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ADVENT / CHRISTMAS 2014 PRO CHRISTO ET ECCLESIA Montreal Diocesan Theological College Newsletter “God’s work is always unfolding, yet we urgently need to do our part to help bring it to fruition. ” Theological Reflection by the Rev. Dr. Donald L. Boisvert, p. 8 ADVENT / CHRISTMAS 2014 IN THIS ISSUE MONTREAL DIOCESAN Many Fond Memories Dio Chaplain Leaves Montreal THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE Page 3 And Their Eyes Were Principal The Rev. Canon Dr. John Simons Opened Director of Pastoral Studies The Rev. Dr. Karen Egan Director of Lay Education The Rev. Canon Tim Smart In memory of Xu Lizhi (1990- Chaplain The Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Rowlinson 2014), Foxconn worker who killed Administrator Beth Reed himself, September 30, 2014 Development Coordinator Afra Saskia Tucker Page 5 Qu’est-ce que la mission Montreal Diocesan Theological College urbaine, la 5e marque de 3475 University mission anglicane et l’église Montreal, QC, Canada, H3A 2A8 de l’Épiphanie ont en Telephone: 514-849-3004 commun? Fax: 514-849-3114 Page 7 [email protected] | www.dio-mdtc.ca | facebook.com/dio.mdtc Theological Reflection Doing our Part to Bring God’s Work to Fruition Page 8 Cover: The Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton addresses participants of the celebration of the Montreal School of Theology’s Happy Birthday Montreal 100th anniversary School of Theology Photos on this page by Linda Wei The ‘oldest ecumenical consortium in the Western world’ Design and layout: Roland Hui and Afra Saskia Tucker turns 100! Page 10 Alumni Where Are They Now? Page 11 MDTC Alumni and Friends Homecoming Event Page 12 2 ADVENT / CHRISTMAS 2014 The Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Rowlinson at the Charter of Values protest in Montreal, September, 2013 Many Fond Memories Dio Chaplain Leaves Montreal BY THE REV. CANON DR. JOHN SIMONS, PRINCIPAL On Thursday, October 23, the 1995. Back in the mid-80s was her tutor. Elizabeth college said a formal good- while serving as the Dean of had previously lived in the bye to Elizabeth Rowlinson Women at Trinity College, Montreal area where she had at a luncheon in her honour. Toronto, and Principal of St. earned a Ph.D. at McGill, and, For nineteen years, until her Hilda’s College, Elizabeth with her husband, Hugh, had resignation this summer, enrolled in the college’s raised three sons. Elizabeth Elizabeth served the college as Reading and Tutorial Course loved Montreal and wanted to chaplain, and for most of that in Theology. The Rev’d Dr. return after retiring from St. time in an honorary capacity. Don Thompson, one-time Hilda’s College. Accepted as director of pastoral studies at a postulant for ordination by Elizabeth’s association with the college, and, at the time, Bishop Andrew Hutchison, the college began before her director of the Centre for Elizabeth completed the In appointment as chaplain in Christian Studies in Toronto, Ministry Year in 1993 and was 3 ADVENT / CHRISTMAS 2014 ordained the same year. She Elizabeth’s musical have accompanied our served as an assistant priest connections in the wider psalm-singing at the weekly at the Cathedral and as one community earned us an Eucharist in St. Luke’s Chapel. of the chaplains at McGill. It entrée to CAMMAC in the On those occasions when was a natural move for her Laurentians where we have we have hosted our sister to add to these duties the held our annual orientation colleges at tri-college worship, responsibilities of part-time retreat since 1996 (with more than one Dio student chaplain at the college. the exception of two years has felt it imperative to sing while the facility was under the psalm with handbells We were greatly blessed reconstruction). Moreover, as this constitutes (or so it by her ministry. When the her friendship with the is believed) a distinctively college still had the residence, organ-builder, Karl Wilhelm, Anglican contribution to the populated, as it was, mostly allowed for the gift of a praise of God offered by the by McGill undergraduates, handsome tracker-action ecumenical Church. Elizabeth paid special organ currently located in attention to them, hosting St. Luke’s Chapel and given I shall miss Elizabeth social gatherings and a to the college in memory of especially for her wise Sunday night service in Elizabeth’s parents. counsel. As a former dean and St. Luke’s Chapel. She also principal she had invaluable instituted the Service of experience and insight. Lessons and Carols for Elizabeth and Hugh have Advent, which has become moved to a retirement home one of our end-of-term in Ontario. We wish them traditions. In the days when health and happiness, and it was held in Convocation we thank God for Elizabeth’s Hall, it attracted up