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The 2019 Dec. Montreal Evangelist John Saint The Church of of Church The the Evangelist, Evangelist, the Reflections By Fr. Keith Schmidt Bishop James had visited St. John’s and Bishop Almasi's visit Music meeting, the idea was raised of St. Michael’s Mission last time he was in doing something to commemorate this Montreal. After I had given him a brief occasion of Newman’s canonization tour of the mission and the church, he during the Bishop’s visit to St. John’s. It commented that the next time he comes seemed on one hand, that it was an to Montreal, perhaps he could come to St. occasion that we should not ignore, and John’s for a Sunday, because we 'smelled' on the other hand, it would complicate like a real church (the slight smell of our theme for the day which was incense was still in the air). Masasi, and originally simply going to be Harvest that part of Eastern Africa, was heavily Thanksgiving. influenced by Anglo-Catholicism and the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa. It was also suggested that we invite a The well known early twentieth century Roman Catholic representative, and the Anglo-Catholic Bishop, Frank Weston, name of Bishop Tom Dowd, auxiliary had been Bishop of Zanzibar. The Trevor Huddleson, Community of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal Diocese of Masasi was created in 1926 by Resurrection, Mirfield, was Bishop of came up. Bishop Dowd, as a member of dividing the Diocese of Zanzibar. Masasi from 1960-1968. Huddleson had The Order of St. Lazarus had already been been exiled from South Africa because to St John’s for an Evensong and Bishop Weston delivered the final of his anti-apartheid involvement, and Benediction. An invitation was duly sent, address of the Second Anglo-Catholic Nelson Mandela had said of him that “no and rather to my surprise, Bishop Dowd, Congress of 1923, in which he said, “You white person had some more for South after making a few changes in his cannot claim to worship Jesus in the Africa than Trevor Huddeston”. calendar, agreed to be present as well. In Dear Parishioners and Friends: Tabernacle if you do not pity Jesus in the the end, Bishop Dowd was unfortunately slum”. He urged the audience to "Go out I was therefore very happy to hear that unable to attend due to a family member We have had at least two exciting and look for Jesus in the ragged, in the Bishop James would be coming to St. in palliative care. Still, we had a developments this autumn! naked, in the oppressed and sweated, John’s this autumn as part of his visit to wonderful celebration with Bishop James in those who have lost hope, in those North America, and the date of who gave the sermon. The parish also The first was the visit of The Rt. Rev’d who are struggling to make good. Look October 13 was agreed to. It was only late raised almost $3000 for The St. James Almasi, Bishop of the Diocese of for Jesus. And when you see Him, gird in August that I came to the realization Catherine’s School for Girls in Masasi. Montreal’s companion Diocese of Masasi yourselves with his towel and try to wash that not only was October 13, the Sunday in Tanzania in East Africa. He was here their feet". We have another quotation in Thanksgiving Weekend, but it was also John Henry Newman, along with John for our commemoration of the from Bishop Weston just as you enter the the date that John Henry Newman would Keble and Edward Bouverie Pusey, were canonization of John Henry Newman on church from the narthex. be canonized in Rome. When discussing founding members of the Oxford the Thanksgiving Weekend. the forthcoming visit at a Liturgy and Movement, out of which Anglo-

