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TheTHE NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF TORONTO A A SECTION OF THE ANGnLICAN JOURNAL g l www.tiorontoc.anglican.ca n APRIL, 2011 Postcards tell story Art links Gospel to church’s work
BY STUART MANN
THE Rev. David Opheim is using his art to reach out to All Saints, Sherbourne Street’s parishioners and supporters — and to help some of Toronto’s most marginal - ized people. Mr. Opheim’s artwork has been featured on postcards that the downtown church sent out last All Christmas card from All Saints Saints Day, Advent and Christmas. links the Holy Family’s struggle to More cards are planned for Easter find a place for Jesus’ birth to the and Pentecost. need for safe housing. On the back of the cards is a short note about an aspect of All per week and send it to All Saints’ ministry and a link to the Saints,” says Mr. Opheim, incum - church’s website. The cards also bent. “That way, we can provide a invite recipients to become cup of coffee to the people who “saints” and support the church’s come to us.” work through their prayers and In addition to worship services A detail from a painting by the Rev. David Opheim depicts the resurrected Christ greeting Mary Magdalene and donations. throughout the week, All Saints the other Mary as they run from the empty tomb to the disciples (Matthew 28:1-10). The image will be on a post - “We’re asking people to set runs a large drop-in at the church, card sent out by All Saints, Sherbourne Street, Toronto, at Easter. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON aside the cost of one cup of coffee Continued on Page 6 Walk takes Blogger reaches faith to the streets young adults
A creative Good Friday Walk for Justice on April 22 through New Canadians show interest downtown Toronto will con - nect a core event of the Chris - BY CAROLYN PURDEN been writing five church blogs, tian faith—Good Friday—with one each in Spanish, Italian and current social justice issues. IF you want to bring younger peo - Portuguese and two in English. “Walking with such a large ple into your church, the Rev. The ethnic blogs have connected The Rev. Maurice Francois (right) writes in four different languages. He crowd and listening to current Maurice Francois has a sugges - him with ethnic communities in receives tech help from Conrado Garcia Santos (left). stories of those who are ‘de - tion — start a blog. It’s cheap, Toronto and overseas, and also PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON spised and rejected,’ I hear Je - easy and almost guaranteed to at - with newly arrived young immi - sus urging me to continue to tract young adults. Mr. Francois grants and young people consid - Internet and technology. He real - can have a cheap and safe tool of work for the Kingdom,” says is the priest-in-charge of St. Paul, ering immigration to Canada. ized that the best way to reach communication between the the Rev. Kyn Barker, an organ - Runnymede, and also the priest- Mr. Francois’ first blog was them was through the Internet, parish and the people,” he says. izer of the walk and a deacon in-charge of the Parroquia San about his Spanish ministry at but could not afford to hire a web - They told him to start a blog at St. Matthew the Apostle, Ori - Esteban Spanish congregation at Holy Trinity. Most of the people master to create and maintain a and began to train him. The first ole. The walk starts at 2 p.m. at Holy Trinity, Trinity Square, in he works with are young immi - website. blog went up in 2009. Once its suc - Holy Trinity, Trinity Square, Toronto. grants around 25 to 35 years old He turned to the young people cess was established, he began beside the Eaton Centre. For the past two years, he has who are heavily involved in the for advice. “I asked them how I Continued on Page 6
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BY MARY LOU HARRISON
FOR more than five decades, Bish - op Arthur Brown, a retired bish - op in the Diocese of Toronto, was a much-loved presence in the Bishop Arthur Brown watches from parish of St. Martin, Western Toronto as the Rev. Bonnie Baird, Shore, Nova Scotia. He and his the Rev. Ron Barkhouse and Nellie wife, Norma, spent time there Rafuse hold up a cake in his hon - each summer when they went our in Nova Scotia. MAIN PHOTO BY back to visit her family. While SANDRA ZWICKER they were there, Bishop Brown would celebrate, preach and visit different locations to both see and in the parish. hear each other using computers. Last summer, for the first time, A team of people set up the neces - Bishop Brown was unable to sary technology on both ends. In make the annual trip. Norma had Toronto, the team included Mike died in 2005 and it was becoming Willekes, a member of the Jere - The “Celebrating Bishop the parish has made in his life. He house are trying to use technolo - increasingly difficult for him to miah Community, a fresh expres - Brown Service” was held on Jan. had a story for every church.” In gy such as Skype to underscore travel on his own. This new reali - sion of church located at St. 31 and was attended by members return, parishioners used Skype and enhance the ministry at St. ty was hard to accept for both him Anne’s, Gladstone, Toronto. He of all four churches in the parish. to tell Bishop Brown about the im - Martin’s. In the future, this might and St. Martin’s parishioners. set up the necessary technology Using Skype, Bishop Brown was pact he has had on their lives over include Bible studies with guest “The people missed him terribly, at Bishop Brown’s residence. The not only able to preach but also the years. “It was remarkable,” speakers using Skype, or oppor - and he missed us,” says the Rev. St. Martin’s team included the participated, watching the pro - says Mr. Barkhouse, adding that tunities to “visit” church mis - Bonnie Baird, rector of St. Mar - Rev. Ron Barkhouse, the associ - ceedings on a computer screen although there were a few techni - sions throughout the world and tin’s. ate priest, who arranged for a from the comfort of his home. cal glitches, “no one really no - learn about the projects they sup - Enter technology. St. Martin’s large screen to be placed in the “You could have heard a pin ticed. It went very well.” port without having to travel. decided to hold a special service historic sanctuary for the service. drop,” says Ms. Baird of the serv - Ms. Baird says it was exciting “I miss it a lot,” says Bishop to celebrate Bishop Brown, and “They set it all up,” says Bishop ice in the packed church. “People for people to see the technology Brown about St. Martin’s. “Fortu - he would be present via Skype, Brown about the technology. “I did not want to miss a word. He at work, and to see Bishop Brown nately, our friends are coming up technology that allows people in didn’t have a clue.” talked about the difference that in their midst. She and Mr. Bark - with ideas like this.” Celebrations Staff member mark 10 years weds in chapel of communion SUNDAY , May 1, marks the 10th anniversary of full communion Coworkers attend, take part between North American Luther - ans and Anglicans. All parishes BY STUART MANN chapel, and the occasion reflect - in the Diocese of Toronto are en - ed the high regard and affection couraged to join in the celebra - IT’S been the scene of countless that the Diocesan Centre staff tions. Parishes may wish to use worship services, dozens of choir have for Ms. Boisvert. Archdea - the liturgy and litany that have practices and even a handful of con Peter Fenty, the executive of - been created for the occasion; television interviews. But rarely ficer to the Bishop of Toronto, they can be downloaded at has the Diocesan Centre’s little married the couple, and several www.toronto.anglican.ca/prayer. chapel of St. Peter and St. Paul coworkers took part in the wed - Anglicans and Lutherans may seen an event so beautiful as the ding, including her supervisor, also attend one of two special one that took place within its the Rev. Canon Elizabeth Hardy, services held concurrently at 3 wood-panelled walls on Feb. 18. chief administrative officer and p.m. on May 1. The first will be at On that day, one of the dio - secretary of Synod. Bishop Linda St. Paul’s Anglican Church in cese’s most well-known staff Nicholls blessed the marriage. Fort Erie, Ontario, with Bishop members, Pamela Rumleski, “The chapel is at the heart of Susan Johnson, national bishop married her long-time partner, our community life at the dioce - of the Evangelical Lutheran Mario Boisvert, with their son san offices, so it is very appropri - Church in Canada (ELCIC), pre - and coworkers looking on. “It ate that Pam, who is pivotal to the siding, and Bishop Katharine Jef - was perfect,” she said. “It was administrative life of the diocese, ferts Schori, presiding bishop of more than I had ever dreamed it should be married here,” said the Episcopal Church, USA, would be.” Canon Hardy. preaching. The second service Ms. Boisvert is the assistant After the wedding, the couple will be at Holy Trinity Lutheran secretary of Synod, responsible had their pictures taken in the Church in Buffalo, New York, for carrying out and coordinating cathedral and enjoyed a recep - with Bishop Mark Hanson, pre - the administrative duties of Syn - tion in the Diocesan Centre. Ms. siding bishop of the Evangelical od. She has worked at the Dioce - Boisvert said she was thrilled to Lutheran Church in America, san Centre, located beside St. be married in the chapel with her presiding, and Archbishop Fred James Cathedral in downtown coworkers present. “I’m an Angli - Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Toronto, for 10 years. Before that, can and I love working here in a Church of Canada, preaching. All she worked for the Diocese of Christian environment,” she said. are welcome. Moosonee in Timmins. “I consider my coworkers my Pamela Boisvert (nee Rumleski), top left, on her wedding day. Archdea - For more information, contact It was the second wedding friends, and because I’m not from con Peter Fenty marries the couple in the Diocesan Centre’s chapel of the Very Rev. Peter Wall at pe - known to have taken place in the Toronto, they’re my family, too.” St. Peter and St. Paul. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON [email protected]. 4 The Anglican C O M M E N T April 2011 Zimbabwe Anglicans not alone The Anglican n most Sundays, I ARCHBISHOP’S DIARY secretary for Communion affairs, were with The Anglican is published under preside and preach at us, and we came from four continents. The the authority of the Bishop of Toronto Oone of the parishes in BY ARCHBISHOP COLIN R. J OHNSON Zimbabwe bishops’ pastoral letters are sent and the Incorporated Synod of the the diocese. Almost to all the bishops in the Communion. They Diocese of Toronto. Opinions expressed in everywhere, at least one are being upheld in prayer here in Canada The Anglican are not necessarily those of parishioner asks, “Which ioners are intimidated; some have been beat - and around the world. They are not alone. the editor or the publisher. church is yours?” They are en or murdered. There is a price on the When I spoke about this at the Sunday Eu - Stuart Mann: Editor surprised when I say, “This heads of the five bishops in Zimbabwe. The charist, there was a moment of silence and one, and the other 250 churches in the dio - Diocese of Harare is a difficult place for the then wild ululations as the news sank in – Address all editorial material to: cese!” As bishop, I have the care of all the Anglican Church. A former bishop, now de - they were not alone in their struggle, not for - The Anglican churches in the diocese. All too often we posed by the Church of the Province of Cen - gotten. They were part of something much 135 Adelaide Street East think of ourselves only in the context of our tral Africa, has fanatically refused to cede bigger than their own parish or diocese. Toronto, Ontario M5C 1L8 own parish. power. As a key friend of the Mugabe govern - The Anglicans of Harare know the desola - Tel: (416 ) 363 -6021, ext. 247 In the middle of February, the sun was ment, he is backed by the national police, tions of the Lenten journey through the be - Toll free: 1 -80 0-66 8-8932 shining, the temperature was 25 C and the who ignore the court’s support of the legiti - trayals of Holy Week and the agony of Geth - Fax: (416 ) 36 3-7678 humidity was low. It was obviously not On - mate bishop, Bishop Chad Gandyia. semane. Some have personally experienced E-mail: [email protected] tario! In fact, it was Harare, the capital of And yet the faith is alive, vibrant and defi - Good Friday. 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Rowan Williams, bituaries used to be BISHOP’S OPINION is felt by tablemates, roommates or floor - Lambeth Palace, fairly short and emo - mates who encountered them every day. Sud - London, England SE1 7JU. tionless. They gave BY BISHOP PHILIP POOLE denly, someone disappears from their midst O In Canada: the person’s full and they are left to grieve alone. In a former name, next of kin, and the lo - Death usually happens to old people, but parish of mine, it was not unusual for us to A community of about 600,000 members cations and time of the visita - sometimes family members just don’t get it. hold memorial services in the local nursing in 30 dioceses, stretching from Vancouver tion and funeral service. They Years ago, when I was closely engaged in homes to mark the death of a resident. Even Island to Newfoundland and north to the Arctic Ocean. included the place and date of “pastoral care to the institutionalized elderly,” though no family attended, we wanted to hon - birth and the place and date of death, sepa - which was the subject of my Master of Theol - our those who grieved. There were tears and Primate: rated by an en dash. The en dash is impor - ogy extended paper, I learned that between 45 laughter, mixed with gratitude to God for al - The Most Rev. Fred Hiltz, tant because that is where life is lived. and 70 per cent of all people in nursing homes lowing the great gift of life to be shared. Church House, 80 Hayden St. Today, obituaries tell us quite a bit about were never visited — not by family, not by Lent, Holy Week and the final days of Jesus Toronto, ON, M4Y 3G2. the en dash — the life a person lived, the friends or, shockingly, not even by the church. often draw our minds into serious reflections lives he or she touched, the accomplishments I doubt that statistic has changed much. on death and our own mortality. Good Friday In the Diocese of Toronto: they experienced in sharing in God’s great I know these visits can be challenging. For is a time when we read again the obituary of A community of 254 congregations in 210 parishes covering 26,000 square kilometers. gift of life. example, a once vibrant and vital human be - Jesus and recall the en dash of