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The Easter Story in Stained Glass Documents On-Line by Ana Watts APRIL 2014 THE NEW BRUNSWICK ANGLICAN / 1 A SECTION OF THE ANGLICAN JOURNAL APRIL 2014 SERVING THE DIOCESE OF FREDERICTON Electoral synod The Easter Story in Stained Glass documents on-line BY ANA WATTS Delegates and others will find details concerning the May 10 Electoral Synod to be held at Christ Church (Parish) Church in Fredericton on the diocesan website <anglican.nb.ca>. No need for a more specific address, there is a direct link under the What’s New column on the left of the front page. The web page went live on March 16 and the essential information was mailed to delegates. Names of delegates had to be listed in DIMS (the Diocesan Information Manage- ment System) by the parish on or before March 15, until then diocesan staff did not know their identities. Among the documents they received by e-mail were the notice of election and the nomina- tion form. The vast majority of Diocesan Archivist and Archives Corner author/photographer Frank Morehouse’s wonderful juxtaposition of windows in (left) St. delegates received the information Bartholomew’s, Birch Ridge, Parish of Tobique (recently closed and deconsecrated) and (right) St. Mary the Virgin in Benton, Parish of electronically and the few without Canterbury tell the Easter story with colour and light. The Archives Corner is prepared by Twila Buttimer ([email protected] or access to computers received an 506-453-4306) and Frank Morehouse ([email protected] or 506-459-3637). Feel free to contact them with questions or comments. envelope by Canada Post. Bishop Percy Coffin of the Diocese of Western New- foundland will chair the elec- toral synod at the invitation of C H I L D R E N ’ S T A B L E Archbishop Claude Miller, who would normally chair such an event, but not the election for his own successor, a coadjutor bishop. Archbishop Miller is senior bishop in the Ecclesiasti- cal Province of Canada as well as its Metropolitan. Bishop Coffin is the next senior bishop. Archbishop Miller retires from his position of metropolitan of the province when he retires as bishop of this diocese on his 70th birthday, June 26. A diocesan profile is a neces- sary document for an electoral synod and a new one was pre- pared for this one. It is a thumb- nail (relatively speaking) sketch of the diocese covering every- thing from diocesan history, statistics and governance struc- tures to its special ministries, vision, challenges and hopes. It For the most part all eyes were on Dean Keith and Elinor Joyce at the reception following his last Sunday service at Christ Church Cathedral, is a document that could help but perhaps the children at the brightly decorated tables to their left were a bit of a distraction. For some, they even stole the show. But a candidate from outside the neither Keith nor Elinor was concerned in the least because among the beautiful smiling faces at the little tables were those of their diocese understand this place in grandchildren Gillian Elizabeth (in the white dress in the centre back) and her brother Elliot (in the corner to her left) Gowan. The Dean this time. baptized Gillian along with Samuel John Alexander Hall, just moments before at the service in the cathedral. 2 / THE NEW BRUNSWICK ANGLICAN APRIL 2014 c o m m e n t a r y A Lenten rationale for our own time A response to the Lenten debate BY THE REV. DR. BrIAN J. SPENCE in many religious traditions spiritual discipline. People can at the Easter Vigil. It does mean joy and celebration, of quiet outside of Christianity including overdo it. We can get caught that these are times when as the and reflection, of action in- here are some today who Judaism and Islam. There seems up in a works-based mentality, community of the faithful we are spired by justice and mercy. question the relevance of to be a recognition that there is a which does not deepen faith nor called to refocus on the meaning We need to grow, to come to Lent. They see it tied to a unity of body and spirit and just love. There have been plenty of of the faith we live day in, day spiritual maturity. We don’t just Tpast piety, overly penitential and, as we train and exercise the body examples in Church history of out, the grace that sustains us, have it by virtue of baptism or as a recent article by Archdeacon we should train and discipline sadism and masochism misin- day in, day out. So too with Lent. a one-time profession of faith. Harold Hazen suggested, con- the spirit. Just as there are times terpreted or masquerading as Observing Lent doesn’t mean St. Paul talks about “coming nected with the works-oriented for