Anglican Journal Since 1875 anglicanjournal.com @anglicanjournal vol. 146 no. 7 september 2020 ‘Be invitational in our desire to see change’ In turbulent times, church leaders call for action against racism and inequality

Matt Gardner staff writer Early in June, Archbishop and Primate described the COVID-19 pandemic as a “changed circumstance”: the latest in a long series of changes throughout the history of the Anglican Church of that have periodically compelled the church to examine its past assumptions and “ways of being and doing.” The primate’s statement was one of a series of open letters released by church leaders in recent months, which collectively spoke to a great deal of changed circumstances. In these letters,

photo: archdeacon tim smart/diocese of montreal Anglican leaders spoke out against The Rev. Deacon Tyson Røsberg (right) is ordained a priest on July 25 by Mary Irwin-Gibson (left), bishop anti-Black racism; re-affirmed their of Montreal, with assistance from her husband, Mark Gibson (centre). In-person worship services in the 5 As protests commitment to reconciliation between diocese were set to resume as early as September, though ordinations continued under strict rules. against anti- Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples; Black racism opposed the Israeli government’s plans to swept the world, annex Palestinian territories; and called the church began on the Government of Canada to institute Churches prepare to re-open considering guaranteed basic income (GBI) for all. ways to integrate Reflecting on these statements, anti-racism into Archbishop Nicholls sees a direct link —but not everywhere its work and between the COVID-19 pandemic and ministry. increased attention to issues of social justice. Many parishes hoping to continue online services even photo: julian wan/ unsplash “When something like the George Floyd as in-person worship resumes, bishops say See CHURCH, p. 9

Tali Folkins “In Algoma … I thought that every This is a staff writer parish would want to resume in-person Activists highlight Canada’s role continually As Anglican churches across Canada worship as early as possible. This is on 75th anniversary of atomic “ returned or planned to return to in-person not the case at all,” said Archbishop evolving Anne Germond, metropolitan of the situation, and worship this spring and summer, some bombings senior church leaders were reporting a of and Matt Gardner we are all considerable level of desire on the part of bishop of Algoma. “One of our larger staff writer praying to get parishes to continue online services. parishes has indicated that they are not it right. In late July, as this article was being comfortable returning to in-person Nuclear disarmament advocates, including written, several diocese of Montreal worship in September and will be a prominent Anglican voice, held an online Mary Irwin-Gibson, continuing with online worship only, and event Aug. 6 to commemorate 75 years bishop of Montreal churches were putting together plans to recommence in-person worship on Sept. one of our smaller parishes is hoping to be since the atomic bombings of Japan in 6—but most of these wanted worship to ready by Thanksgiving.” Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to recognize continue over the internet, Bishop Mary In the diocese of New Westminster, Canada’s role in the development and Irwin-Gibson said. which covers the Vancouver area, 50 of proliferation of nuclear weapons. “I think that what is interesting is 66 parishes had been approved as of July The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day Coalition, that they are almost all making plans 16 to re-open for in-person services. But which has hosted a commemoration each to maintain an online version—either “many, many” of these were continuing year in Toronto since 1975, held the event separately or at the same time as the in- to offer online worship as well, said online this year for the first time. The event person service is held,” she said. “I have Archbishop Melissa Skelton, metropolitan featured two keynote speakers, along with of the ecclesiastical province of British 5 “It is a music and documentary footage. also heard that some of the very small disgrace that we congregations will opt to continue online Columbia and and bishop of New Atomic bomb survivor Setsuko Westminster. At least one diocese in the are facing the Nakamura Thurlow gave the first keynote and not open for a while.” threat of nuclear Other bishops reported similar findings. See GEOGRAPHY, p. 8 speech. Thurlow is a long-time advocate for weapons 75 nuclear disarmament, having inaugurated years later,” says Toronto’s annual commemoration of the Anglican activist

PM# 40069670 bombings. In 2017 she jointly received the Phyllis Creighton. Nobel Peace Prize with Beatrice Finn on photo: michael behalf of the International Campaign to 3 barker Remembering Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Margaret In an appeal to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Thurlow called on the prime Waterchief minister to “acknowledge Canada’s critical

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COUNCIL OF GENERAL Reduced costs help church during COVID crisis SYNOD4 Tali Folkins In her address to the meeting, staff writer Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of Reduced costs for travel, meetings and the Anglican Church of Canada, focused Anglican Journal distribution, along with on the changes that have taken place in the church in the wake of the COVID-19 continuing support from the dioceses, have pandemic. Anglicans’ affection for allowed the Anglican Church of Canada to buildings, she said, has been tempered by avoid cutting work hours of its staff despite the realization that they are the church challenging times, the Council of General wherever they are. (CoGS) heard as it met online for “One of the things that COVID-19 the first time June 13. has done is that it has broken open some After the economic effects of the of the moments of resistance we’ve had COVID-19 pandemic spread across 5 The church’s substantial. Meanwhile, it has been saving to changing what we’ve always done. It’s Canada this spring, the national church savings from money in other ways, he added, including broken open new ways to be the church,” began planning for the possibility of the suspension reducing the Anglican Journal’s distribution she said. reducing, at least temporarily, the hours of travel and costs. This is a cost reduction in which The extreme unpredictability brought worked by its employees, Archdeacon in-person dioceses will share, he said, since they also about by the pandemic has meant a Michael Thompson, then-general secretary meetings have share the costs of distributing the Journal radical re-thinking of the church’s of General Synod, told CoGS. been substantial, together with their own newspapers. strategic planning process, members of the But for a number of reasons, these cuts the Council of Crucially, a number of dioceses have working group tasked with developing a have so far been unnecessary, Thompson General Synod also made what is likely a “sacrificial new plan for the church told CoGS. The said. One of these is the church’s decision (CoGS) heard. commitment” to offer, as fully as possible, group has decided to shift away from the this spring to suspend all travel and most, if their originally pledged proportional gifts photo: randy methodology that guided its work until not all, face-to-face meetings for the rest of blackwell/ to the national church in 2020. this spring in favour of a more open-ended 2020. (CoGS itself normally has two twice- shutterstock “This, along with the savings noted approach, said its chair, Judith Moses. yearly, in-person meetings—once in the above, helps us be confident that we will This could mean, Moses said, that it fall and once in the spring—each lasting likely be able to move to the end of 2020 may not have a finished strategic plan three days or more. But organizers decided without significant financial impairment,” to present to General Synod by the time to have several shorter, online meetings Thompson said. But the church’s financial it next meets in summer 2022, as was instead of the regular November meeting. outlook for next year is more concerning, originally intended. For more on changes June’s meeting was the first of these.) he added, since it seems likely that the in the church’s strategic planning process, The savings from the church’s amounts the dioceses will be able to see the summer issue of Epiphanies, suspension of travel and in-person forward to the national church will be available at anglicanjournal.com. g meetings, Thompson said, will be “substantially reduced.” —with files from Joelle Kidd