Jesus. It is a Of the nearly 5 million people who live Lately, more obituaries say something like, ing has, through the ravages of Alzheimer’s, compelling story that touches me every year, within the diocesan boundaries, 376,000 “At Dad’s request, there will be no service” been taken on a scary journey into the deep even though I have lived through it as an or - claim to be affiliated with the Anglican — mostly, I suspect, for financial reasons. recesses of her mind. This is a journey which dained person for 34 years, while Jesus only Church, with about 80,000 people That is sad to me because it makes death science has not yet been able to allow us to experienced it once! It is a story of injustice, identified on the parish rolls. The diocese more private than it really is. Death is per - share. Many—and here I speak personally— betrayal and abandonment by friends. It is home to many ethnic and language- sonal, but it is not so private. Death almost know the pain and futility we experience as speaks to the oppression of rulers, the tears of based congregations, including African, always affects people beyond the immediate the person we love slips all too slowly from a mother, the compassion of a stranger, the Caribbean, Chinese, Filipino, French, family. us while still in our sight. It starts innocently forgiveness spoken at the last and the care of Hispanic, Japanese, and Tamil. The City of Speaking personally, I was not looking for - enough—a few memory lapses, a small num - women who wanted to honour a dead body Toronto has the largest population of ward to the hours of visitation at a funeral ber of missed words— and progresses to con - with the last dignity, an anointed preparation aboriginal peoples in the country. home following the death of a beloved aunt versations that we struggle to understand. for a proper burial. It reminds us of the teach - The Archbishop of Toronto: with whom I had been very close. Stoically, There might be a lack of recognition of those ings of Jesus, and for Christians the celebra - The Most Rev. Colin Johnson out of a sense of duty, I went. Once there, I most closely known, a retreat to childhood tion of Jesus as Lord and Saviour. It speaks of encountered people I had never met before memories and eventually a speaking of a lan - the fear we still have of death, a fear that was York-Credit Valley: who came to the funeral home to express to guage and words likely known only to God. shared even by those who lived, ate and jour - The Rt. Rev. Philip Poole me and my family their love for my aunt. Our pain is mixed with anger, our sorrow neyed with Jesus for three years and were They had read about my aunt’s death in the with memories of better times, our visits a found cowering in the shadows. Trent-Durham: obits and desired the opportunity just to talk frustrated mix of love and pity. Our despera - Easter Day offers fulfillment of the hopes The Rt. Rev. Linda Nicholls and share their condolences. The comments tion to connect one last time is futile. So we and yearnings of human beings that death York-Scarborough: of strangers and the laughter of family as don’t visit. does not have the final victory, that pain and The Rt. Rev. Patrick Yu stories of the past were shared turned out to Death seldom happens at home anymore. It sorrow do not have the final say. Easter tells be remarkably comforting and added new in - has become institutionalized. What families us that out of despair comes hope, out of cru - York-Simcoe: sights into my knowledge of my aunt’s ex - sometimes fail to recognize is that a commu - cifixion comes resurrection, and out of death The Rt. Rev. George Elliott traordinary life. By the very presence of oth - nity—a retirement home, a nursing home, a comes new life. “Christ has died, Christ is The Diocese of Toronto: ers, I felt deeply supported and aware that hospital—has cared for their loved one during Risen, Christ will come again” is our weekly 135 Adelaide St. E., my spirits had been lifted in the whole the last days of their lives. When death oc - affirmation, our eternal hope. Toronto, Ont., M5C 1L8 process of visitation. Exhausting, yes. Uplift - curs, the loss is acutely felt by caregivers and Halleluiah, Christ has risen! The Lord has 1-800-668-8932/416-363-6021 ing, yes. nurses who knew the individual intimately; it risen indeed! Halleluiah! Web site: http://www.toronto.anglican.ca April 2011 C O M M E N T The Anglican 5
EDITOR’S My top tech tools CORNER BY STUART MANN While out BY THE REV. W. TAY MOSS Straits, Gorillaz, and sometimes The Grate - PDF documents and then email them to ful Dead). wherever I want. I can even log into it from good craftsperson has good tools — 3) Google Calendar. Google’s free calendar home and send it a print job while I’m sip - walking there was a time when all a circuit- service allows you to create and share calen - ping tea and playing with my cats. Incoming Ariding priest needed was a good dars through the wonders of the Internet. faxes are converted into email and sent to horse, a BCP, and a Bible. Times have Our church’s schedule of services, for exam - me so that I can delete the spam without ust before winter set in, replaced that with a pickup truck and a Kin - ple, shows up on our website, but it also ap - wasting paper. my son and I went for a dle. So what sort of tools empower your mis - pears on my iPhone. My staff and I can edit it 6) iPad. An iPad handily bridges the gap Jhike up a local creek. It sion in our change-filled epoch? Here are my from our phones or any computer linked to between laptop and cell phone. I use mine to was too cold to fish, so we nominations for the most useful ministry-en - the Internet. My own calendar is mostly con - read those links people keep sending me. I left our rods at home and just hancing technologies: fidential, but my wife can see whether I am also use it to do email, take notes at meet - went for an adventure. We left 1) A commercial-grade coffee maker. My “busy” or “free.” We have a calendar to book ings (it’s ideal for that), schedule stuff, and the car in the parking lot, ministry runs on caffeine. If yours does, too, space and another to track birthdays and an - even write sermons and articles. In fact, I trudged across the soccer field, then you need a really good coffee maker, the niversaries. The beautiful thing is that it all wrote this article on this wonder. Thanks to and entered the tall grass and sort of stainless steel and fake-wood-trim exists in cyberspace, so we can update it in an app called Evernote, I can quickly access bulrush husks near the side of beast that belongs in a truck stop diner. And one place and everyone can see that the my text, audio and photo notes from my the creek. be sure to feed your beast the best fair trade, Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, for exam - desktop, iPhone, or iPad, just the way God in - A beaver had been hard at organic, free-range Kona brew your shop can ple, has changed times. tended. work, gnawing a cluster of fir afford. A standard, home-grade Canadian 4) Google Docs. Like the calendar service, 7) Pocket knife. A good pocket knife trees. Their stumps ended in Tire special just can’t handle that kind of Google’s free “Docs” service allows you to should have a sturdy, locking blade and a sharp points, the remainders of pressure. create documents (such as word processing screwdriver. If you have one, you will find the trees lying beside them. The 2) Smartphone. Whether you go with an files or spreadsheets) on-line and then share yourself using it far more than you could ask beaver must have been scared iPhone, an Android, or a Blackberry, your them as you like. For example, my team has a or imagine. I use mine to open boxes and bot - away or had his fill, because one smartphone should be smarter than you are. giant spreadsheet that we use for liturgical tles, mostly. Just remember to take it out of tree was still standing, its trunk Mine can check my email, update my Face - planning. Each Sunday has a horizontal row your pocket before going to the airport. carved into the shape of a per - book status and schedule events on the where we put the lessons, readers, hymns I could go on. Comfortable black shoes fect hourglass. church’s calendar. I use it to tune my wife’s and notes about the children’s program. My (that don’t make a clicking sound when you The muddy path led further in - ukulele and count the calories I had for Sunday School teachers can see what hymns walk across the sanctuary), a slimming cas - to the bush. Here the creek divid - lunch. It can help you say the Daily Office we are singing three weeks from now, and sock/alb, and a strong immune system could ed into a dozen channels, most of (yep, there’s an app for that), find parish - the person that schedules the readers knows all go on the list. The point is that there are them hidden by fallen trees, logs ioners’ homes (with the GPS, of course), and what the scriptures will be. The information some really amazing tools out there that and pop bottles that had been provide you with a BAS, BCP and Bible when exists in one easy-to-access place. make it far easier to do the work of ministry washed downstream. Every - you get there. I listen to commentary pod - 5) A good photocopier. These days, a pho - than ever before (and possibly more fun, too). where was the sound of gurgling casts as part of my sermon prep, and warm- tocopier can do far more than print leaflets. I water. We found a tiny waterfall up music on my walk to church on Sunday can put a stack of documents into the tray The Rev. W. Tay Moss is the incumbent of and stared at it, mesmerized. mornings (Pink Floyd, Snoop Dogg, Dire and our Canon machine will scan them into Church of the Messiah, Toronto. We hiked up to our favourite fishing spot. The water got caught in a sharp turn in the river, creat - ing a deep hole. “How deep do you think it is?” asked Henry. Jesus Christ: rebel with a cause “If you jumped in, it’d go over your head,” I said. We pondered that for a while BY AMIT PARASAR hi, used peaceful protest to bring about the ploit people. In a place intended for worship - then moved on. In the summer, end of racial segregation in the United ping a God that loves fairness and generosi - we rarely went past this point t’s not uncommon for youth in every gen - States. Nelson Mandela, after being arrested ty, they greedily increased their own wealth because the trail was overgrown eration to go through a stage where they for violently fighting the unjust apartheid using unfair practices (Luke 19: 45-47). with vegetation and prickly Iwant to rebel against whatever authority policies of South Africa, amazingly forgave Jesus’ rebellious behaviour wasn’t limited plants, creating almost a tunnel. they feel repressed by. Oftentimes, they those who imprisoned him for 27 years and to the Temple. He often boldly exposed the But now it was cold and the idolize the typical “rebel without a cause,” a turned to non-violent methods that brought hypocrisy of the Pharisees and Sadducees, plants had shrivelled away and term eliciting imagery of a cool bad boy who peace to a turbulent nation. the socio-economically powerful religious we were able to walk without lives fast and dies young. On closer analysis, Of course, history is not without its female elite of the Hebrews. He frequently defended getting scratched. the term is nonsensical. A rebel without a rebels. Olympe de Gouges was a French society’s marginalized and despised people. After a hundred yards we cause is merely an individual with nothing playwright, humanitarian activist and femi - He fearlessly stood up for what was right came to another turn in the riv - productive to do with his time. Rather, histo - nist who most notably demanded that French and, ultimately, died for it. er. It was the farthest we had ry’s most famous rebels were champions of women be given the same rights as French During Easter, we remember how Jesus ever been. We pushed on, and as important causes and were consequently men. She was one of the originators of the died and was raised from the dead, but we we rounded the bend the ravine venerated as heroes. suffragette movement of modern times. must equally remember how he lived. Jesus opened up into a broad plain of Take Spartacus, an ancient Thracian en - All of these rebels have one thing in com - demonstrated that Christians have a respon - bulrushes. The river, divided in - slaved by the Romans and forced to be a mon. They went against the grain to stand sibility to bring justice where there is injus - to three parts, came together in - gladiator. Exasperated by the Roman mis - up for what’s right. Christianity advocates tice, to love and serve those who everyone to one channel, creating a churn - treatment of slaves, Spartacus led a fight for submission to governing authorities (Ro - else would sooner ignore. When the perpe - ing mass of water. justice and freedom in a slave rebellion mans 13:1) and, in many cultures, is the pop - trators of injustice are those in power (as is We stood there for a long against the Roman Empire later to be known ular religion to follow. Perhaps this is why often the case) we must boldly defend those while, taking it all in. We were as the Third Servile War. Ché Guevara was some rebellious youth reject it. They conve - who don’t have the strength or ability to de - content not to go any farther. another rebel so moved by the poverty he niently forget that living a Christ-like fend themselves. This was enough. witnessed in Latin America that he decided lifestyle is an act of sedition in a culture If a simple, small-town carpenter could be - I used to think nature was a to actively aid in the overthrow of the dicta - where the status quo is selfishness, greed come the greatest rebel of all time, then each stroke of luck, the product of the torships that he believed to be responsible. and sexual immorality. They forget that Je - and every one of us can be agents of great pos - earth being just the right dis - Peaceful rebels are arguably the most re - sus Christ was, in fact, a rebel. itive change, no matter who we are or where tance from the sun and all that. spected. Mohandas Gandhi is among the In one of his most well-known subversive we’re from. We need only the faith, courage But I don’t think that anymore. most famous peaceful rebels whose actions acts, Jesus cleared out the Temple in and conviction to stand up for what’s right. Only a divine presence could led to the end of the oppressive British colo - Jerusalem because he was disgusted with have created something so beau - nial rule of modern day India and Pakistan. how merchants leveraged their monopoly on Amit Parasar is a member of St. Paul on-the- tiful. I said a quiet thanks to God Martin Luther King Jr., influenced by Gand - sacrificial animals to inflate prices and ex - Hill, Pickering. as we turned for home.
