, chickens, produce or Roof really does.” Bishop Barry Clarke presents George Greene with a miniature version of the bronze statue Jesus the Homeless, by something else. Mr. Greene sketched the broad Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz, which depicts Jesus as a homeless person, sleeping on a park bench. Casts are “Your continued support hum - range of services the Mission pro - installed at the University of Toronto in Ontario and at the St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Davidson, N.C., and one is bles me and is a necessity for St. vides or co-operates with along with to be installed close to the Vatican, but the statue has also attracted controversy. Archdeacon Michael Johnson, who Michael’s Mission in its 88th year its efforts in providing food and was master of ceremonies, is at the right, behind Edward (Eddie) McKay, who is taking a picture. of business,” he said. clothing. The services, some of them “Journeying with Jesus on the pioneering ones, include outreach to humble path of service may be close homeless people in the transit sys - to the heart and will of God but often tem, a special police team to work it isn’t the easy or popular road,” said with transients, a mobile clinic Mr. Greene, himself a fourth-genera - operated by Médecins du Monde tion Anglican and a parishioner of St. Canada and a range of referral John the Evangelist who officially services and culture programs in - became executive director in 2013 cluding art and soapstone-carving after some years as a member of the classes mission’s board, at times almost “A normal day at the Mission unofficially executive director. does not exist. With all of these “But there is this: the church will disenfranchised people it changes know that it is being faithful in hourly. Work in an emotionally presenting Christ if its arms extent to charged Mission can be very difficult those the remainder of the world has and time-consuming.” forgotten and despises. Remember Mr. Greene said in a conversation that the chief complaint against Jesus after the dinner that the host parish was that he associated and shared has provided him with a main-floor table fellowship with outcasts and office, upstairs from the Mission, sinners. which will allow him to spend some - “Consider that God’s beloved Son what less time dealing with immedi - stopped along the road for the most ate problems on the floor of the vulnerable. He had care for the weak Mission and may more much-need - and downtrodden. He touched the ed attention to administration and untouchable and loved the unlov - fund-raising. Mission staff relax around a dinner table. Clockwise from left are cook Gabe Foreman, caseworker Caitlin Murphy, able. He freed those in bondage. This secretary Suzanne Charlebois, volunteer Dr. Fred Wiegand, caseworker Lisa Marie Scolack and, with his back to the too is our mission. camera, volunteer Yashar. In the foreground, Ruth Gray, wife of Executive Archdeacon Bill Gray, chats with Archdeacon Ralph Leavitt.

Montréal en Lumières – ‘Let there be light’

Cathedral ‘Nuit Blanche’ contribution to the Nuit Blanche and 3 a.m. This will be preceded by on the weather. sung to Gregorian Chant. to include ‘Circle of light,’ will, appropriately enough, be “Let an evening concert of an hour or so The interior of the gothic Cathe - There will also be readings: five -hour string quartet there be light.” The French term nuit by an a capella choir of young dral, lit by many candles, is to be the amusing and nostalgic pieces about blanche refers to a sleepless night, women. These concerts will be in an scene of activities through the whole Montreal in winter, poems on the You might think the Montréal en whether due to festivities and enter - intimate venue: perhaps the Atrium, period from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m.: an theme of light, read by their authors Lumières festival next month and tainment, pressure on a legislature at a glassed-in area behind the Cathe - exhibition of paintings and photo - and a “Ghost Tour” with a character more particularly the “Nuit Blanche” the end of a session or a student’s dral at 1444 Union Ave., normally an graphs with the theme of light, a from the past of the Cathedral that will wind it up overnight Satur - effort to cram for an exam. However, entrance to the Cathedral and Dio - National Film Board documentary relating a moment in history. There day and Sunday February 28-March the events at the Cathedral will take cese of Montreal offices, or possibly titled, Memoirs des anges depicting will be a dramatic rendering of the 1 would be a natural for a church. place between 6 p.m. and 3 a.m., at the Undercroft, a mezzanine under Montreal in the 1940s and 1950s, first book of Genesis – where God But in fact this will be the first least according to a preliminary and the Cathedral accessible from the scavenger hunts – and an invitation says ”Let there be light” – at 12:30 year that Christ Church Cathedral somewhat schedule available at the Promenades Cathédrale shopping to light a candle. The evening will a.m., with sound and light effects will be participating in the Nuit time this issue of Anglican Montreal mall and the churchn. begin with children’s activities–mu - and a commentary. Blanche, an all-nighter of shows and went to press. On the grounds around the sic, games and a children’s scavenger But there will also be periods other entertainment being organized Among activities proposed by the Cathedral, organizers plan a “Circle hunt and snow-painting. of silence when visitors can sit peace - for a 12th year by the non-profit Cathedral is a performance by a of Light” at the beginning and the Musical activities will include fully, rest, warm-up or perhaps board drawn from the city’s artistic, string quartet of young and presum - end of the evening, as well as a snow- organ music, a horn quartet, a meditate. touristic and economic sectors that ably resilient musicians from McGill painting activity for children and flute trio, bell ringing, a trio of The organizers of these activities runs the Montréal en Lumières of will play Morton Feldman’s String adults, and perhaps handbell-ringing recorder, flute and guitar and a jazz will be drawn from the Cathedral winter festival, this year February 19- Quartet #2, a work that is rarely in the porch leading into the Cathe - combo of students studying jazz community, which includes profes - March 1. performed since it lasts for five hours dral. Details were still under consid - performance. At midnight the sional artists, writers and musicians. The Cathedral’s theme for its own – in this case, between about 11 p.m . eration and will in any event depend monastic office of compline will be : AnglicAn MOnTREAl • JAnUARY 8015

Strengthening our partnership with the Diocese of Masasi

Montreal youth to build Archdeacon Michael learned first- links with Masasi and its hand during his stay there this fall as new bishop part of a Montreal delegation, the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Beth Reed Masasi represents almost a quarter Beth Reed is a member of the MTL of the population, and provides Youth team. essential services to communities throughout its territory in southern A watchword for the diocesan min - Tanzania. Relationships with Angli - istry to youth and young adults in can partners in Canada and Britain 2015 is Discipleship. MTL Youth are vital links to resources that Archdeacon Michael Johnson helps lead an adult class during his trip to the Diocese of Masasi last fall. (Photo: Bill Gray) programs will actively encourage and allow them to continue and build provide ways for our young people to on this work. of Africa. Bringing Youth Ambassa - and bring back to Montreal stories to sion trip to Masasi. The participants live into their baptismal vows this Archdeacon Michael, Executive dors from Montreal to visit the share and ideas for action. must understand that this is a long- coming year. To this end, a small Archdeacon Bill Gray and the rest of Diocese of Masasi was one of the The Youth Ambassadors program term commitment to helping us group of young people will be given the Montreal group, spoke with paths to communication and under - is designed to serve as a bridge into build sustainable partnership with the opportunity to visit our partner Bishop James and his team about standing that was brought up at this adulthood, leadership, and responsi - our partner diocese in Masasi. diocese of Masasi in Tanzania on a their priorities for strengthening the inaugural meeting. bility within the church for young The date and duration of the mission trip to be led by Archdeacon partner relationship to which both In response to both our commit - people of faith. In the past few years, travel are to be confirmed. However Michael Johnson. dioceses have committed. Commu - ments – to Bishop James and to Youth Ambassadors have represent - it is envisioned that the team will One of the first things newly nication was the common theme. spiritual formation of young Angli - ed the diocese at Canadian Lutheran visit Masasi in August. consecrated Bishop of Masasi, James It is crucial that we in the Diocese of cans – the Diocese of Montreal will Anglican Youth (C.L.A.Y.) Confer - If you are interested, or know Almasi, did in his new role as leader Montreal – our clergy and lay peo - ask a few of its young people to ences and in service trips to New someone who might be, please of his spiritually vibrant, yet eco - ple, in our parishes and lives under - accept a new responsibility as dele - York City. contact mtlyouth@montreal. nomically struggling, diocese was to stand in a real and practical way the gates to the Diocese of Masasi, with a MTL Youth is now inviting young anglican.ca. meet with representatives from its needs, challenges, hopes and goals of commission to travel to Tanzania, people 18-25 years old to apply to be partner Diocese of Montreal. As our brothers and sisters in this part engage with the people of Masasi, considered for this important mis - Parishes rally behind ‘Fred’s’ appeal for food baskets