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OBITUARY4 Remembering Margaret Waterchief ‘I saw in her the beauty of our people’

Matt Gardner Anglican priest at the age of 62. Having “In Calgary, she was the church to staff writer been prevented in school from speaking many,” MacDonald says. “In her home her native Blackfoot, she eventually On July 19, the Rev. Margaret Waterchief community, she was a mother to all. To combined Blackfoot traditions with died at Peter Lougheed Hospital in Calgary the larger church, I believe she gave people Christian teachings in caring for her local from complications due to COVID-19. She confidence that the Indigenous church community. was 88. had substance—intelligence, theological The Rev. Vivian Seegers, the first A Blackfoot elder and member of the grounding and fair-minded, strong love Indigenous woman ordained in the diocese Siksika Nation, Waterchief was the first towards all peoples and creatures.” of New Westminster, cites Waterchief as an Indigenous woman to be ordained in the “For many of us, Margaret was the face inspiration. She remembers Waterchief’s Anglican diocese of Calgary. She spent kindness to her when she was a student at of the new Indigenous church we are living years working with the homeless the Native Ministries Consortium of the into: great kindness and compassion for and poor as spiritual elder for the Vancouver School of Theology. all people, a willingness to embrace a new Calgary Urban Projects Society “Her silent presence and her gentle future and a loving connection to the past. (CUPS). In her retirement from smile strengthened my commitment to She always gave me hope, always made ministry, she continued to native ministry,” Seegers says of Waterchief. me feel that we were doing something serve as an honorary assistant “I saw in her the beauty of our people that of substance and always communicated at St. John the Divine Church was so wholesome and grounding.” in Siksika. that the Gospel of Jesus Christ matters to Lorraine Melchior, former executive people today.” Waterchief was also a director of CUPS, recalls Waterchief’s residential school survivor “It will be hard to be without her,” he abiding love of Jesus, her generous nature adds. “But her face will be on everything who overcame racism, and the high regard with which she was we do.” poverty and addiction held in the community: “When Margaret Waterchief is survived by her 10 to become an ordained got up, everyone listened.” National Indigenous Anglican children, 29 grandchildren and several Archbishop Mark MacDonald describes great-grandchildren. 3MacDonald on Waterchief as embodying the aspirations of This article has been edited for length. Waterchief: ‘Her face will the emerging self-determining Indigenous Visit anglicanjournal.com/waterchief for be on everything we do.’ church within the Anglican Church of a full obituary celebrating the life and photo: james b. tubman Canada. ministry of Margaret Waterchief. g

ANGLICAN Noticing, in pandemic times VOICES4 By Peter Elliott It’s important to notice how vulnerable and interconnected we are. AVE YOU noticed that we’ve all The virus has been a potent reminder Hbeen involved in a world-changing that human life is vulnerable. Even with moment? Maybe not: read on. all the conveniences and privileges that In a study on the impact of anti- many enjoy, an easily transmitted, invisible contagion policies on the transmission virus caused the shutdown of much in our of COVID-19, a research team from the communities. The wisest of governments University of California, Berkeley, proved heeded the best of science and have that large-scale interventions prevented or been largely able to “flatten the curve” of delayed approximately 62 million confirmed infection. Wearing masks, limiting social cases, thereby averting roughly 530 million interaction and sheltering in place have total infections. “It’s as if the roof was about provided for a time in which we’re more to fall in, but we caught it before it crushed aware of our vulnerability and of how everyone,” Simon Hsiang, lead researcher, deeply our lives are, in fact, interconnected. told Berkeley News. “But by coming It should come as no surprise that together, we did something as a society that 5 “You’ve been seeing a video of almost nine minutes with vulnerability and interconnectedness nobody could have done alone, and which involved in a an officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck seeped resonate deeply in human consciousness. has never been done before.” world-changing into collective consciousness, releasing Across the United States and Canada, and His words (“we did something as a moment, and long-held anger about the inequalities that indeed around the world, people have risen society that nobody could have done alone, you may not so define racism. up in protest, toppling monuments that and which had never been done before”) have even For those who had been noticing, those celebrated leaders whose actions furthered brought to mind Jesus’s words from John’s noticed. This inequalities had already stood out in stark slavery, injustice and oppression. Canadian Anglican bishops, led by our primate, Gospel, “Greater love has no one than this, unusual period relief as the infection rate of COVID-19 issued a statement on racial justice as to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (John of history has disproportionately affected non-white, 15: 13). Through the past few months, many underprivileged communities. The world old documents like “A Charter for Racial given opportunity Justice” were dusted off. aspects of our “normal” lives have been laid has slowed down enough for more of us to to notice other More and more people are noticing the down, in part from self-interest of not being notice. And noticing is important: sadly, things.” vulnerability and interconnectedness of infected, but also, from a public health many still don’t see what’s become so art: muchmania/ human life. Telling the story of how human perspective, to protect each other. shutterstock obvious to so many. life is vulnerable and interconnected is a key For example, incidents of police brutality You’ve been involved in a world- part of the proclamation of the gospel. changing moment, and you may not have in Canada towards Indigenous people have It remains to be seen whether this even noticed. This unusual period of history registered more deeply on the consciousness moment of “noticing” lasts and grows, has given opportunity to notice other of many non-Indigenous Canadians. whether the attention that has been given to things. Not only have many of us been more The photo of Athabasca Chipewyan First racial injustice will grow into lasting change. attentive to the beauty of springtime, but we Nation Chief Allan Adam’s facial injuries, But one hopes that the hunkering down that have also had time to allow current events sustained after allegedly being assaulted this pandemic time has demanded might to register more deeply. by police officers, deeply alarmed many, result in an increased thirst for justice and Pre-pandemic, the video of George including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. peace. Floyd’s asphyxiation at the hands of police People are noticing things, not only because What are you noticing these days? g might have receded quickly in the 24-hour life has slowed down, but also because the news cycle as the world scurried on with the pandemic has underlined two intersecting The Very Rev. Peter Elliott is adjunct faculty fast-paced flow of life. Not this time. realities previously ignored: that human at Vancouver School of Theology. From 1994 For many people in North America and beings are vulnerable, and that we are all to 2019 he served as dean of Christ Church indeed around the world, the impact of interconnected. Cathedral, Vancouver. 4 anglican journal • september 2020

