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One of the high points of the Hundreds service for her was seeing him in his mitre and chasuble. “I couldn’t believe it. I don’t know attend what to call him now. For me, he’ll always be Father Peter.” The Rev. Canon Stephen Fields, consecration the incumbent of Holy Trinity, Thornhill, said he was “over - BY STUART MANN whelmed” by the occasion. Bish - op Fenty had been his parish VALERIE Davis of St. Hugh and St. priest in Barbados in 1977, and Edmund, Mississauga, was lined they have been close friends ever up outside St. James Cathedral in since. Toronto at 7:30 a.m. on June 22— “Personally, this is fulfilling,” a full three hours before the start said Canon Fields. “I think the of Bishop Peter Fenty’s consecra - church here has made a very im - tion service. portant statement: that we affirm Ms. Davis was one of hundreds all peoples; whatever your back - of people who arrived early to get ground or culture, we are a seat for one of the most antici - church.” pated services of the year. Before In a sign of their affection for the doors of the church opened at Bishop Fenty, many people waited 9 a.m., the lineup stretched half- for up to an hour after the service way down the block. to greet him. “We just wanted to be part of “This is a very special day, not this day,” said Ms. Davis, who only to be called to be a bishop of came with her friend, Marjorie the church, but to be surrounded Taylor of Christ Church, Bramp - by the love, prayers and support ton. “It’s so monumental.” of my family and the many, many Ms. Davis said Bishop Fenty’s faithful people of God in this dio - election on April 6 and consecra - cese,” he said. “I look forward to tion on June 22 has created ex - this new ministry with joy and citement in Barbados, where he great expectation, and by the was born and raised. “My family grace of God I will seek to be a in Barbados is going nuts and the faithful pastor to those whom God island is going crazy. Everyone is has entrusted to my care.” so excited.” Bishop Fenty is now the area About 50 people flew up from bishop of York-Simcoe, one of Barbados and the United States four episcopal areas of the dio - for the service, and others came cese. He said he plans to get start - from the Diocese of Montreal, ed right away. “I am hitting the where Bishop Fenty served as a road and running as we speak,” parish priest before coming to the he said. “I ask for the prayers and Diocese of Toronto. The Barbadi - continued support of the church an High Commissioner to Canada in general, but I also want the and his wife also attended. clergy and people of York-Simcoe When the service started at to know that they’re in my 10:30 a.m., the cathedral was full, prayers and I’m looking forward with about 800 people, with an - to serving them in the days and other 250 in nearby Snell Hall and years ahead.” some listening to the service on A webcast of the service is post - the church lawn. Clockwise from above: Bishop Peter Fenty (right) leaves St. James Cathedral after his consecration, accompa - ed on the diocese’s YouTube chan - Several bishops and clergy nied by Archbishop Colin Johnson; bishops lay their hands on Bishop Fenty’s head; Bishop Fenty hugs his daugh - nel, www.youtube.com/tordio135. from the Caribbean took part in ter, Peta-Anne, after the service. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON the service, including Archbishop John Holder, who is the Bishop of “send down your Holy Spirit upon cross and episcopal ring. Hall. “I was so moved. I loved how Barbados and Primate of the your servant Peter, whom we con - After placing the mitre on Bish - all the bishops were there and Meet the West Indies. “Go forth to plant secrate in your name to the office op Fenty’s head and giving him gathered around him. It was an and water, but never forget that and work of a bishop in the his pastoral staff, Archbishop honour to be here.” God, and God alone, gives the church.” Johnson presented Bishop Fenty Ms. Mederick, who knew Bish - new bishop growth,” he told Bishop Fenty In a delightful moment, liturgi - to the congregation. The crowd op Fenty when he was the incum - during his sermon. cal dancers then presented Bish - gave him a long, loud round of ap - bent of St. Joseph of Nazareth in During the service, Archbishop op Fenty with his new chasuble, plause, and some cheered. Brampton, came with her mother, BISHOP Peter Fenty writes his Colin Johnson and the other bish - mitre and crosier. The suffragan “It was really beautiful,” said sister, daughter and others from first column in The Anglican . ops laid their hands on Bishop bishops of the Diocese of Toronto Denise Mederick, who watched a St. Joseph’s. “He’s going to be a Learn about his life and journey Fenty’s head, praying to God to presented him with his pectoral webcast of the service in Snell fantastic bishop,” she said. as a Christian. See Page 4.

PRIEST REFLECTS ON JEWISH ROOTS – SEE PAGE 5 2 The Anglican N E W S Summer Issue, 2013 Trip to game is a big hit

‘Team FaithWorks’ cheers Jays

BY SUSAN MCCULLOCH able evening, and for the hospital - ity provided by our suite host, An - YOUTH, volunteers and staff from toinette. The pizza was a real hit.” FaithWorks’ ministry partners The Rev. Helena Houldcroft, ex - cheered the home team on April ecutive director of Flemingdon 17 as the special guests of TD Park Ministry, led Team Faith - Bank Group, a corporate partner Works’ cheering section. One of to the diocese’s annual appeal her guests, Faaiq Ahamat, is the since 2004. 10-year-old son of a staff member TD generously provided the at Flemingdon Park Ministry and keys to its hospitality suite for the a die-hard Blue Jays fan. Ms. Young people from FaithWorks’ ministry partners have a bird’s eye view of the ballgame from TD Bank Group’s Blue Jays game against the Chica - Houldcroft described Faaiq’s reac - corporate box. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON go White Sox at the Rogers Cen - tre. Eighteen guests had a bird’s- eye view of the game from seats on the 300 level, along the first base line. TD also provided com - plimentary popcorn and soft drinks throughout the evening. When asked how he enjoyed the game, 11-year-old Miles Anto - nio responded, “We’ll get them next time.” He added, “Thank you, TD, for inviting us to watch the game. My mom and I had a great time.” Bishop Philip Poole, co-chair of the FaithWorks Corporate appeal, enjoyed the chance to relax with his wife, Karen, while getting to know several of the youth who are involved in FaithWorks-funded programs. “This was a terrific op - Bishop Philip Poole (middle, front row), the Rev. Helena Houldcroft Youth decorate a sign thanking TD Bank Group for its hospitality. portunity to thank some of the (standing behind him) and the rest of ‘Team FaithWorks’ support the staff and volunteers who provide home team. welcoming, supportive environ - ments for young people,” he said. tion when he learned he would be cial prize, he will treasure the and love of the game. His favourite has something going on.” Mr. “It was heartwarming to see the attending the game: “Faaiq really memory of his first trip to the ma - player is Jays’ third baseman, Dryfhout, like Mr. Lawrie, proudly sheer joy and excitement on the hoped he might be able to catch a jors. Brett Lawrie. “Lawrie is an in - displays body art underneath the faces of the young people visiting game ball and told me that if he Ken Dryfhout, youth program - credible athlete and one of only 17 sleeves of his #13 player’s jersey. the Rogers Centre for the first was successful, he knew he would ming director at The Dam, kept Canadians on major league ros - time. We are sincerely grateful to be too excited to sleep.” Although the crowd entertained between ters,” said Mr. Dryfhout. “On a Susan McCulloch is the TD for providing such a remark - Faaiq went home without his spe - pitches by sharing his knowledge style note, I think Lawrie really FaithWorks campaign manager.


 
   

  


     


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THE Toronto and Hamilton executive director of the Toronto erative, ecumenical ministering to branches of the Mission to Seafar - branch to the position of chaplain seafarers,” he said. The Mission to ers are amalgamating, under the emeritus, with duties extending Seafarers is a world-wide min - new name The Mission to Seafar - around the Golden Horseshoe. istry that provides help and sup - ers Southern Ontario. The Rev. The amalgamation “will bring to - port to 1.3 million men and women David Mulholland will be moving gether a greater number of staff who work on ships or in the ship - from his position as chaplain and and volunteers in the task of coop - ping industry.