AIDS treatment supply of beans, corn flour and other de Bellevue as they had collected the requires nutrition foods – barely 45 cents a meal! most baskets – 35 and counting. Good nutrition is crucial, espe - The Primate delivered a wonderful, Verna Peris cially in the first couple of months, passionate speech regarding food Verna Peris is the chairperson of the for the anti-retroviral drugs used in security. Although we had not tallies diocesan unit of the Primate’s World treating AIDS to work properly. the total number of baskets bought, Relief and Development Fund. She’s Emails and notices were sent out the PWRDF pledged at least 100 for with the Primate in the photo. to PWRDF representatives and the Diocese of Montreal, a truly parish communicators. We were wonderful amount for such a short The Montreal diocesan PWRDF delighted with the enthusiastic period. unit is delighted with the enthusias - responses to our challenge. The Many thanks to all who worked tic response by parishes to an appeal number of “baskets” raised has so hard and to everyone for their for funds for food baskets for people varied greatly from parish to parish, generosity. Please make sure your being treated for HIV and AIDS in some raising three and others 35,with PWRDF representative is on our Mozambique. everyone participating as much as mailing list by contacting Nicki After seeing a “Fred says” video possible. The most exciting part of Hronjak at the diocesan offices, presentation featuring Archbishop this has been the involvement of 514 -843-6577 or by email at pro - Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican various youth groups across the gramme.office@montreal. Church of Canada and president of diocese, some raising $400 – five anglican.ca the PWRDF, the diocesan board baskets. Charts, posters and stickers Fred enjoyed a snack with some issued a challenge in in September encouraged everyone to participate of the enthusiastic young parish - for parishes to raise money for the in this important ministry. ioners at St. George’s in St. Anne de food baskets. It is estimated that it When the Primate visited Mon - Bellevue November 24. costs about $80 to pack a basket in treal in November we were thrilled to Mozambique with a two-month invite him to St. George’s in St. Anne Refugee advocates protest against new Ottawa measures

Threats to welfare, health The council and other signers its continuing concern over gaps in da to make her claim.” concern in early December about care and of removal to Haiti argue that refugee claimants, who access to health care for refugees, Prior to the 2012 cuts, IFH cover - The lifting of the moratoria on and Zimbabwe cited are among the most vulnerable despite the changes introduced by age included coverage for “essential removals to Haiti and Zimbabwe of people in Canada, could be denied the government on November 5. prescription medications”. However, people without status as permanent Staff the crucial lifeline that allows them The changes were made to respond according to the government’s residents. The council, la Table de Action Réfugiés Montréal, of which to survive and begin to rebuild their to a Federal Court ruling striking current complex rules, many cate - concertation des organismes au the Diocese of Montreal is a support - lives in Canada. It compares this down the 2012 cuts to the Interim gories of people continue to be service des personnes réfugiées et er, is among about 160 organizations legislative initiative to the denial of Federal Health Program as “cruel denied coverage for prescription immigrantes, la Maison d’Haïti and across Canada that expressed opposi - health care to refugee claimants, and unusual treatment” in violation drugs. This is so even though access the Refugee Lawyers Association of tion in November to draft legislation which the Federal Court recently of the Canadian Charter of Rights to medications was a key concern for Ontario said the measurewill subject that it says would open to the door to ruled was “cruel and unusual.” and Freedoms. the Federal Court. In her decision, people to a risk of violence and people claiming refugee status being The organizations signing the “We were expecting the govern - Justice Anne Mactavish highlighted increased precariousness. denied social assistance. letter represent a wide range of ment to restore health care to what that the effect of the 2012 changes “The government is planning to An open letter sent by the Cana - sectors, including health, poverty, existed before the 2012 cuts, but “is to deny funding for life-saving send people back to situations of dian Council for Refugees to Minis - human rights, faith communities, there continue to be significant medications such as insulin and great violence, according to the ter of Finance Joe Oliver November refugees, women and legal advo - gaps,” said Loly Rico, president of cardiac drugs to impoverished government’s own information,” 18 on its own behalf and signed by cates. The letter is signed by national the council. “For example, a preg - refugee claimants from war-torn said Loly Rico, noting that the 160 other organizations asks for the as well as regional and local organiza - nant woman trying to make a countries such as Afghanistan Canadian government continues to withdrawal of Sections 172 and 173 of tions from across the country. refugee claim has absolutely no and Iraq.” warn Canadian travellers of the risks the omnibus budget Bill C-43 that coverage until her eligibility inter - of violence in these countries. would allow provinces to deny social HEALTH CARE view, which can mean several weeks’ THREATS TO HAITIANS, assistance based on immigration CONCERNS CONTINUE wait. Before the cuts, she was cov - ZIMBABWEANS status. Action Réfugiés is a member In a separate release in Decem - ered as soon as she approached In another matter, the Canadian of the council. ber, the Canadian Council expressed Citizenship and Immigration Cana - Council for Refugees expressed AnglicAn MOnTREAl • JAnUARY 8015 5

due to years of experience of some of its students being sent out into the world in love and mission. Equipping The 2015 Montreal Mission Internship, being run by the Montre - al Diocesan Theological College, strikes a similar chord. The concept th e Saints of “Mission” can be overwhelming and even confusing at times. Sure, we have the Marks of Mission as a guide, but there are times when Montreal Mission those marks can be so large and global, they don’t actually help us Internships returning determine what it is we need to be doing right here in our very own city. A learning opportunity school to reflect on our experience The MMI will give six students an for the Church and for and to share with one another how opportunity next summer to develop the World we ourselves had been transformed their understanding of mission with in the encounter. a self-developed project and a chance Nick Pang There was an amazing sort of to come together as a cohort to This is one of a series of columns by synergy to the way that program reflect and to learn. They will also students, staff and friends of the worked in the lives of those it receive a fairly generous stipend, Montreal Diocesan Theological touched. I like to think it did some largely as a matter of justice. In a College (or “Dio). The Rev. Nicholas good for those we went out to serve, time when youth unemployment is Pang is priest-in-charge at St. George’s that we gave them an attentive ear at an all-time high and unpaid Place du Canada. and an open heart when, oftentimes, internships are forcing some of the no one else would. As each week most economically vulnerable When I was 19 I left home for the went on, though, we all noticed just among us to pay money in order to Two interns pitch in during a 2011 visit to St. Michael’s Mission. first time. I moved out to New how much we ourselves were being have the opportunity to work, the Brunswick for one very full year impacted by the conversations we task that these students have before The MMI is a chance for all of us to out into the world, outside the where I completed a certificate were having. On a personal level, this them is not simply about either learn from the creativity and ideal - borders of our churches, to learn program in Extreme Discipleship program was forming leaders who themselves or the people they’re ism of those disciples who will be what God is doing there and where (or XD for those on the inside) at a were trying to live out, very explicit - encountering. This is a learning experimenting with something we as the people of God are being Wesleyan Bible College. Since then, ly, Jesus’ example of service to the opportunity for the whole church. radically new, following the Spirit called. I’ve been blessed with the chance to most marginalized communities. take part in a number of programs Many of my colleagues and class - developed specifically to build the mates continued on at the college in leadership capacity of young adults. the pastoral ministry program. Some Anglicans face uncomfortable My experience with the XD of us went off in other directions to program prepared me for a model of return to pastoral ministry later on realities at West Coast consultation action and reflection that would and yet others still went off in com - become incredibly important to my pletely different directions – but all priestly formation years later in of us were changed by the experience seminary. It was based on sharing the of meeting with strangers in very message of hope and new life offered profound and meaningful moments by Christ in some of the most disad - of their lives. The third place where vantaged and disregarded places we this program had a particular impact knew – prisons, rehab centres, soup was in the school and the communi - kitchens, special-needs residences. ty as a whole. I honestly believe there Each time we would go out into the was a really special atmosphere to world we would come back to the that Bible College that was in part

