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The Parish of St. Edmund, King and (Waterloo, Ontario)

The Anglican Church of Canada (A member of the worldwide Traditional )

UPDATE

November 7, 2005 - St. Willibrord

December Schedule

December 4 Sunday The Second Sunday in Advent

December 8 Thursday The Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

December 11 Sunday The Third Sunday in Advent

December 18 Sunday The Fourth Sunday in Advent

December 21 Wednesday St. Thomas the Apostle

December 24 Saturday Christmas Eve

December 25 Sunday Christmas Day

December 26 Monday St. Stephen the Martyr

December 27 Tuesday St. John the Evangelist

December 28 Wednesday The Holy Innocents

Service Times and Location

(1) All Services are held in the Chapel at Luther Village on the Park - 139 Father David Bauer Drive in Waterloo. (2) On Sundays, Matins is sung at 10:00 a.m. (The on the first Sunday of the month), and the Holy is celebrated (sung) at 10:30 a.m.

(3) On weekdays - Major Holy Days - the Holy Eucharist is usually celebrated at 7:00 p.m., 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. Notes and Comments Born in Northumbria, England, circa 658, Willibrord studied at Ripon monastery under St. Wilfrid and spent twelve years 1) Another reminder to mark your studying in Ireland at the abbey of calendars - November 20. Inasmuch as Rathmelsigi under Saints Egbert and Christ the King falls on St. Edmund's Day, Wigbert. After receiving ordination and our Title Feast will be celebrated on extensive training in the field of missions, Monday, November 21. We will, however, he set out about 690 with a dozen have our St. Edmund's Day lunch (on the companions for Frisia (an historic region of Parish) on the Sunday - November 20! The The Netherlands and Germany fronting on Rural Dean will celebrate Mass on the the North Sea and including the Frisian Sunday. Islands.) In 693, he went to Rome to seek papal approval for his labors. Pope Sergius 2) Dr. Budziszewski adroitly examines the (reigned 687-701) gave his full approbation cultural slide of the mid-90s - The and, during his second Roman visit, was Revenge of Conscience - the third of six consecrated archbishop of the Frisians in parts - this page. 696, with his see in Utrecht. In his work, Willibrord also received much support and 3) For Robert's Ramblings - Matobo I - encouragement from the Frankish leader, the first of two parts - see page 4. Pepin of Heristal (reigned 687-714). Willibrord founded the monastery of 4) In The Lord's Prayer - Little words: " In Echternach, Luxembourg, to serve as a Earth " or " On Earth " ? - by Fr. Lee center of missionary endeavors, and Whitney - see page 5. extended the efforts of missionaries into Denmark. He faced chronic dangers from 5) The importance of music in the Liturgy - outraged pagans, including one who nearly Music in Worship - see page 7. murdered him after he tore down a pagan idol. In 714, Duke Radbod reclaimed the 6) This month we start including some extensive territories acquired by Pepin, and commentaries from a booklet entitled The Willibrord watched all of the progress he Ceremonial of High Mass. This booklet is had made be virtually undone. After available from The Convent Society. The Radbod's death, Willibrord started over booklet comments on every part of The with much enthusiasm, receiving Mass from The Preparation to The Last invaluable assistance from St. Boniface. . "It is a good point to remember Willibrord died on retreat at Echternach on that all ceremonial of the Western Church November 7. For his efforts, he is called is based on the High Mass, the normative the Apostle of the Frisians. celebration. Indeed, in the Eastern Church there is no such thing as Low Mass." - see From www.catholic.org page 8 - The Ceremonial of High Mass

7) An informal report - A Visit to Holy The Revenge of Conscience – III and St. Jude - see page 10. Offhand it seems as though believing in a law we "can't not know" would make it St. Willibrord harder, not easier, to explain why things are so quickly getting worse. If the moral