ĂF TUBć BOE WPMVOUFFST BU ĂF "OHMJDBO XJTIZPVBCMFTTFE-FOUBOE&BTUFS. 6 The Anglican N E W S April 2011 Theatre Blogs attract beckons in young retirement adults The Rev. Canon Michael Burgess is the guest artistic director of Stage Centre Productions. Little Women is one of the plays performed this sea - Continued from Page 1 Priest returns to roots son. one for his second parish, St. BY CAROLYN PURDEN working in theatre, film, radio, tel - in several English parishes, he Mr. Burgess retired last year Paul’s. Although the church evision, concert halls and cabaret. came to Canada in 1982 to become and began to contemplate getting members are not young, they are MANY people view retirement as a He carried out virtually every job, chaplain and head of drama at involved in community theatre. interested in computers and the time to slow down, but for the Rev. from producer and director to Royal St. George’s College in “I’ve always loved the theatre and Internet and, he says, have be - Canon Michael Burgess, retire - dresser and usher. Toronto. His responsibilities in - I wanted to do something where I come fascinated with his blog. ment has allowed a return to the He made his first West End ap - cluded directing numerous plays could pass on that love and en - The church welcomes one or two work he first did — in the theatre. pearance in 1968. Other West End and musicals. courage it in other people,” he newcomers each month because Long before he decided to be - appearances followed; then he After leaving that position, Mr. says. of the blog, he adds. come an Anglican priest, Mr. spent two years touring with Fid - Burgess became fully immersed He knew of Stage Centre Pro - His third blog promotes the dio - Burgess (who has dropped the dler on the Roof. in church life, serving in several ductions and, while visiting their cese’s Italian ministry at St. Mary honorific “Canon”) was an actor A vocation had always been in parishes, sitting on diocesan com - website, noticed that they were Magdalene, Toronto. Once it was in London’s West End. Now, he the back of his mind, and just as mittees and acting as regional looking for volunteer board mem - up and running, Mr. Francois was has been appointed guest artistic his theatrical career began to take dean of Eglinton. In 1989, he bers. He sent in his résumé and surprised to see that many visi - director of Stage Centre Produc - off, the urge to be ordained be - staged a eucharist in the Sky - was invited to join the board. At tors to the blog live in Italy. “It tions, a highly regarded commu - came undeniable. “I became bitter Dome to celebrate the diocese’s the first meeting, the artistic di - seems to me we are more famous nity theatre group in Toronto, and and twisted about it and thought, sesquicentennial and in 2001, he rector announced his resignation. in Italy than in Toronto,” he says is planning productions for the ‘Why couldn’t God have called me scripted and narrated A Tribute And, says Mr. Burgess, “I said, with a laugh. 2011-2012 season. when I wasn’t being successful?’” to Ivor Novello for Toronto Op - ‘I’m actually far more interested His fourth blog, developed to Born in England, Mr. Burgess he says. “But part of me thought eretta Theatre. But other than in being a director than I am in be - promote the diocese’s Portuguese first appeared on stage at age sev - one day, when I retire maybe, I that, his hands-on involvement in ing a board member.’” ministry, has been picked up by en. “That’s when the theatre bug can get involved in theatre again.” theatre disappeared. The busy The job was his, and Mr. the Anglican Episcopal Church of bit me,” he recalls. When he was Theatre did not completely dis - life of a parish priest just didn’t al - Burgess says he is both excited Brazil, allowing for the exchange older, he turned professional, appear from his life. After serving low it. and terrified of the opportunity, of news and information. which will occupy him virtually The fifth blog, in English, is for full-time. “The general standard the diocese’s Ethnic Ministry of acting is very high, and I’m Committee. It produces articles thrilled at the idea of working about ethnic initiatives and multi - Postcards link community to church with such people,” he says. culturalism, and promotes the ac - He has big shoes to fill. The out - tivities of the committee and of Continued from Page 1 going artistic director, who is also the various ethnic ministries. a drop-in at a local housing com - funds.” him,” says Mr. Opheim. “What a the founder of the company, Apart from being written in plex, and a ministry to female sex He wants to sell his Easter wonderful image to have these worked in many areas, including their respective languages, the trade workers. The church is lo - painting to the highest bidder, powerful followers of Jesus be the lighting, costume and sets. ethnic blogs also have their own cated in one of the most chal - with all the proceeds going to the ones to discover that the tomb is Mr. Burgess admits that his unique content. For example, the lenged parts of the city and has a church. The picture is 102 cm by 76 empty. It says that every woman, own talents do not stretch that far. Italian blog recently posted a long history of outreach to the cm and is made of acrylic, sand, by virtue of her birth and regard - His job is to enable and encourage colour photograph of Archbishop poor and homeless. linen, paper and cloth on canvas. less of circumstance, has the hope the 70-member company and put of Canterbury Rowan Williams Mr. Opheim says the cards have The top half of the painting shows of being that close in relationship on plays, and he will look for vol - and the Pope, with a headline pro - been popular, and he invites other Jesus’ lifeless body wrapped in with God. That’s what empowers unteers to carry out the other claiming the Week of Prayer for artists to submit their work. “If linen. In the bottom half, the risen the mission that we have at All functions. Christian Unity. The Spanish blog there are others in the diocese Christ meets the two Marys as Saints.” All performances take place at headlined the parish bulletin. who would like to have their art - they run back to the disciples from For more information on the the Fairview Library Theatre, The blogs take little time to work on our postcards, I’d wel - the empty tomb. postcards or the Easter painting, close to the Fairview Mall. Tickets maintain if they are updated fre - come it,” he says. “It’s a wonderful “This is about Jesus’ love for his contact Mr. Opheim at david@all - and further information are avail - quently, and updating is impor - way to use creativity to raise friends, and about their love for saintstoronto.com. able at www.stagecentreproduc - tant, says Mr. Francois. “People tions.com. want to see the blog as fresh bread, not frozen bread.” He has found that the blogs $UFKELVKRS&UDQPHU/LWXUJLVWDQG0DUW\U have been a major attractor of 7XHVGD\HYHQLQJV 0D\ young people to church. For ex - ample, the Parroquia San Esteban &RPSOLQHIROORZV congregation welcomes three to four new young people a month )NSTRUCTOR 3CHUYLER "ROWN because of the blog, he says. In &KXUFKRIWKH*RRG6KHSKHUG some cases, new young immi - grants have found the parish :HVWRQ5G DW(JOLQWRQ through the blog even before they )RULQTXLULHVSKRQH arrive in Canada. Because of this, Mr. Francois RUHPDLOVFKX\OHUEURZQ#XWRURQWRFD encourages clergy to start their own blogs. “It increases commu - nications in a very safe way,” he says. “It’s a great opportunity to cyber-proclaim the ministry of the Gospel.” Mr. Francois is happy to help any clergy who want to start a blog. He can be reached at iglesi - ! [email protected]. His "#$%&'&%#&&" ( ))' Spanish blog can be found at www.sanestebanonline.com and *+#%)+,- . / his English blog for St. Paul’s can 01,2#2* be found at www.saintpaul-run - nymede.blogspot.com. April 2011 N E W S The Anglican 7 Seek, and ye shall find, says bishop
ration, theological reflection and Fresh missionary endeavour.” He says the church, like any or - ganization, needs to experiment expressions with things like fresh expressions in order to continue to rejuvenate are there if itself. “If the organization is to continue to be renewed, this has to happen, but with the expecta - you look tion that we have to learn from the ones that don’t bear fruit as BY STUART MANN well as from the ones that do. By doing that, we’ll find new streams BISHOP Steven Croft says fresh ex - and seams, which are really going pressions of church are happening to be powerful and fruitful and re - – you just need to know how to newing for the next generation.” look for them. The support from the inherited Bishop Croft, who is the bishop Bishop Steven Croft of the Diocese of Sheffield (left) will be the keyspoke churches is critical for this to hap - of the Diocese of Sheffield, recalls speaker at the Vital Church Planting Conference in Toronto, shown above. pen, he says. “The encouragement the time he travelled across Eng - PHOTO ABOVE BY MICHAEL HUDSON and blessing of innovation and ex - land looking at fresh expressions same principles: it was going to perimentation by pioneering peo - of church. In addition to the high- where people were; it was about are involved in sustaining existing we will denigrate the old if we’re ple is absolutely critical in that profile projects, he was surprised listening to the needs and forming congregations. They are often not careful,” he says. “We need a forward movement. So even if to find how many smaller ones community; and it was about people who may feel slightly on whole mix of things to connect what emerges in the Diocese of were flying just below the radar. birthing new disciples and nurtur - the edge themselves and are un - with society. We have 200 parish Toronto doesn’t look very much “When I got down to what was ing them within that new commu - comfortable with traditional churches in the Diocese of like fresh expressions of church happening locally on the ground, I nity.” forms of church, and want to get Sheffield and we need all of them. as it’s understood in England, that found that the same principles Bishop Croft, who will be the together with other people and Even if they were all growing, we doesn’t matter in the least. What were being worked out and the keynote speaker at the upcoming begin a new kind of congrega - would need fresh expressions of matters is that through that same questions were being Vital Church Planting Confer - tion.” church to go to those who are way process of encouraging experi - asked,” he says. “But I had to ence, May 31 to June 2, says the He says courses such as Mis - beyond the reach of the tradition - mentation and innovation in mis - change the spectacles I was wear - two grandmothers are somewhat sion Shaped Intro, which is being al church.” sion and forms of church, you be - ing to see them as fresh expres - typical of those who create fresh offered this year by the Diocese of He says it’s going to take time gin to discover the things that are sions of church.” expressions of church. Contrary Toronto, can help lay people and for fresh expressions of church to most fruitful in your context, and For example, he had a conversa - to popular belief, most of the fresh clergy learn more about creating take root in Canada and England, that will take time.” tion with two grandmothers who expressions in England are start - fresh expressions of church. If the but the work is worth it and those The Vital Church Planting Con - were angry that there were no ed and run by lay people, not cler - parish priest and a few interested who are patient will see the fruits ference, hosted by the Diocese of children in their rural congrega - gy. parishioners attend the course to - of their labour. “We’re in the in - Toronto and Wycliffe College, will be tion. So the women created a mid- “Generally speaking, they are gether, it can create a bond of fancy of building real skill and held at St. Paul, Bloor Street, on week community for children and lay people who have a real heart trust between them in the event wisdom and determination, so we May 31 to June 2. For more informa - their parents. for those who are outside the that they want to take the next need to be ready for a generation tion, visit the conference’s website at “It was a long way from being church and those who can’t relate step of actually creating a new ec - of experimentation, trial, explo - vitalchurchplanting.com/east. what anybody would recognize as to what goes on in existing clesial community, he adds. an emerging church,” he says. “It churches at the moment,” he says. Bishop Croft says it’s crucial wasn’t radical and groundbreak - “They’re not typically churchwar - that people not see fresh expres - -ARY ' 'RIFlTH "! -"! *$ ing. 