2 3 New directions for the Catholicism developed. Newman later Festival. People often comment that they Jazz Mass line with our other liturgies. As the became a Roman Catholic, and have gone past the building many times overall celebration flows smoothly, our afterwards a cardinal. This did not always but have never come in. I would also like by Mtr. Wendy Telfer work is focussed on music and preaching. make him a sympathetic figure to to thank June Clair who often assisted, Anglicans, but with the rapprochement Afra Tucker who designed the signage, Federico Andreoni, our Director of among Christians after Vatican II and the and others who helped as well. I think Music, noted that the soloist Jean-Pierre Ecumenical Movement, many of this has been a very useful initiative, and Zanella did a brilliant job of improvising, Newman’s ideas were seen as a way I hope to have it continue next spring. intervening with the choir, and forward in Roman Catholic/Anglican accompanying the congregational hymn and Protestant relations. Newman St. John’s in the past was very proud to singing. The resulting integration of solo, today is generally seen as one of the great be one of the few non-Roman Catholic choral, and congregational music created theological minds of the 19th Century. In churches to be open during the week, but a more immersive experience of worship, North America, in particular, Newman in the 1970s, with the changing a sublime blending of music and liturgy. Centres located at many Universities are neighbourhood and society, it was no He recommends that, going forward, the often the place for chaplaincy work for longer possible to keep churches open soloist be encouraged to take a leadership all Christians to work with university unless there were people present to role as an integral part of the Mass, as students. oversee things. This is a good opportunity opposed to performing a few pieces as an to let the neighbourhood know we are invited guest. The second development this fall - and still here. It is also a good reminder of one continuing on the theme of openness what we can do when everyone pitches in Concerning the homily, Fr. Keith suggests - was having the church be open from 11 to help. that it be a casual meditation, similar AM to 1 PM on Wednesdays in late After the shock of a snowstorm in early to the talk we deliver from the nave on September and October. For getting this The snowfall is a reminder that November, it is comforting to turn our Good Friday. The message could focus on up and going, we are grateful to our new Christmas is not far behind. Wishing minds back to the Jazz Mass, which we a hymn or a jazz song. The intention is to parishioner, Keith Fisher. everyone a very Blessed Christmas and celebrated at the beginning of la belle address the challenges of life and of jazz Epiphany season! saison. in a positive way. I am inspired by Holly During the first week, there were about Cole’s recent performance at Lion d’Or. 10 visitors, the second week 22, the third Planning is well underway for the fifth She took the stage in a chic sixties outfit week 25, and the fourth week 18. With edition in 2020. The theme which arose with long black gloves, her hair styled in this success, we hope to do this again Keith + from conversations with parishioners, an elegant up-do. Ms. Cole tackled next spring and summer. We have talked and discussions of the planning group, discrimination against women head-on, about opening up the church for many and of the Liturgy and Music in a delicious and effective manner. She years, and have done so on certain Committee, is that we are ready to opened with Girl Talk, which the occasions, such as during the Jazz regularize this Mass, to bring it more into Broadway star Michael Feinstein

4 5 Evangelism describes as 'the last great male But when we read The New Testament a and the pouring out and drinking of wine chauvinistic song written in the 60s'. She By Fr. Richard Cawley different form of evangelism from the common cup, and with the re-appropriated the song marvellously, emerges. In Paul’s epistles and elsewhere, repetition of these words of Jesus - do this from a female perspective, revelling in we find a very different presentation of in remembrance of Me. the delight which women take in our own the message of Jesus. The message of small talk, while giving a fond wink to the Jesus came to people sharing a common The placing of the message, and the life men in our lives. meal, hosted by someone who had and death of Jesus in the context of a received this message after meeting some familiar meal is how the early Christian I welcome your suggestions on all aspects of Jesus’ first followers. Church evangelized the world of its day. of la Messe jazzée. It was so effective because this story was In the Near East and throughout the told at a shared meal. For the people at Roman Empire, it was a common that time it was a common human practice for friends to meet together for a experience to eat together as it is for us, Wendy + formal meal or banquet, hosted by one of and there is nothing better than to hear them at his home. This meal took place a story told over a shared meal. And this in a banquet room set aside for this story promises to bring you into a direct Soloist Jean-Pierre Zanella at St. John's (Photo by Myer Randolph) purpose. Those present reclined on relationship with the main character in benches around a large table. There the tale - who not only was executed and were certain formalities to do with the who died, but who encountered His breaking and distribution of bread and followers after being risen from the dead. Just before the General Synod in July, Fr. the drinking of wine. As you can see this Remember how the Disciples on the road Keith preached a sermon on evangelism, clearly resembles the meal that Jesus and to Emaeus met the risen Jesus when He the theme of the Synod. His thoughtful his Disciples shared in the upper room. took bread and broke it before them at discourse prompted me to write this And it is in the context of this banquet the evening meal. The banquet meal may article in response. In it, he reminded meal that the host told the story of not have been the only way that the story us that evangelism has been, and is now Jesus' ministry, the last days and hours of of Jesus was told. But we may be sure that a concern of Protestant churches of the His life, and His resurrection. This is how it was always connected with the breaking 'evangelical' tradition. It is certainly not the story was spread from Jerusalem to of bread. What we do know is that from confined to them, but they have given the Antioch, to Corinth in Greece, and to the beginning of the Church until the impression that it is somehow their heart of the Roman Empire the city of Reformation, this story was told at the exclusive concern. The means of their Rome, and throughout the Eucharist Sunday. evangelism is confined to preaching Mediterranean world, and beyond to exclusively in whatever form: radio, TV, Africa and Spain, and even to far off How can the Eucharist be the means of pulpit discourse, or face to face Britain. It was a story told and illustrated evangelism today? It is left to us to work encounter. by the breaking and distribution of bread out how to do this. This is not an easy 6 7 task. I can only say that the essential 46 Years and Counting In September 1973, I came to St. John’s Margaret and Fr. Wood who believed elements of this meal rests on what has at The Church of St. for the first time, and now forty-six years that St. John’s should be a house of not changed in the human experience. John The Evangelist later, I am still a parishioner. I wrote an prayer, love, and caring, we have seen so Meeting together to share a meal with article that could have been developed many wonderful events that made it the friends and hearing a good story is the By Garrfield into a series, but felt it was too long and centre of the Anglo-Catholic faith to this same now as it was in the First Century. Du Couturier-Nichol so decided to write this shorter piece. day.

