'For the Church in Cuba, It's a Happy Day': Hiltz
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ANGLICAN JOURNAL Since 1875 vol. 144 no. 7 september 2018 ‘For the church in Cuba, it’s a happy day’: Hiltz Tali Folkins STAFF WRITER The House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church (TEC) unanimously approved a resolution to admit the Cuban church into TEC on July 10. The General Convention’s clergy and lay member body, the House of Deputies, followed suit the next day. 5Iglesia This vote ends the more than five Episcopal de decades the Cuban church has spent as a diocese without a province. Cuba After the Cuban Revolution of 1959, re- IMAGE: CONTRIBUTED lations between Cuba and the United States worsened, straining travel and communi- cations between the two countries. In 1967, the Cuban church became an autonomous diocese, and a new body, the Metropolitan Council of Cuba—consisting of the primate of the West Indies, the presiding bishop of TEC and the primate of the Canadian church (the chairperson of the council)— was formed to support and guide it. The Episcopal Church of Cuba’s synod passed a resolution in 2015 to take steps to return to TEC after the U.S. and Cuba re-established diplomatic relations. PHOTO: REUTERS/CHRIS HELGREN Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, says he is Monumental importance See Cuban, p. 9 The importance of memorials—like this grassroots memorial in Toronto, Ont., after the July 22 Danforth shooting—was explored by the Rev. Canon Dr. Lizette Larson-Miller, keynote speaker New northern at the National Anglican and Lutheran Worship Conference. See p. 3. Indigenous bishops Highlights from June 2018 meeting of Tali Folkins STAFF WRITER Council of the General Synod Indigenous Anglicans in northwestern On- tario and northern Manitoba and Saskatch- For full highlights, JOURNAL STAFF new—a different primate, perhaps a new ewan can expect soon to have their own visit us online at kind of reality of what our church is in the Theme approved for General suffragan (assistant) bishops after decisions anglicanjournal.ca years to come.” (The election of a primate Synod 2019 to succeed Archbishop Fred Hiltz will take made at the spring 2018 synod of the eccle- “I have called you by name” has been chosen place on the synod’s final day.) siastical province of Rupert’s Land. as the theme for General Synod 2019. The committee was also mindful, Wall Meeting in Edmonton May 3–6, the Peter Wall, dean of the diocese of continued, of a sense the church was synod voted to create two new Indigenous Niagara and chair of the General Synod “being called in a world which sometimes suffragan bishop positions to help Lydia Planning Committee, announced the doesn’t seem like a place that is very Mamakwa, bishop of the Indigenous Spiri- tual Ministry of Mishamikoweesh, provide committee was proposing the theme in a friendly to us…and that we need to remind 5Bishop Lydia presentation to Council of General Synod ourselves that God has indeed called each pastoral care and leadership to Oji-Cree and (CoGS) June 3. CoGS voted by consensus one of us.” Mamakwa Cree-speaking Anglicans. to adopt the theme. In the passage—Isaiah 43:1–2—from of Mishami- One of the new suffragan bishops will Asked how the committee had come up which the phrase is taken, God reassures his koweesh be responsible for the part of northern with this theme, Wall replied, “We realized people that he will be with them, and that PHOTO: CONTRIBUTED Ontario that falls within Mishamikoweesh, that we’re being called into something See CoGS, p. 8 See Brandon, p. 7 Please support the Anglican Journal Appeal 3 4 5 Thank PM# 40069670 you, Good night, sweet Heartbeat readers! prince of the Church 2 anglican journal • september 2018 When you give to The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, you are supporting programs that make it possible for children to go to school: • by creating income opportunities to pay for mandatory tuition or uniforms • by improving children’s nutrition so children are healthy enough to go to school • and by building wells that reduce the time it takes to fetch water. 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World Relief and Titled “Responding to Disaster: Prayer, lence…people want to do something,” face of Song, Presence,” the conference’s theme said Larson-Miller, adding that she is Development Fund, “ struck by how permanent and grassroots unexplainable was how worship and liturgy can address you are supporting violence… disaster, trauma and hardship. In a morn- memorials “form an avenue for multi- cultural, multi-religious response. people want to ing plenary session, keynote speaker at programs that “In other words, we get out of the do something. the conference, the Rev. Canon Dr. Lizette Larson-Miller, spoke both about her work church building and there are some oth- make it possible for —The Rev. Canon as a liturgist and her studies of grassroots er people out there,” she said. She added, children to go to Dr. Lizette Larson- and permanent memorials. “I think we’re called to get out of the Miller The 20th century has brought a shift building. Or to learn from what’s outside school: in what and how society chooses to me- the building.” morialize, said Larson-Miller. “Statues of 5 Part of for both public and private grieving, as it Since the 1950s, she said, theology • by creating income powerful individuals, triumphant arches, what can be is visited both by the general public and and liturgy have shifted, and religion has ceased to be only private and intellectual. opportunities to buildings and temples in honour of war learned from the friends and family members of the victories, these have certainly been with deceased. There is now, Larson-Miller said, a rec- memorials, is pay for mandatory us throughout human history,” she said. In contrast, said Larson-Miller, are ognition by even Reformed Christianity tuition or uniforms “They are part of the material culture of to “talk less, do roadside shrines and grassroots memo- that “Enlightenment-era rationalism, human history and Christianity is right more,” said the rials, which have become a common and words alone, intellectual explanation and • by improving there in the middle of it,” she added, Rev. Canon Dr. even expected response to large-scale good order are not sufficient.” To access stories giving the examples of grand churches Lizette disasters and personal tragedies. These Materiality, she said, is important. children’s nutrition exclusive to the web, “Christianity is not just about intellectu- and shrines to martyrs. Larson-Miller, are memorials that are not officially go to anglicanjournal. However, in the 20th century, she sanctioned, but are created to mark some alism…People, place, time, water, bread, so children are com said, horrors like genocide came to light, keynote kind of disaster; for instance, a cross that oil, touch, smell, sight and sound. These healthy enough to go • Church can and pluralism became widely acknowl- speaker at the is erected on the side of the road to mark are central.” to school offer support to edged. “Different voices [means] there is National the site of a death in a traffic accident. Part of what can be learned from those dealing with not one triumphant winner recognized Anglican and Humans are “ritualizing creatures,” memorials she said, is to “talk less, do traumatic stress: • and by building wells by all. There is not one narrative that fits Lutheran Larson-Miller said, and place is import- m ore .” first responders Larson-Miller is a professor at Huron all sizes.” This led to “a more ambiguous Worship ant, “whether it was the actual place of that reduce the time • Crafting liturgy in understanding of what a monument death, which was most frequent, or per- University College at the University of it takes to fetch a time of disaster does,” she said. Conference in haps another site related to the people Western Ontario, and holds degrees in water. • Psalms express Larson-Miller pointed to the example Victoria, B.C. who were killed. For many, it functioned music, liturgical studies and sacramental ‘the whole gamut of the recently completed memorial site PHOTO: JOELLE KIDD as that liminal space between life and theology. She is the chair of the Inter- As your September routines of experience and at Ground Zero of the terrorist attack death, holy ground that was set apart, national Anglican Liturgical Consulta- expression’ in on the Twin Towers in New York City, even temporarily, for purposes other tion and is the liturgical officer for the for school and church disaster response on September 11, 2001.