MARCH 20 13 A section of the ANGLICAN Anglican Journal

MONT REAL Official Publication of ANGLICAN the Diocese of Montreal Retired bank executive takes the reins at Action Réfugiés Paul Anthony Clarke, whose in - er in five locations, including the and develop a vision of “God’s bec in 2012 for 24 people originally ter est in the problems of refugees branch at Guy and St. Catherine Dream, … the timeless and univer - from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Ethiopia goes back to his days as manager of Streets, where he came to know Gly - sal vision of a world transformed and Iraq. Applications for another 21 a downtown branch of the Toronto- nis Williams. ARM at one time had through... hope and compassion, refugees from the Democratic Dominion Bank, is the new execu - its quarters in the same building as humility and kindness, understand - Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, and tive director of Action Réfugiés the bank, before moving to the ing and forgiveness.” Syria were approved by ARM and Montréal, the second in its 19-year offices it has occupied for some years Dr. Williams, now associate secre - will be submitted to Immigration history. in St. James the Apostle Church, not tary, international ministries, at the once all necessary information has Mr. Clarke, who retired in 2012 far away. Presbyterian national office in been collected and paperwork com - aer a 33-year career with the TD It was at the Guy and St. Cather - Toronto, leaves an organization pleted. Bank, succeeds Rev. Glynis Williams, ine branch that Mr. Clarke also known for its compassion and for its During the six months between who founded Action Réfugiés in encountered numerous people seek - PAUL CLARKE efforts seeking justice and fairness the departure of Dr. Williams and 1979 and retired as executive direc - ing refugee status, many of them liv - for refugees. the arrival of Mr. Clarke, Rob Shrop - tor last year to take a senior post in ing in a nearby residence run by the to work at Action Réfugiés Montréal ARM’s detention program, co- shire a former staff member of the Toronto with her denomination, the YMCA. In describing his interac - represents a chance to fulfill a long- ordinated by Jenny Jeanes, brings Primate’s World Relief and Develop - Presbyterian Church in Canada. A tions with them, he speaks of the held dream to work for social jus - ARM staff and interns together with ment Fund, served as Interim Exec - faith-inspired organization, Action challenges of dealing with people tice.” over 400 people a year, the majority utive Director. Much of Mr. Shrop - Réfugiés (or ARM) has its roots in a who have come to Canada with little Mr. Clarke is an active member of of them asylum seekers, at the Cana - shire’s time was spent working with partnership with the Anglican Dio - or no French or English, oen lack - Cedar Park United Church in Pointe dian Border Services Agency’s Im - a consultant, funded by a private cese of Montreal and the Presbyteri - ing identity documents and with Claire, where he was chair of the migration Detention Centre in family foundation, to develop a an Church in Canada, and has sup - limited understanding of the Cana - congregational board from 2005 to Laval. Ms. Jeanes also co-ordinates communications and fundraising port from individual churches and dian banking system. 2009 and vice-chair from 2009 to ARM’s twinning program, matching plan to help secure ARM’s future. church members, among other Mr. Clarke says, “I’ve always con - the present. He has been active in refugee women with Montreal Says Mr. Shropshire, “ARM is an groups and people. sidered refugees as people who have committee work and currently rep - women for friendship and mutual important organization that pro - Mr. Clarke’s career with the TD a tremendous amount to offer Cana - resents his congregation at the Mon - learning and support. vides a lifeline to refugees overseas Bank began in 1979 as a teller. Over da. My team and I worked to ensure t real Presbytery of the United ARM’s refugee sponsorship pro - and to those seeking protection at the years, he progressed through that their banking needs were fully Church. gram brought 36 men, women and our borders. It is a living witness to a more senior roles, working most met, and that they were treated with A press release from the ARM children to Montreal last year – peo - church that reaches out beyond itself recently as “special officer” for the dignity, respect, and sensitivity.” board said Mr. Clarke’s strong ple who fled violence and persecu - to the world around it. It has been a Quebec Region with TD-Canada Mr. Clarke was appointed by the under standing of church life was tion in Afghanistan, Eritrea and privilege to work here, even if only Trust, helping branches in need on ARM board of directors at the end of important to ARM. In his time at Iraq. As well, sponsorship co-ordi - for a short time.” short-term assignments. January and he began work on Feb - Cedar Park, Mr. Clarke worked on a nator Mary Lou Docherty filed new He has worked as branch manag - ruary 25. He says, “e opportunity project to renew the congregation applications with Immigration Que - Churches will walk with first nations, Catholic activist pledges as Truth and Reconciliation commission launches April event

Harvey Shepherd 2007 Indian Residential Schools Set - mandate but the churches will con - ional event” in Montreal April 24-27, “honorary witnesses” who take part Canada’s churches have to take tlement Agreement. Its mandate is tinue to walk with the first nations.” the fih of seven such events in dif - in the event: Éloge Butera, a survivor responsibility for their involvement to inform Canadians of what hap - Chief Andrew Delisle, a veteran ferent centres across Canada, to of Rwandan massacre of Tutsis and in efforts to implement deliberate pened during the 150 years of the activist from the Mohawk commu - learn more about the residential human rights activist, and Charles- policies of integrating aboriginal residential schools in Canada and to nity at Kahnawake, said the issues go schools and their legacy. e event Mathieu Brunelle, director general pupils by suppressing their lan - guide and inspire reconciliation beyond the question of residential will be in the Fairmont Queen Eliza - of Montreal’s Space for Life, which guages and cultures as well as for based on mutual understanding and schools. Indian reserves themselves beth Hotel; no registration is re quir - includes a section devoted to first incidents of abuse, a Roman Cath - respect. were a sort of residential school, ed and admission is free. nations lore in the Botannical Gar - olic social activist told a Montreal But Mr. McDonough said the especially up until recent decades, in e event is intended to provide den. gathering in February. churches have also acknowledged the way they repressed first nations former pupils, their children and Among the audience at the media Both were unacceptable, Brian their involvement and expressed people and their culture. (He others whose lives have been affect - launch were Dean Paul Kennington McDonough, director of the social regret, not only for abuses but for acknowledged that his own experi - ed to share their experiences in pub - of Christ Church Cathedral and Rev. action office of the Roman Catholic their part in repressing aboriginal ence at a school in Victoriaville run lic or private sessions. Public state - Karen Egan Chalk of the Church of archdiocese of Montreal, said at a language and culture and hope to by Sacred Heart Brothers was main - ments will be webcast at www.trc.ca. St. Andrew and St. Mark in Dorval. “media launch” for a public event work together with aboriginals in ly positive.) ere will also be traditional cere - Bishop Barry Clarke recently planned in Montreal April 24-27 by mu tual respect and with an ex change He said healing too needs to take monies, an education day largely for appointed her to represent the Dio - the national Truth and Reconcilia - of spiritual gis. He said the Truth place not only among first nations high school students, cultural per - cese of Montreal on a regional advi - tion Commission. e commission and Reconciliation Commission people but among others “who are formances and movies. sory committee for the Truth and was established as a result of the “will eventually come to the end of its feeling bad because of what their Dr. Wilson also introduced two Reconciliation Commission. ancestors did.” “e whole thing is about peace.” Marie Wilson, on hand at the media launch as one of the three commissioners of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, said the impact of residential schools was not as great in Quebec as in some parts of Canada but it was still con - siderable and its legacy needs to be dealt with. (According to one list, there were federal government schools admin - istered by Roman Catholics in Amos from 1948 to 1965, by Roman Cath - olics at Pointe Bleue, near Roberval, from 1956 to 1965, in La Tuque by Anglicans from 1962 to 1980, in Fort George by Anglican from 1934 to 1979, in Sept-Îles by Catholics from 1952 to 1967 and in La Tuque by Catholics from 1952 to 1967 and in Fort George by Catholics from 1936 to 1952.) CHIEF ANDREW DELISLE, a Kahnawake activist of long standing, chats CATHOLIC SOCIAL ACTIVIST BRIAN McDONOUGH says churches Everyone is invited to the “na t - with Marie Wilson, a commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation must take responsibility. Commission. (Photos: Harvey Shepherd) 2 – ANGLICAN MONTREAL ANGLICAN – March 2013