Building true community is a complex task Mtl Youth meets a challenge focusing on the eight Practices of from eastern Canada Community (as outlined in Scott ‘province’ Peck’s Trailblazing Community Model). We took a quick a break and From the left are, from Montreal, Susan Winn and the Rev. Nicholas Pang, from the Anglican Parishes of the Central Mark Dunwoody then spent some time in smaller Interior (of British Columbia), Carmen Fairley and Marlena Anderson, and the Rev.Sandra Stickney, a former APCI groups creatively sharing how each priest now in the Diocese of Kootenay. In late June, youth leaders from of these attributes were important to every Diocese in the Ecclesiastical our personal situations in terms of Residential schools, people like you and me” have a times throughout the course of Province of Canada met in Montreal building our communities. After Africville, internments responsibility to confess our collec - human history. It isn’t something for three intensive and rewarding lunch, Andre Parris led a session on the agenda tive sin and to repent from the evil that we often participate in con - days at the TRAIN THE TRAINER event. sharing Scott Peck’s four stages of that we’ve done? Are we even willing sciously, rather it’s built into struc - The purpose was to equip youth How to Build a True Community. At Nick Pang to say out loud that racism is a sin? tures of governance and ideology ministry leaders–clergy and laity– the end of the day, conference A recent anti-racism consultation and it goes unnoticed for ages, often with the skills to be able to train attendees were given the chance to Canadians are polite. We all know organized and sponsored by the times experienced only by those who youth leaders in their own dioceses. reflect and share about their experi - that. We’ve all heard the jokes or Diocese of New Westminster and the are robbed of their very ability to say The training took participants ence that day. All in all, the day was we’ve been subject to the whimsical Anglican Church of Canada, held on anything about it. Recent events in through teaching, planning and spent getting to know each other, musings of friends from the south the unceded territories of the Coast Ferguson, Missouri are a prime small group skills, contemporary sharing stories, laughing, eating telling us just how nice Canadians Salish peoples, near the metropolis example of how those who stand up approaches to youth ministry and together and learning from one are! It’s a fairly well known point of of Vancouver, was a chance for a to confront structural injustices are reflective practice. All the partici - another. national pride, but what if that story group of about 35 people to look into often vilified and demonized, even if pants committed themselves to Among many other things, we were untrue? Or, maybe more the checkered past of the Anglican it is in the more contemporary delivering training in their respective learned that building a true commu - accurately, what if it were simply Church and the Canadian public language of thugs or vandals. home dioceses. nity takes; patience, flexibility, trust, masking a darker reality in Canadian when it comes to our interactions The consultation was primarily a After much research, promoting a common goal and the ability to life and history? Sure, Canadians with peoples of different “colours.” conversation about what comes next, and prayer, on November 29, from create a safe place for the members may be nice to one another when It was a foray into racism of all kinds about where we go as a country and 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. the Diocese of of that community. Many attendees they’re in the grocery store, or that has plagued our country, as a church – to correct the mistakes Montreal was able to execute this of the conference mentioned how generous to visitors travelling from whether it be the Chinese head tax of the past and to build a more equal challenge! Mtl Youth hosted a con - they looked forward to building and abroad, but have we faced up to the in force until 1923 or the Indian and just future. It will take courage to ference specifically geared towards developing new and already existing realities of our own history of racism Residential School system which address racism. It will take a holy “Building Community.” We wel - communities in their own parishes. and violence in the “true north, lasted until just a few decades ago, discomfort. This struggle is one of comed 25 individuals representing A huge thank-you to the partici - strong and free”? Are we willing to or the Africville incident in Halifax those desert places where the Spirit several different parishes and com - pants who attended:, to our three admit our own guilt and complicity in the 1960s, or the internment of of God leads us, where we are chal - munities throughout Montreal. new diocesan trainers – Lee-Ann in systems of governance, whether Japanese Canadians during the lenged and confronted. But just like There were also participants from Matthews. Afra Saskia Tucker and they be secular or religious, that have Second World War. Jesus in the desert, it’s in that strug - the Diocese of Ottawa. Andre Parris – and to the Province of ripped tens of thousands of children It was a heavy meeting. It isn’t gle that we encounter God. We started off the day with away from their homes and commu - easy to sit in a room for four days Canada for enabling this workshop The Rev. Nicholas Pang is priest- community building exercises. Afra nities and punished them for adopt - and talk about as dismal a topic as to take place. in -charge at St. George’s Place Saskia (Tout C œur) Tucker and Lee- ing pieces of their own heritage? Are racism, nor should it be. Racism has Mark Dunwoody is the diocesan du Canada. Ann Matthews led us in a session youth consultant. we willing to admit that “good existed in many places and many < AnglicAn MOnTREAl • JAnUARY 8015

The message of the church is not working, former dean of Cathedral says New experience of faith, participants going north. Nor is the church a comfort zone new understanding of faith, “But we also live in a culturally into which we can withdraw from bridge to world needed expanding universe. Scientific knowl - engagement with the world edge increases every day. More social around us. Harvey Shepherd and cultural information is available • “What happens in church on The message of Anglican and other day by day through newspapers, Sunday is not entertainment.” “mainline” churches is not working, books, television radio and the In the Dean Pitts’ view, “what says the former dean of Christ internet. We live in a multi-cultural, should be happening in our churches Church Cathedral in Montreal. multi-ethnic, multi-faith environ - is that we should receive a vision of The Very Rev Michael Pitts said in ment.” what a radically different way of life a homily at St. Mark’s Church in St. “Yet we live and preach a shrink - could be like and hear a challenge Laurent that to get out of a trap ing gospel and faith.” “to make it so.” The church needs a preventing the church from finding He said that from his experience vision – not a so-called “vision new members it needs a new experi - of ministry in Europe and North statement” but a prophetic vision ence of faith, a new understanding of America he thinks many members of given by the Spirit to the community, faith and a bridge between the mainline churches think that “All I in prayer, liturgy and study of the church and the world outside, need to know about Christian faith, I scriptures. He was speaking at the induction learned in first year of Sunday The God-experience of too many – formally known as a celebration of School.” churchgoers seems limited, dull, and Michael Pitts delivers his homily. a new ministry – of a friend of long In Dean Pitts’ view, “We have conservative, he said. They won’t standing, the Rev James McDermott. failed to grasp the need to re-think hear of change or engage in activities worked with drug and alcohol ad - vision. The Gospel reading from at St. Mark’s on November 26. The our Christian faith in a way which is they aren’t already used to from dicts. In that vocation he earned his Matthew, the story of the sheep and dean noted that the usual purpose of relevant to people out there who are years of repetition, and yet they can’t livelihood. goats, challenges the church to see such a homily is to introduce the new no longer, or who have never been, figure why new people won’t be “His other vocation was as priest that the vision has to be translated minister. part of us.” converted to their way of doing and in the Episcopal Church. He there - into ever-day action, in caring for the However, Father McDermott had He does not expect the decline to thinking about church, about God. fore stood with one foot in the poor, marginalized and neglected of been minister of St. Mark’s, formally turn around suddenly whatever the “They live in 1960s churchland church and one in the everyday our world so that their lives could be on an interim basis, for close to six church does. But if it wants to pre - and can’t figure out why others world and particularly in its poverty, transformed by the vision of a new years. The dean – who later complied vent further decline it needs to “start refuse to join them there.” deprivation and suffering. He found community in a new world. with a request from Anglican Mont - reaching out to those outside our He said that Father McDermott the risen Christ in the Eucharist and Dean Pitts said Father Jim’s role, real for notes on his homily – said number with an exciting, gripping offers the parish an opportunity to among the people with whom he like that of every priest, is to enable that instead he wanted “to share and compelling message”. find the needed new experience of worked.” the worshipping community to some thoughts about where we all “Our present message, whether it faith, new understanding of faith and So here is a pastor who can help receive wisdom and vision from God are in the church as we barrel down comes through what we preach or bridge to the world outside. this church community and our and then to help it translate it into a the 21st Century, and maybe what say or through how we organize and “I believe that with Father Jim as diocese in forming that bridge new kind of church and into the life we should do about it” live our church life, is not working. your priest and pastor, you have an between the church and the world of the world, “so that we can all He said, “We live on a tiny planet He gave three examples of how amazing opportunity to get out of outside. He can bring to us a new together share in the task of bringing which moves around in a huge and the church’s message and life does the trap and buck the trend. Let me experience and understanding of back the scattered sheep of our rapidly expanding universe. But if not measure up. tell you why. Before he came to faith”. time.” universe is expanding, the church is • “What is given in the liturgy of the Canada Father Jim was what they call Referring to the scriptural texts of This requires change in the shrinking…. word is not a set of rules about how down there a bi-vocational priest. He the service, he said passages from church. “We find ourselves with smaller life should be lived. had two callings from God. One was Ezekiel and the Letter to the Eph - “But change is what the Christian congregations and declining fi - • “What we receive in the liturgy of as a probation officer in the New esians raise questions about leader - faith is all about.” nances, and with the age range of the sacrament is not comfort food. York Police department, where ship in the church and prophetic St. Laurent parish celebrates not-exactly-new ministry