The Rev. Canon Maurice Francois writes his blog for Toronto’s Spanish- speaking community. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON WITH HER GENEROUS LEGACY GIFT, Mexicans thank THE MINISTRIES THAT ENID GLOVER CARED Toronto priest SO DEEPLY ABOUT WILL BE FUNDED IN PERPETUITY. Congregation helps immigrants to city BY STUART MANN in Monterrey and has since grown into an “informal compan - THE Diocese of Northern Mexico ionship” between the Toronto has made a Toronto priest an hon - congregation and the Mexican orary canon in recognition for his diocese. work with Mexican immigrants. Bishop Francisco Moreno, the The Rev. Maurice Francois, the bishop of the Diocese of Northern priest-in-charge of Parroquia San Mexico, visited the Diocese of Esteban, a Spanish-speaking min - Toronto last year and saw the istry in downtown Toronto, has work being done by Parroquia been made on honorary canon of San Esteban for Mexican immi - the Cathedral Church of the Holy grants. In total, the congregation Family in Monterrey, Mexico. has helped about 900 Spanish- “We’re a bit surprised but also very speaking newcomers to Toronto ENID LILLIAN GLOVER happy,” said Canon Francois. “This during the last 10 years. gives us even more motivation to car - Canon Francois says the needs JULY 28, 1918 – MARCH 5, 2013 ry out our work.” have been greater that his con - In the past 10 years, his congre - gregation expected. “In the begin - gation has helped about 400 Mex - ning, we provided pastoral care. ican immigrants adjust to a new We didn’t realize it would become life in Toronto. They provide ESL so complex. A lot of immigrants courses, referrals to legal aid and experience employment abuse social services, food, clothes and when they get here, so we try to mental health support. advocate on their behalf. We also Enid Glover was a lifelong Anglican whose mother was the caretaker of the first “One hundred per cent of our help when there is a deportation.” St. George, Willowdale, a wooden church that was replaced in the 1920s. As a young congregation is immigrants, so Parroquia San Esteban has 130 they know better than anybody families on the parish rolls and is girl, Enid and her family took a horse and buggy down Yonge Street to go to church. what is needed,” says Canon based at Holy Trinity, Trinity As an adult, she was an active member of the ACW and sang in the church choir Francois. Square. Canon Francois says the there and later, at St. Patrick, Willowdale. After taking early retirement from Sears, The relationship between Par - congregation has grown by word Enid was busier than ever as a member of the Second Mile Club where she enjoyed roquia San Esteban and the Dio - of mouth and because of its loca - cese of Northern Mexico was tion in the inner city. “The first square dancing, line dancing and needlecrafts. Her close friends, Ken and Ruth started by a Mexican-American thing immigrants look for when Loan, remember Enid as a woman whose faith allowed her to live each day to the priest, the Rev. Bryant Husted, a they come to a new country is a fullest. “Although she was a reserved person, Enid truly cared about others and was university professor who teaches supportive network, and the first a generous supporter of FaithWorks. She wanted to leave a legacy to ensure that in Toronto and Monterrey. It be - place they look for to find that is gan with a link to a single parish a church,” he says. those who needed her help would receive it for many years to come.” 3%%+).'$)2%#4/2/&-53)# Enid’s legacy gift to the FaithWorks Endowment Fund at The Anglican Diocese of Toronto Foundation will help ensure that the ministries she cared so deeply about 3T/LAVES!NGLICAN 3WANSEALOCATEDIN"LOOR7EST6ILLAGE 4ORONTO ISLOOKINGFORADYNAMICMUSICIANTOREJOICEINOURCONGREGATIONS#HRISTIANFAITHANDSHAREINOUR will be funded in perpetuity. !NGLICANTRADITION/UR0RAYERBOOKPARISHHASADIVERSECONGREGATIONANDAGROWINGCHILDRENS MINISTRY ANDWEWELCOMEANORGANISTANDCHOIRDIRECTORWHOWANTSTOBEPARTOFIT
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THE ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF TORONTO FOUNDATION 4 The Anglican C O M M E N T Summer Issue, 2013 When the Gospel comes alive The Anglican y wife Ellen and I preting the life of the local diocesan commu - The Anglican is published under were sitting on ARCHBISHOP’S DIARY nity to the wider church and, reciprocally, the authority of the Bishop of Toronto stuffed chairs shad - the life of the far-flung, diverse church and the Incorporated Synod of the M BY ARCHBISHOP COLIN JOHNSON ed by leafy trees. catholic to the local church. Diocese of Toronto. Opinions expressed in Sitting on grass mats in front We live in an age of instant communica - The Anglican are not necessarily those of of us were several dozen tourist spots. The highlight of all our visits is tion. Can we not just chat with each other the editor or the publisher. women, many with children, being able to put our knees under a table, through email, Facebook or Twitter? Can we Stuart Mann: Editor and a handful of men sitting share a meal and talk face-to-face with peo - not just send documents and pictures, ex - on wooden benches at the ple who are living out the Gospel of Jesus change ideas and money and offer prayer Address all editorial material to: side. We were visiting a project run by a Christ in their daily lives. support? The Anglican Ugandan diocese for people with HIV/AIDS. It is in those moments that the Gospel No, we can’t. 135 Adelaide Street East We were deep in conversation, some of it in comes alive. Stereotypes are overturned. As - Yes, the church’s faith can be tweeted: Toronto, Ontario M5C 1L8 English, most of it in Luganda, and the Rev. sumptions are challenged and corrected or “Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will Tel: (416 ) 363 -6021, ext. 247 Canon Dr. Isaac Kawuki-Mukasa was provid - clarified. 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Archbishop of Canterbury: The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Justin Welby , Lambeth Palace, Grateful for your support London, England SE1 7JU. In Canada: am delighted to write my all that God in Christ has promised: “I am A community of about 600,000 members first letter as a suffragan BISHOP’S OPINION with you always.” My life’s motto was taken in 30 dioceses, stretching from Vancouver bishop of Toronto. Let me from my mother, who always recited from Island to Newfoundland and north to the I BY BISHOP PETER FENTY Arctic Ocean. first express my profound one of the Wisdom books, “In all your ways gratitude and heartfelt appre - acknowledge him, and he shall direct your Primate: ciation to the many of you— awareness. My leadership gifts were recog - paths” (Proverbs 3:6). The Most Rev. Fred Hiltz, clergy, laity, groups and or - nized by many of my teachers, and I was giv - In my 38 years of ordained ministry, I have Church House, 80 Hayden St. ganizations—for your prayer - en the opportunity to use those gifts, which enjoyed serving five parishes, in the dioceses Toronto, ON M4Y 3G2 ful support and good wishes, prepared me for the leadership roles that I of Barbados, Montreal and Toronto. Each of which you offered to my family and me have had. these parishes contributed to my ongoing In the Diocese of Toronto: through your emails, letters, cards, phone My secondary school education was equal - Christian growth and development. I am A community of 254 congregations in 210 parishes covering 26,000 square kilometers. calls and Facebook messages. We are truly ly exciting and meaningful. Again, I had the grateful to the lay leadership and clergy in Of the nearly 5 million people who live grateful and are reminded that, as believers, good fortune of being taught by Christian all of these parishes for the support given to within the diocesan boundaries, 376,000 we are surrounded by “a great cloud of wit - teachers who went beyond the call of duty to me and the responsibilities they exercised, claim to be affiliated with the Anglican nesses.” offer advice and encouragement to their stu - as well as for the prayerful support of the Church, with about 80,000 people My personal thanks to the College of Bish - dents in preparation for adult living. parishioners in each of these parishes. I am identified on the parish rolls. The diocese ops for making the transition into my new In my late teen years, I became involved in very appreciative of the opportunities to is home to many ethnic and language- role with the bishops as seamless as could be the Anglican Young Peoples’ Association, have been involved at the diocesan, provin - based congregations, including African, expected. I am also indebted to the Diocesan which played a major role in my spiritual de - cial and national levels of the church. Caribbean, Chinese, Filipino, French, Centre staff, whose support through my velopment and ministry formation. It was I could not complete this letter without ex - Hispanic, Japanese, and Tamil. The City of years of parish ministry and almost 10 years during this period of my life that my sense of pressing how much I value the ongoing sup - Toronto has the largest population of of being the Archdeacon of York and Execu - a priestly vocation was affirmed. The pas - port of those friends, clergy and laity, whose aboriginal peoples in the country. tive Officer to the Bishop of Toronto, has toral care, support and encouragement of undying moral and prayerful support has The Archbishop of Toronto: been wonderful and carried out in a most many clergy during those formative years been of utmost importance in my ministry The Most Rev. Colin Johnson professional manner. assisted in the eventual offering of myself for and the life of my family. I believe that I thought that I would take this opportuni - ordination. On leaving high school, I began friendships are to be treasured, not taken for York-Credit Valley: ty to share with you a little about myself and teaching and then worked with a shipping granted, and are God-provided. The Rt. Rev. Philip Poole my journey of faith in ordained ministry. I business, while seeking discernment of a My wife Angela has been my constant sup - was born in Barbados to wonderful, loving, priestly vocation. I entered Codrington Theo - port, confidante and reader of my scripts. I Trent-Durham: Christian parents. They provided for my sib - logical College in 1972, was ordained to the am eternally grateful to her for her devoted The Rt. Rev. Linda Nicholls lings—a sister, who is the eldest, and four diaconate on June 11, 1975, and was made a love and support of me in ministry through York-Scarborough: brothers (including my twin brother)—the priest on Dec. 2 of that same year. I am also a our 36 years of marriage. She has done so The Rt. Rev. Patrick Yu most loving Christian home that any family graduate of Huron College, London, where I while managing equally demanding voca - could have. spent two wonderful years. tions as a mother and a teacher of over 30 York-Simcoe: My early childhood was also nurtured by My ordained ministry has been spirit- years. The Rt. Rev. Peter Fenty Christian teachers at the Moravian elemen - filled, enjoyable, and satisfying. I also have I am also extremely grateful for the love The Diocese of Toronto: tary school that I attended. The reinforce - had many grace-filled moments, particularly and support received from our son Andre 135 Adelaide St. E., ment of Christian education and values at during very difficult times, both personally and daughter Peta-Anne. Like all clergy chil - Toronto, Ont., M5C 1L8 such an early age made a significant differ - and generally in ministry. I have come to be - dren, they have journeyed with Angela and 1-800-668-8932/416-363-6021 ence in my Christian formation and civic lieve more and more that we must embrace Continued on Page 6 Web site: http://www.toronto.anglican.ca Summer Issue, 2013 C O M M E N T The Anglican 5