de l’encens, que Jésus est venu nous réponses. sauver. Ce carême nous resterons avec God’s questions are not our questions Dans le désert, Jésus était tenté Jésus en prière, en silence, en études par Satan avec des « pourquoi » et et en action sociale. Nous suivrons Paul Kennington will think together about discern - des « comment. » À la question en ligne les choix de plusieurs per - (Here are French and English texts of ment and by reading about the « pourquoi es-tu ici, » Jésus était sonnages bibliques pour mieux nous a message by Very Rev. Paul choices biblical characters made. We sans doute tenté de répondre « pour aider à discerner la vérité et la Kennington, dean of Christ Church will reconsider how we make impor - nourrir les affamés, pour révéler le volonté de Dieu dans notre vie. Cathedral, in the Lent and Easter tant decisions in our lives. miraculeux, pour diriger la terre Nous ne cherchons pas à savoir newsletter leaflet of the Cathedral. And all of this is not to discover avec droiture. » À la question « com - pourquoi ou comment nous exis - The leaflet was distributed in early “how” or “why” we exist, but to hear ment feras-tu cela, » Satan voulait tons, mais à entendre la voix de Dieu February, before the start of Lent.) the voice of God saying to us “is is entendre Jésus dire « en changeant qui nous dit « Voici mon enfant my beloved child” and to say with les pierres en pain, en se faisant por - bien-aimé(e) » et à annoncer avec Children ask “why?” at a very Jesus “e Spirit of the Lord is upon ter par les anges, en gouvernant l’em - Jésus « L’Esprit du Seigneur est young age and adults take a long me.” pire. » Mais la vraie vocation de sur moi. » time to grow out of it. Why should PAUL KENNINGTON (Photo: René Sanchez) “And God saw everything that was Jésus ne se discernait pas par l’entre - « Et Dieu vit tout ce qu’il a crée, et we do it? Why believe? Why choose made, and behold it was very good.” mise de ces questions ni de ces trouva cela très bon ». this not that? “Why are you here?” Jesus is tempt - Les questions que Dieu nous As we get older we ask “how?” ed by the obvious answers: “to feed pose ne sont pas les nôtres. “How does this work?” “How does the hungry,” “to reveal the supernat - Anglicans bound for The Reek this make a difference?” “How can I ural,” “to rule the earth.” To the ques - Les tout petits enfants nous de - do that?” tion “and how will you do that?” mandent « pourquoi? » Et nous, les But there’s not much “how” or Jesus is tempted to turn stones into adultes, continuons à demander “why” in the Bible. God doesn’t tell bread, to be caught mid-air by angels « pourquoi faire cela? pourquoi us how or why creation or salvation and to govern the empire. Yet none croire ceci? » is done. God tells us that it is good, of these questions and answers Avec l’âge nous demandons « com - that God delights in justice, that helped Jesus discern his true voca - ment? » « Comment ça marche? » prayer and integrity are a fragrant tion. Mais Dieu ne nous dit pas le offering, that Jesus came to save us. As we begin Lent and prepare for « pourquoi » ni le « comment » de la When Jesus sat in the wilderness, Easter we will sit with Jesus in prayer création ni du salut. Dieu nous dit Satan tempted Jesus with “why” and and worship, in silent retreat and que c’est bon, qu’il aime la justice, “how” miracles. To the question study, in outreach and action. We que la prière monte vers lui comme Letters to the editor Understanding the Appreciative Way & Mission Works Golf Tournament Transformation CROAGH PATRICK, also known as The Reek, rises about 750metres above County Mayo and Clew Bay in Ireland. Its history as a place of A unique opportgunity for Reader Iiked it so much worship reaches back in time as far as 3000 BC, according to the web - clergy and lay leaders site of the “Croagh Patrick Visitor Centre at the Foot of the Holy Moun - I am certainly not a pro golfer but sticks, honest!) Presented by Rob Voyle tain.” Its popularity among Christian pilgrims dates to the time of St. I do enjoy the sport. For years I have Seriously though, you don’t have Sponsored by the Diocese of Montreal Patrick, who is said to have completed a 40-day Lenten ritual of fast - heard about the diocesan golf tour - to be a pro. ey can go on ahead May 9, 10 and 11 ing and penance there – and banished snakes from Ireland. The Reek is nament and I know that the money and have their own fun. But think only one of the highlights on a “Celtic pilgrimage to Ireland” to be raised most certainly goes towards about this: a chance to give towards “Jesus didn’t come that we hosted by Bishop Barry Clarke September 19 to October 1. It will also Mission ministry I have oen ministry, all the while having fun might have less death, he came take in such places as Dublin, Waterford, Blarney, Killarney, Galway thought about participating, but and being in community – and isn’t that we might have life.” and Belfast. The basic tour price $2,929 Canadian, double occupancy, thought I was just not a good that what being Christian is all Too often we spend our time plus airport tax and fuel surcharges. For more information, contact enough golfer. about? Meeting people where they engaged in change processes that, Archdeacon Janet Griffith at 514-602-3756 or jgriffith@montreal. UNTIL, I participated last year are, for who they are, just where they at best, are stop-gap measures to anglican.ca. and had the best time. Sure the team are? delay death. What the church I was on wasn’t a pro-team and all I had so much fun that I decided needs today is not change but the great golfers got ahead of us – to join the organizing committee transformation – a new way of Celtic Pilgrimage to Ireland but that’s OK, we let them. and to give a larger part of myself. seeing and being in the world. The Hosted by Bishop Barry Clarke I had the pleasure of being teamed Trust me, you won’t regret going – Appreciative Way is an intentional with Brian and Judy as well as Frank. and oh did I mention the lunch and strategic way of engaging in September 19 to October 1, 2013 What a blast we had – until Frank’s before and the great supper we have transformation by discovering and Where golf cart broke and he went off aerwards? All included! growing what is life-giving to the Day 1: Fly from Montreal to Dublin via Toronto ahead, while I was le to hit my ball And if you’re not sure, come and congregation. Day 2: Sightseeing in Dublin and run to the next shot because I talk with me or someone on the Appreciative Inquiry training you Day 3: Dublin/Glendalough/ had the course marshal driving committee, or better yet, come and will: Avoca/Waterford behind me telling me to go faster. golf with me. • Gain an in-depth understanding Day 4: Waterford/Blarney/Cork/Killarney Happy Gilmour had nothing on me! See you in July. of Appreciative Inquiry. Day 5: Killarney/Ring of Kerry (I really didn’t play with hockey Rev. Eileen Steele, Chambly • Conduct an appreciative inquiry into your vocation and mission. Day 6: Adare/Bunratty/Kilenora/Galway • Learn appreciative ways of Day 7: Galway/Rossaveel/ Aran Isles creating change and Day 8: Galway/Kylemore/Galway transformation. Day 9: Galway/Westport/Knock/Castlebar • Learn how to be an appreciative Day 10: Castlebar/Sligo/Drumcliffe/Belfast presence in the world. Day 11: Belfast/Dublin greenggrreen Watch for more information to come, Day 12: Dublin including the site. Day 13: Fly Dublin to Montreal via Toronto When Bishop Barry’s Thursday, September 19 to Tuesday, October 1, 2013 Who Calendar Basic tour price $2,929 CAD (double occ.) plus airport tax and fuel MARCH surcharges ($480 CAD at this time) (subject to change without prior notice) For more information, please contact Archdeacon Janet Griffith at 2 Confirmation Morning’ on (514) 602-3756 or jgriffi[email protected] Saturday March 2, 9:30 am –12:30 pm at Fulford Hall, organized by Youth Ministry Consultant, ANGLICAN Official, Editorially Autonomous Mark Dunwoody Newspaper of the Diocese of Montreal 8-9 Vocations Discernment MO NT REAL Deadline for April 20 13 issue: ANGLICAN March 6th Event at Manoir d’Youville, Île Saint-Bernard, Editor: Harvey Shepherd Châteauguay Editorial Assistance: Peter Denis – Circulation: Ardyth Robinson 10 Confirmation at St Paul’s Secretarial Assistance: Helen Wiegand – Production: Studio Melrose Cote des Neiges Editorial Office: 1444 Union Avenue, Montreal, PQ H3A 2B8 12 Diocesan Council Phone: 514 843-6577 – Fax: 514 843-6344 E-mail: [email protected] 17-19 Clergy Lenten Retreat, Manoir d’Youville Published monthly except July and August The Montreal Anglican accepts display advertising. Rates are available on request. 23 Youth Leaders Prayer Breakfast with Mark Send subscription changes to: Anglican Journal, Dunwoody, Fulford Hall 80 Hayden Street, Toronto, ON M4Y 3G2 24 Confirmation service at St. Anglican Journal & Montreal Anglican $ 10.00 per year Lawrence LaSalle A section of Anglican Journal Legal deposit: National Library of Quebec, National Library of Canada 29 Good Friday Printed & mailed at Webnews Printing inc., North York, ON March 2013 – ANGLICAN MONTREAL ANGLICAN – 3 International Compass Rose message comes to Montreal

“e theology of presence” of the Compass Rose Society was des crib - ed to members of the Anglican Dio - cese of Montreal by Rev. Canon John C. Peterson, recently of the Wash - ington National Cathedral and the new president of the society, at a reception in late January. He was on an eight-day 10-city tour of Canada with Right Rev. Philip Poole, an area bishop in the Diocese of Toronto and Canon Peter son’s predecessor as president, having held the post since 2005. Founded in 1997, largely as a re - sult of a visit to the Sudan three years earlier by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, where he was moved by the privations of Anglicans in that country, the inter - national society raises funds to sup - port the programs and ministries of A STALWART of the Compass the Archbishop of Canterbury and Rose Society from the start, the the Anglican Consultative Council DESPITE BITTER COLD AND THE FLOODING of downtown Montreal streets due to a ruptured water main, several members of the Diocese of Montreal met the new president of the Compass Rose Society, which sup - new president, Rev. Canon John in their own communications and C. Peterson tells members of the other work, and to support mission ports the Archbishop of Canterbury and Anglican endeavours around the world, especially ones facing hard - ship. From left are the new president, Rev. Canon John C. Peterson, his predecessor in the office, Right Rev. Diocese of Montreal how the so - projects approved by the secretary ciety started and grew. Recently general of the consultative council. Philip Poole, an area bishop in the Diocese of Toronto, Rev. Canon Peter Hannen, an honorary assistant at the Church of St. James the Apostle, and Bishop Barry Clarke and Executive Archddeacon Janet Griffith of Canon for Social Justice and Rec - e Compass Rose Society has onciliation at the Washington Na - Montreal. (Photos: Harvey Shepherd) over 250 individuals, families, tional Cathedral, he served as parishes, cathedrals, chapters, dioce - tions as members, who generally pay then annual contributions. Since its of Kaduna, Nigeria, for a bush health secretary general of the World - ses, seminaries and other organiza - initiation dues of at least $10,000 and creation it has disbursed more than clinic. Sums, mostly ranging be- wide Anglican Communion from $7.35 million: $5.82 million to the tween about $70,000 and $5,000, 1995 to 2005. It was during his Anglican Consultative Council, in - have gone to diocese and other tenure as secretary general that cluding about $1.07 million to the groups around the world, mostly the Compass Rose Society, named St. Michael’s Mission opens Diocese of Jerusalem and its two Anglican. for an international symbol of An - hospitals and St. George’s College in “When we go to these places we glicanism, was established. Ear - overnight in cold snap that city, over $161,000 to the Dio - are going in the name of the Angli - lier, he was dean of St. George’s cese of the Highveld in South Africa, can Communion,” Canon Peterson College in Jerusalem for 12 years Harvey Shepherd e severe temperatures made much of it for HIV/AIDS assistance, said. and remains a canon of St. A cold snap that at times sent the things difficult for men who for pref - and about $112,000 for the Diocese George’s Cathedral in that city. thermometer well below minus-20 erence or other reasons avoid Mon - Celsius, aggravated by what appear treal’s established overnight shelters to be increasing numbers of home - and resort to such places as bank less, prompted St. Michael’s Mission machine foyers and ventilation New Maronite bishop organized to open overnight for the first time grates or walk the streets while the in its 85-year history for four nights Métro is shut down in the early in January. morning. pope’s tour of Lebanon George Greene, acting director of e mission did not have the the soup kitchen and day centre in funds to continue the venture very Pope Benedict XVI ac- Bham doun, Leb- anon in Dallas. He also serv- the basement of the downtown long and reverted to its usual day - cepted the resignation of anon, and speaks ed as assistant director of a Church of St. John the Evangelist, time operations as the weather mod - Most Rev. Joseph Khoury as Eng lish, French and Catholic college and secre - said tables and chairs were pushed to erated somewhat. But the experience Eparchial Bishop of the Arabic. He entered tary-general of Cath olic the side and about 25 men spent the was a positive one in some respects. Catholic Maronite Eparchy the Congregation of schools in Leb anon. He was night on the floor of the mission “It was good not only for the men of Canada in early January the Lebanese Mar - co-ordinator for Pope Bene - Tuesday-Friday January 22-25. but for our staff,” he said. and named Rev. Marwan onite Missionaries dict’s journey to Leb anon Com forters, blankets and other bed - ey appreciated the chance to Tabet as his successor. At the in 1980, and was or - last September. ding were lent by the Welcome Hall interact with a number of people time of his appointment, the dained a priest in Bishop Joseph Khoury was Mission and Old Brewery Mission. they already knew in somewhat dif - bishop-elect was based in JOSEPH 1986. He holds bac h - MARWAN ordained a priest in 1964 in “No one was turned away.” ferent circumstances. Lebanon as general coun - KHOURY elor’s degrees in the - TABET Rome and held posts in He said many of those who made He said the incident also helped selor for his religious com - ology and philoso - Europe before becoming Ep- use of the shelter were regular clients promote links between St. Michael’s munity, the Congregation of the phy from Holy Spirit University, archial Bishop of the Maronite Ep - for the meals and other daytime Mission and staff of leading over - Missionaries of Lebanon. Kaslik, Lebanon, master’s degrees in archy of Canada in 1996. He was services provided by the mission. night shelters. e Maronite Eparchy of Canada , non-profit administration and polit - active in the Canadian Conference of with its see at St. Maron Cathedral in ical philosophy from two U.S. insti - Cath olic Bishops, as a consultor for the Ahuntsic district of Montreal has tutions and a doctorate in school the Vatican’s Congregation for Orien - ‘To understand our purpose 16 parishes. Parishioners, generally administration from the University tal Churches and as a member of the you must first question it’ of Lebanese origin, are served by 14 of South Africa. Pontifical Council for Inter-religious priests, five religious sisters and two He served parishes in Boston and dialogue. He had offered his resigna - permanent deacons. South Africa and established the tion in 2011 when reaching the age of e new bishop was born in Maronite parish of Our Lady of Leb - 75, as required by church law. News in brief