2 law really is carved on the heart, wouldn't it baby then it ought to be banned to be hard to ignore? On the other hand, if it everyone; why allow it? But if it doesn’t kill is merely penciled in as the mere moral a baby it is hard to see why we should be realists say - well! uneasy about it at all; why restrict it? We restrict what we allow because we know it But this is merely picture thinking again. is wrong but don’t want to give it up; we Carving and penciling are but metaphors, feed our hearts scraps in hopes of hushing and more than metaphors are necessary to them, as cooks quiet their kitchen puppies. show why the suppression of conscience is more violent and explosive than its mere As to the second example, sexual weakening would be. First let us consider promiscuity has exactly the same bad a few facts that ought to arouse our consequences among adults as it has suspicion - facts about the precise kind of among teenagers. But if it is just an moral confusion we suffer, or say we suffer. innocent pleasure, then why not talk it up? Swinging is no longer a novelty; the sexual Consider this tissue of contradictions: revolution is now gray with age. If shame Most who call abortion wrong call it killing. persists, the only possible explanation is Most who call it killing say it kills a baby. that guilt persists as well. Most who call it killing a baby decline to The third example speaks for itself. Delury prohibit it altogether. Most who decline to calls the very strength of his feelings a prohibit it think it should be restricted. proof that they did not express "moral" More and more people favor restrictions. guilt, merely the "dissonance" resulting Yet greater and greater numbers of people from violation of an instinctual block have had or have been involved in inherited from our primate ancestors. We abortions. might paraphrase his theory, "the stronger the guilt, the less it matters." Or this one: Most adults are worried about teenage sex. Yet rather than telling kids to Clearly, whatever our problem may be, it wait until marriage, most tell kids to wait isn't that conscience is weak. We may be until they are "older," as we are. Most say confused, but we aren’t confused that way. that premarital sex between consenting It isn’t that we don't know the truth, but adults is a normal expression of natural that we tell ourselves something different. desires. Yet hardly any are comfortable telling anyone, especially their own By J. Budziszewski, Associate Professor of children, how many people they have slept Government and Philosophy at the with themselves. University of Texas - this article appeared in the June/July 1998 issue of First Things Or this one: Accessories to suicide often - the third of six parts write about the act; they produce page after page to show why it is right. Yet a large part of what they write about is guilt. From here and there Author George E. Delury, jailed for poisoning and suffocating his wife, says in 1) The power to command frequently his written account of the affair that his causes failure to think. Barbara Tuchman guilt feelings were so strong they were "almost physical." 2) October 23 - for this day the Ordo states: "St. James, of Jerusalem, As to the first example, if abortion kills a

3 Martyr; with St. Jude; and St. Simeon, Bishop of Jerusalem" - when and where 6) When something is advertised as 'new did this 'feast' originate, who are these and improved', which is it? If it's new, saints, and perhaps why they are then there has never been anything before celebrated together? it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it - it can't be The Bishop (when he has time from his new! episcopal responsibilities) will be providing the answers as he "know[s] 7) Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance. the genesis of the commemoration." Ed. Benjamin Franklin 3) For your information - UPDATE is 8) 'Arguments', 'logic', and 'consistency' are mailed, monthly, to addresses in Canada, only mean and unfair traps some The United States, England, Ireland, conservatives use to torment liberals. Japan, Australia, Torres Strait, and South Africa. Copies of The Messenger, The 9) The riddles of God are more satisfying Diocesan Circular, The Traditional Anglican than the solutions of men. G.K. and The Annunciator are sent to many of these addresses along with UPDATE. Chesterton