Let me be clear about about one thing. What has been the reason for my staying I remember with great joy the This is not a proposal for radical changes this long? Over these years I have come devoted clergy who were such an to the regular Sunday liturgy. Evangelism to feel a special deep relationship with important part of the life of St. John’s, is not aimed at the community of this temple of faith where people have and made their individual contributions practicing Christians. Evangelism is worshipped for well over one hundred over the years. Our late colleague, Peter directed at those who have little or no years. I have been active for most of Harper put together several historical contact with, or understanding of these years, and served at the funerals of accounts of these serving Fathers of St. Christianity. But everyone understands so many wonderful and faithful John’s for the edification of the parish for the importance of a shared meal and the parishioners who dedicated their lives which we are grateful. These have kept welcome it implies, and in the to keeping this house of God open and alive what St. John’s has stood for and Eucharist, word and action come accepting of anyone who came through where we came from to guide us into the together in the shared meal in a way that the red doors. The thick walls have made future. I have been a Server, Synod illustrates and re-enacts the drama of the it a simple place where one could come delegate, and a member of the Parish life and redemptive death of Jesus. The to pray or meditate, and to feel safe. The Council, as well as working for many broken bread and poured out wine is a music of the choir and organ have lifted years with Ivan Smith to set up for compelling picture of His broken body the spirits of people who needed bazaars and rummage sales. I have made and His out-poured blood. In September 1973, I came to St. John’s something to help them feel good again soup for many of our Lenten suppers for the first time, and now forty-six years after a loss or an upcoming challenge to to feed the body while our discussions later, I am still a parishioner. I wrote an be faced. So many of the parishioners fed their souls. It has been a natural act article that could have been developed have left their own mark by their for me to serve and assist wherever I Richard + into a series, but felt it was too long and presence and contribution to this holy could as part of my faith and devotion so decided to write this shorter piece. place of prayer and peace. As someone who came as a young adult and aged to What has been the reason for my staying become a senior citizen at St. John’s, I Fr. Cawley invites fellow parishioners this long? Over these years I have come to have seen the love and devotion of so Garrfield to ask him questions or to share their feel a special deep relationship with this many who made it their place of faith thoughts about this article after Mass. temple of faith where people have and service to their fellow parishioners. worshipped for well over one hundred From the days of the Sisters of St.