Bishop Barry postpones visit to Africa Huish, Brian McDonough of the Roman Catholic arch - diocese of Montreal, criminologist-blogger Justin Piché “Aer much prayer,” Bishop Barry Clarke and and others. Sessions will be 7:15-9:15 p.m. April 2-May 7 Archdeacon Janet Griffith postponed to a future date a at the Montreal Diocesan eological College, 3475 Uni - visit to Montreal’s companion Diocese of Masasi, Tanza - versity St. e fee is $50 or $10 an evening. To register, nia, that was to have taken up a large part of February. get in touch with Rev. Canon Tim Smart, by March 22 at is meant that they were unable to attend the ordina - [email protected] or 514-849-4437 tion as a priest of Reverend Geofrey Patrick Monjesa, development officer of Masasi (who was ordained as a Marriage-prep workshops continue MEMBERS of a recently established Interfaith Forum at McGill Uni - deacon in ceremony in the Montreal Diocese last fall) or Four marriage preparation workshops for couples versity enjoy an outing in February at the university’s Gault Nature Re - the ceremonial retirement of Bishop Patrick Mwachiko organized by the Diocese of Montreal are coming up serve at Mont St. Hilaire. The photos are from one of the members of from that office (which he announced last fall at the between April and November. e weekend courses take the forum, Afra Saskia Tucker, also a parishioner of the Church of St. Montreal diocesan synod.) place Friday 7-10 p.m. and Saturday 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. John the Evangelist in Montreal, who says that the new group “strives Groups are between five and 10 couples. is year’s towards an inclusive future where dialogue is the main tool in finding Crime and Punishment courses are at St. Andrew and St. Mark’s Parish, 865 common understanding between and within diverse ideas on faith, spir - Is the criminal justice system in Canada a just process Lakeshore Drive, Dorval. For more information, see the ituality, and methods of reasoning.” The group hopes to facilitate com - for victims and offenders? at will be explored in six Web page at http://layeducation.org/marriage.htm. e munication, to develop mutual respect, and allow for collective Tuesday evenings in conversation about the roots of upcoming dates are April 5 and 6, May 24 and 25, June personal growth and to collaborate with other campus groups religious crime and the effectiveness of punishment. Guest speak - 28 and 29 and October 18 and 19. or not, to hold open forums or other events. ers will include Rev. Jim McDermott, Rev. Deacon Peter 4 – ANGLICAN MONTREAL ANGLICAN – March 2013 A sisterly concelebration

REV. CANON JOYCE SANCHEZ, rector of Trinity Memorial Church in the N.D.G district of Montreal, helps Bishop Griselda Delgado Del Car - pio, bishop of the Episcopal Church of Cuba since 2010, to distribute communion during a visit by Canon Sanchez and her husband to Cuba CUBAN AND CANADIAN CLERGY join in celebrating the mass at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Havana during in January. A Bolivian, Bishop Delgado led a Cuban parish for 22 years a visit to Cuba by Rev. Canon Joyce Sanchez of Montreal. Bishop Griselda Delgado Del Carpio of Cuba in - before her installation as bishop in November 2010. She is Cuba’s first vited Canon Sanchez and her friend Juan Ramon de la Paz, former dean of Havana, to join in celebrating. female diocesan bishop. She was ordained as a priest in 1986 alongside From left are Juan Ramon, Canon Sanchez, Bishop Delgado and José Ángel Gutiérrez Ferro, current dean Nerva Cot Aguilera, now deceased, who became a suffragan bishop of of Havana. (Photos: René Sanchez) the IEC, and Latin America’s first woman bishop. le goût de lire / born to read Dio’s seed Obituaries presents money Remembered in Westmount bears fruit Harpissimo – Québec Betty Doidge, wife of Archdeacon time the couple returned to London. Myrna Hollomby-Guy Jack Doidge, who served in the Dio - Betty Doidge’s recipe for Christmas Over ten years ago, Born to Read, cese of Montreal for 21 years, died pudding is still treasured at St. an early literacy project run by a peacefully January 12 in London, Matthias’, especially every fall. group of retired educators, was Ont., in her 92nd year. Hilda Eliza - struggling financially. Its volunteers beth (Mandell) Doidge is survived Barbara Hatton valued literacy as a key to a healthy by her husband for 65 years, three and well-functioning society and children, five grandchildren and a Barbara Hatton, wife of the late recognized the importance of sup - great-grandson. A memorial service Bishop Russell Hatton, died in Nova porting the efforts of parents to en - took place January 18, at St. James Scotia at the end of December, less courage their child’s emerging litera - Westminster Anglican Church in than a year aer her husband, who Friday, April 12, 2013 cy. e volunteers hoped that pro - London, where the couple had been served as assistant bishop of Mon - viding guidance and books at the parishioners for about 30 years. treal from 1997 to 2005. He had pre - 8 p.m. monthly well-baby clinic run by the Aer serving as a priest in Lon - viously had a career in several theo - CLSC Pierrefonds would establish a don, Winnipeg and elsewhere, in logical schools, on the national staff foundation for early and lifelong 1962 Jack Doidge became rector of of the Anglican Church Canada, as a St. Mark’s Anglican Church learning. e volunteers did this by St. Matthias’ Westmount and arch - suffragan bishop in Nova Scotia and distributing bags of books to the deacon of Montreal where he served Anglican bishop to the Canadian 865 bord du lac, Dorval parents of newborns and discussing until his retirement in 1983. At that Armed Forces. the importance of reading in their child’s development. A grant of $8,000 from Outreach Tickets: 514 667-9562 $20.00 Development Funds then available from the Montreal Diocese provided [email protected] Children $10.00 much-needed seed money. is enabled Born to Read to purchase better quality books and to expand its programs. Since those early efforts, Born to Read sought out other sources of funding within the community. CCC and Some of these include the students of St. John Fisher School, the West Island Oldtimers Hockey Associa - The Fair Trade tion, the Elizabeth Stewart Founda - tion and individual donors as well as regular fundraising events. Chocolate Factory From its initial work at the th month ly clinic, Born to Read, now Sunday March 17 , 12.00 – 1.30 reads and distributes books to chil - Fulford Hall, 1444 Union Ave dren at the Pierrefonds Community Project luncheon held monthly at St. A fun, interactive and Barnabas Church. It staffs a drop-in BETTY DOIDGE and her husband Archdeacon Jack Doidge, in 2009 playgroup for parents and tots called informative discovery all about Books & Play two mornings a week, and a Saturday morning program WEST ISLAND WOMEN’S RETREAT 2013 for young children providing extra support in learning to read. ese Every woman needs a quiet time when she can stop and reflect latter two programs are part of the and turn to God… a time when she can think through the Make your Community Learning Centre at own fair trade priorities of her life without those inevitable interruptions and Fair trade Riverdale High School. those seemingly endless demands on her time and energy – a time chocolate chocolate tastings, e initial grant from the Diocese for renewing herself mentally, physically and spiritually. Easter eggs games and quizzes! of Montreal has enabled Born to and cookies! Read to thrive and grow and has The West Island Women’s Retreat will be held on Friday April 26 – benefited untold children. Sunday April 28, 2013. Spiritual Director: The Ven. Janet Griffith, Where in Born to Read is hosting another Executive Archdeacon – Diocese of Montreal. Location: the world fundraising event, featuring Harpis - the beautiful ERMITAGE STE-CROIX, 21269 Gouin Blvd. West, does all simo – Québec at St. Mark’s Church, Pierrefonds. The cost is $140, bursaries available. our Dorval, on Friday, April 21. is will Will you be the first time Harpissimo will be For a registration form contact Liz Glasgow: 514 -453-0883 chocolate win the [email protected] come performing on the West Island. See Golden the ad (above le) for more details. from? More information, contact: Ticket? (Myrna Hollomby-Guy is a key Liz Glasgow or Ann Yaxley 450 461-1296 [email protected] volunteer of Born to Read.)

March 2013 – ANGLICAN MONTREAL ANGLICAN – 5 THE STILLNESS WITHIN A column by Cedric Cobb – where you might find a meditation, a poem, an awareness exercise or an inspiration. Easter Joy? You show me the path of life. In from our spacious, higher self, ness to the Divine gave him a per - I became aware of ever-present PRACTICE: your presence there is fullness of joy; which is our “true self” as children spective that enabled him to respond joy in my own life when I stopped to Holy Moment Meditation In your right hand are pleasures for of God. en we enter what Jesus to life in a positive manner. listen to my deepest longing. Going Can you believe the Divine delights evermore. Psalm 16.11 called the kingdom of heaven, and Another factor contributing to joy within, listening sincerely, I felt in the celebrations of your heart, and “No despair of ours can alter the experience joy manifesting itself in is our connection to the present myself responding to something so desires that you experience joy in reality of things, or stain the joy of the our lives in countless ways. moment. From the contemplative’s deep it defied definition or explana - your life more oen? cosmic dance which is always there.” is month we celebrate Easter point of view, we experience joy tion. In the face of that Reality, all I Take a few letting-go breaths and omas Merton joy. To talk about joy, however, is every time we pay attention, and could do was to simply let go – to let remember a time when you felt pres - We have all experienced joy. It also to raise the issue of suffering in open our hearts to the moment. Liv - go of all my ideas, all my thoughts, ent in the moment – absorbed in a may have come watching a sunset, the world. Some may ask, “How can ing in the now, we awaken to the life all my concepts. is self-emptying sunset, marvelling at fresh-fallen being present at the birth of your you live with joy in a world of ter - of joy and love that Jesus exemplified. was accompanied by an intense feel - snow, enchanted by the smile of a child, engaging in a meaningful con - rorism, cruelty, and the death of so Whatever the accompanying circum - ing of Joy . Furthermore, I recog - baby. versation with friends, or lying on many innocents?” In answer, the stances may be, we can experience nized that this joy was familiar. I had Enter the memory with all your the beach under a summer sky. Biblical tradition distinguishes be - “aliveness” and joy. It depends on experienced it on numerous occa - senses. Remember the sights and However, what keeps us from expe - tween joy and happiness . Joy is an whether or not we are connected to sions when I had simply allowed colours, the smells, the position and riencing more of these moments of inner state of being that comes about the present moment, and to the myself to be in the moment. movement of your body – the emo - joy? Contemplatives say it is because as the result of an intimate and trust - Divine Reality that is always present. Can we experience Easter joy in tional or felt sense. many of us live from our “smaller ing connection with the Divine Mys - We are not saying that joy protects us this world? For contemplatives, the Now, let the memory go and med - self.” us, we are continually react - tery. Happiness , however, comes from the hardships or difficulties of answer is a resounding “Yes.” It is a itate for a few minutes on what ing to events based on fear, and about as the result of pleasant cir - life. Rather, in the words of Helen matter of simply following the way remains: the stillness and joy of your seek ing our own comfort and safety. cumstances . is understanding sug - Jaeger, joy is “ like a refreshing stream of Jesus, dying to ourselves in order awareness of the moment and the When we live from this smaller self, gests that we can experience joy within us, which helps us to cope with to open to new life. e more we can Divine Presence. Every moment that we separate ourselves from the pres - even in the the midst of the difficul - and overcome the inevitable stresses of learn to let go into our true selves, you are in the present is a holy ent moment, and from the joy we all ties we encounter in life, and it is each day. In doing so, we enter into the the more we reclaim our connection moment. want to experience. Only when we exemplified in the story of Job. Even happiness that is shared at the heart of to the Source of All Life, and the (Adapted from Joan Borysenko’s let go of our fear-based smaller self though everything else in his life had the Divine. We discover that laughter more we open to the joy that is Pocketful of Miracles) and its attachments, can we live life been stripped away, his connected - heals and that joy strengthens.” already there as our birthright. I wish you much joy – and laugh - ter. Cedric Lenten and Easter Events The Church of St. John the Evangelist, Montreal:

Bishop of Brandon to lead in Châteauguay. is year’s theme Ang lican Fellowship of Prayer, lead - Special Services for Easter Lenten retreat will be “Kindle a Flame: Re flections ing a number of quiet days for clergy Bishop Jim Njegovan of the Dio - of the Call to Holy Orders.” Born and laity of the diocese. He has Stations of the Cross Every Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. to cese of Brandon in Manitoba will and educated in Man itoba, he has served on the Anglican Church of March 27. This will be followed by a soup supper and our Lenten lead this year’s Clergy Lenten Re - been bishop of Brandon since 2001 Canada’s national Anti-Racism program at 7 p.m. (except March 27) entitled: “Fast, Feast & treat for the Montreal Diocese, and with his wife, Bernadette, served Work ing Group and as a member of Festival: Sacred Time & the Liturgical Year”. March 17-19 at the Manoir d’Youville as the dio cesan representative on the the Ang lican -Roman Catholic Bish - Please visit our website or contact the church office for more ops’ Dialogue. e official registra - details on our Lenten Program. tion deadline was February 25. For Sunday March 17, 2013 Passion Sunday Lenten, Easter worship more information, get in touch with Low Mass at 8:30 a.m. the synod office or visit the diocesan Solemn High Mass at 10:30 a.m. Web page. Christ Church Cathedral Sunday March 24, 2013 Palm Sunday 635 St. Catherine St. W. Lenten Lunches at Christ Low Mass at 8:30 a.m. Church Beaurepaire Palm Sunday/Dimanche des rameaux, March 24. Blessing of palms, Solemn High Mass with Procession at 10:30 a.m. procession and Passion play. Christ Church Beaurepaire will be Sung compline and meditation (plainsong) Monday, March 25, 7:30 p.m. hosting Lenten Lunches every Wed - Thursday March 28, 2013 Maundy Thursday Sung compline and meditation (Russian Orthodox) Tuesday, March 26, 7:30 nesday from March 6-20. Lunch will Solemn High Mass at 5:45 p.m. p.m. be served from 11.30 a.m. to 1 p.m . Ceremonial re-enactment of Christ washing the feet of the Choral Tenebrae ( Tallis Lamentations ) Wednesday, March 27, 7:30 p.m. Enjoy a hearty homemade soup, disciples, Procession of the Blessed Sacrament to the Altar of Maundy ursday/Jeudi saint, March 28: Diocesan Chrism Eucharist 12:15 along with bread, cheese, squares repose, stripping of the High Altar and Sanctuary. p.m., Eucharist of the Last Supper and all-night prayer vigil 7:30 p.m. and tea or coffee for just $7 a person. There will be a prayer vigil through the night at the Altar of Good Friday/Vendredi saint, March 29: Children’s Good Friday service 12 Lunches will take place at Christ Repose. Please come and pray with us at any time between our noon, music for Good Friday (Allegri, Victoria, Palestrina) 1 p.m., Liturgy Church, 455 Church St., Beacons - Maundy Thursday Service, and our first service on Good Friday of Good Friday 2 p.m. field. For information call 514-697- morning. 2204. Everyone is welcome. Holy Saturday/Samedi saint, March 30: Great Easter Eucharist 7:30 p.m. Friday March 29, 2013 Good Friday (vigil, confirmation, First Mass of Easter) Chocolate at the Cathedral Matins at 12 noon. Easter Day/Dimanche de pâques, March 31: Festival Choral Eucharist 10 Why have most cocoa farmers Stations of the Cross at 1 p.m. a.m. (Louis Vierne: Messe solonelle, with brass); Festival Choral Evensong 4 never tasted chocolate? Why are Veneration of the Cross and Liturgy of the Presanctified at p.m. (Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb ). cocoa farmers amongst the poorest 1:45 p.m. St. John the Baptist Pointe Claire farmers in the world when millions Choral Tenebrae at 7 p.m. of chocolate bars are sold every day? 233 Ste Claire Ave. Saturday March 30, 2013 Easter Eve Evening Prayer, Sunday, March 3, 4:30 p.m. “Loved and Forgotten” e Fair-Trade Working Group at Christ Church Cathedral invites The Great Vigil of Easter 8 p.m. Evening Prayer, Sunday, March 10, 4:30 p.m. “Peter Stands and Leads” The Lighting of the New Fire, Exsultet and Prophecies, Renewal of Palm Sunday, March 24, 10 a.m. Dramatic reading of the Passion of Our everyone to explore such questions and participate in a fun, interactive Baptismal Vows, Litany of the Saints and the First High Mass of Lord Jesus Christ. Easter. (Please check with the parish for other special services.) and informative hour and a half of discovery about fair trade chocolate Sunday March 31, 2013 Easter Day All Saints Deux Montagnes production and consumption in Ful - Low Mass at 8:30 a.m. 248-18th Ave. Deux Montagnes ford Hall, behind the Cathedral on Solemn High Mass with Procession 10:30 a.m. the second floor at 1444 Union Ave., Palm Sunday service, March 24, 11 a.m. Also, please come and join us for our daily Mass: Maundy ursday supper and service, March 28, 5 p.m. noon to 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 17. Good Friday Walk of Witness, March 29, 2:30 p.m. Among other things, there will be Sunday: 8:30 a.m. Low Mass Holy Communion service at Les Cascades, ursday, March 28, ??? 10:30 an “Invention Room” where partici - 9:45 a.m. Matins a.m. pants can to make their own fair 10:30 a.m.Solemn High Mass Easter Morning celebration service, Sunday, March 31, 11 a.m. trade chocolate eggs! ey will be invited to explore Oompa Loompa Weekdays: Christ Church Beaurepaire Land and discover facts about where Monday, Tuesday (in French), Thursday, Friday 5:45 p.m. Low Mass 455 Church Street, Beaconsfield our chocolate comes from, learn Wednesday 7:30 and 9:30 a.m. Low Mass Maundy ursday Holy Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar, March 28, 7.30 about the growing and pro duction Saturday 12:00 noon, Low Mass p.m. process of chocolate, test their taste Confession heard on Thursday at 5:00 p.m. and Saturday at Good Friday Meditations on the Cross March 29, 10 a.m. buds in the Nut Room, browse or 11:30 a.m. or by appointment. Great Vigil of Easter Eve and first Communion of Easter , Holy Saturday , buy a selection of fair-trade choco - March 30, 7 p.m. late and participate in a raffle, Fun The Church of St. John the Evangelist Sunrise service at the lakeshore at Centennial Park, 288 Beaconsfield Blvd., for the family, and food for thought. 137 President Kennedy Avenue, Montreal e event has been organized in Easter Sunday March 31, 6.36 a.m. (corner of St. Urbain – Metro Place des Arts) Easter services Sunday, March 31: 8.45 a.m. Holy Eucharist (said, BCP), conjunction with the St. Denis St. 10.15 a.m. Holy Eucharist (sung, BAS) store of Dix Mille Villages St Denis. 514-288-4428 – www.redroof.ca 6 – ANGLICAN MONTREAL ANGLICAN – March 2013 Whole family ministry for the whole body of Christ

Comment by Rev. Rhonda Waters least in the early days of their rela - need in order to minister to them in worship together, to experience God Church of the Epiphany, “We need more children!” How tionship with the church. the name of Christ. together so that those experiences 4322 Wellington St. (corner oen have we heard that cry from Fortunately for all of us, young How do we actually do it? What can enter into the very fabric of their of Gordon), Verdun (de our parishes – perhaps even from families need something that we are does this ministry look like? In homes and their relationships. l’Église Métro) our own lips – as people remember well equipped to provide. ey need many ways, it doesn’t look much dif - Specially designed all-ages servic - Register by April 2: the joys of a full Sunday School and a safe, loving, nurturing community ferent from what you are already es, family programming, and parish [email protected] look with anxiety towards a future of for both children and grown-ups. familiar with. Ministry to children is events that are explicitly child- or 514-843-6577 empty churches. Needing children ey need support in facing the un - ministry to parents. Nothing tells friendly can all be elements of this • See It In Action! doesn’t seem to make them come, certainties and challenges of caring parents more clearly that they are ministry to whole families, a min - Kidstuff Summer Event – Fun though. In fact, needing young fam - for precious, vulnerable, ex hausting welcome than welcoming their chil - istry that truly builds up the body of for the Whole Family ilies so desperately may be one of the children. ey need guidance as dren. Sunday School is not only for - Christ. And that is the only thing we Join families from around the things that prevents those who do they confront the mysteries of life mation for children; it frees parents really need to do. diocese for a day of fun and come from staying for long. People and death, growth and change, fear for their own formation in worship. • Learn More! fellowship. come to church because they need and hope. Our rich practices of litur - e reverse is also true. Ministry to Kidstuff Spring Workshop – Details to be announced. something and our anxieties about gy, theological education, and fel - parents is ministry to children. Car - Ministering to the Whole Family our future can cause us to forget that lowship offer these families all of this ing for parents, praying for parents, Monday, April 15th, 5:30-8:30 p.m. (Rev. Rhonda Waters is assistant we are called to be the caregiver, at and more, when we set aside our exploring questions with parents – (supper included) curate at Christ Church Cathedral.) all of this gives them resources for caring, praying and questioning with their children. Of course. we do all of these things in the regular course of our ministries of pastoral care, teaching, and worship. Ensur - ing that these ministries reach par - ents, however, may require some thinking about timing/childcare, as well as paying attention to the con - cerns that may be particular to peo - ple in their stage of life. ere is, however, a third element to this ministry. Sometimes, families need to be ministered to as families, parents and children together. Chil - dren and parents are separated for most of the week and church shouldn’t always be another place of separation. What’s more, the family, not the church, is the most impor - tant place for faith formation. We can help facilitate that crucial role by THEA GRACE and her Dad Jason wield paint brushes at the Cathedral providing opportunities for parents ACTIVE IN CATHEDRAL KIDS MINISTRY, Paul lifts his son Ben and a Sunday school. and children to learn together, to friend, Gilbert, into an apple tree during a Cathedral outing. Nuts, bolts, getting into place in youth ministry

Staff consultant in strategic volunteer opportunities to work together.” Beth try to develop ways to “share bilingual youth participation forms Youth ministry consultant Mark posts. Bishop Barry Clarke was sched - the good news of all the great things and helping organize events. Dunwoody and others in the diocese Jeff Alexander, youth worker at uled to follow up by meeting candi - that are already happening across ose who would like to attend are continuing to put in place struc - All Saints Church in Deux Mon - dates for confirmation from across the many forms of media,” Mr. Dun - the prayer breakfast should RSVP to tures to help strengthen youth min - tagnes,said aer the Nuts & Bolts the diocese for workshops and woody said. She will also work on to [email protected] - istry in the Montreal Diocese among event that “e best part of the games at a “Confirmation Morning” administration tasks like designing can.ca by March 16. those at and somewhat above high- workshop was the networking and at the beginning of March. school age. fellowship with other youth leaders en, as what Mr. Dunwoody Over 20??? youth workers from in the Diocese. called a small gesture of thanks, he parishes in the diocese got together “It’s reassuring to hear from oth - has invited those interested to a first to compare notes and ideas at a ers the challenges we face all the “Youth Leaders Prayer Breakfast” on “First Annual Nuts & Bolts Confer - time, and encouraging that we are Saturday March 23 between 9 and 11 ence” at the end of January, shortly parts of a wider team devoted to rep - a.m. in Fulford Hall, behind Christ before Mr. Dunwoody and Bishop resenting Christ in the lives of teens. Church Cathedral. Barry Clarke announced that two of We had a lot of fun getting to know “e morning will be a time of fel - them are to work with the youth them, and look forward to other lowship, food and prayer,” he said. “It will also be a space to hear others stories of how the spirit is working in different parts of our diocese.” Announcing the new assignments of two volunteers, the bishop said, “It is vital we have people in place to support this vital work. In a climate KISHA JOSEPH, third from right in front of the flip chart, joins in dis - of reduced finances it will be ever cussion at the Nuts & Bolts conference. She will be focusing on pro - more important to both invest and moting service to others by youth of the diocese, as well as continuing offer our volunteers opportunities to to co-ordinate the Youth Ambassadors program. Youth consultant Mark serve according to gis and pas - Dunwoody is standing at the left. sions.” Kisha Joseph continues, as she has in the recent past, to seek to help equip young people and their parishes to engage in loving service to others. A part-time youth worker at St. George’s Church in Ste Anne de Bellevue, she is already a familiar face to many in the diocese because of her activity in 2012 in the Youth Ambassadors program, which pro - moted travel opportunities for young people. She will continue in this role too. Beth Reed, a parishioner of St. BETH REED, left, who will be working on communications and other John the Evangelist Church in tasks to support youth ministry in the diocese, admires a special deck downtown Montreal, will help the of cards used in an ice-breaker exercise at the Nuts & Bolts conference. diocese try to better communicate Luke Bayly of St. Peter’s in the Town of Mount Royal hunkers down and what’s going in youth ministry at the PARTICIPANTS IN THE NUTS & BOLTS CONFERENCE gather for a parish, diocesan and national levels. Jeff Alexander of All Saints Deux Montagnes as at right. (Photo: Harvey Shepherd) group photo. March 2013 – ANGLICAN MONTREAL ANGLICAN – 7 ‘What does the Lord require of us?’ (Micah 6:8)