GUEST Decolonizing our descriptions, unsettling our practice 4 COLUMN By Laurel Parson archivist, general synod of the anglican church of canada RECENTLY HAD the opportunity to share with the Council of General Synod (CoGS) what the General Synod IArchives department is doing to dismantle racism. General Synod’s archives hold the records of the national church and its antecedents, related organizations and people of national significance. These come in the form of archival files, publications, periodicals, photographs and microfilm. Many of these records document the settlement of Canada and the relationship the Anglican Church of Canada had with the Indigenous peoples and non-white immigrants. The language and the imagery used in the records also document the racism embedded in society and in the church. In March 2004, the Council of General Synod received A Charter for Racial Justice in the Anglican Church of Canada as a 5 The Rev. truth about what happened and why, Indigenous people who were describing working document by the Anti-Racism Herbert Girling with regard to human rights violations places and people with names and words Working Group. Recently, the church gathering committed against them in the residential that were ascribed by non-Indigenous renewed its commitment to grapple with material for the schools. settlers. We are working to rectify this by the truth about systemic and individual translation of St. In response to TRC Call to Action using the right names of places, the right racism in the church and to dismantle Mark’s Gospel No. 70, General Synod Archives commits names of Indigenous people groups, the racism by committing itself to the charter. with adults to reviewing our archival policies and right names of languages and the right General Synod Archives is committed in his cabin in best practices to comply with the United words to describe Indigenous culture. to the charter as well. Specifically, the Bernard Harbour, Nations Declaration on the Rights of In practice, this means changing or department is endeavouring to ensure ca. 1915 Indigenous Peoples. UNDRIP Article adding subject headings, people and place names, and languages to include the terms that the policies, procedures and practices photo: general synod 13.1 states that Indigenous peoples have of the General Synod Archives reflect archives the right to revitalize, use, develop and Indigenous people use. the principle of equity for all; to increase transmit to future generations their Subject headings are replaced or terms awareness of and appreciation for the histories, languages, oral traditions, eliminated that are considered culturally diversity of race, colour and culture within philosophies, writing systems and insensitive to Indigenous people. Some the Anglican Church of Canada and in literatures, and to designate and retain key changes include replacing “Indians Canadian society; and to monitor our their own names for communities, places of North America” with “Indigenous progress by listening to the evaluative and persons. We commit to describing peoples”; “Indian” with “Indigenous” (or a comments of people oppressed by systemic all library and archival material so that more specific name when the name of the and individual racism. Indigenous people can find their own people is known); and deleting mythology histories and their own language and references such as Chipewyan “mythology”. This is done out of respect for the oral Our commitment cultural materials by using their own traditions of the Indigenous peoples. names for communities, places and In the struggle to dismantle racism, In terms of people and place names, peoples. General Synod Archives is committed to we endeavour to adopt terms that more The archives include an extensive truth telling and reconciliation with all accurately reflect the identity of Canada’s collection of library materials that races and nationalities in Canada. We do Indigenous peoples and their communities. document the histories, languages, writing this by preserving and making available Examples of name changes include systems (dictionaries, grammars, etc.) and records that document the mission and replacing “Eskimos” with “Inuit”, or the literatures of Indigenous peoples. They also the struggles of Chinese, Japanese and specific name for their people; “Cree hold records for the diocese of the other Asian and African peoples, both Indians” with “Cree”; and “Blackfoot in their homelands and here in Canada. and the . These records Indians” with “Siksika”, the name they use General Synod Archives is also committed document the people and communities in for their people. to truth telling and reconciliation with Northern Ontario, Northern Manitoba, Examples of place name changes , Métis, and Inuit peoples. We the , and include “Inukjuak” (Québec) for “Port are committed to responding to the Truth . We are endeavouring to describe Harrison” (Québec); “Arviat” (Nunavut) for and Reconciliation Commission Calls to these materials appropriately and to “Eskimo Point” (N.W.T); and “Kugluktuk” Action and the United Nations Declaration make the knowledge of these items more (Nunavut) for “Coppermine” (N.W.T.). on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. accessible by cataloguing more of them Languages need to be identified into the databases which are searchable correctly, as well. Examples include Our response online. replacing Ojibwa language with Ojibwe In response to this commitment, we (Anishinabe) language; Takudh language continue to make available the records we Decolonizing our descriptions with Gwich’in language; Eskimo language found about the residential schools in our means unsettling our practice with Inuktitut language, or a more specific holdings in order to acknowledge the right Library subject headings and archival for Indigenous people to know the whole descriptions were created by non- See RECORDS, p. 11

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SINGING WITH JOY4 Something new waits to be born the continuity and longevity of our life By Linda Nicholls together. Every voice is needed. We may well be in the midst of a “great rummage OING BACK IS never what you thought it would be! Do you sale” (to borrow from Phyllis Tickle, remember returning to your author of The Great Emergence) in which hometownG and discovering a new building a testing of what we need to carry with on the corner? Or that the old ice cream us will be critical—and a discernment store is gone? Or that your favourite park for the whole community to undertake. has been redeveloped? The memory of In this time I feel a deeper connection home and familiarity of places and people with the disciples in the first months and are disrupted by the way things changed years after the resurrection, as they faced while you were away. The comfort you such rapid change in their expectations long for is not there in the same way as you while they experimented with how to expected. share the glorious good news they knew. That will undoubtedly be our experience They tested and tried ways to gather; they as we continue to emerge from different drew on their memories of times with phases of the COVID-19 lockdown. Jesus, before and after the resurrection, We long for everything to go back to to shape gathering around meals and “normal,” as it was before the beginning bread and wine; they listened to the of the pandemic. Instead we are facing Spirit speaking in their hearts and souls new protocols and habits. Even the most 5 “We are not as overly cautious. If you are hesitant to and they prayed together at every step. familiar tasks, such as grocery shopping, going back. gather again, you may feel unappreciated. There will be tensions ahead as we emerge into a new and different have become adventures in wearing masks, We are moving The desire for the comfort of familiar world. Anxiety, fears and a desire for one-way aisles and plexiglass dividers forward in a relationships will not be met. the familiar may bring conflict. We between shoppers and staff. Worship pilgrimage. This is a time when the description of cannot go back to what was before; it services will be socially distanced, too— We are on this our calling as the body of Christ is more is gone and something new is waiting your favourite pew closed off, no lingering pilgrimage critical than ever. We are not going back. to be born. Be gentle with one another. at a coffee hour and, so far, no singing! together, and it We are moving forward in a pilgrimage. Going back will be different than We are on this pilgrimage together, and Each has a part of the story we need will take extra we expected. In fact, there really will it will take extra efforts for us to see and in the emerging patterns for church efforts for us be no going “back,” since everyone and hear the different perspectives around us. life. Make praying together a central to see and hear everything around us have been changed If we charge ahead with the most fearless, part of whatever your parish, deanery by the pandemic. Some are ready to the different we will split the very community we long or diocese does to plan for the future. resume gathered activities while others, perspectives to preserve. We need one another—the The Spirit is with us to lead and guide. for a variety of reasons, are fearful of around us.” fearless and the cautious; the grieving and Thanks be to God! g ever gathering beyond family and a few photo: kzenon/ the adventurer—especially so that we see shutterstock friends. If you are ready and willing to and know what we are losing and ensure Archbishop Linda Nicholls is the primate gather, you may dismiss the fears of others that we carry with us what we need for of the Anglican Church of Canada.