10) Why didn't Noah swat those two 4) Ron Ferris, the Anglican Church of mosquitoes? Canada Bishop of Algoma, estimated the average Sunday attendance of the ACC, 11) Some : nationally, as less than 150,000, or 83 collective nouns persons per parish. an earful of iPod users an overcharge of plumbers 5) Depressing: The Liberals are the near- a pride of expectant fathers perpetually ruling Canadian centrist party a clique of photographers that long ago got the state out of the a lot of used car salesmen nation's bedrooms: approving divorce, a stupor of television viewers open access to abortion and this summer same-sex marriages - all of which are anathema to the Catholic hierarchy. But a Robert's Ramblings fascinating new public opinion poll confirms a 40-year-old Canadian tradition: Matobo I Roman Catholics outside Quebec by a large margin favour the morally laissez-faire "Thou bald head" (II Kings 2,23) Liberals over the more socially strict Conservative party. And, surprise of In his biography of Archbishop Cosmo surprises, the more often a Canadian Gordon Lang, published in 1949, Bruce Catholic attends church the more likely he Lockhart tells this story. At the time Lang or she has been to cast a ballot for a Liberal was Vicar of the University Church in prime minister, whether Pierre Elliott . "The Assize judge came to hear the Trudeau, Jean Chretien or Paul Martin. By customary . He came in an old Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun, September fashioned and elaborate coach. There was 17, 2005 a crowd of urchins on the pavement to see

4 the sight. As he alighted his wig caught ostrich, roan, sable, zebra and occasional the top of the coach disclosing a head as rhino. Up and down the rocks leap round and bald as a marble. The urchins klipsringer. burst out laughing. I began my sermon prepared beforehand on the text of II Kings In the light of early morning and of evening 2,23: "As Elijah was going along there the hills change colour, silver-pink, lilac- came little children who mocked him, "Go blue and green-gold. At mid day the on thou bald head". It was too late to landscape shimmers in heat haze. As the change my sermon." sun sets, its slanting rays transfigure the dun coloured grass which blazes like a Matobo is the Ndebele or Matabele word for theophany. At night the moon makes bald. Thirty kilometres south of Bulawayo granite opalescent. Over the whole lies "the are the Matopos Hills, my favourite place in sound of a gentle stillness" broken only all the world. Soil atop small hills or occasionally by the bark of a baboon, the koppies (Afrikaans) or kopjes (Dutch) has shrill of cicadas or the chirp of crickets, been eroded, leaving bald expanses of and "the whisper of the long grass". granite called dwala. Alternation of heat and cold has cracked this granite so that Bluntly, the place is numinous. The first boulders break off and fall away. Great men there were the little San, formerly rocks lie about as though giants have been called Bushmen, who decorated caves with playing games with children's marbles. wall paintings. Then came the Karanga, a Lichen colours the granite with streaks of clan of the Shona. They believed that orange and yellow. Fantastic shapes Mlimo, the great God of heaven, spoke to abound, some with nicknames such as Mr them through an oracle who lived in one of Rhodes-in-his–armchair. Aloe excelsior, the caves. In the 1830's came candalabra euphorbia, marula trees, conquistadores, the Ndebele, who took over mopane trees, mukwa trees, paper trees, belief in the oracle of Matobo. They buried and wild figs establish themselves in Mzilikazi, the first of their Kings, in another crevices. (Incidentally, the Matabele call of the caves. In the 1890's came another white people amakiwa: figs, soft, pink and wave of conquistadores, the Brits. They sticky.) Tufts of tough grass and anglicized Matobo into Matopos, but they Resurrection plant grow there too, the too were in awe of square mile after square latter apparently dead but returning to life mile of granite hills. They buried their if placed in water. Dassies live there, also hero, Cecil John Rhodes, in the living rock called coneys as in Psalm 104,18, or rock of his favourite koppie which he called rabbits or hydrax. Though small they are World's View, and near him they buried related to the elephant. As the totem of the other of their heroes in the same bald rock. Kumalos, royal family of Matabeleland, dassies appear on Bulawayo's coat of arms. Many a Christian layman such as Chief Leopards live there as do baboons, Justice Sir Robert Tredgold, himself son a pythons, a variety of poisonous snakes, former Chief Justice, and many a Christian and sceretary birds. Black eagles soar clergyman, whether Roman Catholic or overhead, taking advantage of thermal Anglican, has loved Matobo, "The Lord is in currents in the air. In the few places where this place" (Genesis 28,16). These man has made dams, fish eagles cry exactly came from places as varied as Bavaria, like sea gulls. In flat grassy spaces Cape Town, Ireland and Wales. They spent between koppies, live eland, impala, kudu, as much time in the Matopos as possible,