Spiritual notebook

Bahá’í, Reconstructionist encouraged. For this and for more and May 5 at 1 p.m. Paws & Pray fea - visits coming up information, email Ms. Caron at tures a service of the Holy Eucharist A Bahá’í sanctuary and a Recon - acaron @oikoumene.ca or call 514- where canine companions and their structionist synagogue are the next 937-9176, local 30. Or visit the Cana - guardians are always welcome. Serv - sites on the itinerary this spring of dian Centre for Ecumenism at 1819 ices take place at Christ Church the “Discovering Our Neighbour’s René Lévesque W., suikte #003 or its Beaurepaire 455 Church St., Bea - Faith” program organized by the website at www.oikoumene.ca. consfield. For information please call 514-697-2204. Canadian Centre for Ecumenism. Spirituality in Ste Anne Alexandra Caron, the new co- Art, pastoral care, among St. George’s Church in Ste Anne ordinator of this bilingual program, topics for lay readers said it is intended to let everyone de Bellevue has several programs discover the religious and interreli - that explore spirituality in different e 2013 series of Saturday work - gious sites and activities Montreal ways. shops for lay readers in the Diocese has to offer. e visits are particular - Sundays begin with a quiet, reflec - of Montreal, which began in Janu - ly well suited to families. tive service of Holy Communion at 8 ary, will continue on Saturday, In February, there was an evening a.m. ere is no music or singing but March 23. Rev. Dr. Patricia G. Kirk - visit to the Badr Islamic Center on there is always a short sermon. patrick of the McGill University fac - Langelier Boulevard in St. Léonard, Choral Communion is at 10 a.m. ulty of religious studies will discuss a mosque that provides cultural, with traditional hymns and a full “artistic representation of the mythic social, educational and religious sermon. Aer the service, there is world of Genesis 1-3”. services to its community, and helps coffee and tea in the parish hall. e Like the other Saturday work - anyone interested in Islam to learn Sunday school operates at the 10 shops, this one will take place at the more about this religion. a.m. service. Montreal Diocesan eological Col - On Wednesday, March 27, those DivorceCare is a special weekly lege, 3475 University St., between 9 interested are invited to visit the seminar and support group for peo - a.m. and 2:30 p.m. ese workshops Bahá’í Sanctuary at 1548 Pine Ave. W ple who are separated and divorced. are intended primarily for lay read - from 7 to 9 p.m. for a program It’s a place to be around people who ers and may help some of them fulfil including a short film about this understand what you are feeling. the diocesan requirement that all lay faith tradition. A light snack will be Meetings are Tuesday evenings at 7 readers are expected to follow some served. is visit offers an opportu - p.m. beginning with tea and coffee. course of continuing education in nity to learn more about this rich Pre-registration is required. order to maintain their license with religious tradition, which originated e “Amplified Youth Group,” the bishop. However, anyone is wel - which meets on Fridays at 7 p.m. come. Cost for most participants is THE ENCOUNTER WITH THE RISEN CHRIST on the Road to Emmaus in Iran in the 1800s. A visit to the Congregation Dor - gives high-school students and $10, payable at the door. is the topic of the Gospel reading, Luke 24:13-35) which Bishop Barry young adults a chance to be LOUD On Saturday, April 20, Archdea - Clarke reads in French at the annual ecumenical service, marking the shei Emet synagogue at 18 Cleve Road in Hampstead is planned for about their faith, their purpose and con Michael Johnson of Christ Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, at St. Joseph’s Oratory January 20. their community. e group is said Church Beaurepaire will discuss the He is flanked by Rev. Stephen Petrie, chaplain at St. Anne’s Veterans’ Tuesday, April 9 between 7 and 8:30 p.m. is Reconstructionist syna - to be growing fast and always look - practice of pastoral care. On Satur - Hospital and ecumenical officer for the Anglican Diocese of Montreal, ing for new members. day, September 28, Rev. Neil Mancor and Msgr. André Tiphane, priest of the Roman Catholic Parish of Ste. gogue describes itself as egalitarian and progressive, combining Jewish St. George’s is at 23 Perrault St., St. of St. George’s Ste Anne de Bellevue Dorothée Laval, who preached on the Old Testament reading, Micah Anne de Bellevue. Call 514-457-6934 will discuss preaching the Good 6:6-8. The liturgy was designed to take into account the reality of India’s tradition and innovation. Everyone is welcome, regardless of their back - or visit stgeorges anglican church. org. News. Dalit (“untouchable”) community and share “their spirituality of striv - ere will be two other events for ground, sexual orientation or socio- Prière Taizé avec les frères ing for justice, lovingkindness and lay readers in May. e annual lay walking in dignity with God.” economic status. ere is a museum that looks at spirituality, ethics and Les Frères de Taizé seront accueil - readers’ retreat will take place May Still Presence Above right, Near and Far Eastern lis à Montréal le samedi 9 mars 3-5: at Manoir d’Youville, Château - traditions mingled as members of culture through a Jewish lens. Spirituality Centre On ursday, May 23, there will parmi nous dans la paroisse Notre- guay. Guest speaker will be National two choirs got into position/posed Dame des Neiges, 5366 chemin de la Aboriginal Bishop Mark MacDon - for a group photo after the annual be a springtime guided tour of the “Find the Mount Royal Cemetery between 1 Côte-des-Neiges, juste à côté de la ald.) ecumenical service, organized station de métro Côte des Neiges. La e lay readers’ annual general Centre Within” largely by the Canadian Centre and 3 p.m. is cemetery, originally Protestant, recently celebrated its prière commencera à 20h00. Pour meeting will be Wednesday, May 22, for Ecumenism. The Chorale des ceux qui le souhaitent, il y aura un at 5:30 p.m. Meditation Circle meets Églises d’Orient and the Tamil 160th anniversary. Finally, a visit to the Poorna-Jnana moment de rencontre au même For further information on the Mondays, 7 to 8:15pm Choir are respectively made up endroit à 19h00 Contact: Suzanne program or on becoming a lay read - largely but not entirely of mem - Yoga Centre at 235 René Lévesque At Christ Church Blvd. E., a charitable organization Lavigueur: 514 336-3018. er, get in touch with Rev. Canon Tim bers of two Montreal Churches, Smart, pastor to the lay readers, at Beaurepaire, 455 Church, the Maronite Catholic Église de founded in 1993 by the author and Paws & Pray in Beaurepaire speaker Etbonan Karta, is planned [email protected] or Beaconsfield Saint-Antoine-le-Grand and the e next Paws & Pray services at 514-849-4437 or visit the website at Roman Catholic Our Lady of De - in June; the exact date and time were www.stillpresence.com not set as this article went to press. Christ Church Beaurepaire will take www.layreaders.org liverance Tamil Mission. place on Sundays March 3, April 7 (Photos: Harvey Shepherd) Pre-registration for these visits is 8 – ANGLICAN MONTREAL ANGLICAN – March 2013 Books A gift from New Atheists: A rejoinder like this

A review of Francis Spufford : named in his brief title and overlong ist in his doctrinal claims, and some dogmatic language comprehensible Unapologetic. Why, despite subtitle: this is not a classic apologet - may find this a lack. Some be lievers, to the unchurched. And it would be everything, Christianity can still ics, a defence of the ideas of Christi - for example, would no doubt wish to an interesting read for any Christian, make surprising emotional sense . anity, but a first-person ac count of make larger claims for God’s provi - as it throws the question of what we (Faber & Faber, 2012. 224 pages). the experience of how Christian dential oversight of the world than really and essentially believe back at faith has made emotional sense in he does. But neither is this an artic - us. Its accessible style and eight the - Reviewed by Paul Jennings his life. e target of his argument is ulation of “liberal” theology – matic chapters would be an excellent One of the great gis that the New not so much the New Atheist writers Spufford inhabits an intellectual basis for a study group. One caveat, Atheists have given the church is the themselves as their countless read - space where such labels are irrele - however: in his effort to distance proliferation of excellent responses ers: contemporary men and women, vant. His account begins with a himself from bland Christian nice - they have called forth, books which presumably of good will, who seem - sober articulation of the pervasive - ness, Spufford uses language not articulate the case for Christian faith ingly cannot imagine how faith can ness of sin (or, as he puts it, the normally heard in church, which in fresh and thoughtful ways. I am be anything but a delusional, infan - HPtFtU, the “human propensity to f will undoubtably be offensive to thinking of books like Reason, Faith tile way of looking at the world. – things up”), and his chapter on evil some, and a stumbling block to and Revolution , by the Marxist liter - Spufford does not attempt to convert is unblinking in its contemplation of appreciating what he has to con - ary critic Terry Eagleton, a witty yet them, but simply to demonstrate the worst horrors of reality. Yet he tribute. theologically profound smackdown how an intelligent, scientifically lit - can also write with great tenderness, Occasionally one puts down a of the arguments of “Ditchkins”; or erate, tough-minded realist can as in his description of his experi - book with the feeling that this book even – looking back to another gen - nonetheless find profound and ence of God in contemplation, or his just had to be written, and it had to eration of atheist polemics – G. K. indispensable wisdom in the gospel. fresh and loving account of Jesus. be written in precisely this way – Chesterton’s Orthodoxy, still a rele - As a popular writer on science (not a roughout it all, Spufford strives that, for me, is Francis Spufford’s vant read a century later. What theologian or cleric), he is eminent - for an absolute honesty – an essen - Unapologetic . makes these books particularly help - ly equipped to assume this role. FRANCIS SPUFFORD tial, salutary, but unfortunately rare (A sample of Spufford’s writing ful is that they do not simply rehash e power of this book is that he tone in popular religious discussion. (an abridgement of his opening the contents of Christian belief, but so effectively models a critical con - tianity, and of the associations and is is a book for many audiences. chapter) can be found online at http: reflect also on the logic of faith: how temporary engagement with the misunderstandings that have Certainly it could prove an invalu - // www.guardian.co.uk/books/ 2012/ the particular rationality of Chris - faith. No one who reads this book accrued around religious terminolo - able help to its intended audience: aug/31/trouble-with-athiests- tian belief relates to – co-operates honestly can accept the argument gy and doctrine, and he disarms contemporaries outside the faith defence- of-faith.) with, critiques, enriches – the 19th- that Christian faith is necessarily the each misconception with precision. who cannot conceive how one can (Rev. Canon Paul Jennings is director and 20th-century version of Reason product of weak thinking, moral And yet, as precise and intellectually be a Christian with any kind of intel - of pastoral studies at the Montreal so venerated by the New Atheists. cowardice, or a refusal to engage rigorous as his arguments may be, he lectual integrity. But it could also be Diocesan Theological College.) Francis Spufford’s Unapologetic is a reality. Spufford writes beautifully maintains a personable, engaging, very helpful to Christians. It should worthy contribution to the library of and intelligently. He has a fine sense witty and passionate voice. is is be, I would suggest, required read - defences of Christianity. of the prejudices and assumptions also a very entertaining read. ing for all who preach, as a lesson in Spufford’s specific contribution is our society brings to bear on Chris - Spufford is intentionally minimal - how to articulate the gospel in non- Big book begins with Big Bang