WALKING As a way decays, a new way appears TOGETHER4 By Mark MacDonald growing absence in rural areas and in urban areas, we (and the other churches HEN IT COMES to the life of that have joined us in this pattern) have left the church, the love that the the field to poverty, the voices of hate and a Holy Spirit moves in our hearts decaying environment. We must take some Wcan be clearly identified in four primary blame for these growing forces across the ways: compassion for those in need, land. commitment to a just society, adoration of Yes, I know that many of us work God and a life of sacrificial love towards tirelessly to articulate a new horizon in the each other. These are essentially animated face of the decay of our older strategies. by the gospel, the reading of Scripture, Indigenous elders and youth are right prayer and the celebration of the Eucharist. there with us. I am not, by any means, In these ways, the life, death, resurrection, articulating this picture, that may appear and the Second Coming of Christ are made grim, out of a lack of hope. In fact, I believe living and real in human beings, in history, that God is speaking a Word of hope to and in Creation. We dare to believe and say 5 “We can grow Whether or not it had been a detriment us with considerable clarity right now, that, in these ways, there is evidence of the by becoming to our witness in the past, the best seats at precisely in the tatters of our old way. We World to Come. smaller, in the banquet of Western society are now no can grow by becoming smaller, in receiving When I was in seminary—Adam receiving and longer reserved for our clergy. These losses, and living the Word in sustainable and and Eve were just a year ahead of me— living the Word if that is what you wish to call them, do replicable communities of care and the church (with growing ecumenical in sustainable not hurt the strength and authority of our discipleship. Some of our remaining cooperation and planning) clearly felt a and replicable words and deeds. From my point of view, buildings will become launching pads for responsibility, desire and joy to make these communities they enhance it. the multiplication of smaller communities four ways available to every heart and in Though we may blame it on a growing of disciples across the land and throughout every community. Not only in Canada— of care and discipleship.” sense of humility, many of us have really society. In many places, our constituency this was a global aspiration. We had a lost touch with our mission and its saving has become older, but in the Christian life strategy and a method. We identified the image: rawpixel.com/ shutterstock power. Today, the horizon of our mission spiritual significance grows with age and, parish church as the best platform to reveal ends at the edges of our diminishing amazingly, weakness. Our life and strength these ways. It was our means of discipleship capacity to afford what was once no more are not found in ways that are defined by and disciple making. The parish church, than a strategy and method. What was the usual human metrics—money, power, in turn, was provided an affordable and once the means to a goal has become our and worldly influence. Our life is found in rugged means of presence: a visible goal, the definition of our identity, and the identification with the one who became building and a parish priest accessible to shrinking island of our presence in a world poor to make us rich, the one who died parishioners and those in need. that no longer understands us and, worse to give us life, the one who now waits to For good reasons, we have since yet, that we don’t seem to understand. be resurrected anew in and through our developed a bit of humility about In the placement and maintenance of redeemed hearts. g the societal influence of our work in our parishes, we followed the trends and relationship to other voices in our migrations of the people of our familiar Archbishop Mark MacDonald is national communities. We no longer feel we have ethnic constituency who could afford our Indigenous archbishop of the Anglican the right to tell everyone what to do. strategy and method. In the wake of our Church of Canada. 6 anglican journal • september 2020 anglican journal • september 2020 7

COVID-19 PANDEMIC4 It interrupts all the grief rituals.... All of our normal ways of dealing with sickness and Episcopal “death had to be reimagined. —Jennifer Reddall, bishops bishop of the diocese of Arizona grapple