After six years at St. Mark’s Celtic themes were a feature of interim becomes incumbent the induction, which began with St. Patrick’s Breast-Plate as processional The cover on the order of service hymn and included other Celtic-in - called it a “service of celebration of a fluenced music and featured the participation of an Irish traditional band of Bob Cusson, Patrick Hutchinson, Gilles Losier and Andi MacGabhann. An element of the diversity of the congregation was reflected by members of the Barba - dos Choral Group, who reinforced the parish choir. Father Jim participated actively in much of the music, accompanying himself on his trademark concertina. He sang the offertory hymn, The Lord of the Dance.

In an informal musical interlude after the service, Bishop Barry joined a young member of the congregtation an impromptu jig. At another moment, Father Jim, his wife, Veronica, and the Irish band posed for a photo.

new ministry,” but Bishop Barry make up his mind. interim postings in other parishes, Clarke admitted in some opening The Rev. James McDermott, including All Saints Deux Montagnes remarks that was a big of a mis - inducted November 26 as incumbent and St. Matthias’ Westmount. That nomer. of St. Mark’s Parish in St. Laurent, posting too was originally expected It was more, the bishop said was appointed interim priest in the to be for a couple of years but was facetiously, that the bishop couldn’t parish about six years ago after a extended for one reason or another. AnglicAn MOnTREAl • JAnUARY 8015 = HI LTZ AT ST. JA ME S Preaching at the downtown Mont - real Church of St. James the Apostle as it wound up a year of celebrations of its 150th anniversary, the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada urged its parishioners to look beyond its walls to the city around it. “In Holy Communion we are called as Church to model for the World,” Archbishop Fred Hiltz said in his service November 23, the Feast of the Reign of Christ. “It is to be in the World and for the World,” mod - elling a different way of handling differences, promoting right and justice and serving as modern-day apostles. By accident or design, the pri - mate echoed the parish’s 150th- anniversary prayer, which gives thanks “for our 150 years of witness and service in the heart of our city, and for the founders and benefactors of our parish who made this ministry possible. By (God’s) grace, may we continue the good work you began in them….” The primate urged his hearers to look “beyond these towers and glass to a city full of glory and need.” He said the church will be judged on the question, “Where were our priorities as a church, where die we place our priorities for ministry?” Facing challenges like those of many downtown churches in large cities, he urged the parish to continue to see how it can be a The primate reads a citation marking his visit to the parish and the anniversary. From left are Archbishop Hiltz, Michel Gagnon (people’s warden and the multi -purpose space for worship primate’s ceremonial chaplain at this service), Bishop Barry Clarke, Archdeacon Linda Borden Taylor, rector, Archdeacon Peter Hannen, honorary assistant, and fellowship. and Dion Lewis, rector’s warden. (Photos: Harvey Shepherd)

Howard Nerrie with Martin Taylor of St. James the Apostke Archbishop Fred Hiltz delivers the homily > AnglicAn MOnTREAl • JAnUARY 8015

A column by Cedric Cobb where you might find a meditation, a poem, The Stillness Within an awareness exercise or an inspiration. Commitments for inner health & peace

Now looking through listened to “sounds of silence”, gazed up at the cabin. I sat at the small table, in the cold, 6. I vow to get out into nature more. Instead the slanting light of the morning window “starry nights”, and sensed “Intimations of and began to make a list of promises to of being so busy, I will take the time to toward the mountain presence Immortality.” Occasionally, the quiet would myself for the coming year. Here is what I look up at the sky, feel the warmth of the of everything that can be, be broken by the sound of the wind blowing wrote: sun on my skin, or smell the leaves under what urgency calls you to your one love? in across the lake, and the night sounds of 1. I vow to listen more to my inner wisdom, my feet. What shape waits in the seed of you little feet scurrying across the cabin floor. On knowing there will be times when I have 7. I vow to remember to breathe. Especially to grow and spread its branches the last day of my retreat – and the first day to say no to others in order to say yes to during moments of stress, I will breathe, against a future sky? of the year – I arose early. Shivering, I went myself. relax, and get in touch with my body. This David Whyte, outside, and read Mary Oliver’s “The Jour - 2. I vow to focus more on my wellness, and will enable me to be more in the present What to Remember When Waking ney” to whatever lurked in the mist rising take better care of myself. This year I will moment. from the lake. spend more time with friends, do some As I look over my list now, I see myself Years ago, I took a personal retreat. A friend The Journey is one of my favorite poems, journaling, and get more sleep. revisiting some of these same vows in 2015! offered me the use of his small cabin – more and reading it on New Year’s Day is a yearly 3. I vow to be more present for my family. How about you? What are the commitments like a shack – for my own private hermitage ritual. Each reading fills me with thoughts of My daughter is growing up before my for inner health and peace that you would between Christmas and New Year’s Day. The new beginnings, and the grand journey. It eyes. I need to cherish each moment. like to make to yourself this year? By the way, cabin was near a small lake, and contained starts: 4. I vow to be more in tune with my feelings. you can come up with your list in the comfort the bare minimum: bed, chair, table, and As they arise, I will acknowledge them, of your own home. One day you finally knew/what you had to candles. Even though I wore two heavy accept them, and see them as keys to my As we start a New Year together, may you do, and began, sweaters, thick gloves, a winter coat, and inner life. treat yourself with care and love; and may the though the voices around you/kept wrapped myself in several blankets, I was 5. I vow to stick with my meditation practice light of Christ lead you back to your own true shouting/their bad advice – continually cold. My meals consisted of – even if I am only able to do it for a few self. though the whole house/began to tremble/ peanut butter sandwiches, and water. minutes a day. (I had just returned to With love and blessings, and you felt the old tug/at your ankles. On my retreat, I meditated. I read an old, meditating after a long absence, and Cedric battered copy of The Cloud of Unknowing . I After reading the poem, I went back into found myself calmer and less stressed.)