A review of Robert N. Bellah, gavad Gita, the Hebrew Bible, Hes - tinues to do so. Modernity under - imagine that there will be readers Religion in Human Evolution: iod, the Homeric epics and the plays cuts religion. e scientific and tech - who will like the cases and throw From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age . of Euripides. nological world-view strips the cos - away the argument, and that is fine (e Belknap Press of Harvard Bellah traces the biological and mos of mystery, a process Weber with me.” University Press, 2011. 746 pages cultural origins of religion back 13.5 called “disenchantment.” Transcen - Bellah recognizes that his attempt billion years to the Big Bang and the dence is ruled out in advance; we are to combine evolutionary science and Reviewed by William Converse appearance of unicellular organisms confined to the limits of ordinary history is likely to produce discom - Robert Neelly Bellah, Elliott Pro - 3.5 billion years ago. He draws on a experience. e upshot of natural - fort: fessor of Sociology Emeritus at the wide range of anthropological, bio - ism is secularism. Here Bellah “Most worrisome to many who University of California, Berkeley, is logical and zoological material to acknowledges his debt to Professor fear the merging of evolution and a distinguished American sociolo - show how certain human capacities Charles Taylor. In the Conclusion, history is the belief that they are gist of religion, best known for his developed that made religion possi - he writes: “I have also been influ - based on two incompatible method - work on American civil religion. He ble. He also avails himself of the enced by Charles Taylor in his work ologies: evolution is natural science, was born in Altus, Oklahoma, in results of research in cognitive sci - on multiculturalism, but particularly rigidly deterministic and reduction - 1927 and received his B.A. and doc - ence and evolutionary psychology, by his treatment of other religions, ist, allowing no freedom or creativi - torate from Harvard University. He especially the work of the cognitive sometimes only incidentally, in A ty, whereas history is a humanistic was a student of Talcott Parsons, scientist Merlin Donald. Secular Age, where he uniformly study in which human freedom is at Wilfred Smith and Paul Tillich. Bel - According to Bellah, the roots of takes them seriously in their own the center, in both its marvelous cre - lah was elected a Fellow of the ritual and myth lie in the natural terms.” ativity and its terrifying violence. American Academy of Arts and Sci - evolution of humankind. Religion e primary focus of Religion in Grim determinism is not missing in ences in 1967; he received the only became possible with the Human Evolution: From the Pale - some forms of neo-Darwinism, National Humanities Medal in 2000 invention of language and the emer - olithic to the Axial Age is the emer - might I say the fundamentalist and the American Academy of Reli - gence of symbolic thought. Commu - ROBERT N. BELLAH gence of religion in the distant bio - forms, in which the subject of evolu - gion Martin E. Marty Award for the nal dancing, music, and storytelling logical past that we share with our tion is genes, selfish genes at that, Public Understanding of Religion in eventually gave rise to ab stract con - Bellah notes that there is no men - hominid ancestors, culminating in and organisms are only vehicles at 2007. cepts and symbols. Here Bellah tion here of “belief in supernatural “the Axial Age.” Readers of Karen the mercy of the blind forces of Religion in Human Evolution: plumbs “deep history,” the vast beings” or “belief in gods (God).” Armstrong’s e Great Transforma - selection through which genes re - From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age stretches of human existence prior is is not to deny them, “just that tion: e Beginning of our Religious lent lessly propagate themselves. can be properly described as “magis - to the invention of writing. As an they are not the defining aspect.” Traditions (2006) will be familiar Richard Dawkins, particularly in his terial;” its scale recalls Hegel’s Lec - epigraph to the book he quotes In Chapter 1, “Religion and Reali - with the concept that has gained widely known book, e Selfish tures on the Philosophy of Religion. omas Mann’s novel, Joseph and ty,” takes another definition, by currency since Karl Jaspers’s e Gene , is the best-known proponent Bellah stands in the tradition of His Brothers: “Very deep is the well Durkheim, and presents his own Origin and Goal of History (1949/ of this view.” Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) and of the past.” modified version: “Religion is a sys - Eng. trans. 1953). e Axial Age Evolution not so simple Max Weber (1864-1920). He has Definition of “religion” is a vexed tem of beliefs and practices relative refers to the emergence, roughly done for the 21st century what question, especially in historical and to the sacred that unite those who contemporaneously but independ - While Bellah subscribes to “the Weber did for the 20th century in cross-cultural comparative studies adhere to them in a moral commu - ently, of Confucianism and Daoism grand narrative” of Evolution, his the field of the sociology of religion. because it is culturally conditioned. nity.” is, in turn, raises further in China; Buddhism and Hinduism understanding of evolutionary theo - e project took 13 years to com - eists and atheists alike expect it to questions: What is the sacred? More in India; monotheism in Israel; and ry is suitably nuanced. Unlike Pro - plete, supported since 2004 by the include supernatural beings or their importantly, Is there any space for philosophical speculation in Greece fessor Dawkins, he is neither a John Templeton Foundation. agents, even though there are non- the sacred in modernity? Are we not during the first millennium BCE. reductionist nor a determinist: is is an erudite, systematic and theistic religions, for example, er - confined to what Weber called “the e major figures are Buddha, Con - “I have been trying to suggest that historical comparative study of reli - avada Buddhism or Jainism. everyday,” the world of common- fucius, Mencius; Isaiah and Jeremi - evolution is considerably more com - gion from the earliest stages of cos - In the Preface, Bellah adopts a sense objects and ordinary reality? ah; Euripides, Socrates, Plato and plex than what some biologists and mic and biological evolution to the simplified version of Clifford Bellah thinks there is room, citing Aristotle. He devotes separate chap - many humanists think, there is a end of the first millennium BCE. It is Geertz’s definition of religion. As Alfred Schutz’s analysis of multiple ters to the Axial Age in Ancient place within it for meaning and pur - a universal history that encompasses Bellah paraphrases Geertz: “religion realities: “today we operate all the Israel (Chapter 6), Ancient Greece pose, and that indeed meaning and the civilizations of ancient China is a system of symbols that, when time in a series of non-ordinary (Chapter 7), China in the Late First purpose evolve. My particular inter - and India as well as ancient Israel enacted by human beings, establish - realities as well as in ordinary reali - Millennium BCE (Chapter 8) and est in evolution is in the evolution of and Greece. Bellah makes extensive es powerful, pervasive, and long- ty.” Ancient India (Chapter 9). e Pref - capacities, which has been a remark - use of the texts of these religious tra - lasting moods and motivations that Bellah contends that religion has ace and the Conclusion are essential able part of the story: the capacity ditions: the Analects of Confucius, make sense in terms of an idea of a played an important role in our in order to follow his complex argu - for creating oxygen; the capacity for the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bha - general order of existence.” development as a species and con - ment. Yet, Bellah is candid: “I can continued on the next page March 2013 – ANGLICAN MONTREAL ANGLICAN – 9 CARING FOR CREATION A column by the Stewardship of the Environment Committee Going green in the Parish of St. Andrew and St. Mark, Dorval (e Stewardship of the Environ - nal focusing on issues relevant to the val replaced three oil-burning fur - end of the service the congregation church has already saved close to ment Committee of the Diocese of link between this diocese and our naces with a geothermal heating sys - went out into the muddy parking lot, $70,000 and avoided burning about Montreal is responsible to the Diocese physical environment. is following tem, ending its winter pollution of where Rev. Karen Egan Chalk, the 165,000 litres of heating oil. At this for increasing awareness of our inter- article, much of it modified and re - the environment and saving more rector, blessed the wells. In April the rate of saving the whole system will dependence with God’s environment produced with permission from the than $12,000 a year in heating costs. indoor work continued. e old fur - have paid for itself in another five to and fostering the improvement of our parish newsletter e Andrew/Mark An additional benefit is that the naces were torn out, and in May the seven years. St. Marks is a member relationship with the en vironment. Letter , showcases the geothermal geothermal heating process can be new heat pumps were delivered. of the Green Church coalition. Within this mandate, two of the long- installation at St. Mark’s in Dorval. reversed in summer, providing the Controls were installed in the fur - Although St. Mark’s Dorval ap - term objectives of the committee are: Articles to come in future issues of church with air conditioning. nace rooms. e church was divided pears to be the first church in Que - – To act as a consultative group to the this journal include: ey started the process by hiring into six heating areas, each con - bec to go geothermal, its namesake, diocese and to the parishes on envi - • Environmental audits of selected a consulting engineering firm to trolled separately by its own pro - St. Mark’s in Ottawa, has also made a ronmental issues; and churches in the diocese. assess the heat loss from its build - grammable thermostat. On Sunday, major commitment to the environ - • To act as a resource group to the • Urban agriculture. ings: the main church, the church July 15, 2007, e church was the ment: in their case, they have parishes of the diocese seeking to • e database being created by the basement (heated by a separate fur - first Anglican Church on the Mon - installed solar panels on their roof. reduce their impact on the physical Anglican Church of Canada to pro - nace), the old chapel and the old treal Island to enjoy the comfort of eir system came into effect on environment. vide benchmarks to the churches on church hall. e conclusion was that air conditioning. e total system February 2, 2012. (As part of its efforts to fulfill these their success in reducing their envi - they would need to drill eight wells, cost about $180,000. e system has Raymond Noël, Chair, Stewardship objectives, the committee will be pub - ronmental impact.) each about 500 feet deep. been operating smoothly for almost of the Environment Committee lishing a series of articles in this jour - In 2007, St. Mark’s church in Dor - Drilling was begun in March 2007 five years. It is estimated that the – five wells under the parking lot on the west side of the church, and three more outside the chapel on the east side. e construction crew then fed loops of polyethylene pipe into the wells, to carry fluid – a mix - ture of water and nontoxic anti freeze – down into the well and back up again. While underground the fluid absorbs heat from the relatively con - stant temperature of the earth below the frost line, and this heat is extracted when the fluid is circulat - ed through heat pumps inside the building. Aer the wells were capped and sealed the tubing was fed into the church basement fur - nace rooms below ground, so when the job was completed nothing was visible outside. Sunday, March 25, 2007, was DRILL RIG near chapel. (Photos Karen Egan Chalk) Launch Day at the church. At the INSERTING CABLES into wells.