‘How can I sing the Lord’s song in a strange people! Our goal is that everyone is alive with life in a land?’ in our churches—we believe in life! As a “I think that’s some of the grief and the bishop, it’s been interesting, because these confusion that I’m feeling and that plenty are the issues [about which] I’m suddenly COVID-19 of others are feeling here too. We were just involved in conversations with government so close to going into Holy Week when all leaders.” The depth of the crisis, she of this started up, and that image of the says, has prompted civic leaders to ask epicentre desert and the exile really resonated after faith leaders to speak up, and she’s been those hard days of Holy Week. So that’s addressing the effects of COVID-19 on the what’s on my mind, is the Hebrew people state prison system. Top row: Sr. Mary Luiza Wawrzyniak, Sr. Celine Marie Lesinki, Sr. Mary Estelle Printz, Sr. Thomas Marie Wadowski; Second being taken away into exile and mourning, Through this advocacy, Reddall has row: Sr. Mary Patricia Pyszynski, Sr. Mary Clarence (Adeline) mourning Zion, mourning their home helped get masks into prisons and is Borkoski, Sr. Rose Mary Wola, Sr. Mary Janice (Margaret) while they were in a strange land. pushing for the department of corrections Zolkowski; Third row: Sr. Mary Alice Ann (Fernanda) “But eventually they went back—and we to begin universal testing. She is also Gradowski, Sr. Victoria Marie Indyk, Sr. Mary Martinez (Virginia) Rozek, Sr. Mary Madeleine (Frances) Dolan will too. This will pass. The exile is just a advocating for the governor to extend an long period, and we have to get through it.” eviction moratorium, which was set to last As New York recovers, other states have through July 22 at the time of writing, and Thirteen nuns die from seen case numbers and death tolls jump to distribute rent relief. dramatically. The diocese, too, has been able to COVID-19 in outbreak at “I was in New York City for the last adapt its ministries to address evolving 15 years. And I watched them on the first need. Food banks have turned into drive- Michigan convent few weeks of this and thought, well thank through food banks, Reddall says, and the goodness I’m in Arizona,” says Bishop diocese has sent aid—including supplies, Joelle Kidd Jennifer Reddall. financial donations, and 2,000 handmade staff writer Reddall has been bishop of the diocese masks—to local Native American An outbreak of COVID-19 in a Roman of Arizona for the past year. Like New communities that were hit hard by the Catholic convent in Livonia, Michigan, York, the diocese suspended in-person virus in the spring. claimed the lives of 13 nuns and infected 17 worship services in mid-March; by May, One ministry in the diocese called more. Reddall says, they were beginning to Crazy Chile Farm—which grows chili Between Good Friday, April 10, and May formulate re-opening plans and guidelines. peppers and other crops from heritage Sr. Mary 10, Sr. Mary Luiza Wawrzyniak, Sr. Celine Then, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey seeds and sells chili powder to support Danatha Marie Lesinki, Sr. Mary Estelle Printz, Sr. lifted the state’s stay-at-home order May food security projects—partnered with (Lottie) Thomas Marie Wadowski, Sr. Mary Patricia Suchyta 15. Suddenly, case numbers began to several churches to airlift 2,200 lbs of Pyszynski, Sr. Mary Clarence (Adeline) skyrocket. supplies, 26 tons of hay and livestock Borkoski, Sr. Rose Mary Wolak, Sr. Mary Janice (Margaret) It turned out what happened in New feed, two truckloads of food and a $4,000 Zolkowski, Sr. Mary Alice Ann (Fernanda) Gradowski, A byproduct York “absolutely can and did happen here,” collection to the Hualapai Tribe in the Sr. Victoria Marie Indyk, Sr. Mary Martinez (Virginia) got very appropriately worried of New York—got COVID and died 5 Joelle Kidd of COVID-19 says Reddall. northwest corner of the state. Rozek, and Sr. Mary Madeleine (Frances) Dolan died after staff writer about COVID, and then on the immediately. And I thought, oh no, this is restrictions, Arizona was among the states There is also the ministry of delivering, contracting the virus. A 13th sister, Sr. Mary Danatha other hand they all became very going to be far costlier than I had imagined. Since the first cases appeared there in small funerals experiencing a surge of cases in June. By remotely, a church service every week. In (Lottie) Suchyta, who had survived COVID-19, died from its resilient all of a sudden. Seeing the “We’ve had a number of clergy get early spring, the COVID-19 pandemic early July, the BBC reported that Arizona some churches, “whole media teams have effects June 27. many ways that churches adapted COVID; everybody has survived. But we’ve with fewer has ravaged the United States. The was registering as many new cases per sprung up of people who are working on The sisters were all long-time members of the Sisters of to this crisis and continued to had probably six or more church wardens familiar rituals— Centre for Disease Control reports, day as the entire European Union, which their whole online offerings, whether it’s St. Felix of Cantalice convent who ranged in age from 69 to provide spiritual resource for their such as this at writing, that there have been more die of COVID. And others. People that sit has a population 60 times greater, and the for worship or classes.” 99. Among the deceased were teachers; a librarian; a director congregations and communities was, in the pews. They’re there one day, gone service held in than 3.8 million cases in the country and Ontario—have state’s department of health services was While there have been encouraging of religious education; a secretary in the Vatican Secretariat for me, very inspiring.” the next. One of our priest’s wife died of of State; the author of a 586-page history of the congregation; upwards of 140,000 deaths caused by the left some faithful reporting that ICUs were at 90% capacity. moments—seeing churches pivot to Now that restrictions are easing, COVID. So it’s been costly for our diocese, and a nurse who led student mission trips to Haiti. virus. Episcopalians “A lot of our congregations are online platforms, taking part in a diocesan Dietsche says, some churches are able to very, very painful. And for churches that The sisters’ ministry in Livonia includes the founding of a For leaders in the U.S.-based Episcopal struggling with experiencing members who have worship service and video coffee hour— hold in-person worship with a limited have lost good friends to this thing … it’s university, Montessori school, child care centre, hospice and Church, this unprecedented time has been Living grief, New York COVID-19 or who have died from Reddall says she is feeling the strain of so a test of leadership, wisdom and patience. number of attendees, social distancing and very tough.” COVID-19,” says Reddall. “It’s a hard time.” much distancing. “I miss people.” nursing care centre. here in celebrating the Eucharist with bread only. With distancing measures in place, Bishop Andrew “We grieve for each of our sisters who has passed during In New York, cases spiked in April and “ Dietsche says. Funerals, of course, are affected by Reddall says she is praying for wisdom May. “Living here in Manhattan, it was Manhattan, Because many Episcopal congregants the regular rituals of grieving are not restrictions on public gatherings. “People and patience in this time. the time of the pandemic throughout the province, and we are older and fall into a higher-risk possible. Funerals in the diocese have been photo: the rev. ralph greatly appreciate all of those who are holding us in prayer just the constant background sound of it was just carl wushke are doing very small, graveside, 10-person “We don’t get to live in the world we sirens, day and night,” says Bishop of the the constant category for COVID-19, Dietsche says, held graveside, with up to 10 people in services, or waiting. It’s really hard. It want to live in, we have to live in the world and supporting us in a number of ways,” said Sister Mary Christopher Moore, provincial minister of Our Lady of diocese of New York Andrew Dietsche. background the diocese is proceeding “slowly and attendance. Dietsche says he hopes that interrupts all the grief rituals that we we’re living in.… I’m reminded of the “Overlapping sirens—couldn’t even count c aut i ou s l y.” as restrictions lift, larger celebrations and Hope Province, in a statement. “Our ministries across the sound of would be doing…. All of our normal ways serenity prayer: ‘God, give us serenity to how many, just roaring through the city There have certainly been many losses memorials can be held. “Not being able to of dealing with sickness and death had to accept the things we cannot change, the continent continue to serve those most in need and provide taking people to the hospital. It was scary, sirens, day and already. “We’ve had a lot of people die of have the funerals has been hard, for a lot be reimagined.” [courage] to change the things we can, and education and care for people from infants and children to our elderly.” and it was tragic.” night. COVID in the diocese,” says Dietsche. He of families. They just don’t feel like they’ve In Arizona, restrictions on public the [wisdom] to know the difference.’ According to Global Sisters Report, a project of National By early July, at the time of his interview estimates that one-quarter to one-third of had the closure that they expect. Our worship came from church leadership, not “I have to have the serenity to accept —Andrew Dietsche, Catholic Reporter, this may represent the largest loss of with the Anglican Journal, Dietsche says the diocese is made up of people of colour, rituals actually work. We develop certain the government. “Churches have never that this is the world we’re in. I don’t bishop of the diocese life in a women’s religious community since the 1918 flu New York was on the other side of that of New York including Black and Latin members— ways that we mourn and our rituals are been required to close by the government get to pick a different world. But I have pandemic. mountain of cases. While he worries about demographic groups that have been part of that. So if somebody loves their in Arizona. So many churches have to have wisdom to figure out, what are Prior to April, there were 57 Felician Sisters in the Livonia a second wave—especially as cases rise in disproportionately affected by COVID-19 spouse of 15 years and they lose them, and continued to gather…. But I definitely the things that we can change? We don’t convent. other parts of the country—the diocese is in the United States. then we have a seven-minute service out by know that I don’t want our churches to have to accept just unbridled growth of In a convent in Lodi, New Jersey, 12 sisters were beginning to restart in-person worship in When the novel coronavirus first began the graveside, it doesn’t do it, does it?” be meeting places where people could COVID. We actually can wear masks, infected—one died and 11 recovered. The convents are some churches. to spread, Dietshe says, he heard talk that During this time, Dietsche says he [have] a super-spreader event and end keep distant, stay at home. We can change part of the same congregation of sisters, Our Lady of Hope Dietsche suspended worship in the most people who contract COVID-19 has been reflecting on the language and up infecting and killing large numbers some things. And then to figure out what Province, which includes all of the Felician Sisters of North diocese on March 15. Since then, churches survive. “I thought, you know, this isn’t a imagery of exile as it appears in the Old of people because they came to worship,” those things are and figure out how to get America. have been live-streaming services, holding big deal. I guess I was a little cavalier about Testament. “For me, the experience of Reddall says. people to love their neighbour enough to More than 400 Felician Sisters live in nearly 60 convents Zoom coffee hours and Bible studies, and it. And then almost immediately, probably this is one of exile. I just want to get back “I think it’s been very good to provide do them. throughout the U.S., Canada and a mission in Haiti. g having Sunday morning prayer in lieu of the our chief lay leader in our churches in the to Jerusalem, but I want us all to get back the sort of clear leadership [of saying], “We want your prayers, though. We Eucharist. “I think on one hand, everybody Bronx—a real institution in the diocese safely. That question keeps resounding: no, we’re not going to have church and kill would be very grateful for getting prayers.” g 8 anglican journal • september 2020