EDITOR’S Jewish heritage shaped me CORNER BY STUART MANN BY THE REV. WARREN invited me to a Christmas church service. my struggles. LEIBOVITCH I was intrigued by the stories about Je - When I left the college, I was not yet a sus. Who was he? What made him so spe - full believer, but God allowed the Spirit to t was always a special cial? Were the stories true? Answers nurture my faith, laying a foundation that treat to come home would have to wait for the future. The would eventually lead to my baptism at Summer idle Ifrom school on Friday next few years were focused on school Grace Church, Markham on Oct. 12, 1980. to the wonderful aro - and working as a lifeguard. Religion had Jesus had called me, but my response ma of simmering chicken soup. Friday no place in my life, but everything was to was not without fear and trembling. I e had fished every hole in the night was the beginning of the Jewish change. knew that the reaction of my family creek many times over, and Sabbath, a special time for family—Sab - In June 1977, I became an officer cadet would be bad. When my mother found Wnow it was time to go farther bath candles, challah bread, the family at Royal Military College Saint-Jean in out, she called my grandparents in Mon - afield. “I think I know a place table and delicious food. My upbringing Richelain, Quebec. It was at the college treal in tears to say that I was dead. My on Toronto Islands we can go,” I said, and and heritage helped shape me into who I that I experienced an unknown world of world crumbled around me. My father so one day on summer vacation my son am today as a Christian and a priest in prejudice, but through the pain of that ex - considered having a funeral, as tradition and I caught the early train into the city, the Anglican Church. perience, I found Jesus. dictates, but fortunately my grandmother sitting beside the commuters with our Born in Montreal and raised in Growing up, I was sheltered from some convinced him not to. fishing rods and tackle boxes. My son was Chomedey, Quebec, my Jewish upbring - realities of life. I had never experienced Like the temptation in the wilderness, very excited. This was his first fishing trip ing was generally secular. My family ob - prejudice until my fellow cadets discov - an uncle offered me money to speak to a away from home. served most Jewish traditions and cus - ered that I was the only Jew at the col - rabbi if I admitted that I had made a mis - We took the ferry over to Hanlan’s toms, attending a synagogue once in a lege. Immediately my friends turned on take. I refused. As a result, I was shunned Point and stood in front of the big map of while, mostly for Bar Mitzvahs and wed - me. I was bullied and beaten. Cadets by my family. For the next couple of Toronto Islands. “What does that say?” I dings. I attended a Hebrew school twice a would get up to move to another table years, I had little or no contact with my asked, pointing to a little lagoon on the week, where I learned Old Testament when I joined them. My bed area would parents. map. The water was painted blue and the Bible stories, Jewish traditions and He - be messed up before daily inspection, re - Yet God’s love and grace endured. I was grass green. The colours had faded over brew, preparing me for my Bar Mitzvah sulting in discipline. I even feared going still their son. In time, a new relationship the years, but the map was still the same at age 13. to bed for fear of attack. began. On Nov. 3, 1991, my family attend - as I remembered it as a boy. So how did a nice Jewish boy become Through this difficult time, I connected ed my ordination to the diaconate at St. “Trout Pond!” he said. an Anglican priest and a candidate in the with the Protestant padre. He was very James Cathedral in Toronto. “That’s right. Let’s go.” recent episcopal election? First, I believe welcoming and understanding. We talked Today, I share my Jewish heritage We hiked up Hanlan’s Point, the large that God has a sense of humour. Second, about Jesus and he gave me a Bible. I through my sermons, explaining Jewish trees rustling in the morning breeze. It God has a special way of planting seeds of read prophecies in the Old Testament. customs experienced by Jesus and His was still early and the sailboats tied up at faith in our hearts and calling us to min - Scripture passages such as Isaiah 53 and disciples. My past has strengthened me. I the water’s edge were deep in slumber. istry in the church. 61 and Psalm 22 touched my heart. Was it have learned to face adversity and injus - The fire pits had fresh ash in them, left I was fascinated with Jesus. I enjoyed possible that Jesus was the Son of God? tice, to be open to the work of God and over from the night before. We passed the Christmas carols and Easter movies such Padre Jackson taught me that the ones the Spirit, to share my faith, and to have a little wading pool and the deserted tennis as The Robe . In Grade 8, I attended a who persecuted me were not Christians. hope for a future when God will fulfill all courts and the tall grass that led over to lunch get-together with some friends that A Christian is one who exhibits the love the promises made through Jesus Christ. the beach. turned out to be a Bible study. Of course, I and compassion of Christ. I also learned Eventually we came to the edge of didn’t believe any of the stories, but I en - from him that Jesus loved me for who I The Rev. Warren Leibovitch is the Trout Pond. It wasn’t how I remembered joyed debating with my friends. One even was, and offered me hope and strength in incumbent of St. Paul, Lindsay. it. It was overgrown with bushes, and lily pads covered almost the entire surface of it. But it was that much the better for it. In its disuse, it had become almost semi- wild—a perfect place for adventure. Make time for holy rest I tied “weedless” lures onto our lines and we cast them out as far as we could. We stood and waited, the humidity clos - “Remember the Sabbath the middle of a four-month Sabbath time ing in on us. I got the feeling that there day, and keep it holy. For MUSINGS (a three-month Sabbath leave and a one- wasn’t a single fish out there, and so did six days you shall labour month vacation). I am deeply grateful to Henry. In fact, the lures were probably en - and do all your work. But BY THE REV . H EATHER MCCANCE the churchwardens, members and staff of tangled in the lily pads. We needed anoth - the seventh day is a Sab - St. Andrew’s who have made this time er plan. bath to the Lord your God; ferent kinds of work. Those who are re - away possible. I looked up the shore and spotted a lit - you shall not do any tired, stay-at-home parents and those in I will certainly do work during this tle spit of land jutting out into the narrow work—you, your son or school or seeking work, often find that the time. I have a list of books on church lead - channel that connected Trout Pond to the your daughter, your male or female slave, lack of an externally imposed schedule ership that I’m going to be reading. I will main body of water that flowed through your livestock, or the alien resident in means that they are simply working at need to do the work required to keep a the islands. “Let’s try up there,” I said. your towns. For in six days the Lord made one thing or another all the time. family afloat. Yet summer is, for many It turned out the spit was a series of heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is We can come up with all sorts of justifi - folks, a time when we may seek Sab - tiny islands connected by stepping stones in them, but rested the seventh day; there - cations for this behaviour, the most basic bath— rest, vacation, time away. Holy and planks and old picnic tables. We fore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and being that there doesn’t seem to be time. crossed these, Indiana Jones-style, and consecrated it” (Exodus 20:8-11, NRSV). enough hours in a day to get everything I sometimes find it difficult to justify came to the edge of the last island. A done. The thought of taking a day away taking time off. I suspect that I am not deep, cool channel of blue and green wa - t is probably the one commandment, from all work seems ludicrous. alone in this. In our culture of busyness, ter lay before us. out of the 10, which we most consis - MaryAnn McKibben Dana published a taking time off sometimes seems selfish I put a worm on Henry’s hook and he Itently break: Sabbath. Holy rest. Tak - book last year titled Sabbath in the Sub - or irresponsible. Yet study after study has tossed it out into the water. I went over to ing time off. urbs , in which she describes an experi - proven that those who fail to take time off, the other side of the island and cast out. Your clergy are often told the impor - ment she did with her husband and young to rest and rejuvenate, are actually less “Got one!” he said. I ran over—and tance of “self-care,” of ensuring that we family. Her whole family did not work one productive than those who do. there, wiggling on the end of his line, was take at least one day a week away from day a week for a year. It was hard at first, As our former Archbishop, Lewis Gar - a beautiful smallmouth bass, green and our work in the church. Most of my but they learned how. And, more impor - nsworthy, is purported to have said, “A brown and shimmering in the sun. We friends and colleagues do so. But that day tantly, they learned why. person can do their year’s worth of work threw it back and he caught another and away from work becomes the day we do Keeping the Sabbath holy isn’t sup - in 11 months, but not in 12.” another—10 in total. It was a day we our laundry, housework and grocery posed to be a punishment or a rule that Make the time for Sabbath. Make the would never forget. shopping. was made to be broken and make us feel time for holy rest. 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MARY Conliffe has been appoint - ed Diocesan Executive Assistant to the Archbishop, beginning on June 15. Ms. Conliffe, who was the Bish - op’s Office Administrator, suc - ceeded Bishop Peter Fenty, who became the area bishop of York- Simcoe on June 22. “I am delighted to make this ap - pointment,” said Archbishop Col - in Johnson. “This marks the first time that a lay person has held this important position, but Mary is uniquely qualified for the role.” Ms. Conliffe holds an Honours Master of Divinity degree from MARY CONLIFFE HONOURED Trinity College, University of Canon Dr. Robert Falby, chancellor of the Diocese of Toronto, and the Rev. Canon Dr. Alice Medcof, the first Toronto, where she was both Head Chaplaincy and Deacons), and the female incumbent of an Anglican parish in the Greater Toronto Area and the former coordinator of the Inter - of College and later Head of Divin - selection process leading to ordi - national Anglican Women’s Network, received honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees from Trinity College, Toron - ity. The daughter of an illustrious nation. He or she also acts as sec - to, on May 14. Joining them are, from left, the Rev. Sonia Hinds, who received a Doctor of Ministry degree, clerical family, she has an intimate retary and consultant to the Col - the Rev. Margaret Rodrigues, Archbishop Colin Johnson and Susan McCulloch, the diocese’s FaithWorks cam - knowledge of the life of clergy and lege of Bishops and represents paign manager, who received the Canon Charles Frederick Pashler Prize. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON their families. She brings over a the Bishop as requested. decade of experience in the Dioce - “I am truly honoured by this san Centre and specifically the appointment and I am so grateful Bishop’s Office. She is a parish - to the archbishop for his confi - Friendships are to be treasured ioner at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, dence,” said Ms. Conliffe. “I Toronto, where she serves as sub - deeply love this church and all its Continued from Page 4 deacon and has headed up the clergy and people, and I am look - I were extremely happy to wel - ple of the area. My prayers are parish’s FaithWorks campaigns. ing forward to the new challenges me wherever I have been called come Andre’s wife Jacquelyn in - with the clergy and people of our For the past two years, Ms. Con - that this ministry will bring.” in ministry. They, like Angela, to our family last July, and we diocese, and I ask that you keep liffe has been the first interviewer Following Bishop Fenty’s con - have done so with the personal are equally delighted that we al - my family and me in your of applicants for ordination in the secration as a bishop, Archbishop sacrifice of leaving other family so will be welcoming into our prayers as I begin this new min - diocese and has administered the Johnson conferred the historical members and friends to venture family Peta-Anne’s fiancé istry. postulancy process. She is an An - title of Archdeacon of York, which into the unfamiliar and un - Mubarak, as they will be mar - I give thanks to Almighty God glican representative on the na - he had held, on the Rev. Canon known. However, we have been ried this July. for Bishop Elliott’s priestly and tional Joint Anglican-Lutheran Elizabeth Hardy as the senior blessed by being welcomed and I am very happy to serve as episcopal ministry among us and Commission, serves on Trinity priest on diocesan staff. She con - wonderfully supported in all of the area bishop of York-Simcoe. I wish him and Linda every bless - College’s Corporation and Divini - tinues in her role as Secretary of the parishes and dioceses in am looking forward to my min - ing, good health and many won - ty Associates and has been a Synod and Chief Administrative which we have lived. Angela and istry among the clergy and peo - derful years of retirement. member of the Diocesan Doctrine Officer, providing leadership of and Worship Committee. She is the diocese’s synodical gover - married and has a young son. nance. In order to streamline wooden cabinets nearby. The fire rate outlets would be better. 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The Rev. Canon Alyson Barnett- experience now with female bish - Travel is my life! I'll be on all Cowan, a Canadian priest for - ops. continents except Antarctica this merly based in Toronto, works in year. I try to build in an extra day the Anglican Communion Office The most important thing I’m to have some time to explore, but in London. working on right now? Trying to it’s not always possible. We’ve help people think creatively about been enjoying short trips to Scot - I am the director for Unity Faith how the churches of the Anglican land, where Bruce’s roots are, but and Order at the Anglican Com - Communion can strengthen their he’s also come with me to South munion Office. This means that relationships with each other and Africa and Rome. I staff a commission of 24 Angli - discern the calling of the Holy cans from around the world Spirit together, in a post-post- Yes, I work with the Archbish - whose mandate is to consider colonial world. Who are we be - op of Canterbury. I present re - matters of doctrine, Anglican coming? How can we really learn ports to the Standing Committee identity, how the Communion from others’ experiences in a way and the Anglican Consultative makes decisions, and ecumenical that strengthens our life and mis - Council when he is present, but I relations. I also staff all the ecu - sion? What shape might the In - also am asked to provide briefing menical dialogues in which the struments of Communion (the papers. I will be part of his visit to Communion is engaged— Anglican Consultative Council, the World Council of Churches presently with Lutherans, the Lambeth Conference and the Assembly in South Korea in the Methodists, Roman Catholics, Or - Primates’ Meeting) take in the fu - The Rev. Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan makes a presentation to the fall, and possibly to Rome. He is thodox and Oriental Orthodox, ture? Anglican Consultative Council in New Zealand last November. PHOTO very sharp, wants good and clear plus joint work with the Old BY NEIL VIGERS communication, and expects you Catholic churches with which An - The Anglican Communion Of - to know what you are doing. He is glicans are in communion. fice is in west London, near the concerned. The powerful feelings ple from all around the Com - not easily pigeon-holed, and his famous Portobello Road mar - that surfaced with Margaret munion. You never know who is variety of experience equips him While the Anglican Commun - ket, so it’s fun to have lunch and Thatcher’s death were a sign of going to come into the office, or to speak on a wide variety of is - ion Office is in London, my shop there. We live in Acton, a serious problems in this society. what conversations may develop. sues. work is for the whole Commun - part of the suburb of Ealing, con - One of the highlights recently ion, not just the Church of Eng - veniently located halfway be - I miss the way I feel at home in was The Week of Two Enthrone - My contract is for five years, land. My husband, Bruce, works tween the office and Heathrow church in Canada—the way we ments, when I got to attend the in - and it ends when I reach re - in a parish in Ealing, a suburb of airport. Both Bruce and I love do liturgy and the ease with auguration of Pope Francis and tirement age, so in December London, and I often help with opera and history, so it’s wonder - which we engage with each oth - Archbishop Welby within 48 next year we’ll be moving services when I’m here. A lot of ful to be able to see great produc - er. Of course, above all I miss my hours. I often feel quite aston - home. I want to take some time my life is spent travelling, taking tions and explore London and be - children and grandchildren, but ished at the places I find myself. with family, especially to be a part in meetings all over the yond. What don’t I like? It’s a very at least I get home a few times a And it is a privilege to be the first more present granny, but then world. It is odd, though, to see the divided society, and I hate how year. female priest to be engaged in I’m open to next possibilities. Church of England get tangled up the gap between rich and poor high-level conversations with the I’ve never actually planned a over issues relating to the ordina - widens constantly without, it My favourite part of the job is Vatican and with the Ecumenical change of job — things have just tion of women; Canada has a long seems, the government being meeting and working with peo - Patriarchate. come along.