A journey together: lay readers hear the Ven. Sidney Black Notable New diocese buoys context, members of the Lay Readers the Sacred Circles, triennial gather - our Bishop Barry. The Primate Indigenous Anglicans Association of the Diocese of Mon - ings of indigenous communities addressed the congregation at the Christ Church treal were told at their annual study within the Anglican Church of Commissioning Service and stayed Beaurepaire Concert Susan Winn day late November. Canada, presented stories and to visit with lay readers and their A recent development within the Archdeacon Sidney Black, who teaching with evident wisdom and families during a reception hosted by Series 2015 Anglican Church of Canada has oversees indigenous parishes in the humility. the bishop. This year’s Study Day Third Tuesday of the Month given new hope to indigenous Angli - Diocese of Calgary, is co-chair of the He spoke of the spiritual leader - was a particularly memorable one! The latest edition of the Concert cans who seek to honour traditional Anglican Council of Indigenous ship that enabled the founding of the Series is about to get underway. ways of worship within the Anglican peoples and is one of the founders of first indigenous and self-determining MONTREAL, QUEBEC This wonderful musical event is diocese in the church, READERS STUDY TOGETHER presented on the 3rd Tuesday of Mishamikoweesh in northern On - On Saturday, Oct. 25, several lay the month at 7:30 pm and will run tario. He said this development, readers from the Montreal Diocese from January 20 to May 19 ratified at the general Synod of 2013, traveled to Lennoxville, in the Dio - inclusive. has encouraged indigenous Angli - cese of Quebec, to participate in a cans, who value the liturgies and study day exploring the roles of faith We will be having the opportunity worship of the Anglican Church and leaders. The Ven. Garth Bulmer and January 20 to brighten and cheer continue to walk together with other the Rev. Edwin Stretch of the Quebec the dark January evenings with a Anglicans in fellowship and faith in Diocese led discussions on the great brass ensemble featuring Jesus Christ. pastoral responsibilities of lay read - Christopher Smith. February 17 The lay readers viewed a video of ers, especially in parishes undergoing we’ll extend the Valentine glow the Sacred Circle in Pinawa, Manito - periods of transition. Glen Marcotte, with the more-than-50-voice a ba, in 2012, with the theme Walking a Quebec lay reader, sits on the capella West Island Chorus the Dream: No Turning Back . It executive of the association of Mon - women’s choir. The third Tuesday helped us experience some steps treal lay readers as a liaison between in March, the 17th, will allow us to towards healing and reconciliation the two associations. augment the St. Patrick’s Day and understand how we still have experience with the Celtic music Susan Winn is past president of much to learn. and multimedia presentations of the Lay Readers’ Association of the A surprise and highlight of the Scott MacLeod. In April the Hato Diocese of Montreal study day was the arrival of our Piano Duo in combination with Susan Winn and the Ven. Sidney Black. Below, lay readers gather for a group Primate, Fred Hiltz, accompanied by the Zanca String Duo will present photo. (Photos: Michel Gagnon) an imaginative collaboration that will be sure to fill us all with the joy of the arriving Spring. The Series will conclude in May with a wonderful ensemble of voice, strings and piano featuring the Operatic Soprano Tamara Vickerd. This Series of Concerts provides everyone with a fantastic opportunity to have a fun evening out. The “Aprés Concert” which follows each of these events will give us all an occasion to meet the artists and enjoy a glass of wine and revel in the great camaraderie that has become a hallmark of these evenings. Tickets for these ‘great nights out’ are $20 per Concert/Aprés Concert with a discount available for the purchase of multiple concerts. For more information please contact the Christ Church office at 514-697-2204 (christchurchbeaurepaire.com) or Earl Wilson 514-486-9338 (earlwilson.ca) AnglicAn MOnTREAl • JAnUARY 8015 ?

The author of 1999’s clarion call tana and British Columbia, where to activism, No Logo , is as eloquent as people understand that the earth is a always. But this newest work is more sacred fire to be cared for, not a pile than a sounding of the alarm: it is a of sand to be strip-mined. Of all the mother’s desperate cry to save the nation-states, Germany, with its Books earth for her child before it is too government incentives for alternate late. Much of This Changes Every - energy, comes closest to getting thing is an indictment of the way Klein’s nod of approval. corporations, government, and well- During her fertility odyssey, Klein meaning “sustainable development” pondered “the whole Earth Moth - advocates block the real, societal er/Mother Earth thing.” She “started A mother’s changes needed to save the patient to notice that if the earth is indeed Gaia before things turn terminal. our mother, then far from the boun - desperate “Once carbon has been emitted into tiful goddess of mythology, she is a the atmosphere”, she points out, “it mother facing a great many fertility cry to save sticks around for hundreds of years… challenges of her own.” A few days the effects are cumulative, growing after flying home from covering the more severe with time.” Climate Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill, she learns the Earth change is an accelerating process. It’s she is expecting. “I had breathed in now or never. toxic fumes for days and, at one naomi Klein: This Changes Once upon a time, we are told, point, waded up to my waist in Everything: Capitalism vs. the the choices were simpler. But “drop - contaminated water.” She miscarries; Climate, Alfred A. Knopf canada, ping out and planting vegetables is no link to the oil spill she is told, but 2014, 566 pages. not an option for this generation.” a sobering lesson learned. Reviewed by Colin McGregor “There may have been a time when Later on, a pregnancy is success - engaging in resistance against a life- ful. In the weeks before birth, she For the five years during which threatening system and building walks “a well-groomed trail along a Toronto journalist and bestselling alternatives to that system could be pristine creek,” a salmon run leading author Naomi Klein was writing meaningfully separated, but today,” to the Pacific Ocean. To reach their This Changes Everything , she was Klein warns, “we have to do both spawning grounds, she notes, Pacific doing the rounds of fertility clinics, simultaneously.” The merger of Big salmon will “leap up massive water - trying to conceive a child. At the end Business and Big Green, the idea that Naomi Klein (Photo: Ed Kashi) falls like deranged kayakers in re - of the process, which she describes we can develop green technologies verse.” But pollution, fish-farming very openly in her book, it worked. and still live a high-flying lifestyle, is drilling, fracking, dam-building and traditional book. Every argument is and over-fishing have killed 40 per A son, Toma, was born. Researching to Klein a dangerous delusion. mining take place far from prying supported by facts and more facts. cent of Pacific salmon’s historical the degradation of the environment Culprit number one is, as evident environmentalist eyes. We review a score of environmental range. made her ask: What kind of world from the title: Capitalism. Runaway The rhetoric is harsh and aggres - disasters, including the Tar Sands, “Like humans,” Naomi Klein will my son be born into? A world at free-market enterprise and a living sive. This is not an easy read. Klein Lac Mégantic, a mining project in writes, “salmon can overcome an the tipping point, she makes clear in earth are mutually incompatible. leaps from topic to topic in a some - the Skouries Forest of Greece. We awful lot – but not everything.” But this weighty, aggressive, fact-packed Klein refers to Blockadia as those times confusing manner. It is a long, also visit places where they get it to have any chance, she warns again tome. collective regions of the planet where intense advocacy speech more than a right – native communities in Mon - and again, we have to start right now.