COVID-19 Geography, vulnerability tie into re-opening plans PANDEMIC4 worship as of May 21, following sanitizing Online ministry among and social distancing guidelines. key ‘learning points’ for Other parts of the province of Rupert’s Land have had to aim for later dates. In church the diocese of Calgary, Kerr-Wilson in a May 12 letter noted that government Continued from p. 1 data showed higher rates of COVID-19 ecclesiastical province was reporting that cases in the Calgary area than in areas many parishes were finding their online of the province covered by the dioceses viewers outnumbering their regular of Edmonton and Athabasca, and said Sunday attendance. the time needed to return to in-person Bishop of the worship would be measured in months, David Edwards, who was elected not weeks. As this article was being metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province written, Kerr-Wilson said the diocese was of Canada in June, said one of the main likely to announce a return to in-person “learning points” during the pandemic worship in September, although some was the development of online resources. congregations, he added, had already Parishes across the province have been been gathering outside, following physical engaged with this to varying degrees, he distancing protocols. said, with most dioceses supplementing The ecclesiastical province of and augmenting their efforts. Canada—which covers the Atlantic provinces as well as the dioceses of On reserves and beyond Montreal and —also allowed borders dioceses to decide for themselves. In the Atlantic provinces, another The church’s Indigenous Ministries region of Canada where infection department was finding online ministry rates remained relatively low, some important to Indigenous Anglicans churches opened their doors in the during the pandemic and was hoping to 5 Some director from Village Health Works joined spring. In the diocese of Fredericton, for continue it. In an effort to lift the spirits of parishes have us from New York, we were even able to example, Edwards announced May 22 Indigenous Anglicans, and of people across turned to connect to Burundi and had live music that in accordance with the provincial the church, the department of Indigenous outdoor worship. from the Village Health Works Band,” said government’s recovery plan, religious Ministries had put on two online gospel For example, Rumsey. services of 50 or fewer people (indoors or jamborees, June 5 and July 1. As this article members of PWRDF intends to continue the Zoom outdoors) would be permitted as of May was being written, it was planning a third Meota parish in service in the fall. 29, though as a result of an update by the for August 14. the diocese of government, this date was pushed back to “We have had a very strong positive Calgary gathered A complex landscape June 5. response to the jamborees, from for an outdoor The varying extent to which different But Anglican churches in the civil Indigenous peoples, who feel affirmed, healing service parts of Canada have been affected by province of Quebec—one of the areas of and from non-Indigenous peoples, across the street the pandemic has led civil governments Canada hit hardest by the pandemic— who are happy to be included in this from St. James to respond in different ways, with did not open this summer. In June, the slice of Indigenous life and spirit,” said Anglican Church, some relaxing social distancing rules dioceses of Montreal and Quebec both National Indigenous Archbishop Mark Priddis, Alta. earlier than others as infection rates announced their churches would not re- MacDonald. open until Sept. 6 at the earliest. photo: dawn kuum of COVID-19 began to fall. Within The pandemic, he said, posed a the Anglican Church of Canada, “This is a continually evolving particular threat to Indigenous people, correspondingly, ecclesiastical provinces, situation, and we are all praying to get it particularly elders, because of the poverty, dioceses and parishes have moved toward right,” Irwin-Gibson told the Journal July scant access to medical care and isolation re-opening with varying rules—around 16. that many reserve communities face, so how many people are permitted to Ontario dioceses were on a similar that Indigenous communities generally attend a service at one time, for example, timeline. The ecclesiastical province are under stricter lockdowns than those and how they might be able to take of Ontario—which covers roughly the faced by the rest of Canada. communion—and timelines. same territory as the civil province—also Indigenous Ministries Coordinator In some cases, decisions have been announced this June that its churches Canon Ginny Doctor added that, since made for dioceses at the ecclesiastical would remain closed for in-person the slow internet connections that exist province level. Other ecclesiastical worship until at least September. The in many Indigenous communities have provinces have allowed to dioceses to ecclesiastical province prepared a hampered access to online events, her make their own decisions. Among the re-opening template for dioceses to department and partners in the Anglican latter is the province of Rupert’s Land, follow, but they are also creating more Church of Canada have been reaching which covers a vast swathe of Canada, detailed re-opening plans specific to their some areas through regional radio including the three prairie provinces, situations, Germond said, with Algoma broadcasts. Improving internet service the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and and Moosonee hoping to re-open Sept. 6 in Canada will be vital for the church to part of northern Quebec—all of which but others looking at re-opening a week deliver Indigenous ministry, she said, were affected by the pandemic, and the later. A spike in cases or a second wave since the COVID-19 pandemic seems civil regulations relating to it, in widely of the pandemic, she said, would mean a likely to continue for some time. differing ways. return to online worship only. Online worship has also been a “As we span four provinces and two In the ecclesiastical province of mainstay of the Primate’s World Relief territories, it makes no sense to try to British Columbia and Yukon, dioceses and Development Fund (PWRDF) coordinate amidst the varying civil were returning to in-person worship during the pandemic. On April 2, provincial guidelines,” Archbishop according to a variety of timelines. The PWDRF’s Canadian Anglican Partnership Gregory Kerr-Wilson, metropolitan of the diocese of New Westminster released a Program team launched “Praying with province of Rupert’s Land and bishop of plan with a phased approach to restarting PWRDF,” a Zoom worship service for Calgary, told the Journal. in-person worship; some parishes in volunteers and PWRDF supporters. Some parts of the province—such as the diocese opened for live gatherings Public engagement coordinator Suzanne the dioceses located in the civil provinces as early as June 14. The diocese of Rumsey organized the service to include of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, which Yukon returned to live worship, with a land acknowledgement, inspirational have had some of the lowest infection some restrictions, June 21. In the musical reflections from YouTube, a rates in Canada—saw Anglican churches diocese of British Columbia, parishes scripture reading and a guest reflector. return to in-person worship in the spring. were permitted to re-open July 12, but The first reflector was Archbishop Linda On April 29, Bishop of the diocese of several were planning to wait until the Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church Rupert’s Land Geoff Woodcroft released fall, according to information Skelton of Canada. a bishop’s directive announcing limited forwarded to the Journal. g The initial broadcast drew 60 people in-person worship in church buildings as —with files from Joelle Kidd and soon became a weekly fixture and of May 4. The drew international participants. “When a allowed churches to re-open for public anglican journal • september 2020 9

