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Consecration of the Bishop of Kootenay May 16, 2019 Consecration of the Bishop of Kootenay May 16, 2019 “This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it!” It is indeed a day of rejoicing for the Church local and the Church Catholic. The Church local is celebrating the consecration and seating of Lynne McNaughton as the 10th Bishop of Kootenay. The Church Catholic is remembering the witness of St. Matthias, the Apostle. Lynne stands in a long line of those whose episcopal ministry has been a great blessing to The Diocese of Kootenay and the wider Church, not the least of whom are John Privett and David Crawley, whose presence at this episcopal ordination is a delight to us all! Lynne, I am absolutely honoured and humbled by your invitation to preach at this liturgy. I have known you for many years, and I have enormous respect for you and the manner in which you have carried out your ministry as a deacon, parish priest, archdeacon, teacher, mentor, spiritual companion and guide, and member of the councils of the Church – diocesan, provincial and national. With the entire Church, I am thankful for all the work you have done in your capacity as the Deputy Prolocutor of the General Synod enabling its Council of General Synod affectionately known as “COGS”, to fulfill its role and responsibilities. And to do so, with a currency of grace one toward another, with a mind and heart for the Church and its call to be in and for the world living the gospel we proclaim. You have been a great colleague to me, our Prolocutor Cynthia Haines-Turner, our General Secretary Michael Thompson, our Chancellor David Jones and all the other Officers of the General Synod, and to the members of the Planning and Agenda Team for COGS. By your diligence, we got on with our work even when it was tough going. By your wisdom, we found ways into and through difficult conversations. I am convinced that the greater hopefulness with which we are going into our General Synod in July is in no small measure a testament to your wise and gentle leadership. And now my dear Sister in Christ, you are about to be entrusted with the work of episcopal ministry. Kootenay rejoices! The Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon rejoices! The Anglican Church of Canada rejoices! In succession in the episcopate, you are #335. Your consecration brings to 13 the number of women in episcopal ministry. Your seating brings to 9 the number who are Diocesan Bishops. It occurs to me that in the date chosen for Lynne’s consecration, there is a kind of modesty that should not go unnoted for it is The Feast of St. Matthias. He who was chosen to be remembered with The Eleven following the demise of Judas Iscariot. The single criteria was that the one chosen must have been from among those who had accompanied the disciples “from the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among them for the baptism of John to the day he was taken up into heave”. Matthias was no stranger to the crowd. He had been a witness to the Crucifixion of Jesus. At what distance from the Hill we do not know. He had been a witness to The Resurrection. As to how the Risen Lord revealed himself to him, we do not know. In a reflection on the choice of Matthias being remembered with The Eleven, our good friend Herbert O’Driscoll writes “I suspect that Matthias was known for the fact that he could and would hang in there when things got tough” and tough they would be for that early Christian community. Of the labours of Matthias and where they took him, we know nothing. Of the people he evangelized or the communities he nurtured, we know nothing. It is all lost in the mists of time. The one thing we do know is that he is remembered for his steadfastness, his stick- to-it-ness, his patience and perseverance in apostolic witness to the Gospel. How fitting then, that on his feast day the Church should be reading from Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, from that place where he speaks of “forgetting what lies behind, straining forward to what lies ahead, pressing on toward the heavenly call of God in Christ”. (3:13- 14) While that is the calling of every Christian and every minister of the Gospel, it is particularly the call of a bishop, - to be by one’s preaching and teaching, “an artist of community” grounded in a holistic understanding of discipleship that impacts every aspect of our living. There is much conversation in our Church and throughout the entire Anglican Communion these days about intentional discipleship, about pressing on toward the heavenly call of God in Christ. This movement is complimented indeed reinforced by a 2018 Call from the World Council of Churches’ Conference on Mission and Evangelism in Tanzania. Known as The Arusha Call its speaks of “discipleship as both a gift and a calling to be active collaborators with God for the transforming of the World”. It speaks of both personal and communal conversion to a Christ connected way of life, to be servant leaders, following The Way of The Cross, living in light of The Resurrection, joyfully engaging the movements of the Holy Spirit in our time in history. It speaks of our call to build just and inclusive communities, to show compassion to the most vulnerable in our societies, to break down walls and to pursue the justice of God that tumbles down like the mightiest of waterfalls. It calls us to bend toward one another in ecumenical and interfaith collaboration, working together in bending the arc of time toward that glorious day when as the Psalmist puts it so beautifully, “Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring up from the earth, and righteousness shall look down from heaven.” (Ps 85:10-11) Here is discipleship that is not private but public, not huddled but worldly, and not elitist but diaconal in nature. It is a discipleship that “takes us” as songwriter John Bell put it, “to that place from which tide and time flow” and back again; and into those movements and 2 Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate: Sermon / Consecration of Lynne McNaughton as Bp of Kootenay, Kelowna, BC / May 16, 2019 labours where “angels tread on our dreams and the magnificent themes of heaven’s promise are echoed below”. (#489, Common Praise) The teaching ministry of a bishop will always point us to this upward call of God in Christ, to our unity in Him. Sometimes that ministry of the bishop will be by way of commendation and encouragement, sometimes by way of connection and counsel, recalling the Church as someone put it, to its “better self”, to its true identity in Christ. Sometimes that ministry will be calling the Church to be less turned in upon itself and turned more outward toward the world turned outward with the eye and ear, the heart and hand of Christ. You will soon come to know the conviction and courage of your new bishop in speaking to the compassion and justice required of us through the teaching of the prophets and the gospel of Jesus. How fitting that we should be singing Psalm 84, - The Pilgrim’s Song. “Happy are they who dwell in your house! They will always be praising you. Happy are they people whose strength is in you! Whose hearts are set on the pilgrims’ way.” (Psalm 84:3-4) While that is the call of all the faithful and every minister of the Gospel, it is particularly the call of a bishop to be attentive to one’s own pilgrimage and one’s own journey of faith. To be attentive to one’s manner of living, to one’s own habits of the Spirit, to one’s own continued formation in the grace and goodness of the bond, to one’s own pursuit of truth through study and prayer, and those times of refreshing that come from being in quiet in the presence of the Lord. You will soon come to know the pilgrim heart of your new bishop. How fitting that we should be reading from the Gospel according to John, hearing Jesus as he speaks to the disciples in the Upper Room, - of the friendship into which he calls them for the sake of the world, of their being chosen and charged by him to go and bear fruit, fruit that shall last; of their witness to the world in loving one another as he has loved them. While that is the call of all the faithful, every minister of the Gospel it is particularly the call of a bishop – to be by one’s pastoring a focus of unity for our life and work in Christ. Friendship is a calling to which we are summoned in Christ. Bishops are privileged to share in many occasions when such friendship is celebrated and cherished. They also share times when such friendship is fragile. In fact, from time to time, bishops deal with a lot of enmity within the Church, the consequence of friendships betrayed and broken, abandoned and forgotten. As a focus of unity in and for the Church, a bishop’s ministry is devoted to reconciliation, - to bringing people into dialogue characterized by respect in our manner of speaking and patience in our manner of listening; helping people to engage in good disagreement marked by a good measure of grace.
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