Young Anglicans WORLD 4 need training 6 2 ZAMBIA – Young Anglicans in the Church of the Province of BRIEFS Central Africa are ready and willing to work for the church, but they need more training. The Apartment project to call for more training came at a 6 youth executive meeting in Lusa - fund ministry 1 ka. Most of the church’s youth AUSTRALIA – The Diocese of 1 leaders haven’t received any Canberra and Goulburn is hoping 7 training but must deal with com - that the construction of a $30 mil - 3 plex issues, including childhood lion apartment project, which in - development, HIV and AIDS, cludes three commercial units on 5 and the basics of Anglicanism. the ground floor, will enable the Anglican Communion News diocese to plant more churches roles our respective churches Boston Episcopalians Synod votes for Service and extend its social outreach. might play in reconciliation and respond to bombings 4 new cathedral 5 The income from the develop - peace-making in the face of vio - Ordinariate a ‘raid,’ ment, located on the former site lence, military force and war.” UNITED STATES – Vigils, NEW ZEALAND – A special Syn - of the diocesan office, will go into Episcopal News Service prayer and healing services od of the Diocese of Christ- says ambassador 7 a trust account to support the were the order of the day as church has approved the build - AUSTRALIA – The former Angli - new ministry efforts. Bishop Stu - Archbishop Tutu Boston Episcopalians responded ing of a new, contemporary style can Ambassador to the Vatican, art Robinson hopes to see chap - to the Boston Marathon bomb - cathedral to replace the one that the Rev. Canon David Richard - laincies that would serve the awarded prize 3 ings. One Episcopal church, was badly damaged in an earth - son, has attacked the creation of business district, the airport and SOUTH AFRICA – Archbishop which was located inside the quake. While the new cathedral the Anglican Ordinariate under the shopping area. Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace blocked off area near the finish is under construction, worship - Pope Benedict as a “raid” on the Canberra Times Prize winner, has been honoured line, was able to move its Sunday pers will be using a cardboard Anglican Church which is both with the Templeton Prize, worth worship services to Temple Is - cathedral. Synod also heard offensive and embarrassing. Anglicans gather for almost $2 million, for his role in rael, a synagogue outside the about the possibility of a drastic Canon Richardson, whose term advancing spiritual liberation zone. Another Episcopal church reduction in the number of just expired, said he and the for - peace conference 2 throughout the world. The Tem - opened its doors the day after parishes in the diocese. The 46 mer Archbishop of Canterbury, JAPAN – More than 80 clergy, lay pleton Prize is the world’s largest the bombing for prayers and parishes in and around the city Rowan Williams, had only two people and bishops from the host monetary award for an individ - companionship so people could of Christchurch could be re - weeks’ notice before Pope Bene - countries of Japan and Korea, as ual. Archbishop Tutu said he was share their experiences. One duced by half, as there will be a dict announced the creation of well as Australia, Canada, Ire - “bowled over” by the news. A Episcopalian injured by the ex - considerable difference between the new order. The ordinariate land, the Philippines, the United leader in the struggle against plosion was Erika Brannock, a the amount of damage caused by has allowed disaffected Angli - Kingdom and the United States, apartheid in South Africa, he was pre-school teacher from Trinity the earthquake and the amount cans, including clergy willing to gathered for the second world - the Archbishop of Cape Town Episcopal Children’s Centre in of money expected in insurance be re-ordained, to be received in - wide Anglican Peace Conference and Primate of the Anglican Towson, Maryland. She was near settlements. to the Roman Catholic Church in Okinawa in April. In her Church of Southern Africa. He the finish line with her sister. Episcopal News Service and continue Anglican patterns keynote address, Episcopal chaired South Africa’s Truth and Erika lost her left leg below her of worship. Canon Richardson Church Presiding Bishop Reconciliation Commission. knee in the explosion. Her sister made the remarks in an inter - Katharine Jefferts Schori asked Anglican Communion broke both legs. view on Australian radio. participants to consider “the News Service Episcopal News Service Sydney Morning Herald 8 The Anglican B O O K S Summer Issue, 2013 New shoots What do we really think? poking up