8 9 Bishop James' Visit The Diocese of Masasi is a companion to During his visit to St. John’s, Bishop By Beth Reed that of the Diocese of Montreal, a James was presented with a chalice and relationship going back more than a paten, a book of the Anglican sermons of decade, and spanning the tenure of two John Henry Newman, and a gift of nearly bishops in each diocese. The Anglican $3000 from the parish, as a contribution Church in Masasi, located in southern toward the construction of The St. Tanzania, dates back to the late 19th Catherine Girls Secondary School in the century when the area was first town of Namasakata, located in the evangelized by freed slaves from western part of the Diocese of Masasi. Zanzibar, who brought with them the Though we missed the Most Reverend Anglo-Catholic tradition that had been Thomas Dowd, Auxiliary Bishop of the bequeathed to them by Oxford Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Movement missionaries. This shared Montreal, who was originally scheduled Anglo-Catholic heritage made St. John to attend, the service was nonetheless the Evangelist a natural place for beautiful and uplifting. The lunch Bishop James to commemorate John reception following allowed Bishop Henry Newman, a founder of the Oxford James to spend some time getting to Movement. know members of our congregation.

I, as the Rector’s Warden, have visited St. John the Evangelist was blessed with a the Diocese of Masasi twice, in 2015 and visit from the Right Reverend James 2018, and was particularly pleased that Almasi, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese St. John’s could repay the of Masasi in Tanzania, during his two- hospitality I received there with such a week visit to the Diocese of Montreal in special service and reception. Thanks for October. The High Altar, the choir loft, the successful visit are due to the liturgy and the nave were all full this and music planning committee, the Harvest Thanksgiving, when Bishop Servers, the choir, the hospitality crew, James preached a sermon on the and to all those who donated so occasion of the Canonization of John generously to the collection for the St. Henry Newman, an event jointly Catherine school. celebrated by Roman Catholics and Anglicans in Rome, and around the world. Beth

10 11 Parish Archives work could begin on construction, Drew By Peter F. McNally and Normand had to build a new closet (Chair, Archives Committee) for the vestments worn by the Servers during Mass, demolish the old one, remove the existing flooring, and construct new secured shelving. Storage space for future growth was part of the design, which was greatly appreciated by the late Peter Harper, the parish’s official historian. His extensive records on St. John’s were the first major donation for the new facility.

Drew Graham-Smith and Normand Bourque, 2013 Peter McNally (center) with Normand Bourque and Glenn Brown Above: Bishop Mary Irwin-Gibson Following the Blessing, the Foundation receives a copy of the plan for The St. On Sunday, July 28, a new storage hosted a reception for parishioners in Catherine School in Namasaka, as Bishop facility for the St. John the Evangelist the Parish Hall. Thanks are extended to James Almasi and local offcials look on. Parish Archives was inaugurated in the Sheila Fletcher-Garner for catering and crypt under the church, with a formal organizing this event. Girls from the rural villages of Tanzania blessing by the Rector, Fr. Keith Schmidt. often have to leave home to attend day As the ceremony occurred after morning The Blessing secondary schools in the larger towns. Mass, a large number of parishioners They must find places to board in the were in attendance. Peter towns, away from family, and without a network of guidance and support. As a The facility was funded by The Edmund boarding school, The St. Catherine School Wood Foundation, whose President – will provide a safe and supportive place Glenn Brown – thanked parishioners for for girls to live and receive a quality their attendance, and extended particular secondary education. thanks to Normand Bourque and to the much-missed Andrew 'Drew' Graham- Smith for constructing the facility. Before The reception