5 climbing, hiking, picnicking or even retreating in rough and ready conditions. I Over the next little while I queried friends have taken Fathers Cledwyn Evans and and relations for enlightenment. Some said Ronald Haynes of the Community to 'on earth' was correct because we don't live World's View. Two former students of the 'in' the earth. Others said 'in' was correct College, and Mark Wood, because we don't live 'on' a country. became respectively first and third of Matabeleland, which meant of course Neither response seemed helpful. I went that they too knew something of the hills. back to the Latin Vulgate text of the Bible Other visitors have included King George and found 'in terra,' but since Latin 'in' can VI, his Queen and two Princess daughters, mean either 'in' or 'on' depending on the and Dame Agatha Christie. Someone with context, I wasn't any farther ahead. a more unusual experience of Matobo is Father Cuthbert Hallward, before he joined Then one day I was looking at the 1918 the Community. Canadian Prayer Book and discovered, among many other things, that the 1918 (The first of two parts) book uses 'in earth' rather than 'on earth.' So I started looking through other Prayer + CR Books, a Prayer Book from the states, published in 1810, the 1662 book from By The retired, Third Bishop of The which all the modern Prayer Books, Anglican of Canada including our own, are descended, right back to the first Prayer Book, issued in 1549. All of them say 'in earth.' Little words: "In Earth" or "On It seems that the change to 'on earth' was Earth"? made in the current Canadian Prayer Book, and, probably, it was changed because we "Why did you say 'in earth' instead of 'on do think of ourselves as living 'on' the earth' in the Lord's Prayer?" earth, even if we live in a basement apartment or in a penthouse on the top of I had been taking a service in another some urban high-rise. Parish, and apparently without thinking about it, I had used the form of the Lord's But now I was back to the original Prayer I had learned in Presbyterian question, which might be rephrased as: "If Sunday School 'way back when: the we do in fact live 'on' the earth, then why is version given in Matthew 6. One of the the form 'in earth' so persistent in the parishioners with keener ears (and better Church?" attention) than the rest had caught me saying 'Thy kingdom come, Thy will be When I was studying the editing of ancient done in earth as it is in heaven.' manuscripts, long years ago, one of the things drummed into our heads was that I think I said something about having faced with two manuscripts which give learned that form long ago, but the different readings of a particular passage, question started me thinking. Is there a the one to prefer was always the one with difference between 'in earth' and 'on earth' - the more difficult reading. The reasoning is that is, a difference that is anything more sound. People often try to simplify what is than a grammatical one? difficult or doesn't seem to make sense.

6 They don't try to make something simple had anything to say on the subject. As I more difficult. So why then does the read I realised I had discovered a real English text of the Lord's Prayer so spiritual gem of a treatise. How beautifully universally say 'in earth'? That is clearly he begins (and how clearly his words speak the more difficult reading here. to the terrible divisions and arbitrary actions in the Church today): I seemed to be in a dead end, and, for a long time, the question remained Before all things, the Teacher of approximately where it had begun, except peace and the Master of unity that I now knew that the current Canadian would not have prayer to be made Prayer Book was out of step with the singly and individually, as for one Anglican tradition in this matter, a who prays to pray for himself alone. situation which did not surprise me, For we say not "My Father, considering how many other ways, small which art in heaven," nor "Give me and great, this book has preferred to go its this day my daily bread;" nor does own way, e.g., in bowdlerizing the Psalter each one ask that only his own by omitting passages considered offensive, debt should be forgiven him; nor or by replacing ancient liturgical readings does he request for himself alone (the Passion Sunday Gospel for ex.), that he may not be led into presumably to 'simplify' understanding. temptation, and delivered from evil. Our prayer is public and Then one day while looking for something common;and when we pray, we else I came upon a treatise, 'On the Lord's pray not for one, but for the whole Prayer,' written by St Cyprian, who was people, because we the whole Bishop of Carthage in North Africa in the people are one. The God of peace third Christian century and was martyred and the Teacher of concord, who for his faith, of whom a modern writer has taught unity, willed that one said that he had (unlike his fiercer North should thus pray for all, even as He African contemporary, Tertullian) "those Himself bore us all in one. noble qualities of heart that attract charity and gentleness, prudence and spirit of And then this leapt out at me: union." We add, also, and say, "Thy will be St Cyprian is one of those writers that done, as in heaven so in earth;" not charm with the sweetness of their thought that God should do what He wills, while inspiring with the depth of their but that we may be able to do what insight, and his works come down to us in God wills. For who resists God, a great number of manuscripts, testifying that He may not do what He to his appeal from his own time down wills? But since we are through the Middle Ages and beyond. hindered by the devil from obeying Although he admired Tertullian and with our thought and deed God's recognised that T. was more learned, he will in all things, we pray and ask avoided the other's intransigence by his that God's will may be done in us; own more pastoral concern for the direction and that it may be done in us we of souls. have need of God's good will, that is, of His help and protection, since Remembering my question, I thought I no one is strong in his own would see if this saintly Bishop and martyr