Bishop explores BY BOB BETTSON he decline of churches, particularly our attitudes to of mainline denominations, is well Tdocumented. However, as John Bowen points out in Green Shoots other faiths Out of Dry Ground , a useful collection of essays and stories, there are many signs BY STUART MANN of hope for the future of the church in Canada. he Muslim Association of Canada Dr. Bowen, the director of the Institute recently opened an office directly of Evangelism at Wycliffe College, and the Tacross the street from the Dioce - 16 other authors in this book, frequently san Centre in Toronto. I pass it al - use the image of a garden to reflect the most every day but never go inside. Why? reality of the church today. While some Because the people inside have a differ - parts of the church are withering, green ent religion? Am I afraid of something? shoots are emerging—evidence of new Or perhaps I just would not know what to growth and vitality. say. These fresh expressions of parish life This is not an unusual experience for are documented in short profiles by former those of us—of all faiths—who live in Anglican Journal editor Kristin Jenkins southern Ontario. The other day, for ex - and Journal writer Diana Swift. They de - ample, I drove past a Pentecostal church Bishop Patrick Yu (right) led a small group of Anglicans in Toronto as they struggled with scribe examples of the different ways the with an immense cross on the front lawn, their place as Christians in a multi-faith society. church could look in the future, from a huge mosque, some Roman Catholic Standing Stones, an aboriginal ministry in and Anglican churches, and a Hindu tem - Edmonton, to “reconnect,” a ministry for ple—all within 45 minutes of each other. problems they tried to tackle, the courage The findings were illuminating. The unchurched high-rise residents in Toronto. In our travels through the Greater of their adherents, and the contributions study revealed that since the Anglican These stories are interspersed with per - Toronto Area, I sometimes point out the they made to the quality of life around Church didn’t teach or talk much about spectives on the history of the develop - non-Christian places of worship to my them. I knew I would never be content other faiths, the parishioners tended to ment of the church in Canada, rural min - kids, in the quintessentially Canadian with facile dismissals of them from sim - adopt attitudes that were readily avail - istry, aboriginal ministry, and how the hope that they will be knowledgeable and plistic Christians.” able elsewhere. church responds to Canada’s changing de - tolerant of other faiths. However, I never He found that the study of other reli - The study also raised questions about mographics. There are also explorations stop the car. It’s not our faith, and it’s def - gions helped him to articulate his own Canadians’ cherished ideal of tolerance on youth ministry and the role of the initely not our church, so I keep my foot faith. “It was as if the study of what I was in a multicultural society. Although church in caring for creation. on the gas. not, religiously speaking, helped define everyone in the group said they were ac - After exploring the ecumenical mission And that’s why I found Bishop Patrick what I was. Paradoxically, my apprecia - cepting of other faiths, specific tensions context for the church and laying out a Yu’s recent book, Being Christian in a tion of Christianity grew hand in hand and conflicts soon started to surface. number of challenges in different areas, Multi-Faith Context , so refreshing. Final - with my appreciation of Buddhism, Tao - “The Canadian multicultural ideal is like Dr. Bowen concludes the collection with a ly, here was a book, written by a Canadi - ism, etc.” a soap film—very pervasive but very look to the future. What kind of leaders an for a Canadian audience, that helps us In 1990, he became the incumbent of St. thin,” said Bishop Yu in an interview af - will we need—both clergy and lay? What explore that most sensitive of subjects— Theodore of Canterbury, a small Angli - ter the book’s publication. “You put your about our spirituality? How does that con - just what do we Christians think about can parish located in a predominantly finger on the top and it’s very easy to nect with our mission? other faiths? Jewish neighbourhood in north Toronto. penetrate it. When you take your finger Bishop Jane Alexander of the Diocese The book was originally Bishop Yu’s Within close proximity were synagogues, out, it covers right over again.” of Edmonton offers an encouraging look doctoral thesis, written back in the late a Buddhist temple, a mosque, a Hindu Many of the group members were so at how a small western diocese with limit - 1990s and now issued as a paperback, temple and several New Age centres. The willing to be tolerant of other faiths that, ed resources has moved to a mission- with an up-to-date introduction and post - congregation was multiracial and many rather than risk causing embarrassment shaped approach, rather than simply try - script. Although the events and discus - members were first- or second-genera - or anger, they simply chose not to talk ing to survive. sions described in the book happened tion Christians with non-European roots. about faith at all. Society’s imperative to The Rev. Jenny Andison, incumbent of more than 20 years ago, they are very rel - There were some interfaith marriages. get along with your neighbour overrode St. Clement, Eglinton, and formerly the evant today. As a parish priest, he found that his any desire to talk about their faith in pub - Archbishop’s Officer for Mission in the Bishop Yu, who is the area bishop of parishioners often commented on their lic, let alone to share Jesus Christ with Diocese of Toronto, provides a summary York-Scarborough, is perfectly positioned interfaith experiences. “The issue of others. As one participant wrote, “I be - of the many resources available for to write a book like this. Born and raised Christian relations with other faiths came lieve in respect for people of other faiths parishes and individuals wishing to learn in Hong Kong, he converted to Christiani - up regularly in my pastoral practice—in and their right to choose their own reli - more about what being a missional ty as a young teenager and came to Cana - baptism, interfaith marriages, discussion gious beliefs.” church means. da at the age of 17. of religious formation of children, teach - As the Anglican Church thinks about The book concludes with an afterword When he was a boy growing up in Hong ing and spiritual direction. Most of these how to invite others to church, it would do by Archbishop Colin Johnson, with the Kong, his family practiced a mixture of interactions were cordial, but sometimes well to consider the societal pressures its frank admission that while he finds much Buddhism and Chinese folk religion. “My there were tensions.” members are under to be tolerant. This hope in what the authors have written, he childhood memories were filled with ritu - Responding to the pastoral needs of his book would help start that discussion, ei - also finds it is a challenge to rethink “our als of offering to local deities, the venera - parish and his own interest in the subject, ther at the parish or diocesan level. longstanding opinions.” He says the sto - tion of ancestors, as well as colourful sto - he began a four-year doctoral study that It is important to note that the events ries and essays “stretch” us and offer “se - ries and art based on legends and led to the writing of his Doctor of Ministry and discussions described in this book rious and uncomfortable questions.” mythology,” he writes. thesis, which became this book. The heart took place before Sept. 11, 2001, the day Green Shoots Out of Dry Ground is He studied chemistry in university and of the study took place from November that changed the religious landscape for - clearly aimed at a general audience, not an then switched to religious studies in his 1995 to July 1996, when a small group of ever. Canada has also seen a massive in - academic one. Its strength lies in the third year. Although a passionate Chris - parishioners took part in an educational flux of immigrants and their faiths over strong quality of writing and the passion tian, he became fascinated by other reli - program that explored their faith and the past 20 years. But that’s what makes of the authors for their subject. gions. “I became enchanted with the their attitudes toward other faiths. The this book more important than ever. 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BY STUART MANN

IT’S not often that a hush falls over the Bishop’s Company Din - ner, but that’s what happened on April 30 as the Rev. Tim Haughton and his wife Laurie spoke about how the Bishop’s Company helped their son learn to speak and say “I love you” to them for the first time. Mr. Haughton, the incumbent of Trinity East (Little Trinity), Toron - to, and Ms. Haughton told a hushed crowd of 542 people how their son Joshua, now five, was born with a heart defect and wasn’t expected to live. He has had three open-heart surgeries and is scheduled for an - other this summer. When Joshua was an infant, he suffered a massive stroke that damaged his brain and impaired his ability to speak. As he grew older, his parents were unable to pay for the costly therapies need - The Rev. Tim Haughton and his wife Laurie tell how financial assistance from the Bishop’s Company helped their son say ‘I love you’ to them for ed to give him a chance at a nor - the first time. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON mal life. They enrolled Joshua in a spe - cial centre for kids with develop - mental disabilities but were un - able to pay the $400 monthly fee. “They were holding a spot for us but we couldn’t afford it,” said Ms. Haughton in an interview af - ter the dinner. “We just prayed that something would happen.” Seemingly out of the blue, Archbishop Colin Johnson con - tacted them and offered to pay the tuition with funds raised by the Bishop’s Company, which raises money for special causes identified by the Archbishop. It gives financial aid to clergy and their families facing unexpected expenses. It also provides grants Delores Lawrence (centre) with Archbishop Colin Johnson and Shirley Roberta Bondar, Canada’s first female astronaut, describes her flight to theological students. Drayton. into space. Archbishop Johnson and the Bishop’s Company stepped in in space. Dr. Bondar, who is an again last summer when Joshua Anglican, spoke about her up - needed private intensive language bringing in Sault Ste. Marie and therapy. “I’d spent four and a half how her parents nurtured her cu - years trying to get him this thera - riosity about the world around py and I was feeling hopeless,” re - her. She described her flight calls Ms. Haughton. “When Tim aboard the space shuttle Discov - came home and told me the Arch - ery in 1992 and her work since bishop had called, I couldn’t be - then, including the creation of the lieve it.” Roberta Bondar Foundation, The therapy helped Joshua which helps cultivate a sense of speak in sentences and say “I love awe, respect and appreciation for you” to his mom and dad for the other life forms on Earth. first time. “The first time he said The dinner was held at the it, it was the most amazing and in - Toronto Marriott hotel in down - tense feeling in the world,” said town Toronto, with a reception at Ms. Haughton. “I knew he felt it, nearby Holy Trinity, Trinity but to hear him actually say it—it Square. The dinner set a record was incredible.” for the largest attendance in the From left: Brenda Valenteyn, the Rev. Maurice Francois, Mary Scarfo, the Rev. Kevin Robertson, Mohan Shar - She said she wasn’t even aware event’s history. It raised $75,000. ma and Mary Conliffe. of what the Bishop’s Company did Archbishop Johnson, who was until Archbishop Johnson contact - leaving that night with his wife tion before he retired, Bishop which is given to two students, worship. Graham McCaffrey and ed them. “Both times, I cried. I was Ellen to attend a conference in George Elliott sang the blessing one each from Trinity and Joan Wilson received the William in shock. It literally changed South Africa, thanked the crowd at the end of the evening. April 30 Wycliffe colleges, who are en - Kay Bursary, which aids students Joshua’s life. There’s no way to for its support. “There are so was his last day as area bishop of gaged in studies that celebrate who are engaged in theological say what this has meant to us.” many good things going on in York-Simcoe. and enhance the understanding education that will lead to ordina - After the Haughtons’ heart- your parishes, and I thank you for As in previous years, scholar - of the diversity of the church. tion. Alana McCord and David rending story, the dinner guests that work. The church is alive and ship recipients were announced Jane Winstanley was awarded Ney received the George & Eileen listened to an address by Roberta well, and we’re celebrating that at the dinner. Joan Wilson and the Kirubai Scholarship, given to Carey Bursary, awarded to Angli - Bondar, Canada’s first female as - tonight.” Kevin Wong received the Terence a Trinity College divinity student cans pursuing post-graduate the - tronaut and the first neurologist In his last official public func - and Alice Jean Finlay Bursary, who is specializing in liturgy and ological studies. 10 The Anglican N E W S Summer Issue, 2013 Area bids farewell to bishop Patience, energy appreciated