12 13 The Tri-History Conference of the This year, The Canadian Church General Synod the next month. In the evening, we visited the nearby Historical Society was a co-host, with Following a reception, we heard the Church of St. Mary Magdalene – Episcopal Church additional support provided by The keynote address from Eric Taylor Mother Wendy’s home parish where she By Geoff McLarney Anglican Foundation. Our theme related Woods, a Canadian sociologist at a was ordained Deacon when I was still in to trauma and survival in the Church, university in London, England, on the seminary at Trinity. The programme for understood in a broad sense with topics Indian residential school system. the evening was a concert of works by covering a range of periods of conflict Healey Willan, perhaps Canada’s and transition in Anglican history. foremost composer and the parish’s long-time musician. It began with a short I set out by train Monday morning after National Film Board documentary about a busy Synod weekend. We had not Willan from 1959, and a reflection on his realized the victory parade for the music by Mother Andrea Budgey, Raptors was taking place that day. Trinity’s chaplain and the Anglican Although it had ended several hours chaplain to U of T. earlier, the streets were still full, and it Bishop Terry Brown, President of The was a good hike from Union Station to Canadian Church Historical Society, preaches my dad’s car. I was very grateful that the conference organizers waived my registration fees in exchange for some very light administrative duties. On Wednesday, I I was privileged this year to accept an gave a presentation on the history of the invitation to address the Tri-History ordination of women in the Anglican Conference of the Episcopal Church, Church of Canada. It was daunting to tell held in Toronto at Wycliffe College and this story to an audience that included Man of Music (1959) the University of Trinity College in June. key players in it, such as Bishop Victoria As its name suggests, the conference is The then-Primate celebrates the Solemn Matthews (the first woman in the held every three years under the Mass in Trinity College Chapel Canadian episcopate) and Canon Alyson On Thursday, we heard a panel anchored sponsorship of three Episcopal historical Barnett-Cowan (one of the first by Bishop Matthews and Fr. David societies – The Historical Society of the On Tuesday evening, the conference women priested in Canada, and the Neelands, Trinity’s former Dean of Episcopal Church (HSEC), The kicked off with Mass in the Trinity former directory of Unity, Faith and Divinity. Bishop Matthews, after serving National Episcopal Historians and College Chapel, where the Primate of All Order for the Anglican Communion as a suffragan in Toronto, and then as Archivists (NEHA), and The Episcopal Canada celebrated and preached in one Office). Bishop of Edmonton, was translated to Women’s History Project (EWHP). of his last acts before retiring at Christchurch, New Zealand, and was the

14 15 incumbent during the tragic rectory. St. Hilda’s College) has joined their ranks earthquakes there in 2010. As the public as the third chapel royal within Canada’s face of the diocese, she was a lightning In 1967, a teenage girl, residing with borders. The Queen granted the request rod for heated and often frankly quite the community under the Rector’s legal for royal status, made by Massey College ugly public backlash during the guardianship, died when her symptoms and The Mississaugas of the New Credit controversy over rebuilding the city’s of meningitis were mistaken for First Nation, as a gesture of cathedral. diabolical malevolence and 'treated' with reconciliation just before National prayer. A public inquiry followed, and Aboriginal Day in the sesquicentennial Fr. Neelands acknowledged that he the Diocese of Toronto tightened its Adoremus in æternam year of Confederation. The Mohawk had been implicated less directly in the regulations around healing ministries. trauma of which he spoke. His subject Fr. Neelands was a peripheral observer just the right time to drown out the was a movement, described as cult-like, in this melodrama; a friend had become prospect of an outdoor procession. which arose at the Church of St Matthias, deeply involved in the St. Matthias Bellwoods, in Toronto in the 1960s. St. community. The conference concluded with an Matthias is the original Anglo-Catholic optional field trip. After a final church in Toronto – the mother parish of In the evening, I made my way to session on Friday morning, a group of St. Mary Mag, which was founded as its Regent Park in the east end for the us grabbed boxed lunches and boarded 'suburban' mission (for those who know Corpus Christi celebration at St. a school bus bound for Her Majesty’s Toronto's geography, this is pretty funny Bartholomew’s Church. With our own Chapel of the Mohawks. The timing was HM Chapel of the Mohawks, exterior as it is now slap-bang in the tony parish son Kieran Wilson as MC, the appropriate, as it was June 21, National downtown Annex neighbourhood). Solemn Mass and Benediction were Aboriginal Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Anglican, while St. Catherine’s remains flawlessly executed, but alas, for the first Day. interfaith. Like other Roman and Anglo-Catholic time in a week of unbroken sunshine, the clergy (not to mention ministers of many heavens opened with lashes of rain – at Located on the outskirts of Brantford, At the Mohawk Chapel, we were greeted other denominations), this church’s Ontario, near the Canadian/Mohawk by the dynamic young chaplain royal, Rector was strongly influenced by the border, it is one of only a handful of the Revd. Rosalyn Elm and its resident Charismatic Renewal movement, which chapels royal outside the British Isles, historian, Dr. W. Barry Hill, a member emphasised the action of the Holy Spirit and one of two associated with the of the Wolf Clan, and a soy farmer with in the life of the Church, and Mohawk. Its sister is Christ Church a background in engineering. Dr. Hill incorporated Pentecostal practices Royal Chapel in Tyendinaga (near spoke to us about the history of the like speaking in tongues into worship. Belleville, Ontario). chapel, drawing from his book on the Faith-healing and a belief in demonic subject which was available for sale. influence were features of a community Kieran Wilson (left) deftly wields More recently, St. Catherine’s Chapel in which became centred at the St. Matthias the ombrellino Massey College (next door to Trinity’s