7 strength, but he is safe by the grace and affections" which are mine - and yours, and mercy of God. [My italics.] and every man's.

Cyprian has a long discussion of the By The Reverend Lee Whitney, Sussex, petition I was looking for, and in it I found New Brunswick (at last!) the opening up of the words, not in a political or geographical sense but in the Church's sense, the sense we must as Music in Worship Christians understand, lest we miss the heart of the Christian life and lose our way A Few Thoughts on the only journey that will take us beyond this life and bring us to heaven. In Of all the activities in which the Church is the passage I was seeking Cyprian says: involved, the liturgy stands at the heart and centre of its life and mission, with God Moreover, we ask that the will of at the centre of that liturgy. At its best, God may be done both in heaven Anglican worship has always held music in and in earth, each of which things high regard and given it a place of great pertains to the fulfilment of our importance and distinction. Church music safety and salvation. For since we - in Anglo-Catholic tradition - has been possess the body from the earth and tightly woven, as in a fine tapestry, into the spirit from heaven, we ourselves Catholic theology. That is to say, music are earth and heaven;and in both - functions as an handmaiden to the liturgy, that is, both in body and spirit - we of which the worship of the Triune God is pray that God's will may be done. its true focus. In this context, therefore, For between the flesh and spirit music assists the liturgy by accompanying there is a struggle; and there is a the ancient texts and prayers in an daily strife as they disagree one objective, selfless manner that places all with the other, so that we cannot do attention on the worship of God rather those very things that we would, in than on the music and those making it. that the spirit seeks heavenly and divine things, while the flesh lusts At this time in history, the above-stated after earthly and temporal things; function for music seems upside-down to and therefore we ask that, by the what most of society expects from music. help and assistance of God, Often, it is expected to be entertainment, to agreement maybe made between cover up noise or fill silence - Muzak, as it these two natures, so that while the is called; something that may move the will of God is done both in the spirit body a lot, but the soul very little, if at all. and in the flesh, the soul which is This is fine in the secular world, but not so new-born by Him may be preserved. good in the sacred one. [My italics.]

Much has been said and written on the So that little word 'in' carries a great freight subject that the Church, in centuries past, of meaning. Our Lord was not thinking of was custodian, sponsor, guardian and geography or even of a struggle for social promoter (and other such titles) of the arts. justice "on earth." He was thinking of me, I once heard Stephen Cleobury, world- of what I am and what must, through God's respected conductor of the choir of King's mercy, be fashioned out of the "unruly will College, Cambridge, state that in the past

