November 2007
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The Parish of St. Edmund, King and Martyr (Waterloo, Ontario) www.stedmund.ca The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada (A member of the worldwide Traditional Anglican Communion) UPDATE November 2, 2007 - All Souls' Day December Schedule December 2 Sunday The First Sunday in Advent December 8 Saturday The Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary December 9 Sunday The Second Sunday in Advent December 16 Sunday The Third Sunday in Advent December 21 Friday St. Thomas the Apostle December 23 Sunday The Fourth Sunday in Advent December 24 Monday Christmas December 26 Wednesday St. Stephen the Martyr December 27 Thursday St. John the Evangelist December 28 Friday The Holy Innocents December 30 Sunday The Sunday after Christmas Service Times and Location (1) All Services are held in the Chapel at Luther Village on the Park - 139 Father David Bauer Drive in Waterloo. (2) On Sundays, Matins is sung at 10:00 a.m. (The Litany on the first Sunday of the month), and the Holy Eucharist is celebrated (sung) at 10:30 a.m. (3) On weekdays - Major Holy Days - the Holy Eucharist is usually celebrated at 7:00 p.m., 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. Notes and Comments 5) A bit about Bishop Michael Gill - see page 3. 1) St. Edmund's Day - Thursday, November 22 - 6) The Communion of Saints! Life Everlasting! - please mark your calendar - Mass at 6:00 p.m. and Our Beloved Dead - this month we start serializing dinner immediately following. (Transferred from this booklet - see page 4. November 20.) Our Rural Dean, The Rev. Roberts S. H. Mansfield SSC, will be the celebrant 7) For Robert's Ramblings - The Foolishness of and preacher. Please note the change in the time! Preaching - see page 5. 2) More on the rubrics in the Prayer Book. 8) Claims every Catholic should be able to From a Tract by the Alcuin Club - English or answer - the ninth of twelve parts - see page 6. Roman Use? - 1913: 9) Priesthood and the Church - see page 8. "The most superficial examination of the rules and directions for the celebration of public worship in the Prayer Book of 1549 is sufficient COB Meeting in Portsmouth to show that they certainly were never intended to form a complete code of instructions. The College of Bishops of the Traditional Anglican Communion met in Portsmouth, England The fact is that the book is unintelligible except in early October. The Primate (Archbishop John on the theory that it presupposed the existence Hepworth), Bishops Robert Mercer CR and Peter of a well-known system, and only gave such Wilkinson flew to Rome on the 8th of October to directions as were necessary to carry out and deliver a Letter to the Congregation for the explain the changes which had been made." Doctrine of the Faith on the 9th. and . The Primate has issued the following statement: "It is to be noted that the book does not The College of Bishops of the Traditional everywhere enjoin and prescribe every little Anglican Communion (TAC) met in Plenary order, what should be said or done, but takes it Session in Portsmouth, England, in the first for granted that people are acquainted with such week of October 2007. common . things, . and let ancient customs prevail, the thing which our Church chiefly The Bishops and Vicars-General unanimously intended in the review of the service." agreed on the text of a Letter to the See of Rome seeking full, corporate, and sacramental union. and . The Letter was signed solemnly by all the College and entrusted to the Primate and two "It may be noted that the scanty and incomplete bishops chosen by the College [Bishops Robert nature of the rubrics in the Prayer Book simply Mercer CR and Peter Wilkinson OSG] to be followed the universal practice which had presented to the Holy See. previously obtained in all service books, such as breviaries and missals. For complete directions The Letter was cordially received at the as to the method in which services were to be Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. performed, reference had to be made elsewhere, e.g., to the Ordinale or The Primate and College of the TAC have Directorium." agreed that no member of the College will give interviews until the Holy See has considered the 3) Great news! A Letter [from the Traditional Letter and responded. Anglican Communion] to the See of Rome seeking full, corporate, and sacramental union - The following bishops and vicars-general attended COB Meeting in Portsmouth - this page. the Portsmouth meeting: 4) A report on the consecration of Fr. Michael Bishops Gill, et al - My trip to the UK in September / October - see page 3. Samuel M. Banzana - Port Elizabeth - Umzi Wasi Tiyopia - HCC* 2 Craig Botterill - Canada them in Bulawayo. On a couple of occasions I had John Broadhurst - FiF** International visited them at Tshipise when they had driven Louis Campese - USA south for a vacation and I had driven north with a David Chislett SSC - Australia - and FiF car full of parishioners from All Saints, Harry Entwistle SSC - Australia - and FiF Polokwane. Louis Falk - USA Rocco Florenza - USA In correspondence after the memorable Juan Garcia - Puerto Rico anniversary, Bishop Robert urged me to return so Michael Gill - Southern Africa that we might have a proper visit and he offered to John Hepworth - Australia take me on a walking tour of Arundel Castle and to Patrick Hosea - India see some of the sights of Portsmouth harbour. I Raphael Kajiwara - Japan wanted very much to accept his invitation. James Lall - India George Langberg - USA The sudden death of Bishop Trevor Rhodes in Robert Mercer CR - Canada Johannesburg on 10 June started the train of events Michael Mjekula - South Africa - Umzi Wasi which led to the election of Fr Michael Gill to Tiyopia succeed Bishop Rhodes at an electoral synod Matthew M. Ngqono - South Africa - Umzi Wasi convened immediately after the funeral. His Tiyopia consecration was set by the Archbishop for 2 Tolowa Nona SSC - Torres Strait October in Portsmouth where the bishops of the Samuel Thangaraj Ponniah - India TAC were to meet at St Agatha's Church there. [St Samuel Prakash - India Agatha's has a sign outside which states flatly that Carl Reid - Canada it is not a part of nor has any connection with the David Robarts - Australia - and FiF Church of England. The people who go to Mass Ruben Rodriquez-Molina - Guatamala there are few but go from near and far. Fr S.J.E. Tuti - India Maunder, the priest, is a schoolteacher and has Peter Wilkinson OSG - Canada recently recruited about 5-6 boys who are learning Daren Williams - USA from the older men all they must do as servers.] It Michael Wright - England - HCC was at St Agatha's that Bishop Mercer had had his anniversary celebrations less than six months Vicars-General before. It seemed to be a good opportunity for me to visit Bishop Mercer and to lend support to Fr Brian Gill - England Gill. I suspected rightly that few South Africans Andrew Mukuyamba - Zambia could be present given the cost of everything in the Jeremiah Wellington Ncube Murinda - Zimbabwe UK. Ian Woodman - New Zealand Bishop Mercer was agreeable and again I flew * The Holy Catholic Church (Anglican Rite) overnight from Toronto with restless and vocal ** Forward in Faith children near me on the plane. And again I went to a friend in Oxford, Fr Ralph Martin SSM, whom I have known from university days now over fifty My trip to the UK in September / October years ago. He is in his retirement a chaplain at All Saints Sisters of the Poor. They have there a When I left the UK in May 2007 it had been my hospice for small children and what they call a intention to wait until April-May of 2008 to return. 'respice' for teenagers and young adults. There is My visit in May 2007 had been for the purpose of as well a home for the aged on the convent attending Bishop Mercer's 30th anniversary of grounds. It was a pleasant 4-5 days before I went consecration to the episcopate as 4th Bishop of to Worthing on 22 September to Bishop Mercer. Matabeleland in what is now Zimbabwe. On that On the 23rd I preached at the High Mass in St occasion we had no conversation despite the fact Agatha's with all the ceremonial which I had all but that I was staying in his flat in Worthing, W. forgotten. Sussex. I had been well looked after by his sister and brother-in-law who lived nearby. I had met In the week following I had the tour of Arundel them some years before at Tshipise, a vacation and other places in Sussex. When Bishop Mercer spot with hot springs in the northern province of went to Croydon for the patronal festival of a Limpopo in South Africa. As well I had visited church dedicated to St Michael I was well looked after again by Pat and Peter Lovell. On Sunday the 3 30th I went back to St Agatha's in Portsmouth on A bit about Bishop Michael Gill the train for the High Mass with Fr Shane Janzen as the preacher. I spent the greater part of the B.A., B.Th., Dip.Th. week there only returning to Worthing on the Deputy Principal: Finance Thursday and then back to Toronto on the Friday. Michael Gill grew up in Kensington but went to his The consecration of Fr Michael Gill took place on father's old school, St John's College.