Bill, growing up in Anglo Montreal. illustrated in a passage in which Bill things he could contribute to society Although they are all teammates on appears at a hearing for possible as a free man.” One hopes for the the Marianopolis College rugby early parole. Hope is described as same for the author. team , it is apparent from the outset “the light at the end of the tunnel, Copies of Teammates may be that Bill is different. Shy and nerdy, which usually turns out to be a obtained for $19.95 plus tax from Les Books he is not particularly built for the locomotive coming from the other Éditions TNT, at 514-256-9000, fax game of rugby. He also comes from a direction.” 514-256-9444, from raymondviger@ broken home and dysfunctional McGregor reminds me of Robert editionstnt.com, at www.editionstnt. family with a father just this side of a Stroud, the “birdman of Alcatraz,” com, or by contacting this reviewer at small-time Al Capone, and a mother who became a self-taught, world- 514-633-5930. The book is soon to be living in near-poverty in Ste. Adele. renowned expert on birds over a available at Brome Lake Books in First novel When an injury ends Bill’s rugby lifetime spent in prison. In one Knowlton. Love in 3D and the Hand - season, he takes to drinking heavily, memorable scene from the 1962 book on Suicide Prevention can also depicts harsh gains weight – earning him the movie The Birdman of Alcatraz , the be obtained from Les Éditions TNT. realities nickname of ‘’Fat Kid’’ – and watch - prison doctor, arguing before the Robert Morell is a parishioner at es as his teammates, save for Max warden to obtain Stroud’s release St. Andrew and St. Mark Anglican and Rudy, slowly drift away. As the states, ‘’if he has been able to achieve Parish, Dorval. He is a volunteer with colin Mcgregor: Teammates. wheels of Bill’s life start coming off, this with all of the restrictions im - the Prison Chaplaincy Programme at Éditions TnT 2014, 269 pages. even simple, joyous events such as posed on him, imagine the great the Cowansville Correctional Centre. his first relationship , with a girl the author in prison and in Montreal Reviewed by Robert Morell named Annette, are tainted with a in general. Through the story, the sense of foreboding. Then, in a author attempts to raise society’s Teammates is the first novel written sudden plot shift, the story fast- awareness of the path to prison, what by Colin McGregor, a frequent forwards to the clanking sound of life is like in prison and the positive reviewer of books for Anglican the prison door being slammed shut. outcomes that are possible within Montreal and a regular contributor McGregor’s superb writing skills prison walls. to Reflet de Société , a Quebec youth slowly reveal what has happened to For any reader who lived in and magazine. He is a teacher, journalist Bill and over half of the book is around Montreal in the seventies and a long-term federal inmate who devoted to his life behind bars. and eighties, scenes at Ben’s Deli and has previously co-written Love in 3D . Previous friendships evaporate the Old Munich will be familiar. The He collaborated on the Quebec except for one unlikely visitor, as the writer also delves into the differences Suicide Prevention Handbook with prisoner ceases to exist in the outside between the two solitudes. Early in Raymond Viger, founder and direc - world. Inside prison new teammates the book Mr. Dumas, a teacher tor of Café Grafitti, a storefront emerge, friendships carefully chosen concerned about Bill’s drinking, resource center for youth in East- and necessary for survival in a jungle unsuccessfully tries to explain to Bill End Montreal. The organization will populated by biker gangs and other how the French shift seamlessly from receive all profits from the sales of cliques. Bill uses his talents as a their workday life to after-hours this book. teacher to better the lives of his drinking on rue St Denis, while the Although a work of fiction, fellow inmates, who affectionately English go from the straight life to Teammates is loosely based on call him ‘’Professor.’’ (Similarly, in binge drinking on weekends on experiences on the author’s life, from real life, McGregor has taught scores Crescent Street. his days as a student in Montreal to of his fellow inmates to read and do McGregor uses his vast vocabu - his life in prison. There is no doubt math and recently received an award lary and literary knowledge to bring that the beatings, extended periods from the Yamaska Literacy Council.) his characters to life and routinely in solitary confinement and other The conclusion is a sufficiently quotes from Shakespeare and occurrences depicted in the book satisfying one, but with enough loose Wordsworth, weaving a rich tapestry and unimaginable to the average ends to keep the reader wondering. of colour into the story. He also person actually happen behind The two-thirds of the book devoted manages to infuse his book with an prison walls. The book appears to to prison life give the reader a realis - irrepressible, often dark sense of reflect the author’s values of forgive - tic glimpse into a world that most humour, usually at the direst of ness, redemption, and atonement, as people never see, especially from a moments. He explains that in prison, well as his faith in God. first-hand source. hope is always guarded against the Teammates is the story of three The book draws parallels and disappointment that almost in - 17-year-old friends, Max, Rudy and contrasts between the life lived by evitably follows. This is perhaps best 10 AnglicAn MOnTREAl • JAnUARY 8015