16 17 Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake). The chapel was a replacement for the original Queen Anne Chapel in the From the Chapel, we were led to the Mohawk community of Tiononderoge, site of the Mohawk Institute, the former near present-day Auriesville, New York. community’s former residential school, During the American War of which closed in 1970. Like many Independence, the Mohawk nation allied residential schools, it was the site of with the British. When the unspeakable abuses for which the revolutionaries triumphed, the Mohawks’ Anglican Church of Canada is now fate was sealed, and they fled north, committed to a process of atonement building the current Chapel (Upper and reconciliation. Today, it is home to Canada’s first Protestant church) in 1785. The Woodland Cultural Centre, which Shamefully, the long tract of land they Edward VIII's tree stands strong Chapel chancel showcases the history of the school and were awarded in return for their loyalty community. As it was National has been gradually whittled down to the reserve that remains today. Georgian church of the pre-Tractarian Aboriginal Day, the centre was closed era. Above the altar are the once and we were able to see only the exterior Still, the Mohawk Nation takes its ties typically Anglican panels featuring the of the school. to the Crown seriously. The Chapel has Creed, Lord’s Prayer, and Decalogue – welcomed royal visitors on several but in Mohawk (albeit in an archaic occasions, beginning with the then- transcription opaque to today’s Prince of Wales (the ill-fated future speakers). Edward VIII) in 1919. The tree he planted on the chapel grounds is still In addition to Edward VIII’s tree, the standing, and the Bible he signed now grounds are home to the tombs of Revo- bears several other royal signatures. The lutionary War hero Thayendanegea (Jo- Primate, Archbishop Linda Nicholls, seph Brant), who was reinterred from his The former Mohawk Institute visited the Chapel this past fall to Burlington estate in 1850, and the poet celebrate the centenary of that first royal Hearing the story of this community’s visit, and to unveil the Chapel’s new resilience and seeing it inscribed in the Coat of Arms. features of such a holy and historic site was a humbling and inspiring way to For someone accustomed to the end a week of wrestling with questions inheritance of the Oxford Movement of trauma and upheaval. and the Gothic Revival evidenced in our European and indigenous images blend in own parish, the Mohawk Chapel is a stained glass Tomb of Thayendanegea fascinating look at a more typical Geoff

18 19 Redevelopment Christmas Past at Project Update! St. John's

By Beth Reed

As many of you know, St. John’s has, for a few years now, been working towards redeveloping our property. Our goals are to shore up the parish finances, ensure that we have the funds to pay for the ongoing maintenance of our beautiful heritage church building, and to create a better, more accessible, and more usable us over the next few months to identify space for our parish and St. Michael’s our own needs and priorities for our Mission. space. This will form the basis for the project we will ask developers to bid on. After some false starts, over the past Our building committee will be couple of years, earlier in 2019, we consulting with parishioners through decided to start fresh with a new process this process, so you can expect to hear to find a broker that would represent us more in the New Year! well in a booming real estate market. We put together a building committee We are very optimistic and pleased with and, with the blessing and support of the where we stand today. A huge thank you Diocese, began interviewing potential from Father Keith and the Wardens to brokers. Mtr. Wendy Telfer, Peter McNally, Paul Jonassen, Jean-Christophe Martel, and This fall, we have selected a broker to David Delderfield. work with, and we are ready to go forward with the next stage of Every blessing! preparation to solicit offers from developers. Beth Our broker will be working closely with Rector’s Warden

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