8 1000 years, the integrity of truly By Robert Pletsch, B.Mus., M.A. - Organist theologically-functioning liturgical music and Choirmaster, St. John the Evangelist, has made a slow, steady decline right down Victoria, BC to the present. He did agree that there were plateaus and momentary improvements, as with certain musical The Ceremonial of High Mass giants like Palestrina, Bach, and a few others. However, the general direction, as THE PREPARATION he observed it, has been a downward one from the point where music was once The altar having been prepared beforehand, totally and unselfishly wedded to the the spreads on it the white linen sacred words. What had been God-centred cloth on which the Blessed is to worship seems to have made (in many of rest. This is called the Corporal, so called our North American churches, at least) a from the Latin corpus, meaning "having to complete about-face, to a form of man- do with the Body." The Priest sets the centred entertainment. Fortunately, there and Paten upon it and descends to are a few churches, such as our own St. the foot of the altar, where he stands with John's, which are dedicated to keeping the server kneeling near him, for the worship God-centred. Søren Kierkegaard, preparatory prayers. These consist of Danish religious philosopher (1813-1855), Psalm 43, a confession of sin, some once expressed his view of worship as a versicles and responses, and a prayer on kind of opera [although not "operatic" in approaching the altar. (The custom of the lush, sentimental style we often using such preparatory prayers arose associate with it today]. It is interesting comparatively late in the history of the that the meaning of the word 'opera' in Church, during the Middle Ages. They Latin is 'work' or 'labour'. The meaning of were a natural development, providing the the word 'liturgy' (from the Greek leitourgia) Priest with suitable devotions to occupy his is the 'work of the people' - the work we all time during the singing of the Introit, in do in our praise of God and our prayers to which he had no part. In England we know Him. Kierkegaard went on to explain that that during such pauses in the action of in worship, God is the audience, the the rite, St Thomas of Canterbury made use members of the congregation are the actors of devotions compiled by his predecessor, (who play their own parts, not fictitious St Anselm. As the Celebrant became characters) and the clergy, choristers, and accustomed to prefixing prayers to the organist/choirmaster are the prompters, more ancient part of the rite, they were the latter two of which should preferably be used even at Low Mass, when there was no heard and not seen! singing, and became an accepted element in the service.) He wears the traditional As actors and prompters in God's 'Opera vestments that link our worship with that House', it is important that we all of early ages, for we are not now concerned understand the roles we play - our own with the personality of the individual Priest parts in pleasing the true Audience - God. but with the sacred office of Priesthood, He paid a high price for His tickets - His which is the same in all ages and places. Son's death. Let us hope that we are excellent actors and prompters and that He As the minister of God, the Priest therefore is very pleased with the 'opera'! enters upon his sacred task by making the sign of the Cross and invoking the aid of