John Polkinghorne’s The Faith of a the end of Origin : “There is a Physicist (2005). The Nicene Creed grandeur in this view of life, with its provides the framework. Job 12:7 several powers, having been original - (AV) suggested the title. ly breathed into a few forms or into Johnson initiates a dialogue one; and that, whilst this planet has Books between thoughtful Christians and gone cycling on according to the scientists who are concerned about fixed law of gravity, from so simple a the future of life on the planet. She beginning endless forms most draws on Catholic philosophers and beautiful and most wonderful have theologians (Augustine, Aquinas, been, and are being, evolved.” Duns Scotus) as well as Catholic Darwin was born in 1809 into a Endless mystics (Hldegarde von Bingen, distinguished family of British Francis of Assisi, Julian of Norwich). Elizabeth Johnson (Photo: Tom Stoelker) naturalists. His grandfather Erasmus forms most An eco-feminist, Johnson de - Darwin entertained vague evolution - plores Western theology’s woeful deposited, they seem to become ary ideas and wrote erotic verses Charles Darwin beautiful neglect of the natural world. Neo- ennobled.” about plants. His father, Dr. Robert Platonic dualism, combined with Darwin delimited Origin to living Darwin, encouraged Charles’s early colorings, various viewpoints are Augustine’s particularistic under - things other than humankind, interest in nature and later support - endorsed and debated.” and most standing of the consequences of the although he intimated that his ed his research. Both were free - Ask the Beasts is scholarly, yet Fall, denigrated matter. Medieval theory might eventually have wider thinkers. eminently readable and accessible. wonderful theologians demarked the natural application: Darwin was intended for a career There is an extensive bibliography world from the supernatural world of “In the distant future I see open in either medicine or the Church of and a good index. Origin of Species , Feminist Catholic with its elegant prose and lucid looks at Darwin grace. The Reformation emphasized fields for far more important re - England. His career plans changed individual salvation rather than searches. Psychology will be based abruptly when he was invited to join argumentation, makes fascinating Sister Elizabeth Johnson: Ask the cosmic redemption. The ascendancy on a new foundation, that of the a scientific expedition to chart the reading. The lavishly illustrated first Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love. of Calvinism in the 17th century necessary acquirement of each coastline of South America and the edition, published by Sterling Signa - Bloomsbury 2014. 323 pages. promoted an anthropocentric inter - mental power and capacity by grada - Pacific islands. The voyage, later ture Publishing Co., Inc. (2008; pretation of Genesis 1:28. Cartesian tion. Light will be thrown on the described in The Voyage of the Beagle 2011), 544 pages, David Quammen, Reviewed by William Converse dualism and Enlightenment rational - origin of man and his history.” (1839), lasted five years, 1831-1835. General Editor, provides additional ism opened the way for full-scale Darwin’s theory challenged both During this time his religious and historical material, photographs and Elizabeth Johnson is an American exploitation of the earth’s natural the scientific and the religious estab - scientific ideas underwent a sea drawings, along with excerpts from Roman Catholic theologian and a resources. lishment of the day. The accepted change. Darwin’s journals, notebooks and member of the Sisters of St. Joseph. Darwin’s evolutionary theory scientific view was that all species had In the first four chapters Johnson correspondence. I highly recom - She is Distinguished Professor of represents life as a continuum. been created separately, distinct and provides the background to Dar - mend both books. Theology at Fordham University in Human beings belong to the natural immutable. The idea that existing win`s theory of natural selection and ©William Converse, 2014 New York, where she has taught since order. All living things are interde - species had evolved over millions of explains how he arrived at it by 1991. She is considered one of the pendent, the result of natural selec - years from a few simple life forms means of patient and meticulous architects of feminist theology. She tion occurring over hundreds of and, like the planet itself, had been observation. Evolutionary ideas were belongs to a cohort of contemporary millions of years. Darwin illustrated shaped by natural forces defied not new. In the 18 th century, the Notable Roman Catholic theologians explor - their interconnectedness with a reason and common sense. It was Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, the ing the implications of conscious diagram of the tree of life. counterintuitive to suppose that a Father of Modern Taxonomy, as - L’OASIS MUSICALE evolution. The author of nine books, In the conclusion to Origin structure as complex as the human signed humans to the primates. The she became the focus of controversy Darwin wrote: eye had evolved by random muta - French naturalist Jean-Baptiste CONCERTS at when the doctrinal committee of the “Authors of the highest eminence tions. Darwin addressed these objec - Lamarck suggested that evolution CHRIST CHURCH U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops seem to be fully satisfied with the tions in Chapter VI of Origin . occurred according to natural laws. CATHEDRAL censured her book Quest for the view that each species has been The challenge to conventional In the 19 th century, Lyell determined Living God: Mapping the Frontiers in independently created. To my mind religious views was no less marked. from the fossil record that Samedis 16h30/ the Theology of God (2011). it accords better with what we know Recent geological discoveries had humankind had originated only Saturdays 4:30 pm In the introduction, Johnson of the laws impressed on matter by raised serious doubts about biblical recently in Africa. 635 St. Catherine W., Métro McGill recounts the genesis of her latest the Creator, that the production and chronology. In the 17th century Darwin’s singular achievement Freewill offering to support the book. To mark the 150th anniversary extinction of the past and present Archbishop James Ussher deter - was to formulate the theory that artists/contribution volontaire of the publication of The Origin of inhabitants of the world should have mined that the date of creation was explained how evolution operated by pour soutenir les artistes Species (1859), the dean of Fordham been due to secondary causes, like October 23, 4004 B.C. This date combining Lyell’s Principles of Saturday January 3, 4:30 pm / College invited faculty to study the those determining the birth and appeared in the margins of the Geology (1831-1833) and Thomas Samedi 3 janvier, 16h30 text together. Questions arose that death of the individual. When I view Authorized Version. The world was Malthus’s Essay on Populations « La Flute de la Francophonie » called for further theological reflec - all beings not as special creations, thought to be less than six thousand (1798). Fearing repercussions, he Jonathan Bailey, flute, Geneviève tion. Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the but as the lineal descendants of some years old. Sir Charles Lyell, the delayed publication. Then, in 1858 Beaudet, piano. Musique de Love of God was her response. The few beings that lived long before the foremost British geologist of his he received a scientific paper by Francis Poulenc, Frank Martin, approach is Trinitarian, similar to first bed of the Silurian system was generation, on the basis of certain Alfred Russell Wallace with a theory Denis Bédard, Julio Racine geological anomalies, estimated its identical to his own. This forced his Saturday January 10, 4:30 pm / age as not less than 300 million hand. The Origin of Species by Means Samedi 10 janvier, 16h30 years. Darwin’s theory not only of Natural Selectio n appeared on « Le piano virtuose» Notable contradicted the plain sense of November 22, 1859. Helena Hyesoo Kim, piano. Genesis , it denied Providence. The Darwin was acutely aware that Musique de Beethoven, Debussy, Prière de réserver cette date dans votre agenda historic debate in 1860 between natural selection entails pain, suffer - Liszt. Bishop Samuel Wilberforce and ing and death on a massive scale Saturday January 17, 4:30 pm / HUITIEME EDITION DU COLLOQUE ROAA Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin’s caused by predation and extinction. Samedi 17 janvier, 16h30 Archevêché Orthodoxe Roumain des Amériques champion, highlighted their dis - The ichneumon that paralyzes Violin and viola: Partners in Université Laval – Faculté de théologie et sciences religieuses – Ville de Québec parate views. caterpillars as live food for its eggs crime/Alto et violon: les meilleurs Centre canadien d’œcuménisme Perhaps mindful of the Galileo especially perturbed him. At Cam - complices EVANGILE, FOI CHRETIENNE ET INSTITUTIONS Affair in the 17th century, the Roman bridge he read William Paley’s Erica Jacobs-Perkins, violin, Julie passé, présent, avenir Catholic Church remained silent on Natural Theology (1802) with its Michael, viola. Musique de J.S. the theory of evolution until 1950. elegant argument from design. UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL – Pavillon Alphonse Desjardins Bach, Krzysztof Penderecki, Origin was never on the Index. Paley’s theodicy no longer sufficed. 2325 rue de l’Université, 4e étage – salles 4511 et 4512 (accès par ascenseur) Bohuslav Martinu. Samedi 21 Mars 2015 / 9:00 – 16:30 Catholic scientists might explore the In later life Darwin became an origins of life and the cosmos. The “agnostic,” a term Huxley coined in Saturday January 24, 4:30 pm / Conférenciers: Prof. Gilles Routhier, Prof. Lucian Turcescu, Father of Modern Genetics was an 1869. Samedi 24 janvier, 16h30 Rev. Père Lambros Kamperidis, Prof. Laurențiu Tãnase, Prof. Marc Pelchat, Austrian botanist and Augustinian Johnson broaches this intractable “Beethoven and Schumann: Rev. Père Ihor Kutash, Dr. Gaëtan Baillargeon, Prof. Gabriela Marcoci, abbot, Gregor Mendel (1822-1884). problem in Chapter 7. She eschews Sonata and fantasia” Dr. Brian Butcher The French Jesuit geologist and theodicy, opting instead for what Karl Hirzer, piano, Thomas Entrée libre. Préinscription requise par courriel à: palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de shall calls “deep incarnation”: Fortner, cello [email protected] Chardin (1881-1955) was co-discover - “Theological reflection on the Saturday January 31, 4:30 pm / Plus de détails (français/anglais) à: http://symposiumroaa.wix.com/index er of “Peking Man.” The Belgian natural world’s continuous creation Samedi 31 janvier, 16h30 Please reserve this date in your calendar mathematician and astrophysicist, in the power of the Spirit cannot Gabriel Fauré, violin and 8th EDITION ROAA SYMPOSIUM Mgr. Georges Henri Lemaître (1894- ignore this unfathomable history of piano sonatas Christian Vachon, violin, Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in the Americas 1966), originated “the Big Bang” biological suffering and death, Frédéric Lacroix, piano Laval University – Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies – Québec City theory. extending over hundreds of millions Canadian Centre for Ecumenism Since St. Augustine allowed an of years. Its overwhelming power Chocolate from Concept Chocolat, a allegorical interpretation of Genesis, initially evokes the honest response Montreal chocolatier using organic GOSPEL, CHRISTIAN FAITH AND INSTITUTIONS a literal understanding was not of being struck dumb in the face of past, present, future (in French) chocolate from around the world, required. Thus, John Henry Newman so much agony and loss. As with the including Fair Trade chocolate, and LAVAL UNIVERSITY – Pavillon Alphonse Desjardins could write in a letter: “Mr. Darwin’s mystery of suffering among humans, Fair Trade coffee from Dix Mille 2325 rue de l’Université, 4th floor – halls 4511 and 4512 (access by elevator) theory need not then to be atheisti - its roots reach deeper than the Villages are sold at the concerts. Saturday, March 21, 2015 / 9:00 am – 4:30 pm cal, be it true or not; it may simply be human mind can fathom. When Profits go to L’Oasis Musicale. Free entrance. Pre-registration required via email at: suggesting a larger idea of Divine theology does dare to speak to this Information 514-843-6577 x236 [email protected] Prescience and Skill.” Newman issue, ancient in its pedigree but [email protected] Details (French/English) at: http://symposiumroaa.wix.com/index captured Darwin’s sense of wonder at relatively new in its evolutionary www.oasismusicale.blogspot.ca AnglicAn MOnTREAl • JAnUARY 8015 11

Diocesan Clippings

Love in Motion

Helping hands for food depot. Once again, St. Philip’s Church in Montreal West was a major supporter of the annual door-to-door food drive by in Parishioners of St. George Ste. Anne Notre Dame de Grâce, Westmount and Montreal West Saturday, Nov. 29, de Bellevue welcomed back the Rev. for the N.D.G. Food Depot. The parish hall was a key marshalling point and Sharissa reads the Gospel as her mother, Sharon Sintim, holds the Bible. storage area and parishioners and well wishers were among the volunteers Ms Sintim is one of four young women who are creative, committed, and Neil Mancor after a sabbatical leave – and baked him a cake decorated to who picked up food items from households, sorted food as it arrived and enthusiastic about Love in Motion, a program for children at St. CHL Parish packed it for storage and provided refreshments for other volunteers. (St. Cuthbert, St. Hilda and St. Luke) and elsewhere in the Rosemont district. look like one of his favourite T-shirts (Photos: Richard Matthews) Rev. Roslyn Macgregor and several of the children look on. with a design evoking the Book of Alternative Services . Spiritual Calendar