celebration and indulgence, pursuit of holiness. But again, that this is the only time we are to spiritual maturity.” Lent is a mentality of the Mediaeval and there are times for leanness and there is something to be said for penitent, confess our sins, reflect time for self-denial, but also for Renaissance church. There is discipline. We should not gratify disciplining our souls and bodies on our lives, do works of char- adding on. It shouldn’t be seen undoubtedly much that could be our appetites all the time. To and helping to nurture, within ity — it merely means that in as a negative thing — if so we said about mediaeval Christian deny ourselves this or that can ourselves, good habits that lead anticipation of the celebration of have been observing it wrongly. piety, both critical and praise- be a lesson in selflessness — how to ordered living, to virtuous Easter, we give special emphasis It should be seen as “growing in worthy, but I would not charac- very useful in an age of over action, and to compassion and to those aspects of our Christian our walk with Christ.” It is about terize its pursuit of holiness as indulgence and instant gratifica- generosity. If our spiritual dis- faith and experience. We inten- building up our faith, imitating merely works-oriented or as the tion. As well, when people are cipline isn’t doing this, we need sify these aspects in preparations Christ, getting to know him bet- manipulation of the faithful by encouraged to satisfy their every to re-examine it because there for the liturgical events of Good ter, becoming more the people the institutional church in profit appetite, disciplines that help is something wrong with the Friday and Easter, but Good that God would have us be. If making schemes. There were, us recognize that our appetites discipline or the attitude behind Friday and Easter are being lived there is self-denial, it is only in without doubt, significant ele- don’t represent our highest it or the appropriateness of that out in our lives every day, as pursuit of self-realization. It is ments of these attitudes which good (people don’t live by bread discipline to us as individuals. surely as the grace of Baptism an exercise in love. From the 40 helped to lead to the Protestant alone) and that over indulgence We have a common human na- is meant to be lived out daily. years the ancient Israelites spent Reformation, but this is not the and instant gratification are ture but different temperaments, Repetition and demonstration in the desert, to Jesus’ 40 days whole of mediaeval penitential harmful are more important different strengths and weak- are meant to build good habits, in anticipation of the beginning piety. Fasting and other forms than ever. In a world where the nesses, and sometimes different but none of it should be merely of his public ministry, God has of spiritual discipline, which majority live without adequate needs at any given time. One ritual and formality. It is part asked his people to give him make up Lenten practice, can food or worldly goods, is it not mold seldom fits all. of the lived out relationship of time when we put away some of be traced in Christianity back worthwhile to symbolically Because we are human beings the people of God with God in the things that distract us, includ- beyond the Middle Ages to the stand in solidarity with them, in time, we need to take time community and as individuals. ing our own appetites, and let Patristic Period and more im- while we experience a little of into account when developing What we pray should be what we “new seeds fall on the soil of our portantly to Apostolic practice what it is like to do without? our spiritual practices. Spiritual do, and God willing, what we do souls.” That is what Lent can be. and the New Testament. How do Hopefully, that helps us get our practices come from cultivating helps us in what we pray. we get to a more original Chris- priorities straight, as well as habits and habits are developed Life is not one dimensional, The Rev. Dr. Brian J. Spence is tian faith than the teaching and encourage us to act to help those over time. Our liturgical year neither is faith. We need all rector of the Parish of Ludlow and practices of the Apostles? who lack the goods and essen- takes this principle into account. these moments of penitence, Blissfield. But that is really not what tials of this world. It doesn’t mean that we are only I want to focus on. I want to There is no necessary de- conscious of the cross and resur- present a rationale for Lenten nial in Lenten discipline of the rection of Jesus in Holy Week discipline for our own time.
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