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BY THE REV. JENNY ANDISON portunity to engage in these ques - tions and more in interactive ways ALBERT Einstein famously said during the Mission Shaped Intro that the definition of insanity was course. doing the same thing over and The course was held in March over again and expecting different at Trinity College with the Rev. results. Our society has changed Dr. David Neelands and John rapidly and continues to change. Bowen leading, and also at St. This is nothing new, but the speed David, Orillia, with the Revs. at which change occurs is signifi - Martha and Dan Tatarnic giving cant. How do we “be the church” leadership. in this new context? How do we You can still take the Mission tell and live the story of Jesus Shaped Intro course by register - faithfully and engagingly in our ing for the following: local parishes in new and creative • York-Scarborough East: Mon - ways? More than 220 people day nights, May 2 to June 13 across the diocese asked these (with no class on May 23) from (%!$' "+" ( # ' (%!$'%&* , sorts of questions last fall at the 7-9 p.m. at St. Andrew, Scar - # ( &, & # (%&")# # ( &, & # (%&")# # ( &, & # (%&")# Mission Shaped Intro course. borough, with the Rev. Erin .( ,-+ - ,- +&$ ' (--+ - $(",-)() Mission Shaped Intro is a six- Martin leading. week course that will help you • York-Credit Valley: Wednes - $,,$,, ." )+)(-) )+)(-) think through all the significant day nights, May 4 to June 8, at #)( #)( #)( transitions in society and look at Trinity, Streetsville, 7:30-9:30 000,-%)#(, $1$ )' 000,-% ' , -# + &)( 000,-%)#(,()+0 2)+" some practical ways that the p.m., led by the Rev. Canon church is called to respond. How Jennifer Reid. &&)!).+*+)* +-$ ,)!! + might we re-imagine church in Parish teams are strongly en - the Diocese of Toronto? How couraged to attend the course. If might we re-imagine community, you would like to register, contact worship, and discipleship in our Elizabeth McCaffrey at emccaf - &)("0$-#-# !)&&)0$(", +/$ , local parishes? What are fresh ex - [email protected]. pressions of church and should our parish have anything to do The Rev. Jenny Andison is the with them? You will have an op - Archbishop’s Officer for Mission. 8 The Anglican P A R I S H N E W S April 2011
When Bishop Philip Poole preached at St. John, West Toronto, he asked parishioners to talk to each other about their image of Jesus. The discussion brought a lot of joy, says the Rev. Gary van der Meer, incumbent. Photographer Frans Altena captured the moment.
Barrie church pays sound of laughter. He spoke to tribute to leprosy work several parishioners afterwards The clergy and congregation of and found that the image they St. Giles, Barrie, paid tribute to had of Jesus was that of teacher. World Leprosy Day with a spe - This may have been because the cial celebration on Jan. 30 that Gospel reading that day was on honoured the work and ministry the Beatitudes, he adds. A green Lent of the Leprosy Mission of Cana - After the service, Bishop Poole da. With the help of Ida Tonks, joined Mr. van der Meer and the widow of Bishop Basil Tonks and churchwardens for lunch at a lo - a long-time member of the Cana - cal Vietnamese restaurant and dian Leprosy Mission, the people encouraged them to talk about of St. Giles are now exploring what they liked about their new and creative ways of includ - parish. “Again, it was a joyful ing those with leprosy in their conversation,” recalls Mr. van outreach and mission. der Meer. “He was really effec - “Helping people with leprosy tive at getting people to share the does not require much of us,” joy they feel about leading and said Ms. Tonks. “We only need being part of parish life, and go - to follow Jesus and reach out to ing deeper to the joy they have those with leprosy through our about their faith.” A lingering care, compassion, and commit - sense of joy in the parish was a ment.” By saving and donating great blessing of Bishop Poole’s used stamps to the Leprosy Mis - visit, he says. sion of Canada, hundreds of peo - ple can be treated each day, she added. Don Mills’ honorary assistant retires After 22 years of ministry at the The Rev. Elizabeth Green, incumbent of St. Giles, Barrie, is joined by Ida Tonks, the Rev. Canon John Spears Bishop’s visit Church of the Ascension, Don (honorary assistant) and parishioners as they celebrate the work of the Leprosy Mission of Canada. brings joy Mills, the Rev. Philip Town - While preaching at St. John, shend-Carter celebrated his re - ing ministry of prayer and West Toronto, on Jan. 30, Bishop tirement on Jan. 9 with family works. He is now the church’s Philip Poole asked people to take and friends. Before being or - honorary assistant emeritus. He a moment to talk to their neigh - dained to the priesthood at Trin - also remains an oblate of the Or - bour about what image they have ity College in 1980, Mr. Town - der of the Holy Cross and is the of Jesus, and what is the primary shend-Carter had a career in in - chaplain of the Scarborough way they think of Jesus. The Rev. dustrial engineering. He contin - chapter of the Order of St. Luke. Gary van der Meer, incumbent, ued in that career while assist - noticed that some people looked ing as a priest in various dioce - up at the church windows, where ses in Alberta, British Columbia Book launch part of there were depictions of Jesus. and Ontario. In 1990, the Rev. centenary celebrations He also noticed something else. Canon Logan Varey invited him The Church of the Good Shep - “The volume of sound in - to be an honorary assistant at herd, Toronto, celebrated its creased,” he says. “There was a the Church of the Ascension, 100th anniversary on Jan. 23 lot of laughter.” He was remind - where he remained for the next with a service, a visit by Bishop ed of a Natural Church Develop - 22 years. At a luncheon on Jan. 9, Philip Poole, and the launch of The Rev. Philip Townshend-Carter cuts his cake with, from left, the Rev. ment finding which says that a many recalled the gift of Mr. the book, Story of a Parish: First Canon Prue Chambers, the Rev. Nicholas Morkel, the Rev. Marguerite Rea sign of a healthy church is the Townshend-Carter’s gentle, car - 50 Years of the Parish. and the Rev. Vernon LaFleur. April 2011 F E A T U R E S The Anglican 9 Sing, dance with joy
TH E annual celebration of black history at St. David, Lawrence Avenue, Toronto, in February is one of the highlights of the parish’s year. “This year’s theme—Journeying Together— took us beyond where we’d been before,” says the Rev. Andrew Federle, incumbent. “About 160 people engaged in call and re - sponse with a spoken word poet, sang out to K’Naan’s ‘Wavin’ Flag’ and witnessed dancers tell a story of obstacles overcome. That’s what I call church!” St. David’s was one of several churches across the diocese that celebrated the black heritage of Dancers reach to carry one of their own across the obstacle keeping her from home. The dance represented the journey from Africa to a foreign land, the Anglican Church in February. the movement of spiritual life, and the distance travelled each day and the reliance on the support of others. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON
La-Nai Gabriel sings, accompanied by a band and choir made up of St. The congregation joins hands to sing the Lord’s Prayer at the conclusion of the Kenyan Eucharistic Rite. David’s parishioners and friends, as the Rev. Andrew Federle listens. Too busy to pray? Start small
BY BRUCE WILLIAMS prayer beyond the limitations of haps the best prayer to use is the various senses also helps one to “Gradually the barrier be - time to have it permeate our en - name of Jesus, the so called Jesus keep attentive. For instance, en - tween prayer and the rest of life “ his is the end of all per - tire lives? Prayer—“Lord Jesus Christ”— gage your vision by keeping a will break down and all activities fection, that the mind ... Being attentive to God does not adding, if one wishes, a short re - small icon; engage your touch by begin to be infused with the spir - Tmay daily be elevated to mean a constant and deliberate quest such as “come quickly” or carrying a small cross or prayer it of prayer until at last the soul spiritual things until attention to God but rather a “have mercy on me.” Another beads; engage your hearing by actually does pray without ceas - one’s whole way of life and all the “quiet holding of oneself in God,” short prayer of one’s choosing listening to some sacred music ing” (F.P. Harton, The Elements yearnings of one’s heart become an almost unconscious frame of would work equally well. Repeat - such as Gregorian chant; or en - of the Spiritual Life, 1964). a single and continuous prayer” mind that orientates oneself to - ing these short prayers often and gage your smell with a little in - (John Cassian, 360-430 CE). wards God. This can be done by regularly is amazingly effective cense. All of these suggestions, if This is the first of a three- How do we do this — that is, building short periods of prayer in keeping one attentive to the done regularly and intentionally, part series on prayer by Bruce make our lives a single and con - into daily routines. The most presence of God. will help to keep prayer central Williams. Mr. Williams has or - tinuous prayer in the midst of common example of this is the A more formal period of in your life. Joining a prayer ganized and facilitated a contem - our busyness? How do we prac - grace we say before meals. Such prayer, even just a few minutes group to pray and talk together plative prayer group at St. John, tice the “presence of God” when short prayers can be said at any in the morning or before bed, with like-minded Christians is York Mills, for more than 20 we have so many everyday dis - time — on the subway, in the car makes it much easier to keep in another excellent way to keep years. This article was first pub - tractions? How do we move and between appointments. Per - the presence of God. Using the prayer part of your life. lished in St. John’s newsletter.
PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. Give it to a friend. 10 The Anglican April 2011 Church surges past campaign goal Team finds success catches on BY CAROLYN PURDEN
WHEN parishioners at St. Matthew the Apostle, Oriole, were asked to support the diocese’s new fundraising campaign, Our Faith – Our Hope: Re-Imagine Church, they achieved amazing results. They not only met their parish goal, but they exceeded it by al - most 50 per cent. St. Matthew was one of 10 parishes that participated last fall in the campaign’s pilot phase. The $50 million campaign will roll out across the diocese this year, so that by Dec. 31, every parish will have taken part. The campaign has four goals: strengthening local parishes; building the church for tomorrow; revitalizing our inheritance; and giving to others. Of the amount collected, 40 per cent will be re - turned to the parish. In addition, 75 per cent of the funds raised over the parish goal will also go to the St. Matthew’s campaign team discusses strategy. From left: Clifford Wong, Virendra Singh, Nancy Camps, the Rev. Canon Brad Lennon, Delores parish. Lawrence and Janice Sanders. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON St. Matthew’s campaign began in September and ended in mid- Asking for money is never easy paign, everyone in the church was greening the church. “It’s all elec - to sell the case for us,” he adds. It December, unfolding in different and no one liked to do it, he says. asked to make a pledge. “They trical heating, so we’re seeing was also important to have a good stages, says the Rev. Canon Brad And while some people said no, signed whether they were pledg - soaring utility costs. We want very team of people working with him Lennon, incumbent. Every parish when a person unexpectedly said ing or whether they were offering much to use some of the money to on the campaign, he says. They al - campaign will be structured into yes or made a major gift, the prayers for the campaign,” says do what we can to plug air leaks, so got strong support from the three different phases to ensure parish campaign team was uplift - Canon Lennon. which will pay off in the future in consultants who designed the Our every parishioner is invited to par - ed. “There’s a building sense of ex - He attributes the overwhelming lower costs. That was really at - Faith – Our Hope campaign for ticipate in the campaign. Parish - citement, and your successes help success of the campaign to the fact tractive to people.” A second proj - the diocese. ioners will be contacted either breed success,” he says. that 40 per cent of the money ect will be to make the church’s Finally, he says, the key is for through personal visits by parish The final phase of the campaign pledged will return to St. lower hall, which is used as pro - the incumbent to be personally volunteers or by phone calls. took place in church over two Sun - Matthew’s. His church has a very gram space, accessible. committed to the campaign. “The Canon Lennon says this was a days. To avoid singling out those good case for support, he says. “The projects are very local, vision for the diocese is an excit - rewarding part of the campaign. who were not supporting the cam - Part of the money will go toward very basic, but I think that helped ing one,” he says. Video on Our Faith - Our Hope strengthens local parishes the web Our Faith – Our Hope: Re-Imag - make their facilities more con - to the campaign in each parish – funds raised over their goal. FOR all the information and a ine Church has four goals: to ducive to worship and education, up to its goal – will be returned to Because of this rebate feature video by Archbishop Colin John - strengthen local parishes; to build to provide easier access for the the parish to meet the needs it of the campaign, the parishes in son on Our Faith – Our Hope: Re- the church for tomorrow; to revi - elderly and disabled, or to create has identified. In addition, each the pilot phase could realize more Imagine Church, visit www.toron - talize our inheritance; and to give the capacity for new outreach parish that exceeds its campaign than $1 million to help meet the to.anglican.ca/ourfaithourhope. to others. The first goal, strength - ministries. Others are eager to ex - goal will receive 75 per cent of needs they have identified. ening local parishes, seeks to pand children’s pro - raise $17 million for parish needs. grams and youth ministry, update Pilot phase Anglicans experience faith most technology, or hire immediately in the local parish, needed staff. Too of - which is the centre of community ten parishes lack surpasses goal and sacramental life. Here we the funds to imple - worship God, celebrate important ment important ini - THE 10 pilot parishes in the Our events in our lives, build friend - tiatives like these. Faith – Our Hope campaign collec - ships, form our children in faith, A primary objec - tively surpassed the pilot phase and provide for those in need. Vi - tive of this cam - goal. The pilot parishes pledged brant parishes make disciples paign will be to more than $2.5 million from 698 and proclaim the mission of strengthen parish - gifts – 103 per cent of the goal. In Christ to the world. es financially, in total, the efforts of everyone in - Because healthy parish life is unison with the volved in the campaign have central to the mission of the Dio - diocesan effort. raised more than $7.5 million (as cese of Toronto, the largest por - Each parish will be of March 4, 2011) towards the cam - tion of Our Faith – Our Hope asked to raise funds paign goal of $50 million. Arch - monies will be allocated directly for its own identi - bishop Colin Johnson thanks the for parish needs. fied, specific needs. 847 families who have supported Every parish has needs. Some Forty per cent of the effort so far. require repairs or renovations to funds contributed TO ADVERTISE IN THE ANGLICAN CALL 905.833.6200 X25 April 2011 N E W S The Anglican 11 Dear Mr. Harper, Others oppose More jails not prison the answer, write bishops plan February 9, 2011 THE diocese’s bishops aren’t the only ones who are opposed to the The Right Honourable Stephen federal government’s plans for Harper, P.C., M.P. more prisons and longer jail Prime Minister of Canada terms (see their letter to the 80 Wellington Street Prime Minister on this page). Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2 “Our Lord departed this earth as a disgraced criminal, sen - Dear Mr. Harper, tenced to death,” notes the Rev. Catherine Barley, incumbent of St. Our diocese, which represents Mark, Midland. “Surely this 300,000 Anglicans in southern should give Christians pause be - Ontario, is committed to build - fore jumping on the bandwagon to ing communities of compassion condemn increasing numbers of and hope through nurturing our brothers and sisters who have healthy, vibrant congregations. A concerned citizen airs her views at the Prisoners’ Justice Day at Holy Trinity, Trinity Square, Toronto, last Au - not been convicted of violent We are deeply concerned that in gust. The annual event honours the memory of those who have died in prison and expresses solidarity with crimes and sending them to a time of economic downturn those seeking humanitarian changes to the criminal justice system. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON prison.” the government is proposing to Garry Glowacki, executive di - build more prisons rather than first requires us to isolate and bail options, reporting centres, developing relationships that al - rector of The Bridge, a Brampton fund lower cost alternatives that separate the offender from the practical assistance, supportive low spiritual healing to begin, ministry to inmates, cautioned enhance community health and rest of us. That separation housing, and programs that pro - while holding the men fully ac - against trying to find simplistic build restorative relationships makes what happens later easi - mote accountability, respect and countable for their actions. More answers to complex problems. and stability. er to ignore: by increasing the reparation have proven to be the than 70 inmates participate in a “While the issues of dealing with Proposed new federal laws number of people in jail for same or better in terms of re-of - support group. When OCI won offenders and ex-offenders are will ensure that more Canadians lengthier sentences, you are de - fence rates, at a fraction of the an award as the Number One both complex and emotional, the are sent to prison for longer pe - creasing their chance of success cost and with much less human treatment centre in North solutions must go far beyond the riods, a strategy that has been upon release into the communi - damage. These programs are America, The Bridge was sin - fearful and angry gut responses repeatedly proven neither to re - ty. well-established but are fre - gled out for praise. to simply punish,” he says. “If duce crime nor to assist victims. The vision of justice we find in quently underfunded. Your pro - Public safety is enhanced prisons do not in fact ‘correct’ Your policy is applying a costly Scripture is profoundly and rad - posed changes to the system through healthy communities anything or anyone, then why prison response to people in - ically different from that which seem to ignore the notion of the that support individuals and would a longer and harsher sen - volved in the courts who are your government is proposing. offender ever having paid his or families. We, therefore, respect - tence be better? (The person) will non-violent offenders, or repeat Thus we are confused by your her debt to society. They threat - fully ask you to modify your eventually return, but only offenders who are mentally ill response. We are called to be a en to impose a lifetime sentence government’s policy as you take worse.” and/or addicted. Most of these people in relationship with each of continuing punishment, ei - into consideration the impact In their letter, the bishops point individuals are not classified as other in spite of our conflicts ther economic or social. the proposals will have on the to The Bridge as an example of the high risk. These offenders are and sins, and, with the ingen - We as Anglicans have chosen most disadvantaged, their lack approach they support. The disproportionately poor, ill- ious creativity of God’s Spirit, to to take a more compassionate of proven effectiveness, and the Bridge’s program helps inmates equipped to learn, and from the find our way back into covenant and pro-active approach by sup - serious budgetary implications. rebuild their lives while holding most disadvantaged and margin - community. How can that be if porting a successful program We look forward to your re - them accountable for their ac - alized groups. They require we automatically exclude and that fosters healing and commu - sponse to our concerns. tions. It has won praise for its suc - treatment, health services, edu - cut ourselves off from all those nity-building. The Bridge prison cessful work. cational, employment and hous - we label “criminal?” ministry, based in Brampton, Yours sincerely, “The Bridge’s hands-on work in ing interventions — all less ex - A policy of increased levels of Ontario, helps inmates at the re-integrating offenders safely in - pensive and more humane than incarceration for marginalized Ontario Correctional Institute The Most Rev. Colin Johnson to the community proves that incarceration. people is counter-productive (OCI) rebuild their broken lives, The Rt. Rev. George Elliott community support and on-going The Canadian government and undermines human dignity with support continuing post-in - The Rt. Rev. Linda Nicholls programming is more effective has regrettably embraced a be - in our society. By contrast, well carceration. Volunteers are The Rt. Rev. Philip Poole and safer than increasing their in - lief in punishment-for-crime that supervised probation or release, matched with incarcerated men, The Rt. Rev. Patrick Yu carceration,” says Mr. Glowacki. Vestries vote for healthy food supplement