BY THE REV. STEPHEN PESSAH

IT was a day of mixed emotions as both the clergy and laity of York- Simcoe gathered on April 21 at St. George, Allandale, in Barrie, to celebrate with Bishop George El - liott and his wife, Linda, 12 years of episcopal ministry. Bishop El - liott retired as area bishop on April 30. By the start of the event at 3 p.m., the church hall was already full; by the time the event ended, the crowd had swelled to more than 300 people. This in itself was a testimony to the impact Bishop Elliott and Linda had on the lives of those in York-Simcoe and in the diocese. The event transpired against the backdrop of the David Dunlap Trio, which provided music. This, combined with the superb catering efforts of Beth Hunt from the Globe Restaurant in Rosemont, created a delightful Clockwise from top left: the Rev. Canon John Read speaks to the crowd, accompanied by the Rev. Darryl Wright and the Rev. Nicola Skinner; Rose atmosphere in which people were Scott from St. Margaret, Barrie, greets Bishop Elliott; Bishop Elliott, his wife Linda, their children and a group from All Saints, Markham, enjoy able to engage in a time of infor - the festivities; well-wishers tuck into the food; the David Dunlop Trio provides music. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON mal sharing with our beloved bishop. The sharing culminated in a gift presentation made by the Deans meet for first time in Toronto Rev. Nicola Skinner, the regional dean of Holland deanery, and a BY CAROLYN PURDEN longing and attachment and what speech by the Rev. Canon John cathedrals could do to support Read, the regional dean of York- THE central and prophetic role of that,” Ms. Rowe said. Central deanery. Canon Read’s cathedrals in cities formed the fo - The deans also visited the new speech expressed the feelings and cus of the North American Deans building development in nearby sentiments of those gathered. He Conference, held in Toronto in Regent Park. Dean Stoute pointed highlighted Bishop Elliott and April. out that the northern part of the Linda’s remarkable gift of hospi - Held annually for more than 60 original housing complex was tality and Bishop Elliott’s keen years, the event attracted 94 An - built on land donated by the sense of humour. glican deans and their partners cathedral in the 1940s and ’50s. On matters of pastoral care, it and spouses. The gathering is an Another highlight of the confer - was noted that Bishop Elliott ex - occasion for deans from the Unit - ence was a presentation by Dean ercised great patience and bound - ed States and Canada to get to - Hosam Naoum of St. George’s less energy as he sought to pro - gether for theological discussion Cathedral in Jerusalem. An Is - vide spiritual care and nurture to and reflection about their min - raeli Palestinian Christian, he both his clergy and laity. His con - istry. talked about what had happened cern for his people has been felt “It’s one of the nicest of the ec - to the church in Israel from the by so many in very real and tangi - clesiastical conferences,” says Anglican deans and their partners and spouses from across North 1950s, when Christians made up ble ways. Whether it was a visit at Dean Douglas Stoute of St. James America gather outside St. James Cathedral. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON 28 per cent of the population, to to - a difficult time, or simply a word Cathedral, who hosted the meet - day, when they make up only two of encouragement to help us be - ing. “There is no political agenda.” us of what our culture or civiliza - understanding homelessness. He per cent. lieve in better days ahead, we are Meeting in Toronto for the first tion should be concerned about,” described how a city becomes Dean Naoum said political ges - all better for his presence in our time, the deans discussed the fu - she said. home, and talked about homeless - tures, such as the boycott of Is - lives. We were then reminded of ture of liberal theology, the city as Cathedrals are in a unique posi - ness as not merely the lack of a raeli fruit, are not helpful. Rather, that one gift Bishop Elliott has the dominant unit in contempo - tion, she added, because they are roof, but also a lack of attachment he called for wisdom in trying to shared throughout the years to rary culture, and the relationship often located downtown, in the to the community. An antidote to settle the centuries-old challenges express God’s love in ways that between the church and Islam in centre of the city, and they con - this kind of homelessness could of the Middle East conflict. words simply cannot—his gift of the United States and Canada. nect with other meeting places. be membership in a faith commu - Bill Graham, the former Liberal music. I suspect his sung Blessing One of the speakers was Mary “Cathedrals are to the ecclesiasti - nity, he said. minister of foreign affairs and na - will be that one defining feature Rowe, vice president and manag - cal community what cities are to A third speaker, Rosanne Hag - tional defense, gave a presenta - we will miss the most! As we ing director of the Municipal Art civilization,” she said. “They pro - gerty, also talked about homeless - tion on the often tricky relations raised our glasses in a toast to Society of New York City. In an in - vide a unique experience of place, ness. An internationally recog - between Canada and the United Bishop Elliott and Linda, it be - terview after the conference, she a spirituality of place. They give nized leader in developing innova - States. In particular, he described came clear in the moment that we said certain key cities are you an opportunity to connect tive strategies to end homeless - step by step the reasons why were not just sending our bishop prophetic because of what they with ‘the other’—folks who aren’t ness and strengthen communi - Canada did not go into Iraq in sup - into retirement with our bless - tell us about culture and civiliza - like you. They’re meeting places ties, she talked about providing port of the United States. ings, but we were saying farewell tion. for diversities of all kinds.” the supports that homeless people “He spoke about U.S.-Canadian to a dear friend. “The challenges you find in a Another speaker, the Rev. need, rather than simply looking relations in a very personal way city—the particular things that Michael Blair of the United for shelter. that certainly the Americans The Rev. Stephen Pessah is the are dominant in the city’s civic Church of Canada, talked about “What we found was we were found extremely enlightening,” incumbent of St. Margaret, Barrie. life—are important indicators to the theological underpinnings of all talking about the sense of be - says Dean Stoute. Summer Issue, 2013 F E A T U R E The Anglican 11

Sewing a design.

items. Their creations grace churches across Canada, the United States and overseas. A few years ago, they repaired a century-old silk cope and mitre for the Diocese of Western New York. They sent linens and vestments to an Angli - can church in Biloxi, Mississippi, that was wiped out by Hurricane Katrina. They sent purificators to an Anglican church in Turkey that was using Kleenex to wipe the chalice. Closer to home, the group has created hundreds of items for churches in the diocese, including a set of black vestments for St. Thomas, Huron Street, last year. They’ve also created vestments and linens for churches in remote parts of Canada. “The original directive of the group was to supply small linens and silkwork to missionary churches free of charge, and this The needleworkers today, seated from left: Shannon Quigley (a visitor for the day), Louise Reid and Jean Newell. Standing from left: Anne Robson, would be paid for by selling the Joyce Connell, Ruth Briffett, Ruth Burritt, Ann Westgate, Peggy Perkins, Ann Klobucar and Sheila Wilgar. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON same items to churches that could afford to pay,” says Ms. Brif - fett. “That still happens.” The group has had a colourful history. It was founded in 1913 as a sub-committee of the Dorcas Made with grace Department (“dorcas” means sewing work) to “help meet the needs of poor branches in the mission field for such articles as Women bless churches with a century of needlework will tend to beautify and aid in promoting the spirit of worship.” BY STUART MANN ing. Curious, they turned it over Ruth Briffett, coordinator of the work with needle and thread. The women met at St. James and saw an inscription on the group. Some work only on linens—altar Cathedral and worked with linen IT was a chance discovery that back. It read: “Presented to the The Ecclesiastical Needlework - cloths, purificators (the cloth and silk that was imported from opened a window into the past, Ecclesiastical Needlework Com - ers is one of the diocese’s best used to clean the chalice), corpo - England. and planted the seeds for a spe - mittee on the Fiftieth Anniver - kept secrets. Each Monday from rals (the small, square cloth on An exhibition by the needle - cial service at St. James Cathe - sary, 1913 to 1963. By the chair - September to June, about 14 which the chalice and host are workers in 1962 drew more than dral in September. man, Mrs. Philip Tipping.” women gather in the ACW’s of - placed during the eucharist) and 500 people. To mark the Anglican In 2010, members of the Ecclesi - To their astonishment, the fice to create beautiful vestments, palls (the cloth used to cover the Congress in Toronto in 1963, five astical Needleworkers were mov - needleworkers realized that their linens and other hand-made chalice). The rest create vest - stoles from the cathedral were re - ing back into their quarters at the group was nearly 100 years old. goods for churches. ments, altar frontals, lectern paired and used by priests during Diocesan Centre when they un - “It was quite surprising and Seated around a large table, the hangings and even bookmarks. the congress’s many services. packed a picture of hands pray - somewhat overwhelming,” says women chat amicably while they They also restore and repair One stole required 253 hours of work to complete. In 1976, a set of eucharistic vestments was given to the Sister - hood of St. John the Divine in memory of Mae Ricciardelli, a member of the needleworkers who had taught the art of silk em - broidery to more than 150 women over the years. To celebrate their 100th an - niversary, the needleworkers are holding a special service at St. James Cathedral on Sept. 28 at 11 a.m. All are invited. The service Embroidering a veil to cover a will be followed by a light lunch. chalice. A display of their work will be held at the cathedral beginning Sept. 28. The group is looking for new members. “You need to have some basic sewing skills,” says Ms. Briffett. “If you have that, we’ll teach you the rest.” In addi - tion to their Monday gatherings, the group hosts a Christmas din - ner and a lunch in June. Anyone interested in joining the group The needleworkers in 1963. Back row, from left: Mrs. Philip Tipping, Mrs. J. B. Moody, Mrs. D. Egles, Mrs. G. should contact Ms. Briffett at the Yule, Mrs. G.H. Henstridge and Mrs. O. Gray. From row, from left: Mrs. W. Lenner, Mrs. F. E. Chappell, T. A. Repairing embroidery for the or - ACW office, 416-363-0018, on Mon - Dashwood, Mrs. J. R. Morrison, Mrs. H. Hall and Mrs. E. Monkman. PHOTO BY GILBERT MILNE phery band of a cope. days from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 12 The Anglican N E W S Summer Issue, 2013 Vestry motion sparks action for refugees Campaign raises awareness