9 the Holy Trinity. After the invocation, the remembering especially the sinless Mother Priest says the versicle taken from the of God; St Michael, the leader of the Holy psalm that follows, "I will go unto the altar Angels in their warfare against Satan; St of God," and then recites, alternately with John Baptist, the greatest preacher of the server, the song in which the Jews of repentance, himself sanctified "even from old expressed their longing for worship at his mother's womb"; St Peter, who wept God's altar. In the midst of the sorrows of bitterly in sorrow after denying Our Lord; the world, they prayed God to lead them to St Paul, who was converted after being a the holy hill of Sion, to the temple that persecutor of the Church; and before his stood there as God's dwelling, and to the brethren in the Church on earth. The altar of sacrifice. Their longing was a people say a prayer for pardon on his foreshadowing of that of God's new Israel, behalf. and is fulfilled in the joy of Christians as they come to the Altar of a greater and Then in their turn, the people make the more perfect Sacrifice. As at other times, same Confession, to which the Priest the Christian significance of the old words replies with the same prayer. This stresses is accentuated by the addition of the Gloria the fact that although different in church Patri to the psalm, for in our worship we order, all are human beings with the same are entering into the never-ending worship sins. At the which follows, both of God, Father and Son and Holy Ghost. Priest and people make the sign of the Cross, since it is through the power of the The message of the psalm, that we should Cross alone that our sins can be forgiven. approach God with trust and confidence, is In assisting at Mass, we should seek to join repeated in the following versicle, when, in these acts of penitence, with prayer for again making the sign of the Cross, the the Priest who ministers on our behalf, and Priest affirms that "Our help is in the Name with a real sorrow for our own sins. of the Lord." After the Confession, the Priest bows THE CONFESSION OF SIN moderately while he says a series of versicles (that is, short verses), to which Our approach to God's altar must be made the server makes the responses. The first with trust in his availing mercy and with two are taken from Psalm 85. With penitence for our own sins. Having renewed trust in God's goodness, the Priest recalled the mercy of God, the Priest bows prays that we may obtain mercy and down with humility to make a general salvation, and that our prayers may be confession of sin. He acknowledges before acceptable to God. Then he adds a special God the All-Holy, against whom our sins prayer for purity, beseeching God, who are so grievous an offence, that he has knows the inmost secrets of our hearts, to sinned against Him in thought, word and cleanse our souls from all iniquity and deed, and thrice beats his breast in make us worthy to join in worshiping him. penitence as he admits that it is through his own fault that he has sinned. He prays So ends the preparatory part of the service. for pardon from God and asks the prayers Having asked for God's guidance, besought of the Church in heaven and on earth. As his pardon, and prayed for purity of heart, also our offences are against the whole Priest and people are now ready to begin Church of God, the Priest also makes this the supreme act of . The confession before the Blessed in heaven, prologue is over; the great drama of Catholic worship is about to begin.

10 a tall gentleman with four young children From The Ceremonial of High Mass by arrived to take up a pew at the front. The Priests of the Society of the Holy Cross young ones were remarkably well behaved.

All the hymns and responses were sung A Visit to Holy Trinity and St. unaccompanied and we thought everyone Jude did very well. A reader read the Epistle and Moore the Gospel and then Thunder Bay, Ontario preached. Thomas Cranmer's ordered the service and Parishes of The Anglican Catholic Church not a word was added or deleted. The of Canada are generally widely separated entire liturgy was conducted in a most and interparish visits are not frequent. In reverent and commendable manner. mid-August the wedding of a niece in Thunder Bay presented an opportunity to Following Mass we were invited to a lovely visit and worship with Continuers there. finished basement with kitchen and other After a two-day drive from Waterdown we facilities for fellowship with our Continuing landed in Thunder Bay on a Friday. On the Thunderers. Having introduced ourselves Saturday we checked the phone book for and receiving back their friendly greetings the address on Spring Street and then and having extended the goodwill and best drove down to take our bearings. There wishes of our home parish of St. Edmund's, situated in a pleasant area of the city and Waterloo, Ontario, we joined them all for adjacent to a park and children's coffee. playground, was an attractive red brick bona fide church which is certainly the Deacon Moore presented some historical envy of many Anglican Catholic parishes in background of this parish which was Canada. A beautiful sky blue plaque over initiated in 1985 and enjoyable the entrance door identified The Parish of conversation occurred with the tall Holy Trinity and St. Jude. The plaque gave gentleman who was Milo Shaw, a member an inkling that this may have been an of the Diocesan Council and also the Orthodox Church and changes to the Registrar of Lakehead University in interior confirmed this. Later we learned Thunder Bay. that the vacating owners had requested their designation be joined to that of St. We left church still admiring that beautiful Jude and in an aura of Christian Unity the structure and wishing one for every beautiful edifice was dedicated to the Holy Continuing Parish in Canada, and with the Trinity and St. Jude. The side sign most pleasant feelings of having indicated Holy Mass at 10:30 a.m. worshipped and socialized with our brothers and sisters in Thunder Bay in the We arrived next morning, a beautiful sunny Canadian Lakehead. day at 10:15 and were the second couple. Most of the other 25 members arrived By Shizue and Paul Maycock much closer to service time in the tradition of many Continuers. Deacon Frank Moore, the son of the Founding Father Moore, welcomed us and informed us of the use of the Reserved Sacrament. Just before 10:30

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