continued from the previous page Chapter 2, ‘Religion and Evolution,’ I Readers may be dismayed by Bel - previous mass extinctions, this one up new vistas. It is a demanding forming large complex organisms discovered the importance of play in lah’s conclusions. ese are pes - is being caused by human beings. book, but one I recommend for the aer a couple of billion years when mammals and the extraordinary simistic in the extreme. He finds “at cause is us.” general reader. only unicellular organisms had been way in which play in animals pro - scant evidence of any moral advance Religion in Human Evolution has Readers Religion in Human Evolu - around; the capacity for endothermy vided the background for the devel - or that we are living in a new Axial over one hundred pages of notes and tion may also wish to read e Axial – the ability of birds and mammals opment of play , ritual, and culture Age: “Some have suggested that we an extensive, though by no means Age and Its Consequences , edited by to maintain a constant body temper - among humans. So play, though dis - are in the midst of a second axial exhaustive, index. It is written in an Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas ature that allows them to survive in covered last, did get in quite early in age, but if we are, there should be a academic style that is free of jargon. (Belknap Press of Harvard Universi - quite extreme hot or cold tempera - this book, but then is largely ignored new cultural form emerging. Maybe is is a big book, full of big ideas. It ty Press, 2012). tures; the capacity to spend days or through the whole trek from tribal I am blind, but I don’t see it. What I offers fresh perspectives and opens ©William Converse 2013 weeks, in the case of many mammals to axial religions. Play was there all think we have is a crisis of incoher - and birds, or years, in the case of the time, just below the surface, ence and a need to integrate in new chimpanzees and other apes, or though I didn’t point it out. Because, ways the dimensions we have had Pennies for learning decades, in the case of humans, in having been at work for thirteen since the axial age.” raising helpless infants and children years, I can’t imagine rewriting the His prospects for humanity are unable to survive on their own; the whole book to give adequate atten - equally bleak: “As some of us know, capacity to make atomic bombs. tion to play. I will here in the Con - and all of us should know, we are in Evolution gives us no guarantee that clusion try briefly to make up for the midst of the sixth great extinc - we will use these new capacities that deficiency by discussing the tion event at this very moment – wisely or well Such capacities can importance of play and those things indeed, we have been in it for a con - help us or they can destroy us, that endanger play in human life.” siderable time.” However, unlike depending on what we do with them.” Towards the end of the book Bel - Green Church helps recyle cartridges lah discovers the importance of play, empathy and compassion in human Green Church, the environmental bulletins and the like to publicize the evolution, qualities that we share arm of the Canadian Centre for Ecu - program. with other primates. Drawing on menism, is offering a program to When a box is full, its contents Friedrich Schiller’s discussion of help parishes help their parishioners should be transferred to another box play, “On the Aesthetic Education of recycle used ink cartridges, batteries for shipment and the parish should ANGELA ANDREWS of the Diocese of Montreal chapter of the Pri - Man,” and on Johan Huizinga’s clas - and cell phones – and earn a bit of get in touch with a Green Church mate’s World Relief and Development Fund (back row, third from left) sic work Homo Ludens ,”Man the cash for the parishes in exchange. co-ordinator. e box should be was a special visitor to the Sunday school at Christ Church Cathedral Player,”Bellah allows the possibility Proceeds of the campaign will be picked up within five business days in January. She told the children about the work of PWRDF and re - that religion originated in play. In divided between the parishes con - and the parish should eventually ceived a cheque for $1,000. More than $600 of this had been raised by the Conclusion, he admits that Reli - cerned and projects of Green receive a modest cheque from the the children and congregation of the Cathedral by collecting pennies gion in Human Evolution might have Church that help churches reduce recycling contractor – in the spring over last summer. The additional $400 was contributed, also collected been a very different book had he their ecological footprint. and fall, if quantities warrant. in pennies, elsewhere in the diocese. The money will go towards a proj - happened upon this idea earlier: Each participating parish is urged Cheques are sent aer the credit due ect which was started in the Diocese of Montreal as a response to the “Pascal in one of his fragments to select a conspicuous location like a parish reaches $25. Haiti earthquake of 2010. The project, called Appeti pou Appran, or says something that applies to this a table at the entrance of the church For more information or find out Appetite for Learning, provides hot school lunches for elementary book: ‘e last thing one discovers and place three boxes or bins there. how to register, parishes can call 514- school children in Haiti. To put this amount of pennies into context, when writing a work is what one en posters can be downloaded 937-9168 or 1-877-645-6863 #28 or PWRDF says it costs $50 to feed one child for a whole year, so this ap - should put first.’ Aer having writ - and printed from the Green Church send an email to info@ green church. peal raised enough to feed 20 children a healthy hot meal every day at ten Chapters 1 through 9, and in the website and pasted on the bins. ca or visit www. green church. ca on school for a year. And that’s really going to make a difference to these course of completely rewriting Parishes are also urged to use parish the Web. children’s education and chances in life. (Photo: Stephanie Felkai) 10 – ANGLICAN MONTREAL ANGLICAN – March 2013 Notes from Mile End L’art communautaire à la Mission Mile End: Un baume pour l’âme

Je suis bénévole à La Mission partageons le processus du moment Certains en pleurent d’émotion. Sachez que nous avons toujours des organisons la sortie à la cabane à communautaire de Mile End depuis en regardant ensemble le chemin Nous avons toujours un espace œuvres à vendre sur le mur de la sucre ce mois-ci, ce qui permet tou - 2004, mais je profite de ses services parcouru du premier au dernier des - pour que nos membres puissent Mission et vos dons sont toujours jours de resserrer les liens et depuis la fin de l’année 1999. Le pro - sin. Ça fait huit ans que nous offrons créer. Nous poursuivons l’objectif bienvenus. Nous sommes très rec on - construire notre communauté. gramme « Art communautaire » a trois ateliers par semaine. d’entretenir un endroit sécuritaire et naissants de votre soutien actuel et Joanne Racette, coordonnatrice débuté grâce à la volonté de Roslyn A chaque journée « portes ouv - inclusif pour nos bénéficiaires. futur. Notez en terminant que nous bénévole des projets d’art. Macgregor, alors directrice, d’offrir ertes » de la Mission de Mile-End, des étoiles en papier mâché lors d’un nous exposons de nouvelles œuvres événement bénéfice à l’Église St. et nous essayons de faire une œuvre Community art to lift your spirit Barnabas de St-Lambert. collective, comme la fabrication d’un Petit-à-petit nous avons ramassé totem avec du matériel recyclé. Nous I am a volunteer working at the whole hour. We respect all the out - phy, water colors, felt artwork, trois cents étoiles. Ensuite, les ven - avons également une exposition Mile End mission community since puts. We first suggest making a Japanese ink, T-shirt recycling and dredis (jour de la banque alimen - pendant le repas-bénéfice à l’Au - 2004, but I have availed myself of their drawing to express the energy of the comics, among other endeavors. We taire), nous avions disposé d’une berge St-Gabriel, à Image de services since 1999. e “Community moment, then a second one. Aer - also have had art therapy and com - table et de matériel pour faire du femmes, à la Galerie AME-ART, au Art” Program started thanks to a wards, the people meet together, munity art interns from Concordia dessin au lieu d’attendre sans rien Musée des beaux-arts, dans le musée request from Roslyn Macgregor, then with a facilitator or not and they University and volunteer architects faire. Tout s’est construit graduelle - en partage au cimetière Mont-Royal, director of the mission, who wanted to share their thoughts while looking at or artists. We are most amazed how ment avec des dons, des subven - à La ruche d’art et au Milieu, ces offer stars made out of papier maché at what happened between the first and creativity enhances spirituality and tions, et le but, au départ, était d’of - deux derniers étant des centres d’art a fundraiser taking place in St. Barn - the second picture. We have had bring out people values. is spirits frir un lieu sécuritaire et accueillant communautaires à Montréal. Nous abas Church St. Lambert. those sessions three times a week for lier heals by and by. We are amazed où l’idée était de s’exprimer, et non avons fait deux vernissages à la Mis - Eventually, we had 300 stars. en the last eight years. at the reaction of our wards when de se jug er. Il n’est pas nécessaire de sion. Nous avons exploré la photo, on Fridays (food bank day), we We have an exhibition of new pic - their artwork is framed. Some will savoir dessiner et chaque participant l’aquarelle, la feutrine, l’encre japo - started putting together a table and tures at each “open doors” event. We even burst in tears. a son propre cahier et son range - naise, le recyclage de T-shirt, et la drawing materials so people could sometimes have a collective project, We maintain a space so the mem - ment avec pastels gras, crayons, bande dessinée en autres. Nous use them instead of idly waiting. such as a totem pole made out of bers can keep creating and make the aiguisoir et efface. avons reçu des stagiaires de l’univer - With donations and grants, the idea recycled materials. We also have place secure and inclusive for them. Certaines personnes n’ont assez sité Concordia en art- thérapie et en grew. At first, the goal was to have a shows for the fundraising dinner at I would point out that we always d’énergie que pour un quart d’heure art communautaire, et des bénévoles secure and welcoming place where the Auberge St. Gabriel, Image de have artwork for sale on the Mission d’activité, et d’autres pour une bonne architectes ou artistes. Ce qui nous people could express themselves Femmes, the AME-ART gallery, the walls and that your donations are heure. Nous respectons tous les fascine le plus, c’est comment la without fear of judgement. One was Fine Arts Museum, the shared always welcome. We are very grate - efforts. Dans un premier temps, créativité cultive un espace intérieur not expected to know how to draw museum at Mount Royal Cemetery, ful for your present and future sup - nous suggérons de faire un premier et valorise les personnes. Ce baume and each participant had his or her La Ruche d’Art and Milieu, the latter port. Please note that we are organ - dessin pour exprimer l’énergie du sur l’âme devient peu à peu guéris - own drawing book and a box of pas - two venues being community art izing our sugar-shack outing this moment, puis un deuxième, et seur. Nous sommes toujours étonnés tels, pens, sharpeners and erasers. centers in Montreal. We have had month. It strengthens relationships ensuite il peut y avoir un atelier de la réaction des bénéficiaires Some people can only do this for two exhibit openings at the mission and builds up our community. dirigé ou libre pendant lequel nous quand leurs œuvres sont encadrées. 15 minutes while others can spend a so far. We have explored photogra - Joanne Racette

A TOTEM made from recycled ob - jects for an open house at the A PARTICIPANT in an art workshop last year recycles an old CD. AN EXHIBITION IN 2010 showed off recent artworks from the Mile Mile End Mission was later dis - End Mission. played at a local art gallery. Canada briefs

Royal visit to Iqaluit Churches reach out to hungry students Edmonton parish introduces In September, Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex Twenty-two Anglican, Presbyterian and United Churches Grandparents’ Sunday visited Iqaluit, in Nunavut. Andrew Atagotaaluk, bishop of the partnered with the Carleton University Ecumenical Chaplain - When interim priest-in-charge Sheila Hagan-Bloxham Arctic diocese, and the Rev. Canon Jonas Allooloo, the new cy to provide free food to hungry, stressed-out students during noticed that few children were attending Sunday services at St. rector of St. Jude’s Cathedral, gave them a tour of the cathedral. the December 2012 exam period. Volunteers also offered the Augustine of Canterbury in Edmonton, she knew the busy e prince presented a gi of a Bible stand to the cathedral students support and encouragement at the “Pause Table.” schedules of working parents and children were obstacles to from Queen Elizabeth. (e Queen turned the sod back in 1970 e project began in 1987 when it was recognized that many church attendance. to mark the place where the old cathedral was to be built and students run out of student loan money and try to write exams She suggested a special intergenerational service for a Sun - later she donated the silver lining for the baptismal font.) e while undernourished. At that time, coffee, muffins and cook - day in August. Parishioners brought their grandchildren; a few vestry and people of St. Jude’s presented Prince Edward with a ies were offered to about 80 students per day. Now, the Pause parishioners, whose grandkids live away, brought their neigh - painting of the old cathedral and a copy of the newly complet - Table provides sandwiches, bagels, baked goods, fresh fruit, bours and their kids. About 15 children attended. e parish ed Inuktitut Bible. e Arctic News vegetables, juice, tea and coffee to an average of 1,200 students held two more Grandparents’ Sundays close to Halloween and per day over the 10-day exam period. Crosstalk Christmas, and Hagan-Bloxham hopes to make it a monthly Video recruits future priests event in 2013. e Messenger e diocese of Toronto has created a video to recruit people Holy Trinity, Sooke, for the priesthood, and it’s proving to be popular. celebrates 100 years Birthday party feeds families Is God calling you to be an Anglican priest? , posted on Holy Trinity in Sooke, B.C., will be celebrating its centenary On her fih birthday Bryar White, a parishioner at St. YouTube, has been viewed more than 1,600 times. e video is throughout 2013. Christopher’s in Burlington, Ont., gave a special gi to 50 fam - aimed primarily at a young and ethnically diverse audience, e Ven. Nancy Nagy is working on a history that focuses on ilies she will probably never meet. Her mother Courtney and those interested in re-imagining church. It includes inter - the last 50 years and will be available on the parish website. explained that her family asks birthday party guests to donate views with young priests, postulants and youth workers talking ere will be a picnic birthday party on Aug. 11. e official to a charity that relates to the child’s interests, rather than giv - about their spiritual journeys. centennial celebration is planned for Sunday, Sept. 29, in the ing gis. Bryar’s party had a rainbow theme, so guests were Viewers who want to learn more about becoming a priest are aernoon with Bishop James Cowan. Active and former mem - asked to buy a box of “rainbow produce” for distribution encouraged to talk to their parish priest or to email recruit - bers of the parish are invited to all the events. through the Halton Fresh Food Box program. eir donations [email protected]. e Anglican e Diocesan Post purchased about 23 large, 16 medium and 11 small boxes for families in the region. Niagara Anglican March 2013 – ANGLICAN MONTREAL ANGLICAN – 11 ¢ Diocesan Clippings (and Snapshots )