BY MURRAY M AC ADAM the vestry motion by mid-April. While sometimes the motion ADVOCACY work in the diocese passed with little debate, at other took a dramatic turn at many times discussion was lively. “We PROUD DAY parish vestry meetings this year spent more time discussing this Fifty churchwardens in the York- when the agenda included a mo - motion than the budget,” says the Credit Valley episcopal area, cler - tion urging the federal govern - Rev. David Harrison, the incum - gy and Bishop Philip Poole gather ment to repeal its new refugee bent of St. Mary Magdalene, for a photo after a churchwardens law, the Protecting Canada’s Im - Toronto. “The discussion was an - commissioning service at St. Pe - migration System Act , often imated and passionate. When I ter, Erindale on April 7. At left, known as Bill C-31. asked for someone to move and Maria Jordan, the rector’s warden The law, passed in June, 2012, second the motion, I was met with of St. John, Weston, says a few has aroused considerable concern a flurry of raised hands.” words about her church. PHOTOS among people who work with Elin Goulden from St. Martin- BY MICHAEL HUDSON refugee claimants because it in-the-Fields, Toronto, was also treats people differently accord - encouraged by the number of peo - ing to where they are from and ple at her parish who spoke of how they arrived in Canada. It im - their connections to refugees or poses short timelines for prepar - how they had seen refugees im - ing refugee claims, and bars ac - pacted by the new legislation. A cess to the appeals process for law clerk offered to volunteer her some people. Our bishops en - services to help refugees submit dorsed the vestry motion cam - their claims. paign, which was launched by the The campaign led to consider - diocese’s Social Justice and Advo - able learning about the law and greeted by three Anglican any perils from the deep.” After cacy Committee. related refugee process issues. CANADA priests in full vestments, includ - the service, everyone enjoyed Anne Woolger, who works with Several educational events were ing Bishop Jane Alexander. fish-shaped cookies and hot refugee claimants in Toronto at organized at parishes. Informa - While many commuters smiled chocolate provided by the Matthew House Refugee Recep - tion materials were produced and and kept walking, some stopped church. tion Services, is alarmed at the sent to parishes, including a re - BRIEFS to receive a blessing and the sign Huron Church News new law’s repercussions. The new flection paper on our Christian of the cross in ashes on their system gives some claimants only calling to care for the strangers West Coast bishops foreheads. On her way to the 15 days to compile their stories of within our midst. Nonetheless, University of Alberta to teach a Padre appointed persecution and to provide evi - some parishes felt they didn’t to retire class, Wendy Edey said she was to top job dence. “If someone has docu - know about the new law or relat - Bishop James Cowan and Bishop “thrilled” to receive a blessing Colonel the Rev. Canon John ments in a country from which ed issues, and chose not to pres - Michael Ingham are retiring on and the sign of the cross from Fletcher, an honorary assistant they fled and fear to contact, how ent the motion. Aug. 31. Bishop Cowan is the Bishop Alexander, and wondered at All Saints, Westboro, in the can they easily access them with - Archbishop Colin Johnson has bishop of the Diocese of British what her students would think of Diocese of Ottawa, has been ap - in 15 days? Or if a woman has written to clergy to thank them Columbia, which comprises Van - it. “I can’t recall anything that pointed chaplain general of the been brutally raped or tortured, for their support of this campaign. couver Island and several gulf is - Bishop Jane said in her blessing, Canadian Forces. Canon Fletcher how likely is she to quickly open He has also written to Jason Ken - lands. Bishop Ingham is the bish - because the moment she started joined the Canadian Forces in up within two weeks of arrival to ney, minister of Citizenship, Immi - op of the Diocese of New West - to speak, I was overcome with 1980 and started in full-time people she hardly knows in Cana - gration and Multiculturalism, to minster, which extends from the impulse to cry,” said Ms. chaplaincy there in 1989. Since da and recount her horrific expe - inform him of the depth of Angli - Powell River and the Sunshine Edey, who is legally blind. 2008, he has been the director of rience?” can concern about the new law, Coast through to Hope and in - The Messenger Chaplaincy Services, responsible New rules that could place inno - and to affirm that Anglicans in the cludes the major urban and sub - for recruiting chaplains, training, cent refugees in detention for up diocese are willing to work with urban areas around Vancouver. education and policy. He suc - to a year are both upsetting and him and his government on posi - The Diocesan Post Feet washed in ceeds Brigadier General the Rev. violate international law, she tive alternatives. drive-through Karl McLean, also an Anglican adds. “I have seen teens who The refugee motion campaign On Maundy Thursday, the padre, who is retiring. spent just a day or two in our local is one step in an ongoing effort to Amanda Todd’s mother Church of the Resurrection in Crosstalk detention centres and arrived at expand awareness about the caus - at cathedral event Hamilton held a drive-through our shelter in tears, traumatized es that lead people to flee to coun - Fifty adults and young people, in - feet washing ceremony in the by the experience. I can’t imagine tries such as Canada, and how An - cluding the mother of Amanda church’s driveway. As the cars Church makes what months in a detention centre glicans here can support them. Todd, the British Columbia pulled up and the drivers got out doughnuts to pave would do.” teenager who committed suicide and sat down, the Rev. Mike parking lot Some Anglicans asked why the To learn more about how you after being bullied, gathered at Deed, assisted by the Rev. Leon diocese did not suggest changes can welcome refugees in your Christ Church Cathedral in Van - Burke, washed their feet. It was Paul Skanes, who was baptized to the new law, rather than call for community and about follow-up couver to watch a movie and take the fourth year the parish has at All Saints church in Kingston, its repeal. However, people famil - refugee advocacy efforts, visit part in a discussion on bullying. held the event. Nova Scotia, more than 50 years iar with refugee issues felt that www.toronto.anglican.ca/sjac, or After the event, the Rev. David Niagara Anglican ago, came back to help the the law contains so many negative contact Murray MacAdam, the Taylor, the associate priest of St. church in an unusual way. Mr. features that repeal is the best diocese’s Social Justice and Advo - Mary, Kerrisdale, led a “Walk of Skanes, who is the owner and op - course. cacy consultant,at mmacadam@ Awareness” to the waterfront, Fishing fleet blessed erator of Mini Donut Express, Nearly 70 parishes had passed toronto.anglican.ca. where participants put flowers in Trinity Church in Port Burwell, agreed to spend the day at the the water, offered prayers of Ont., held a “blessing of the nets” church, cooking up doughnuts to hope and made a commitment to service in March on the west side raise money to repave the park - -ARY''RIFlTH"! -"! *$ be agents of change. of the harbour, where the com - ing lot. The church advertised Topic mercial fishing boats were in dry around town, and many people -ACLAREN #ORLETT,,0 dock until the fishing season be - came to buy the “warm-from-the- "ARRISTER3OLICITOR/NTARIO "LOOR3TREET%AST !TTORNEY#OUNSELOR AT ,AW.EW9ORK gan. There has been a commer - church-kitchen” miniature 3UITE 3OUTH4OWER Ashes, blessings cial fishery on Lake Erie for doughnuts. Almost 400 boxes 4ORONTO /.-72 greet commuters more than 100 years. There was a were sold, giving a much appre - "USINESS,AW 7ILLS 4RUSTS%STATES 4EL   As train commuters hurried record turnout for the service. ciated boost to the parking lot &AX   through a station in Edmonton The priest blessed the fleet “from fund. WWWMACLARENCORLETTCOM% MAILMGRIFlTH MACORLAWCOM on Ash Wednesday, they were the dangers of wind and rain and The Diocesan Times Summer Issue, 2013 P A R I S H N E W S The Anglican 13