BY MURRAY MACADAM diet for three or more days last Canadian poverty reduction fall. Almost all who did so com - plan. AS the Ontario government final - mented on the negative health • Parishioners and friends of izes its 2011 budget, Anglicans impacts and isolation that they St. Barnabas, Chester, gath - have become one of the most ac - experienced. ered 72 valentines which were tive groups in the province calling The campaign has sparked a given to Ontario Finance Min - for action to help the poorest variety of actions in parishes ister Dwight Duncan at members of society. across the diocese: Queen’s Park on Feb. 14. The More than 80 parishes, repre - • Members of the parish of valentines included mes - senting over 30,000 Anglicans, ap - Georgina made a video about sages for action against proved a motion at their vestry their experience on the food - hunger. that urges the government to im - bank diet and spoke in favour • Anglicans held several meet - mediately introduce a $100 per of the food supplement. ings with MPPs such as month Healthy Food Supplement • St. Stephen, Downsview, in - Garfield Dunlop in Orillia and for all adults on social assistance cluded a presentation on the Jeff Leal in Peterborough. so they can afford more nutri - diocese’s advocacy work Another delegation met with tious food. Valentine’s Day cards (front and back shown above) sent by St. Barnabas, when it debated the motion at Ontario’s Minister of Chil - This campaign, called Put Food Chester, urge Finance Minister Dwight Duncan to “put food in the budget.” its vestry on Feb. 20. Their dren and Youth Services Lau - in the Budget, grows out of the motion was adapted to call on rel Broten, who is also chair concern that people living on so - live with dignity. A single person Support for the food supple - the federal government to en - of the government’s Cabinet cial assistance simply cannot af - on social assistance receives only ment increased after 400 Angli - dorse and act upon a recent Committee on Poverty Reduc - ford to eat a healthy diet and to $585 per month for their needs. cans lived on a typical foodbank all-party study calling for a tion. 12 The Anglican April 2011 FaithWorks thanks donors
FaithWorks, the diocese’s annual appeal, would like to offer a special thanks to all the parishes, individuals and corporate donors who gave $1,508,500 in 2010 for community ministries and FaithWorks partners. Here are some of the highlights of the 2010 campaign: Notable parish achievement
First time participants • Church of South India, Toronto • Good Shepherd, Wyebridge • St. James, Fenelon Falls • St. John, Cookstown • St. Matthew, First Avenue • St. Olave, Swansea • St. Peter, Churchill • St. Thomas, Huron Street
Leading parishes by amount raised Young people enjoy a day at The Dam, a ministry to at-risk youth in Mississauga. • Redeemer, Bloor Street - $31,898 • St. John, York Mills - $30,060 Parishes that increased total giving to Small acts • St. James, Orillia - $24,539 FaithWorks by 100 per cent or more • Grace Church on-the-Hill - $24,130 • All Saints, Kingsway - $19,844 • St. Paul, Bloor Street make the • Grace Church, Markham - $19,076 • Trinity East • St. Peter, Erindale - $18,786 • St. Paul, Lorne Park • St. Martin in-the- Fields - $18,699 • St. Bede difference • St. James Cathedral - $17,759 • St. Mary, Richmond Hill • St. Martin, Bay Ridges - $17,344 • St. James, Orillia 2010 was a year in which the • St. Mark, Port Hope - $17,298 • San Lorenzo, Dufferin natural disasters in Haiti and • St. Thomas a Becket - $16,276 • St. John the Baptist, Lakefield Pakistan were amplified by hu - • St. George on-the-Hill - $15,000 man irresponsibility for the • St. John the Evangelist, Peterborough - $13,985 Greatest year-over-year increase earth and its peoples. However, • St. Timothy, Agincourt - $12,954 it was also a year in which a • Incarnation - $12,579 • St. James, Orillia - $24,539 (up $13,236 from 2009) tremendous debt of gratitude is • Christ Church, Brampton - $11,256 owed for the immediate and gen - • St. Hilda, Fairbank - $11,158 Deanery with the greatest number of erous response from Canadian • All Saints, Peterborough - $11,127 Anglicans, as donors, volun - congregations that increased their giving in 2010 teers, and parish and diocesan Leading parishes by proportion to annual • Toronto East – 9 out of 10 staff gave hope and encourage - ment to the staff and partners of offertory Participating congregations the Primate’s World Relief and • St. Mark, Port Hope – 14.05 per cent Development Fund. Working to - • St. Martin, Bay Ridges – 13.6 per cent • 202 gether is both an urgent need • St. Saviour, Orono – 11.63 per cent and a complex grace as we seek • St. Columba & All Hallows – 11.25 per cent Number of which increased giving in 2010 over 2009 a common good. It is the small • Incarnation – 9.56 per cent acts of faith, compassion, and • St. Martin in-the-Fields – 9.26 per cent • 124 or 61.39 per cent justice that transform our world. • Wycliffe, Elmvale – 9.11 per cent Adele Finney • Christ Church, Batteau – 8.2 per cent Executive Director • St. Hilda, Fairbanks – 8.1 per cent Top corporate donors PWRDF, Toronto • St. John, Cookstown – 8.06 per cent
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BY CAROLYN PURDEN Wendy Passmore, who has done considerable work in other re - IT is just over a year since St. An - treat house settings, to do this. drew, Alliston, opened its former Ms. McArthur says she is rectory as the Retreat House and thrilled to have her at St. Andrew. Healing Centre. In that time, it has “She’s a wonderful spiritual pres - become a place where people, ence and we’re quite excited many of them non-churchgoers, about our future together.” gather for healing, friendship and Ms. Passmore is equally pleased. reflection. “I’m just so excited about the con - The Rev. Kim McArthur, incum - gregation seeing this as their min - bent, spends many hours there, istry to the world and to the people talking to those whose loved ones who are going to come,” she says. have died and planning the funer - She generally works one day a als. “We sit and talk about their week at the retreat house, setting Andrew Weeks will be sharing his tips on practical evangelism in May. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON loved one’s life for hours, and we up programs, such as a Lenten put something together that is go - workshop entitled Retreat in Daily ing to celebrate who their loved Life that is being offered every one was,” she says. “Through that Wednesday for six weeks. Later Magnetic Church returns time, healing starts.” this spring, there will be a work - She says the retreat house is a shop on how St. Francis of Assisi warm, welcoming place, and for speaks to our daily life. non-churchgoers, it is less intimi - Ms. Passmore plans to put on dating than the church or church six workshops a year and to hold Popular workshop on evangelism set for May office would be. six to 10 one-day retreats. A re - The congregation has enthusi - cent retreat, held just before ANDREW Weeks, a lay evangelist lenge and encourage people to ex - you can start to implement imme - astically welcomed this new min - Valentine’s Day, was entitled Lis - and inspiring speaker, will be re - plore opportunities, leaving aside diately,” he says. istry on its doorstep. Parishioners tening to the Heart, and focused turning to the diocese on May 13- the old shoulds, musts and Churches are encouraged to have renovated the old rectory, on listening to the heart of God, to 14 to present The Magnetic oughts. I will review the pitfalls, send several members who have donated furnishings for it and one’s own heart and to the heart Church, a non-confrontational, frustrations and misdirection that many different interests – com - looked after the lawns and of the other. In all, 14 people practical way of evangelism to I have seen, and then offer in - munications, property, hospitali - flowerbeds. signed up for it, about half of them help churches attract and retain sights on how each one of us can ty, finance, greeters – so that they The house is used by several from outside the parish. new members. The conference move forward.” may return home in more effec - groups, including the lay readers Ms. Passmore also has a private will be held at St. Timothy, Agin - On the Saturday, he will lead tive teams. and lay pastoral visitors. A Life practice in spiritual direction, court, and is sponsored by the the following sessions: “Present - The registration fee for the and Scripture group also meets working a lot with clergy of all de - Scarborough Deanery and the ing your church to the public event is $40, which includes there to study the readings for the nominations, and will offer spiri - diocese. (signs, property and media);” lunch. Each participant will re - upcoming Sunday. Membership tual direction to clergy or laity On the Friday evening, Mr. “Managing new member ministry ceive a 44-page handout guide includes people from other de - who request it. Weeks will help people overcome processes;” and two sessions and churches will be given a re - nominations who welcome this The retreat house will become the negative images of evangel - which include the workshops source package. For more infor - opportunity to reflect. “a presence of hospitality” for cler - ism that they may have. “I will in - “The ministry of greeting” and mation, contact Elizabeth McCaf - From Tuesday to Thursday, gy, she says. The upstairs of the vite people into new creative min - “Communications/internal me - frey at 416-363-6021 or 1-800-668- people from the community come house has been made into a sanc - istries, not urge them to take on dia.” “From these sessions, you 8932, ext. 225, or email her at em - to the retreat house to enjoy soup tuary. There, those in ministry can more tasks,” he says. “I will chal - will get scores of practical ideas [email protected]. and baked goods in the café. Some find a quiet oasis where they can are widows and widowers and, step out of the busyness of their says Ms. McArthur, the conversa - world and read, write and pray. tion flows easily among the bistro- The retreat house is not yet be - style tables. ing used as much as it could be, Cathedral hosts unity service But a central part of the house says Ms. Passmore, and promo - has still to be put in place, and Ms. tion is important. An open house McArthur has contracted with is planned for the spring. THE representatives of more than church. unity.” 20 denominations attended a This was the theme picked up Bishop McGrattan spoke about service at St. James’ Cathedral on by Bishop William McGrattan, the ecumenical dialogues, Jan. 23, celebrating the Week of auxiliary bishop of the Roman through which great strides have Prayer for Christian Unity. Wel - Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto, been made to overcome preju - coming them, Dean Douglas in his sermon. He compared the dice. They are a sign of deeper Stoute invited all “to pray with Week of Prayer for Christian Uni - and more trusting relationships, each other, for each other and to ty to a lighthouse that provides a he said, and those engaged in increasingly recognize the unity reference point to which we can them have benefited from reflect - we have in Christ.” orient ourselves. ing on their own beliefs. The Week of Prayer for Chris - He referred to a passage from Dialogues do not mean giving tian Unity began in 1894. This Isaiah, read by the Rev. Cheryle something up, Bishop McGrattan year, the call for unity came from Hanna of Yorkminster Baptist said. Rather, they lead to the the church in Jerusalem. In its Church. The prophet talks of the growth and enrichment of all our message to the world’s churches, need for conversion and purifica - traditions. “The needs of our - it called all Christians to redis - tion, he said. The purpose for selves and others must give way cover the values that bound to - Christians is to open their lives to the proclamation of truth,” he gether the early Christian com - more fully to God’s forgiveness added. munity in Jerusalem, and to and outpouring of the spirit. We must continue to talk to make the week an occasion for a The church has always endeav - each other and pray, he said. Ec - renewed commitment to work for oured to preach the message of umenism challenges us, and our St. Andrew’s Retreat House and Healing Centre is an oasis for people a genuine ecumenism, grounded purification and renewal, he divisions challenge the credibili - from all walks of life. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON in the experience of the early added. “This is the path toward ty of our witness to the world. 14 The Anglican L O O K I N G A H E A D April 2011
children of all ages, at 4 p.m. For LOOKING AHEAD more details, call 416-769-5686 or visit www.stolaves.ca.