to eighty And then there are the bells! many years of faithful service persons. It continues to be Elizabeth initiated a whole to the college. held in St. Luke’s Chapel on generation of theology the first Friday in Advent, students into the proper though the smaller space has use of handbells which, meant fewer numbers. for almost twenty years, 4 ADVENT / CHRISTMAS 2014 And Their Eyes Were Opened In memory of Xu Lizhi (1990-2014), Foxconn worker who killed himself, September 30, 2014 BY THE REV. TIM SMART, M.DIV. ’87, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE FOR LAY EDUCATION FOR THE DIOCESE OF MONTREAL In the beginning was the Word. A Word Processor. A fruit named MacIntosh. An Apple grown in China, plucked off the shelf in Canada, consumed, opening eyes to the new reality of interconnection and global dysfunction, brought to you by the Internet. Innocence lost. Outside of Eden, in the open pit mines of Chile where copper is extracted and peasants displaced; in the “Democratic” Republic of Congo where tantalum for capacitors is harvested from the earth and the water is poisoned; mixed with gold from Australia, The Rev. Tim Smart platinum from South Africa, silver from Peru, aluminum, arsenic, lead and mercury, stores–plug and play, now downloading CBC treasures once hidden beneath the earth, now podcasts to keep informed, connecting to his blended together in magical combinations son in Japan via Skype, and watching more beneath my fingertips, so that I might cat videos than is healthy. Uploading his compute that which will never compute, digital reality to the Cloud; storing contacts, the abuse of land and people. Praise the emails and family photos of Christmases extraction skills of mining companies–we past, precious moments, residing forever on helpfully read online, 75% of the world’s a Server Farm in Iowa (where corn no longer mining companies love to call Canada grows) powered by a coal plant, always on, home–and for good reason. Cue the movie everywhere available, eternal, everlasting Avatar. moments. Omnipresent Data, demanding only huge amounts of electricity and updates Assembled in China by overworked and of what you ate for breakfast. underpaid assembly line youth migrants from rural areas, employed by Foxconn (no irony Four years from now, when I’ve finished intended in that name). Boxed, packaged, with the fruit of this labour, I may throw lifted on board container ships bound for the this Apple into the landfill or toss it into promised land where a pastor who has spare some bin, imagining recycling here or there change to buy electronics at glass window overseas by a young kid in a slum, nimbly 5 ADVENT / CHRISTMAS 2014 deconstructing the guts of my electronic life, risking his own life, handling precious, deadly metals to make his own living, hoping one day to buy an Apple fallen from the same tree, a cellphone perhaps, connecting him with me in our global village of success, advancement and the good life. “A Screw Fell to the Ground” by Xu Lizhi (9 Jan. 2014) A screw fell to the ground In this dark night of overtime Plunging vertically, lightly clinking It won’t attract anyone’s attention Just like last time On a night like this When someone plunged to the ground References: https://libcom.org/blog/nao http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/ http://www.kairoscanada.org/take-action/ open-for-justice/ http://www.miningwatch.ca 6 ADVENT / CHRISTMAS 2014 En tant qu’étudiante en année terminale du programme de M.Div. au Séminaire Diocésain de Montréal, je désirais acquérir des habiletés dans le domaine du développement de missions urbaines. Je me suis jointe à Afra Tucker qui travaille avec l’église de l’Épiphanie pour rejoindre la population de jeunes adultes de Verdun à Montréal, tout en mettant l’emphase sur la 5e marque de mission. Josée Lemoine Nous essayons de rencontrer de jeunes adultes intéressés à organiser des activités afin Qu’est-ce que la de créer des liens et réseaux dans la communauté, avec des gens qui ont des passions mission urbaine, la 5e et des valeurs similaires et qui sont particulièrement marque de mission concernés par la question de la protection de l’environnement, le respect de anglicane et l’église la nature et de notre planète, un but qui coïncide avec la de l’Épiphanie ont en 5e marque de mission de l’Église Anglicane qui est d’œuvrer pour la préservation commun? de l’intégrité de la création et maintenir et renouveler la vie PAR JOSÉE LEMOINE, ÉTUDIANTE EN ANNÉE TERMINALE DE LA sur Terre. M.DIV. AU MDTC ET EN STAGE À L’ÉGLISE DE L’ÉPIPHANIE, Afra et moi avons rencontré VERDUN Christine, la responsable de Réseau de jardinage du Sud-Ouest et Verdun, afin 7 ADVENT / CHRISTMAS 2014 de voir si nous pourrions et à la préparation du repas. qui se préoccupent de collaborer dans ce sens.