the death of George Floyd, Nicholls, ELCIC National Bishop Susan Johnson and United SOCIAL Church of Canada Moderator JUSTICE4 released a joint letter. They asked members Church aims at change of their churches to show solidarity with the struggle against anti-Black racism through education, prayer, and reaching out to Continued from p. 1 friends of African descent. incident happens, all of a sudden, On June 8, many bishops of the Anglican it coalesces things that have been Church of Canada followed with their own there under the surface for a long, statement, in which they expressed their long, long time,” the primate says. horror at the public killing of Floyd and “None of this is new. We’ve acknowledged the existence of systemic known this for a long, long time. racism “in every part of Canada.” The letter But all of a sudden, people have the recognized the church’s own complicity in time to say, ‘That’s it. It’s enough. injustice and recommitted it to confront We have to do something.’ And they racism and to pursue reconciliation with have some energy and time to give Indigenous peoples. to it, frankly, because COVID-19 “As teachers of the gospel, we remind has given us that space.” the world that Christ himself was “I think a pandemic shows the crucified in part because of the threat cracks in our social structures and he represented in standing with those our fabric of life, because as long as everything’s chugging along who were marginalized,” the bishops normally and nobody calls us to wrote. “We re-commit ourselves and our pay attention, we just get on with Dioceses to confront the sin of racism in our day. We get on with our lives. all its forms and the patterns of silence and A pandemic just puts everybody self-congratulation, which have silenced in full-stop mode. Perspectives the experiences of people of colour, First shift, and values shift, and you pay Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples of this attention in a different way.” l an d .” COVID-19, Nicholls suggests, On the National Indigenous Day of has laid bare existing inequalities Prayer on June 21, Nicholls, Johnson and through its more severe impact National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop on marginalized and oppressed Mark MacDonald released an open letter communities. further re-affirming the Anglican and Lutheran churches’ commitment to ending “People of colour have been racism and discrimination in all its forms, disproportionately affected by 5The Rev. In their letter, the bishops praised and to promoting reconciliation between COVID-19, either because they’re Matta Kunuk federal government programs responding Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. frontline workers in essential prays in a video to the economic downturn sparked by the With the Council of General Synod services like grocery stores, support service released pandemic, such as the Canada Emergency (CoGS) scheduled to meet on July 25 at workers in hospitals … or because on the National Response Benefit (CERB). But given the time this article was written, Anglican of poverty, or because of housing, Indigenous “specific inclusion and exclusion criteria”, leaders planned to bring forward a motion or because of lots of other reasons Day of Prayer. they noted, many people can fall through to re-mandate a CoGS working group on why the pandemic makes a bigger That same day, the gaps. dismantling racism. impact on communities where church leaders “We recommend GBI, not just as an This task force would likely examine there are other issues at play,” the astute financial policy, but also because it initiatives such as anti-racism training primate says. committed to reconciliation in marks our identity as a country who cares for CoGS and in dioceses and undertake Even before the deaths of Floyd, for one another; it is a policy that enshrines a review of the 2007 Charter for Racial Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud a public letter. photo: anglican video this value in law,” the bishops wrote. Justice. The goal would be for the Arbery in the United States “GBI would be a new social contract, working group to bring forward any sparked renewed global attention defining a new relationship amongst recommendations to General Synod in to anti-Black racism, the primate Canadians…. With GBI we state clearly 2022. in March signed a joint letter with and definitively that no one will be failed The House of Bishops, Nicholls says, leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran by the system so catastrophically that they also needs to have a conversation about Church in Canada (ELCIC) cannot feed and house themselves and their anti-racism training, perhaps by making and families; that no one is left so alone and so such training a mandatory requirement recognizing the International far behind that they cannot find a path out for ordination. Racism, she says, “exists in Decade for People of African of precarity.” our clergy. It exists in our parishes, and we Descent from 2015 to 2024. On May 15, leaders of churches and have to start by making sure the leadership The letter, released on ecumenical organizations, including is trained to recognize it in themselves, in the International Day for Nicholls, signed a letter to Foreign Affairs their parish, and in their community, and the Elimination of Racial Minister François-Philippe Champagne then work on it.” Discrimination, commits the criticizing Canada for its silence regarding a In the face of so many pressing social churches to do more to address proposed vote by the coalition government issues, all of which the primate describes anti-Black racism, and to share in Israel to annex a major part of the as important, she cautions Anglicans to resources to promote a deeper avoid burnout. With people exhausted from understanding of human rights occupied Palestinian territories. Though dealing with COVID-19—rearranging their with a goal towards the eradication the vote was originally set to take place in lives, working from home, caring for their of racism. the Knesset in early July, representatives of “We’re late to the party a bit,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later children, figuring out new ways to handle Ryan Weston, lead animator of suggested a formal announcement had been basic tasks such as buying groceries— Public Witness for Social and delayed. Anglicans, she says, will have to “triage Ecological Justice, says of the Signatories to the letter called on our energy levels”: setting some goals, churches’ official recognition. “But the Government of Canada to publicly consistently working at them, and then just in terms of discussion with the condemn the Israeli government’s setting new goals afterward. United Church and the ELCIC, annexation plans and the U.S. government “This is a long haul,” Nicholls says. “This there was shared interest around plan in support of it; “to work with the is not ‘we’re going to fix racism overnight.’ endorsing that together.” European Union and like-minded allies This is generational work. So I hope people On May 3, a public letter to take all diplomatic and political actions will be encouraged to engage in it; not be signed by 41 Anglican and ELCIC available to hold the government of Israel discouraged by the slowness of progress; bishops urged Prime Minister accountable for violations of international and be gentle with themselves around the Justin Trudeau, Deputy Prime law” and enforce the rule of law without physical, emotional, spiritual, mental toll Minister Chrystia Freeland and exception; and to protect the human rights that all of the change we are experiencing is Finance Minister Bill Morneau to of Palestinians, including their right to self- putting everyone under. implement GBI. determination. “Be gracious with one another. Be On June 2, following protests sparked by invitational in our desire to see change.” g 10 anglican journal • september 2020