To submit items for Looking Retreats/ Educational/ Ahead, email hpaukov@toron - Meetings to.anglican.ca. The deadline for the May issue is April 1; for the MARCH 13-APR. 10 – St. Barn - June issue, it’s May 1. Parishes abas, Chester, in Toronto, invites can also promote their events on all to its Lenten series “Behind the diocese’s website. Visit www. the veil: A look at the veil from a toronto.anglican.ca, click Calen - cultural, biblical and historic per - dar, then click Submit an Event. spective,” which follows the 10:30 a.m. Sunday service and begins Services with a light lunch. Donations wel - come. Call 416-463-1344 or visit MARCH 30, APR. 6, 13 – Even - www.stbarnabas-toronto.com. song for Lent at St. Olave, APR. 29, 30, MAY 1 – Aware Pe - AMAZING Swansea, at 6 p.m., followed by terborough, a women’s retreat, Nora Williams and Philip Ston - light supper and the Lenten Se - will be held at Elim Lodge and will house perform in Joseph and the ries “The Middle East: Then and feature speaker Sheila Wray-Gre - Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat Now” with the Rev. David Bur - goire. Her topic will be Grace. on Feb. 12 at St. Peter, Erindale. At rows. March 30: Capernaum, April Come for a weekend of spiritual right, Mr. Stonhouse, playing 6: Jerusalem, April 13: What does growth, worshipful music, fun and Joseph, and David Patterson, it all mean? Contributions appre - fellowship. To pre-register, visit playing Elvis, sing a duet. The mu - ciated. For more details, call 416- www.awarepeterborough.com. sical captures the life of Joseph in 769-5686 or visit www.stolaves.ca. For more information, contact the Old Testament in a humorous APR. 3 – Propitiation will go on its Linda Finigan at blfinigan@ way. The cast ranged in ages from annual visit to the Church of the rogers.com or 905-668-4969. six to 24. The musical fostered Good Shepherd, Weston, to attend MAY 14 – The Anglican Church connections with nearby Erindale the 10:30 a.m. Choral Eucharist Women of the Diocese of Toronto Secondary School, where some (BCP). After the service, the will hold its Annual General actors and sound and lighting group will visit the parish’s coffee Meeting at St. George Memorial, technicians were recruited. About hour and go out for brunch. The Oshawa, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 220 people attended. PHOTOS BY church is located at the corner of p.m. The keynote speaker will be MICHAEL HUDSON Weston Rd. and Eglinton Ave. W. Marian Timmermans. Tickets are Carpooling is necessary and rides $25 per person. For further infor - until noon. Bargains galore, in - MAY 7 – Spring Fair at St. Cuth - Visit www.stjohnsyorkmills.com from downtown can be arranged mation, call 416-363-0018 or email cluding clothing for all sizes, bert, Leaside, 1399 Bayview Ave., or call 416-225-6611. by calling Peter at 416-977-4359. [email protected]. linens, household goods and Toronto, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Featur - All welcome. Propitiation is a fel - small appliances, books, toys, ing art gallery, books, crafts, Music lowship for gay and lesbian Angli - Social and more. Call 905-294-3184. jewellery, kitchenware, knitting, cans and friends who prefer the APR. 9 – Holy Trinity, Thornhill, odds & ends, sewing, stamps, APRIL 7, 14, 28 & MAY 5 – Book of Common Prayer. MAY 6 & 7 – Join St. Theodore of 140 Brooke St. (Yonge St. & Cen - toys, and treasures. Barbecue on Lunchtime Chamber Music, APR. 10 – St. Timothy’s, Agin - Canterbury for a unique dining tre St.), will hold its Spring Rum - the green and snack kiosk. Free Thursdays at 12:10 p.m. at Christ court, celebrates its first 100 experience at Monks’ Cell, in a mage Sale from 9 a.m. until 12 activities for the children. For Church, Deer Park, 1570 Yonge years of witness and service in mediaeval setting reminiscent of noon. A large selection of further information, call the St., Toronto. Admission free; do - Scarborough. Friends and for - a monastery refectory. Seating clothes, household items, linens, church office at 416-485-0329. nations welcome. For more infor - mer members are invited to join available Friday night 6 p.m. to books, games, toys, jewellery mation, visit the music page of in at the 11 a.m. service and 10 p.m. and Saturday night 5 p.m. and much more will be available Film the church’s website, at luncheon after. For more infor - to 10 p.m. For reservations, call at great prices. For more infor - www.christchurchdeerpark.org. mation and tickets for the off- 416-222-6198 or email monks - mation, call 905-889-5931. APR. 1, 8, 15 – The Gays, Lesbians APR. 8 – Christ Church Cathedral site luncheon, contact the [email protected]. APR. 9 – Spring Rummage Sale at and Friends Group of St. James Choir from Oxford will perform at church office at 416-293-5711 or Christ Church, Deer Park, in Cathedral will offer a Lenten Se - Grace Church on-the-Hill in [email protected]. Sales Toronto, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ries of documentary films. April 1, Toronto at 7:30 p.m. as part of its APR. 21-24 – Join St. Barnabas, Women’s and children’s clothing Gendernauts; April 8, Off and five-city North American tour. Chester, in Toronto, this Easter. APR. 2 – Spring Rummage Sale at and accessories, shoes, jewellery, Running; April 15, Merton, a film The Grace Church Choir of Gen - Apr. 21, Maundy Thursday Serv - St. Olave, Swansea, 360 Winder - housewares, toys, linens, designer biography. The screenings will tlemen and Boys will be joining ice, 7 p.m.; Apr. 22, Good Friday mere Ave., Toronto, from 9:30 a.m. clothing. Call 416-920-5211 or visit take place at 6:30 p.m. in the the Oxford choir during the con - Progressive Service with Stations until 12 noon. Clothing, linens, www.thereslifehere.org. boardroom at the cathedral of - cert. Tickets are available of the Cross beginning at 10 a.m. kitchen items, boutique items, APR. 16 – Annual Spring Craft fices at 152 King St. E., Toronto. through Grace Church; call 416- on Danforth Ave. at Eastminster jewellery, crafts, Christmas items, Sale and Tea Room at St. Dun - For more information, call Steve 488-7884, ext. 333. Tickets are $30 United, and ending at Riverdale books, toys, games, puzzles, and stan of Canterbury, 56 Lawson at 416-429-0557. All are welcome. for adults; $20 for seniors/stu - Presbyterian Church; also on Apr. so much more. All proceeds go to Rd., Scarborough, from 9 a.m. to APR. 2 – Silent Film at St. John, dents. For more information 22, Prayers and Reflection Service causes supported by the Anglican 2 p.m. Crafts, attic treasures, York Mills, 19 Don Ridge Dr., about the Christ Church Cathe - at 2 p.m.; Apr. 24, Easter Celebra - Church Women. For more details, baking and jewellery. For more Toronto, at 7:30 p.m. The Son of dral Choir of Oxford tour and con - tion Service at 10:30 a.m. For more call 416-769-5686 or visit information, call 416-283-1844. Sheik is a 1926 drama starring cert repertoire, go to information, call 416-463-1344 or www.stolaves.ca. APR. 30 – Spring Garage Sale, St. Rudolph Valentino. Live organ www.usa2011.chchchoir.org/grace www.stbarnabas-toronto.com. APR. 9 – Grace Church, Augustine of Canterbury (Broad - music by internationally -church-toronto-details/. APR. 23 – Children’s Easter Eve Markham, 19 Parkway Ave., will view and Bayview Ave.), 8 a.m. renowned accompanist Bill APR. 22 – All Saints, Kingsway, Service at St. Olave, Swansea, hold its famous semi-annual to 11 a.m. Cafe and boutique O’Meara. Admission free, dona - invites all to a Good Friday reflec - with music and performances, for Rummage Sale from 8:30 a.m. treasures. tions appreciated for charity. Continued on Page 15 Bishop Nicholls appointed to international commission
BY CAROLYN PURDEN church as communion: local and istries and also issues of authori - communion with each other,” she universal, and how the commun - ty. says. “It’s not necessarily about BISHOP Linda Nicholls, the area ion in the local and universal She is particularly interested in seeking to be unified with one an - bishop of Trent-Durham, has been church comes to discern right eth - the topic about the discernment of other, for one to be absorbed into appointed to the third phase of the ical teaching. ethical issues. “I did a doctor of the other. And the way to work to - Anglican-Roman Catholic Inter - Bishop Nicholls describes the ministry and the focus was on ward that is through ongoing dia - national Commission. The com - appointment to ARCIC III as how we sustain unity at the eu - logue.” mission will start its meetings in “kind of overwhelming. I’m very charistic table when we differ on Bishop Nicholls says she hopes northern Italy in May. honored and a little bit intimidat - moral issues,” she says. that Anglicans in the diocese will ARCIC is the official dialogue ed,” she says. Although the Roman Catholic pray for the commission’s work. between the Anglican Commun - She brings to the dialogue an Church strongly opposes women’s She also hopes that the dialogue ion and the Roman Catholic extensive background in Angli - ordination, Bishop Nicholls says will not only occur at the interna - Church that has been taking place can-Roman Catholic dialogue. For the ARCIC dialogues are impor - tional level but at the parish level. over the past 40 years. ARCIC I Bishop Linda Nicholls nine years, in the late 1980s and tant for gaining a deeper under - Her own ecumenical experience and II looked at issues such as au - early ’90s, she served on the Cana - standing of each other. “I would in a parish, she says, led to fruitful thority, eucharistic doctrine, and sus. ARCIC III will consider fun - dian Anglican-Roman Catholic di - hope we can move toward a point partnerships, shared worship and the role of Mary, the mother of Je - damental questions regarding the alogue, discussing women’s min - where we might be able to be in a joint voice in local issues. April 2011 A n g l i c a n C l a s s i f i e d s 15
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Paul is often called the Queen of the and works by Whitacre and Da - Erindale, with director of music vites you to Musicfest 2011, a fun- returned to Ephesus during his Epistles. It is Paul’s treatise on ley. Performers include Shawn Clement Carelse, performs filled concert for all ages, taking third journey and spent almost the Christian church, setting Grenke, conductor; Margaret Bar - Solemn Vespers, Mozart, with or - place at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. An three years there, his longest so - forth God’s eternal purpose, dos, mezzo-soprano; All Saints’ chestra. The concert takes place amazing mix of English Hand - journ in any one spot during his which was to create through Je - Choir and the Kingsway Choral at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20, available bells, percussion, guitars, sax, pi - missionary travels (Acts 20:31). sus Christ a new society that Society. Tickets are $20. Contact by calling Ginny Arnott-Wood at ano and voices. Tickets are $15 In Ephesus, Paul taught the stood out against the sombre en - Sarah Hastie at 416-233-1125 or of - 905-897-5502 or the church office for adults, $5 for children. Call Christian faith daily in the lec - vironment of the old pagan [email protected]. at 905-828-2095. 