TAKING UP THE MANTLE ELECTORAL SYNOD RESULTS THE MONTH OF REMEMBERING Pg 3 Pg 8 Pg 13 THETHE IOCESAN TIMES D NOVEMBER 2020 A SECTION OF THE ANGLICAN JOURNAL SServingerving tthehe AAnglicannglican CChurchhurch iinn NNovaova SScotiacotia aandnd PPrincerince EEdwarddward IIslandsland Meet our new bishop Press release statement from the James Church, Kentville, and Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Lockeport-Barrington. She Edward Island. was Archdeacon of the South On Saturday, 12th of Shore Region until 2009 and September, Rev. Sandra Fyfe Archdeacon of the Valley was elected next Anglican Region until 2017. Bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. From her nominee information When consecrated bishop she Our Bishop needs to be a will be the 17th person to hold person of hope. How can the post. Owing to Covid-19 our worship and buildings restrictions, the 149th Session be places where people of the Diocese met in eleven experience hope? And how locations throughout the two can we witness to that hope provinces to conduct the outside of our buildings, election. She was voted in on especially in times of violence the 3rd ballot. and isolation and fear? This Rev. Sandra Fyfe is currently requires an ability to help the rector of the Parish of people think theologically Horton, St. John’s Church, about the struggles of our time Wolfville, where she has and how God is present in the served since 2009. A graduate midst of them. of Queen’s Theological Our Bishop needs to know College, St. John’s, NL with and trust the story of God’s her Masters of Divinity, she hope for the world. I am was ordained deacon in 2000 deeply grounded in Scripture, and priest in 2001. Others which is a constant source places where she has served of challenge and hope, and have been: curate at St. I bring this to my preaching Thomas Church, St. John’s, and teaching and leading and NL; rector at Christ Church, witness. I am hopeful about Photo: Rev. Sandra Fyfe - bishop-elect for the Diocese of NS & PEI. Shelburne; and, priest-in- the future of the church. charge of the parishes of St. Blessing of the animals This time of year, people in And there was testimony in various places may notice the cause for Saint Clare of something odd. A procession Assisi’s canonization that of animals, everything from referred to her little cat! dogs and cats to hamsters and From https://www. even horses, is led to churches franciscanmedia.org/blessing-of- for a special ceremony called animals/ the Blessing of Pets. This custom is conducted in remembrance of Saint Francis On Saturday, Oct. 3 at 2pm at of Assisi’s love for all creatures. the O’quatitek Amphitheatre, Francis, whose feast day is Annapolis Royal a combined October 4th, loved the larks service to bless the animals flying about his hilltop town. was held with participation He and his early brothers, from St. Luke’s Anglican staying in a small hovel, Church and St. George & St. allowed themselves to be Andrew United Church displaced by a donkey. All animals were welcome Francis wrote a Canticle of with social distancing of 6 the Creatures, an ode to God’s feet required. Pets were in living things. “All praise to appropriate carriers or on you, Oh Lord, for all these leashes. Photo: Rev Nita Barteaux blesses one of the many pets brought forward on Saturday afternoon. brother and sister creatures.” PAGE 2 NOVEMBER 2020 - THE DIOCESAN TIMES COLUMNIST Thanksgiving in a time of isolation We continue to live is self us with some names so we had the hill and Jason stopped isolation here by the Bog. a good idea the food would be the service to invite them The cranberries have been welcomed. The last delivery inside the fence. The service busy ripening and like many was to the rectory family so continued with a short sermon VOLUME 75 NUMBER 9 other products in this time of that Miranda did not have the and Communion shared in a PAUL SHERWOOD shutdown, the harvest seems burden of cooking. Our van very different way. We were to be very generous. It is smelled of turkey and stuffing told to come forward in family Editor almost like Mother Nature is for days following. clusters and receive a wafer Also on the web: saying “see, if you slow down Jason wanted to have some in our outstretched hands. www.nspeidiocese.ca the pollution and stop abusing show of harvest at St. Bart’s Jason used silver sugar tongs my earth, I will reward you.” and so we decorated outside to place the wafer in our hand Letters & News Items: I know we have found our and we were asked to take it Paul Sherwood, Editor this year. The pumpkins and PO Box 8882, garden has been more than baskets of fruit and vegetables back to our spot on the lawn Halifax, NS B3K 5M5 bountiful this year and others were placed around the front and reverently consume the [email protected] have said the same thing. The lawn of the churchyard. Folks bread. It was a very moving 902.477.3040 downside to this might be the service for me personally ST. B ART’S BY THE BOG were encouraged to bring Advertising: need for more ‘mason jars’ as their offerings to the church and for others too I’m sure. we pickle and preserve the It had been so long since we Angela Rush Sarah Neish and do their own decorating [email protected] fruits of the harvest. ...keeping social distancing had been to Communion 905.630.0390 A neighbour who fancies always in mind. By early that the familiar words made (Burlington, ON) himself as an expert naturalist Saturday afternoon St. Bart’s my heart sing with joy and says he is seeing more birds Thanksgiving came and went looked wonderful. thanksgiving. Published monthly except in July around this summer and even with no big family gatherings We will continue to worship and August by The Diocesan Times this year. It seemed so strange Sunday morning, we had an Publishing Company. my Orin with his deaf ears says outdoor service and we even in small groups. 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They have I’ll keep you posted, our meal by delivering plates Opinions expressed do not gone now, and the feeders Our singing drew a few fellow Aunt Madge. necessarily reflect the views of the have been brought inside, of food to a few of our seniors Boggers; families who had editor, the management board of scrubbed clean and put away who live alone. Orin was lived close to the church but The Diocesan Times, the diocese of for the winter. We do miss kept busy driving around with had never darkened the door. Nova Scotia and Prince deliveries. Jason had supplied They gathered at the foot of Edward Island or any representative seeing the tiny birds. thereof, except where expressly stated. All material subject to editing. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: The first day of the month BEFORE the month of publication: e.g., the deadline for the March edition is February 1st. Changes to your Subscription? 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His deep concern for the welfare of the whole human family challenged our Diocese to respond to issues of social inequality, poverty and need in our towns, villages, cities and communities. Russell became a champion for such causes in the communities he Bishop-elect Sandra Fyfe, served. He was without doubt “a priest of the people.” of the Diocese of Nova Scotia Russell also left his mark – literally – on St.