WORLD4 Creighton: Nuclear risks exceed Cold War era

Continued from p. 1 nuclear weapons are “against the will of Northwest Territories. The company hired weapons on Canadian soil, helped form role in the creation of nuclear weapons, God and the mind of Christ.” In 2007, Dene hunters and trappers to carry 100-lb NORAD, joined NATO and became part of express a statement of regret for the deaths Project Ploughshares and the Anglican sacks of uranium concentrate on their its nuclear planning team. and suffering they caused in Hiroshima and Church of Canada joined the International backs over thousands of kilometres. In January, the Bulletin of Atomic Nagasaki” and to announce that Canada Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Neither Eldorado nor the Canadian Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock will ratify the United Nations Treaty on the In her keynote speech, Creighton government warned the Dene about the to 100 seconds to midnight—the closest Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. outlined Canada’s role in the creation of radium content of the uranium or the humanity has come to global destruction Anglican peace activist and historian atomic weapons, starting with the signing dangers of radiation poisoning, Creighton since the metaphorical clock made its Phyllis Creighton delivered the second of the Quebec Agreement by the leaders of says. Their community of Délı̨nę was also debut in 1947. keynote. Creighton previously served Canada, the United States and Britain for left with 1.7 million tons of uranium waste “It is a disgrace that we are facing the as Anglican representative to Project joint development of nuclear arms. dumped into Great Bear Lake, which threat of nuclear weapons 75 years later, Ploughshares, the peace research institute Creighton noted that much of the caused many residents to develop cancer. and nuclear annihilation,” Creighton says. of the Canadian Council of Churches. uranium ore used in the Manhattan After the bombings of Hiroshima “The risks are higher now than they were As a member of General Synod, Project came from the Canadian firm and Nagasaki in 1945, she adds, Canada even at the height of the Cold War.” Creighton led the push for the Anglican Eldorado Mining and Refining, which had continued to promote the sale of nuclear Media and information on the event are Church of Canada to declare in 1983 that a uranium mine on Great Bear Lake in the reactors to other countries, hosted nuclear available at hiroshimadaycoalition.ca. g

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obituary GESNER, Lloyd Rev. Dr. Anglicans respond charitably amid pandemic Passed away at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital on Friday, July 17, 2020 at the age of 92. Beloved Tali Folkins husband of the late Murial Gesner. staff writer Barretto: “I think our Loving father of Stephen Gesner The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t donors have realized that (Debbie Cameron) and Susan Gesner (Sean Trueland). Proud stopped people from giving this is a really crucial year grandfather of Rory and Jaime generously to the Anglican Church for many organizations, Trueland, and Cameron and of Canada’s Giving with Grace especially the church.” Konrad Gesner. Dear brother of campaign—topping last year’s Harry Gesner. photo: saskia rowley Starting his career as a teacher donations. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Lloyd met Donations in response to the love of his life, Muriel Ferguson, and they went on to live a Giving with Grace’s Easter letter says. “We are so appreciative of Canada every year; the other is at life of adventure, travel and learning. Lloyd attended theology campaign this year came to support that they’ve given us for Advent. school to become an Anglican minister, and that calling took him $143,990, compared to $135,317 years and years—and they’ve For the first time this year, to Minnesota, Ontario, Ohio, Tennessee and finally a return to continued to do so even during this Barretto says, RfM will be including Ontario. During that time, he was a teacher and headmaster at a for Easter 2019, says Deborah number of ecumenical schools, as well as maintaining his role as Barretto, director of the Resources pandemic. a self-mailer—a donation form a priest in both Anglican and Episcopalian churches in Canada for Mission (RfM) department, “I think our donors have realized which can be returned to the and the United States. which raises funds for the church’s that this is a really crucial year for church without the need for an His real passion was reading and learning. His home was national ministry. many organizations, especially the envelope—in the September issue filled with fiction and non-fiction books on bookshelves that church.” of the Anglican Journal. The self- were constantly being emptied and filled up again. He shared his “That was right in the middle books willingly, as long as he had a chance to discuss them with of the lockdown. It just shows that The Easter campaign is one of mailer will accompany the church’s the borrower after the fact. And often those borrowers were his people realize the need,” Barretto two Giving with Grace appeals annual report on 2019, which will grandchildren, who were his greatest joy. made by the Anglican Church of be inserted into the newspaper. g As per Lloyd’s wishes, cremation has taken place. A Service of Remembrance will be held at a later date. Memorial donations may be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Archivist: Records need to be identified in respectful way

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