416-225-6611. ture hall of Tyrannus, a local world. This new society was a school of philosophy. place of unity, life and reconcilia - The Epistle to the Ephesians is tion, in place of division and IN MOTION • Emmanuel, Richvale Hill. a controversial document. Some alienation; a place of love and • Trinity, Barrie modern scholars question its au - peace, not hatred and strife. • Craighurst & Midhurst Retirement thorship, claiming it was proba - This treatise focused on what Appointments • The Rev. Ronald Scott has an - bly written by a follower of Paul, God had done through Jesus • The Rev. Janet Mitchell, Asso - Second Phase - Parish nounced his retirement. His sometime after the apostle’s Christ, and it reminds us still of ciate Priest, Trinity, Barrie, Selection Committee Receiving last Sunday in the Parish of St. death. It has no personal refer - what He continues to do through Feb. 1. Names (via Area Bishop): Margaret in-the-Pines, West ences, which would seem his Holy Spirit today, in building • none Hill, Toronto, will be Easter strange as Paul was in Ephesus a new society, a society of recon - Vacant Incumbencies Day, April 24. for almost three years. Also, the ciliation between God and His Clergy from outside the diocese Third Phase - Parish Selection style is somewhat different from people and among one another. with the permission of their bish - Committee Interviewing Conclusions Paul’s other epistles. However, I We are new creatures in Jesus op may apply through the Ven. (not receiving names): • The Rev. Canon Brian McVitty am inclined to feel that early Christ, united to him in love. We Peter Fenty. • St. Cyprian has voluntarily relinquished church fathers had got it right. I show what God has done for us • St. Monica his ministry in the Anglican think the original Epistle to the by our love in our everyday be - First Phase - Parish Selection • St. Philip on-the-Hill, Church of Canada, as of Feb. 1. Ephesians was written by Paul haviour, by our mutual compli - Committee in Formation Unionville • The Rev. Susan Tate has re - during his house-arrest in Rome ance and care in our relation - (not yet receiving names): • Parish of the Evangelists signed as Honorary Assistant around 62 CE, and is one of his ships at home, and by our firm - • Hastings & Roseneath • Holy Trinity, Thornhill in the Parish of Fenelon Falls prison letters. ness in our fight against the • St. Thomas, Millbrook and Coboconk, as of Feb. 16. Actually, it was not a letter but powers of evil in the world. The • Parish of Perrytown Ordination • The Rev. Canon Christian a tract meant to be circulated to fullness of God’s purpose is only • St. Joseph of Nazareth, • The Rev. David Turner was or - Swayne OHC concluded his the churches in Asia. If you look brought to perfection under the Bramalea dained a priest on March 26 at ministry at St. Stephen-in-the- at an ancient map, you will see headship of Christ in the com - • Christ Church, Deer Park St. Christopher, Richmond Fields, Toronto, on March 6. that the churches in Asia form a munity of His church. circle, with Ephesus as the sea - The Epistle to the Ephesians port of entry (see Revelation 2). was Paul’s great treatise about PRAYER CYCLE 8. St. John, Waverley 20. Emmanuel, Richvale The Epistle to the Ephesians was the Christian church, providing 9. Ingles House (LOFT) 21. Grace Church, Markham a circular tract meant to be read insights into the first-century FOR MAY 2011 10. St. Luke, Price's Corners 22. Anglican Appeal in the various churches, proba - Christian understanding about 1. Diocese's Social Justice and Advocacy 11. St. Mark, Midland 23. Holy Trinity, Thornhill bly ending up in Ephesus, and the community of God gathered Department 12. St. Matthias, Coldwater 24. St. John the Baptist, Oak Ridges thus was ascribed to that branch together in life and worship. It is 2. McEwan Housing and Support Services 13. St. Paul, Washago 25. St. Mary, Richmond Hill of the church. a tract worthy of our under - (LOFT) 14. Wycliffe Church, Elmvale 26. St. Philip on-the-Hill The Epistle to the Ephesians standing and study. Enjoy the di - 3. St. Athanasius, Orillia 15. York Central Deanery 27. Ecuhome was written about the same time alogue. 4. St. George, Fairvalley 16. Citizens for Public Justice 28. Diocese's Environmental Working Group as Paul wrote to the Colossians. 5. New curates of the Diocese of Toronto 17. All Saints, Markham 29. St. George House Paul mentioned the same couri - The Rev. Canon Don Beatty is an 6. St. James, Orillia 18. Christ Church, Stouffville 30. Diocese's Mission-Shaped Intro courses er, Tychicus, in both letters. The honorary assistant at St. Luke, 7. St. John, Matchedash 19. Christ Church, Woodbridge 31. Christ Church, Deer Park Epistle to the Ephesians appears Dixie South, Mississauga. 16 The Anglican N E W S April 2011 Anglicans lead food rally Trio takes ashes to Finance passersby minister BY CAROLYN PURDEN meets bishop IN a city and an area—Dundas BY STAFF Square—where unusual sights are common, the sight of three people DESPITE persistent rain, Angli - putting ash on the foreheads of cans from a dozen parishes from passersby seemed to be an every - as far away as Bolton gathered day event. But for Holy Trinity, outside Ontario Finance Minister Trinity Square, it was a unique Dwight Duncan’s Queen’s Park way of taking the church out into office on March 10 to urge the the streets of Toronto. government to put a $100 per At 1 p.m. on Ash Wednesday, month Healthy Food Supplement the Rev. Sherman Hesselgrave, in - for social assistance recipients in cumbent, and the Rev. Nola Crewe its coming budget. (garbed in their vestments and Anglicans comprised about purple stoles), accompanied by half of the 150 people at the rally. student Wendy Telfer, left the Others included low-income peo - church in the falling snow to offer ple, anti-poverty advocates and the imposition of ashes to anyone members of other denominations who desired them. and faith groups. The rally was Armed with small containers of preceded by extensive coverage ashes from the palm fronds in the Toronto Star and other me - burned at the 2010 Palm Sunday dia. liturgy, the three walked from Minutes before the rally was Trinity Square to Dundas Street, due to start, keynote speaker The diocese’s Murray MacAdam and Bishop Linda Nicholls are joined by Anglicans and supporters outside Fi - down Yonge Street to Queen Bishop Linda Nicholls was told nance Minister Dwight Duncan's office. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON Street, then up James Street to the she could meet privately with Mr. church. As they went, they called Duncan. The bishop, joined by the out, “Ashes for Ash Wednesday.” diocese’s Social Justice and Advo - times as much income as the bot - here to speak up for those who do tario’s children from poverty by In the half-hour they were out, cacy consultant, Murray tom 10 per cent, the government not fast by choice, but find them - 2013. says Mr. Hesselgrave, they im - MacAdam, told Mr. Duncan that cannot share to help those at the selves forced to fast by the lack of Rally participants also heard posed ashes on at least 30 people, Christian love of neighbour in - bottom. Mr. Duncan replied by resources to feed themselves or from two people directly affected including a couple driving an SUV spires Anglican action on the saying that the government has their family — a painful reality, by the issue. Tracy Mead survives down Yonge Street. hunger issue. She underscored cut taxes through the Harmo - not a spiritual discipline.” on a social assistance income of The crowd reaction was inter - how the hunger situation is wors - nized Sales Tax (HST), with re - She noted that 80 parishes $592 per month. She’s active in esting, Mr. Hesselgrave says. As ening, and that she got a sense of bates for low-income people, and across the diocese, representing the Put Food in the Budget coali - expected, some people avoided it herself by going on a foodbank that 90,000 low-income earners 30,000 Anglicans, voted at recent tion, which helped sponsor the making eye contact, while others diet last fall, with 400 other Angli - are now exempt from taxes. He vestry meetings to urge the gov - rally with the diocese. made no response at all or shook cans. added that the coming budget ernment to bring in the $100 per “A person cannot rent even their heads, but there was no hos - Mr. Duncan expressed sympa - would offer “modest” improve - month food supplement. A brief one room in Toronto for under tility. “Several people said, ‘What thy for the church’s action and de - ments to programs for people in submitted by Archbishop Colin $400, which leaves less than $200 a great idea, I’m so glad you’re do - fended the government’s record poverty. Johnson to the government in for all my needs, food, medical, ing this,’” he adds. on poverty. He said getting people He offered to take part in an - January noted that Ontario’s clothing, transportation, every - Mr. Hesselgrave says the three back to work is key. Bishop other meeting with Bishop child poverty rate jumped to 15.2 thing. It’s stressful and energy- judged the event a great success Nicholls noted that some people Nicholls and to invite his Cabinet per cent in 2008, up from 14.1 per consuming to be constantly wor - and they will definitely be doing it can’t work and must rely on so - counterparts involved with pover - cent a year earlier. More than rying over where your next meal next year. “It goes along with cial assistance, and it’s this group ty issues to join him. “Keep up the 400,000 children and youth live in will come from. I’m supporting some of the other things we’ve for whom help is needed. good work,” he said, as the meet - poverty. These are disturbing the Anglican Church in this cam - done in the diocese to take the Noting that sharing is a key ing wrapped up. trends, said Bishop Nicholls, at a paign to end hunger. I want to be church to the people, and visibly Christian value, Mr. MacAdam Afterwards at the rally, Bishop time when the government is able to eat healthy food and be a be out in public places and invite asked why, in a province where Nicholls said that Lent is a time of scheduled to be halfway to its confident, strong member of this people to be part of the life of the the top 10 per cent receive 80 repentance and fasting. “We are goal of lifting 25 per cent of On - society.” church,” he says.
)"11:&"45&3 work, and the idea of a mosaic situation. If you are interested in BRIEFLY or quilt of crosses brings the in - this ministry, email dividual pictures together to [email protected]. For present a strong statement of more information about The Children create Easter this image,” says Ms. Thayer. Bridge, go to http://the - bridgeprisonministry.com. mosaic Prayers needed for For the past three years, the prison ministry Michael Harvey to visit Sunday School children of Christ Church, Bobcaygeon, The Bridge, a prison ministry diocese have been using visual art to ex - funded by FaithWorks, is look - Michael Harvey, the founder of press their faith. “The children ing for at least 10 people to pray the worldwide Back to Church really seem to enjoy the creativi - A painting by a young artist for its clients. A list of prayer Sunday initiative, will be in the ty of the program,” says Lor - (above) and the ‘Easter Quilt of topics will be sent to members diocese May 30 to June 1 to talk raine Thayer, the Sunday School Crosses’ were done by the children of the prayer team by email. about improving retention rates convenor. The program is called of Christ Church, Bobcaygeon. Topics will include the first for visitors on Back to Church “How Great Thou Art” and name of someone who may have Sunday and other topics. The springs from Ms. Thayer’s own health issues, needs a job or is diocese will be taking part in love of art. She is a private in - instructing the children on the experiencing other difficulties. Back to Church Sunday on Sept. structor and a graduate of Flem - events leading up to and includ - Members of the prayer team will 25. The times and locations of ing College’s Visual and Cre - ing Easter Day. The children be asked to pray at least two or Mr. Harvey’s talks could not be ative Arts program. range in age from four to 11. three times a week using the confirmed by press time. Check With Easter approaching, Ms. They put their artwork together topic list and to spend time in the diocese’s website, Thayer and the four other Sun - to form a collage called “Easter “The image of the cross was stillness learning how God www.toronto.anglican.ca, for up - day School teachers have been Quilt of Crosses.” predominant in the children’s would have them pray for the dates. Visit our web site at www.toronto.anglican.ca