An act of God? Celebrating Saint Stephen’s Day Sweet Epiphany Church got a little more exciting than usual for the 9 a.m. congregation of St. George’s Church Place du Canada in downtown Montreal on Sunday, January 20, when members of the city fire department walked in about midway through the service and ordered everyone out. A crane near the top of a nearby 27-storey building had been secured for the weekend, but apparently not well enough. Gusts of winter wind blew a boom against the office tower windows, break - ing several of them and making officials apprehensive that parts of the crane might fall on the church. Nothing like that happened. Some falling glass hit the outside of the church but no one was hurt and there was no significant damage to the church building. e 10:30 a.m. service and a Crossroads youth service scheduled for that evening were cancelled, however. Prayer and Zumba at Deux Montagnes e monthly “Food for Body and Soul” breakfast at All Saints Church in Deux Montagne will be at 9:30 a.m. Sun - day, March 2 in the church hall, 248-18th Ave. Also, Zumba fitness classes take place Mondays at 7 p.m. at church. For information, call Hélène Lamothe at 438-391-3537. Also, all ST. STEPHEN’S LACHINE WAS ALIVE with the sounds of ON THE FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY, Sunday, January 6, high-school-aged teens are invited to gatherings of the Two a bagpipe at the annual open house and carol sing De - Right Rev. Barry Clarke, bishop of Montreal was cele - Mountains Community Youth Group, which continue every cember 26. It seems the organist, Robert Laxton, is tak - brant and preacher at the Church of the Epiphany to Friday 7:30-9:30 p.m., except for the third Friday of the ing bagpipe lessons and invited his instructor, Jenna help celebrate the feast and the parish’s third anniver - month, which is SPAM – Sports night At Mountainview Dennison, to stop by – with her pipes, of course. She led sary. In the photo, he and Rev. Patrick Wheeler cut the (High School). the singing for a number of carols and the afternoon anniversary cake. e newly renovated rental space (kitchen and hall) is ended with “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” on bag - available for group meetings and activities Call rental co- pipe. There was also a duet, with guest Fred Francis on ordinator Patrick Beaulieu at 450-491-6279 or send him an the organ and Robert on the piano playing a medley of A lunch guest email at [email protected]. Christmas carols. Bishop Barry Clarke dropped by, For more about what’s going on at All Saints’, call 450-473- shared some refreshments and joined in the carols. 9541 or send an email to the church at info@allsaintsdeux - Good food, good friends and good singing: What a way montagnes.ca or the priest, Rev. David Hart, at david@all - to celebrate Saint Stephen’s Day. saintsdeuxmontagnes.ca or visit the website at www.all - saintsdeuxmontagnes.ca. Zumba event benefits Mile End Mission All for one! One for all!

BISHOP BARRY CLARKE joined parishioners of St. Ig - natius Pastoral Community in Montreal North for lunch after a pastoral visit in Advent. From left are Erika Gin - gras, Barbara Carr, Eleanor Carr, Barbara Humphreys, the bishop, Ted Humphreys, Audrey Saunders, Emily Heckman and Jackie Young. The bishop subsequently an - nounced that Mr. and Mrs. Humphreys will receive a ABOUT 40 ENTHUSIASTS and newcomers who partic - 2012 Bishops’s Award in recognition of their contribu - ipated in a Zumba party January 17 in Fulford Hall, be - tion. (Photo courtesy of Emily Heckman) hind Christ Church Cathedral, contributed $410 to the Mile End Mission. The event launched a new Zumba Fit - ness Downtown series with instructor Mark Vicente. Together 40 years “THE THREE MUSKETEERS” as they are sometimes Classes continue through March at 1444 Union Avenue known at St. Ignatius Pastoral Community in Montreal (Metro McGill/exit McGill. Anglican Diocese of Mon - North, parish stalwarts Audrey Saunders, Barbara treal, second floor). Newcomers are always welcome at Humphreys and Ted Humphreys pose with Bishop Barry $10 a class, Tuesdays and Thursdays 6-7 p.m. Clarke during a pastoral visit by the bishop in Advent. (Photo: Ardyth Robinson) The bishop subsequently announced that Mr. and Mrs. Humphreys will receive a 2012 Bishops’s Award in recognition of their contribution. (Photo: Emily Heckman)

WEST ISLAND WOMEN’S RETREAT 2013

Every woman needs a quiet time when she can CELEBRATING 40 YEARS TOGETHER, Patrick Wedd, stop and reflect and turn to God… a time when Christ Church Cathedral music director, and Robert she can think through the priorities of her life Wells, head verger, invited Cathedral parishioners, without those inevitable interruptions and music-lovers and other well-wishers to join them in cel - those seemingly endless demands on her time ebrating the event – and Patrick’s recent 65th birthday – and energy – a time for renewing herself ARCHDEACON RALPH LEAVITT, incumbent of Holy at a reception in Fulford Hall, following an especially mentally, physically and spiritually. Trinity Anglican Church in Ste Agathe des Monts and Re - choral Evensong on January 20. (Photo Harvey Shepherd) gional Archdeacon of St. Andrews (and third from right The West Island Women’s Retreat will be held in the back row), was among participants at a mass at Montreal Anglican Church Women on Friday April 26 – Sunday April 28, 2013. the Église Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts January 6 launching Spiritual Director: The Ven. Janet Griffith, celebrations of the 150th anniversary of that Laurentians Lenten Quiet Day Executive Archdeacon – Diocese of Montreal. town. Bishop Paul Lortie of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mont Laurier, who pre sided, has held the post since on March 14, 2013 Location: the beautiful ERMITAGE STE-CROIX, February 2012 – a couple of months before Archdeacan 21269 Gouin Blvd. West, Pierrefonds. The cost Leavitt went to Holy Trinity. Theme: Women of Faith in Action is $140, bursaries available. (Photo: Daniel Deslauriers/L’Information du Nord, Sainte-Agathe) Led by The Rev Shirley Smith For a registration form contact Liz Glasgow: Book, Bake and Jewellery Sale Fulford Hall 514 -453-0883 [email protected] Saturday, March 23rd, 9 a.m. to noon Registration at 9:30 am More information, contact: Church of St. John the Baptist Eucharist at 10 am Liz Glasgow or Ann Yaxley 450 461-1296 233 Ste. Claire Ave., Pointe Claire A light lunch will be provided. [email protected] Come browse our selection of books, buy some baking treats and dress up your wardrobe with our custom jewellery. All welcome for a day of quiet reflection. 12 – ANGLICAN MONTREAL ANGLICAN – March 2013 Visite épiscopale à l’Église Saint-George de Granby

William (Terry) Blizzard après la liturgie. Certains disent Le 13 janvier dernier, la Paroisse même que la liturgie continue dans épiscopale de Granby a reçu en visite ce repas d’amitié, et qu’elle ne se ter - pastorale notre évêque, Le Très mine que quand la vaisselle est lavée. Révérend Barry Clarke. C’est la pre - Tout cela pour dire que les gens de mière visite de l’évêque depuis plu - Saint-George étaient heureux de sieurs années, et la première depuis recevoir notre évêque lors d’une fête que la paroisse de Saint-George s’est d’initiation, le Baptême du Christ. engagée dans son projet de bilin - Un début de l’œuvre de Jésus, et le guisme. signe que Son Ministère parmi nous En effet, le conseil de la paroisse a porté fruits et continue à en porter. s’est rendu compte que l’avenir de la Ce réalignement de langue et de foi chrétienne, telle que les anglicans culture d’église a commencé depuis la comprennent et la vivent, est un plusieurs années déjà dans le diocèse trésor beaucoup trop précieux pour voisin, celui de Québec. Le chemin se laisser confiner dans les con- que nous suivons, en obéissance au traintes de notre passé. La culture et Christ, exige un sacrifice: nous quit - la population de Granby ont évolué, tons les confins de notre passé avec de telle sorte que la survie de l’angli - un peu de regret. Mais nous nous canisme dépend, en grande partie, rappelons chaque semaine qu’il n’y a du partage de notre foi avec la aucune résurrection sans une mort. société qui nous entoure. Ceci exige Nous avons découvert que nous donc un changement radical: la avons beaucoup à donner à la société A VISIT BY BISHOP BARRY CLARKE to the Parish of Granby January 13 was the first in several years and liturgie en français et même les contemporaine et nous ne nous sen - the first since the parish committed itself to bilingualism. In the photo, the bishop is flanked by Rev. Dea - hymnes en français! Lors du premier tons plus seuls. con Donald Boisvert of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal, who accompanied the bishop, and, to the dimanche de notre expérience, en (Le chanoine William (Terry) Blizzard reader’s right, the incumbent, Canon William (Terry) Blizzard. septembre 2010, nous n’étions que est recteur de la paroisse de Granby.) huit individus. Le 13 janvier, fête du Baptême du Christ, plus de quarante fidèles ont reçu l’évêque qui a présidé la liturgie en anglais et en français. Notre célébration de la Messe était relaxe; nous voulions mettre Barry Clarke bien à l’aise. Des amis de Rougemont et d’Ab - botsford étaient des nôtres. De plus, quelques-uns de nos clients de Par - tage Saint-George (notre souper mensuel pour les sans-abris de Granby) se sont joints à nous. Et ces derniers se joignent à nous chaque semaine maintenant. La célébration s’est continuée dans la salle paroissiale avec le repas du midi. Ceci est devenu coutumier pour nous. En effet chaque dimanche nous partageons la Pré - sence du Seigneur à Sa table dans le pain et le vin de Son Corps et Son Sang eucharistique. Mais nous cas - COMMUNION at St. George’s Granby includes not just the Eucharist sons la croûte non seulement à la but the meal after the service. In the photo, two parishioners are busy table du Seigneur dans l’église, mais preparing it. As the incumbent, Canon William (Terry) Blizzard, writes THE BILINGUAL SERVICE was relaxed and low-keyed. In the photo, nous célébrons aussi notre amitié in the accompanying article, the parish has changed its liturgy radi - Bishop Barry Clarke exchanges the Peace with some of the congrega - dans le Christ à table, à un repas cally in an effort to keep in touch with its increasingly French-speaking tion of about 40 worshippers. (Photos: Herman Gravenhorst Arboleda) familial dans la salle paroissiale milieu. Stewardship works in Ste. Anne de Bellevue A West Island church has managed “We just took what they taught us among other things encourage tions from their bank ac counts. put in the collection plate during the to boost its annual receipts by about and implemented it in our parish,” parishioners to make pledges for the ere are 36 families now in the pro - service, unless he or she wants to $10,000 and put another $9,000 into Rev. Neil Mancor of St. George’s year, he said. gram. Some seniors who find it diffi - make a small spontaneous additional a one-time contribution to a new Church in Ste Anne de Bellevue said. One important element in the cult to get to church find this pro - donation.) wheelchair-accessible wash room by Since parish representatives at- campaign has been a PAR, or Pre- gram helpful, along with quite a few e project to instal the new implementing techniques recom - tend ed the stewardship day, the Authorized Remittance, program, parishioners who attend regularly. accessible bathroom also benefitted mended by a diocesan stewardship parish has had two annual six-week which allows parishioners to support (For those who wish, the parish from a $27,000 federal government conference about two years ago. stewardship campaigns, which the parish through automatic de duc - provides special cards the donor can grant. St. Cuthbert Parish marks Black History Month

JEANNETTE AND HER SON ADRIAN GIBSON sing Have MILLICENT LOVENCE reads Maya Angelou’s poem Million VERONICA PAYNE preaches at the Church of St. Cuthbert, a little talk with Jesus at Black History Month celebration Man Marching . St. Hilda and St. Luke in east-central Montreal on the sig - at the Church of St. Cuthbert, St. Hilda and St. Luke in east- nificance of Black History Month in Canada. The parish central Montreal. Esther Greaves, chalice bearer, is in the collected $333 at a Caribbean luncheon for research at the background. Jewish General Hospital into Sickle Cell Anemia.