CIRCUMCISION WEEK OF PRAYER OF OUR LORD FOR CHRISTIAN The Church of St. John UNITY the Evangelist CELEBRATION 2015 137 President Kennedy Ave. Santa Cruz (corner of St. Urbain St.), Montreal (NEW YEAR’S DAY) Portuguese Mission 60 Rachel St. W., Montreal Solemn High Mass With Procession. Sun., Jan. 18, 4 p.m. Thur., Jan. 1, 10:30 a.m. Informa - Members of all Christian denomina - tion: 514-288-4428, www.redroof.ca tions are invited to come together STILL PRESENCE for prayer. Organized by the Canadi - SPIRITUALITY an Centre for Ecumenism. CENTRE Townships rectory CONCERT SERIES to be sold MEDITATION CIRCLE Christ Church Beaurepaire Christ Church Beaurepaire Members of the Diocesan Council 455 church St., Beaconsfield expressed support at the November 455 church St., Beaconsfield, Starting Tues., Jan 20, meeting for a decision by the Parish in the chapel January-May Mondays, resuming Jan. 5, 7 p.m., of St. Luke in Waterloo, in the East - The second season of the Christ ern Townships, to sell the rectory, to Alternately led by Michael Johnson Church, Beaurepaire Concert Series and Cedric Cobb We cultivate ways raise funds for much-needed work starts on Tuesday, January 20. Over on the church including a new to separate your identity from your the course of five concerts, audiences work and to remember your inher - heating system, expected to cost will be treated to great music includ - $70,000-$80,000 and other repairs ent value and connection to Source. ing brass consorts, a 50-voice a We will also cultivate a grounded costing around $30,000. The parish cappella choir, Irish music, and a has not had a full-time priest or used presence and an open heart. To learn string and piano ensemble among more visit the website at www.stillp - the rectory for clergy housing for other wonderful offerings. Concerts some years. resence.com or contact Father take place on the third Tuesday of Michael at 514-697-2204. each month, through to May, at Christ Church. For tickets and more EPIPHANY OF OUR information please call the office at LORD SOLEMN 514-697-2204 or Earl Wilson, the HIGH MASS WITH musical director, at 514-486-9338 PROCESSION The Church of St. John PAWS & PRAY the Evangelist Christ Church Beaurepaire 137 President Kennedy Ave. 455 church St., Beaconsfield (corner of St. Urbain St.), Montreal Sun., Feb. 1, 1 p.m. Tue, Jan. 6, 5:45 p.m. Paws & Pray is a service of the Holy Information: 514-288-4428, www.re - Eucharist that focuses on our rela - droof.ca tionships with our canine compan - ions. Everyone is welcome, with or WEEK OF PRAYER without a dog. The next service will FOR CHRISTIAN be on Feb. 1. Information: 514-697- UNITY ECUMENICAL 2204 SERVICE All Saints Deux Montagnes CANDLEMASS 228 18th Ave., SOLEMN HIGH MASS Sun., Jan. 18, 11 a.m. AND PROCESSION Preceded by the “time to connect” WITH CANDLES with coffee, tea, juice, snacks and The Church of St. John Storm, right, a young parishioner at friends at 10:30 a.m. Information: the Evangelist Trinity Memorial Church, gets help from the rector, the Rev. Canon 450-473-9541, info@allsaintsdeux - 137 President Kennedy Ave. Joyce Sanchez, in lighting the first montagnes.ca, www.allsaintsdeux - (corner of St. Urbain St.), Montreal Mon., Feb. 2, 5:45 p.m. Advent candle November 30. montagnes.ca Parishioner Shirley Newell, above, Information: 514-288-4428, also participated in the special www.redroof.ca Advent service. (Photo: René Sanchez) 18 AnglicAn MOnTREAl • JAnUARY 8015

Homilist says not much has changed since Polytechnique massacre

Service also commorates other victims of violence Staff

The world has not changed much for women in the 25 years since the fatal shooting of 14 female students at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, the Rev. Canon Joyce Sanchez said at a service in Christ Church Cathedral marking that date December 6. Canon Sanchez, priest at Trinity Memorial Church in west end Mont - real, was homilist at a service organ - ized by the diocesan Anglican Church Women to mark a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. She said reports of thousands of missing and murdered aboriginal women, reports of abuse of women on university campuses and recent media reports of allegations of abuse of women by male celebrities and members of Parliament are examples that too little has change. Even Jesus’ expression of support for women was “limited,” she said. The account of his support for the woman taken in adultery in Chapter 8 of the Gospel of John – one of the readings in that service – depicts a power struggle between men, the Jewish authorities and Jesus, more than it focuses on the woman, she said. For example, there is no men - tion of the man who would have to have been present if the woman were really “taken in adultery.” Even at the end of the story she remains “disgraced, humiliated and tainted. There is no ‘happily ever after .’ ” “Jesus’ ministry of a transformed Members of the diocesan ACW committee and other participants in the service stand with candles commemorating the 14 École Polytechnique victims. world was limited by the unwilling - From left are, front row, Abioseh Cromanty, Mary Pickup, Eileen Scully (ACW past president), Verna Peris (treasurer), back row, Barbara Smith, Gloria ness of his contemporaries to join Augustus (president), the Rev. Shirley Smith (ACW chaplain and celebrant at the service), the Rev. Canon Joyce Sanchez (homilist) and the Rev. Merlyne in his ministry of transformation.” Howard (who read the Gospel). (Photos: Harvey Shepherd)

Homecoming planned in April at historic South Shore church

Friends and former parishioners of guage and community ministry, souvenirs. St. Mark’s Parish in Longueuil are partly to the homeless, based in the La petite communauté bilingue planning a celebration in the historic old church. de St. Mark’s a commencé à partager church April 25 of more than 170 In the mean time, preparations les quartiers de la paroisse de St. years of ministry by the parish. for the celebration on Saturday, April Barnabas à Saint-Lambert en juillet A group including the Rev. Roslyn 25, are in the preliminary stages but dernier et leur prêtre, le révérend Macgregor, who remembers the those interested are urged to send an Richard Gauthier, a continué à church from her girlhood, has urged email to stmarkschurch25@ gmail. diriger la paroisse en transition. Le those with roots in the church to com or call call Ros Macgregor at plupart des dimanches, les paroisses spread the word of the celebration, 450-646-3297 or Wendy Beausoleil at de St. Barnabas et de St. Mark ont get in touch with organizers of the St. Barnabas, 450-672-5560 continué leur culte séparément, tout event – to take place on the feast day en travaillant ensemble lors d’autres of St. Mark the Evangelist – and RETROUVAILLES PRÉVUE activités. begin collecting stories, photos and EN AVRIL À L’ÉGLISE L’église historique de St. Mark other memorabilia. HISTORIQUE ST. MARK’S demeure un centre du ministère The small, bilingual worshipping Des amis et anciens paroissiens anglican. Le père Gauthier concentre community of St. Mark’s began de la paroisse St. Mark’s à Longueuil maintenant ses efforts sur le dévelop - sharing the quarters of St. Barnabas organisent une célébration souli - pement du ministère en français et Parish in St. Lambert last July and gnant plus de 170 ans de ministère auprès de la communauté, entre the minister, the Rev. Richard Gau - au sein de la paroisse historique le 25 autres auprès des sans-abri, basé à la thier, continued to lead the parish as Avril. vieille église. it made this transition. On most Un groupe, dont la révérende Les préparatifs pour cette célébra - Sundays, the St Mark’s community Roslyn Macgregor, qui se souvient de tion qui aura lieu le samedi 25 Avril continued to have its own worship l’église de son enfance, a demandé à n’en sont qu’aux étapes prélimi - service, while the parishes co-operat - ceux qui ont des racines au sein de naires, mais ceux qui sont intéressés ed in other activities and looked at l’église de parler de la célébration à participer sont invités à envoyer un ways to move forward together in the autour d’eux. Ils les invitent à entrer courriel à stmarkschurch25@ gmail. new year. en contact avec les organisateurs de com ou à contacter au Ros Macgre - The historic St. Mark’s church l’événement – qui aura lieu le jour de gor au 450-646-3297 ou Wendy remains a centre of Anglican min - la fête de Saint Marc l’évangéliste – et Beausoleil à St. Barnabas au 450-672- istry. Father Gauthier is now concen - également à commencer à recueillir 5560. trating on developing French-lan - des histoires, des photos et autres