Storytellers make Bible come alive A small group of people gather in a circle, alert and attentive, as the storyteller begins the tale. Will it be about Ruth following her moth - er-in-law to a strange land, or Daniel miraculously surviving a night in a den of lions? Or will it be a story about Jesus and his fol - lowers as they travel the country - side of Galilee, healing the sick and giving hope to the poor? People have forgotten that once upon a time the Bible was not a printed book but stories faithfully passed on from generation to gen - eration. In cultures where there was a strong oral tradition, the stories were carefully nurtured and remembered, and the tales became the Living Word. This tradition has begun to grow again. Seven years ago, members of St. John, Blackstock, were introduced to the discipline CONFIRMED of Biblical storytelling, and now Archbishop Colin Johnson, 31 candidates and their sponsoring clergy gather outside St. James Cathedral after the annual Diocesan Confirmation they regularly tell the stories on April 14. Confirmands came from Havergal College; St. Anne, Toronto; St. Bartholomew, Regent Park; St. Christopher, Richmond Hill; St. Columba rather than read them from the and All Hallows, Toronto; St. Cuthbert, Leaside; St. Hilary, Mississauga; St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Toronto and St. Michael and All Angels, Toronto. Bible. It has brought the stories to PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON life and made them easier to un - derstand. The congregation uses the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible as its source, trying to be faithful both to the words and con - tent. Visits by the storytellers to nursing and retirement homes, lo - cal groups and clericus meetings have been well received. They re - cently led a workshop at All Saints, Whitby, which is now in the process of forming its own Jenny Beal from St. John, Black - group of storytellers. stock, tells a story from the Bible. On Oct. 18-19, the 4th Annual Festival of Biblical Storytellers of Canada, “Go Tell it on the Moun - tain,” will be held in Richmond Hill. For more information on the festival, visit the website at www.biblicalstorytellingcan.ca. By Brenda Peever Music fills country chapel Nobody ever wants to see their church closed, but it’s an experi - St. John’s Chapel. READY TO ROLL ence shared by many. The people of St. John, Tecumseth, experi - ed together to form a new choir, The Rev. Simon Bell blesses bicycles in the courtyard of St. George the Martyr, Toronto, while Dan and Julie enced the closure of their church Harmonia. Tickets were sold, with Brandsma and their two children and Nathan Klaehn (middle) look on. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON a few years ago. But Anglicans proceeds directed to charities se - are a resurrection people, and lected by the choirmaster, and St. signs of new life at St. John’s John’s was filled with both music emerged during Easter last year. and music-lovers. Rehearsals be - The Church of the Evangelists, gan just after Easter, with a per - New Tecumseth, was formed by formance on the afternoon of Pen - amalgamating five congregations, tecost. The concert last spring bringing people together from was a great hit, filling the pews for four villages and the surrounding a Sunday afternoon and filling the countryside. Today, the parish has air with the glorious music of this its main church in Tottenham, talented local choir. with St. John’s as a chapel-of-ease This year, those seeds grew into in the farm country about 10 min - something more. St. John’s hosted utes away. not one but three concerts. The While most worship services first, on April 28, featured the local and activities in the parish hap - Hometown Bluegrass Band, cele - pen at the Church of the Evangel - brating both Gospel and tradition - ists, the congregation was com - al bluegrass music. The second mitted to the faithful maintenance concert on May 26 saw the Harmo - and use of St. John’s Chapel. St. nia choir return. And the third John’s has always been associated summer concert on June 23 filled with the cemetery which sur - the chapel with Baroque music. rounds it, located on about four Each concert’s goal was to make acres at the top of a gentle hill in beautiful music accessible to the the countryside. community. The generosity of the But St. John’s is more than just performers meant that tickets a focal point for the cemetery. It were only $10, with a portion sup - NEW HOME was also recognized that the porting the ministry of the parish A group of young people and adults from St. Aidan, Toronto, join their hosts in a house they built during a church had wonderful acoustics. and a portion shared with other 10-day trip to Nicaragua to learn about partnering with others in community development. They spent time By the time the snow melted last charities that do vital work in lo - in an impoverished Managua barrio called Anexo Dios Proveera—the “God will provide” neighbourhood. To - winter, the seed of an idea had cal communities. gether with local leaders, families and agencies, they helped to build three houses and painted a stretch of taken root. Local musicians band - By Larry Moore mural. 14 The Anglican I N M O T I O N Summer Issue, 2013

Appointments bicoke, May 1. sociate Priest, All Saints, Sher - Third Phase - Parish Selection Rector of St. James, Orillia, • The Rev. Canon Maurice Fran - • The Rev. Canon Sister Con - bourne Street, Toronto, June 1. Committee Interviewing from 1969 until his retirement cois, Honorary Canon, Cathe - stance Joanna Gefvert SSJD, • The Rev. Gus Constantinides, (not receiving names): in 1988. In retirement, he was dral Church of the Holy Family, Interim Priest-in-Charge, Priest-in-Charge, St. Michael • St. George-on-Yonge an Honorary Assistant at St. Northern Mexico, March 30. Christ Memorial Church, Os - and All Angels, June 1. • All Saints, Collingwood Andrew, Alliston, and St. Paul, • The Rev. Judith Alltree, Inter - hawa, May 1. • The Rev. Mary Bell-Plouffe, In - Innisfil. His funeral was held at im Executive Director, Mission • The Rev. Rachel Kessler, Asso - terim Priest-in-Charge, St. Retirement St. Paul, Innisfil, on April 19. to Seafarers, April 1. ciate Priest, Grace Church on- Barnabas, Peterborough, July 1. • The Rev. Bryan Beveridge has • The Rev. Dr. Michael Lloyd • The Rev. Jim Seagram, Priest- the-Hill, Toronto, May 1. • The Rev. Vernal Savage, Inter - announced his retirement. His died on April 21. Ordained in in-Charge, Prince of Peace, • The Rev. Jane Watanabe, im Priest-in-Charge, St. last Sunday at St. Peter, the Diocese of Montreal in Wasaga Beach, April 1. Priest-in-Charge, St. John, Har - Matthew the Apostle, Oriole, Cobourg, will be Aug. 25. 1963, he officially came on • The Rev. Andrew Sandilands, wood, May 1. July 1. strength of the Diocese of Associate Priest, Prince of • Following ordination on May 5, • The Rev. Philip Der, Incum - Conclusions Toronto in 2005, although he Peace, Wasaga Beach, and the following transitional dea - bent, St. Christopher, Rich - • The Rev. Douglas Jacques con - had had informal permission Priest-in-Charge, Church of cons were appointed Assistant mond Hill, Sept. 1. cluded his ministry as Hon - while working at Church the Good Shepherd, Stayner, Curates as follows: • Ms. Adrienne Clements (to be orary Assistant at St. Matthew, House as Director of the An - April 1. 1. The Rev. Randy Greve OHC ordained on Sept. 8 in the Dio - Oriole, on April 22. glican Book Centre from 1968 - • The Rev. Canon Harold Percy, – St. Hilary, Cooksville – cese of Montreal), Assistant 1995. Since 1998 he had served Honorary Assistant, Christ starting May 15. Curate, St. Timothy, Agincourt, Ordinations as Associate Priest at All Church St. James, Toronto, 2. The Rev. Ian LaFleur – St. Sept. 9. • The Rev. Jo-Anne Billinger was Saints, Kingsway, Toronto, and April 15. Andrew, Scarborough – ordained a priest at St. Mary, latterly was also Honorary As - • The Rev. Dr. Peter Robinson, starting October 1. Vacant Incumbencies Richmond Hill, on July 14. sistant at St. George-on-the- Honorary Assistant, Trinity 3. The Rev. Mark Regis – St. Clergy from outside the diocese Hill, Toronto. His funeral was East (Little Trinity), Toronto, Paul, Bloor Street, Toronto with the permission of their Deaths held on April 26 at All Saints, April 17. – starting May 5. bishop may apply through • The Rev. Canon Robert Bruce Kingsway. • The Rev. Lee McNaughton (On - 4. The Rev. Kevin Wong – St. Mary Conliffe. Mutch died on April 5. Or - • The Rev. Owen Robinson (Pat) tario), Honorary Assistant, Luke, East York, Toronto – dained in 1951 in the Diocese of Orr died on June 2. Ordained Trinity East (Little Trinity), starting May 5. First Phase - Parish Selection Montreal, he came to the Dio - in the Diocese of Huron in Toronto, April 17. • The Rev. Sonia Hinds, Inter - Committee in Formation cese of Toronto in 1970 from 1951, he served in the Diocese • The Rev. Canon Paul Robinson im Priest-in-Charge, St. (not yet receiving names): Nagoya, Japan. He served as of Toronto at the following (Edmonton), Honorary Assis - Columba and All Hallows, • Parish of Bobcaygeon, Rector of St. Theodore of Can - parishes: St. Anne, Toronto; tant, Trinity, Aurora, April 18. Toronto, May 12. Dunsford & Burnt River terbury from 1970 to 1980, then St. Mark, Parkdale, Toronto; • The Rev. David Franks, Hon - • The Rev. Pam Trondson, Asso - • Christ Memorial Church, Os - as Incumbent of St. Philip, Eto - Redeemer, Toronto; Port Perry orary Assistant, Trinity, Auro - ciate Priest, St. Paul, Newmar - hawa bicoke, until his retirement in & Brooklin; St. Martin-in-the- ra, April 18. ket, May 15. • Holy Spirit, Dixie North, Mis - 1990. In retirement he served Fields, Toronto; St. Crispin, • The Rt. Rev. Patrick White • The Rev. Beth Pessah, Incum - sissauga as Honorary Assistant at Holy Scarborough; St. Paul, Run - (Bermuda), Honorary Assis - bent, Parish of North Essa, • Holy Family, Heart Lake Trinity, Ajax, then St. Thomas, nymede; St. Peter, Scarbor - tant, St. John, York Mills, May 15. • Parish of Roche’s Point Huron Street, Toronto. His fu - ough; and was chaplain to the Toronto, April 18. • The Rev. Allan Kirk, Honorary • St. Matthew, Oriole neral was held on April 11 at Scarborough and Toronto • The Rev. Maggie Helwig, Inter - Assistant, St. Theodore of St. Thomas, Huron Street, West Nursing Homes prior to im Priest-in-Charge, St. Canterbury, May 27. Second Phase - Parish Toronto. his retirement in 1988. In re - Stephen-in-the-Fields, Toronto, • The Rev. Erin Martin, Incum - Selection Committee Receiving • The Rev. Canon John Fralick tirement, he made himself May 1. bent, St. James the Apostle, Names (via Area Bishop): died on April 14. Ordained in available for a number of in - • The Rev. Margaret Rodrigues, Sharon, June 1. • St. John the Evangelist, Port 1954, he served as Assistant terim ministries, most notably Associate Priest, St. Philip, Eto - • The Rev. Joanna Manning, As - Hope (Trent-Durham) Curate at St. John, West Toron - at St. Mary & St. Cyprian, • St. James, Caledon East to, Incumbent of the Parish of Toronto. His funeral was held (York-Credit Valley) Elmvale, then St. John the Di - at Trinity College Chapel on vine, Scarborough, and was June 15. Looking Ahead

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There were the Trojan Hebrews when they entered the wars, the Hittites were invading land. The Israelites in 1250 BCE Asia-Minor, populations were probably only numbered a few moving, groups were revolting thousand people. against their overlords, and As the Israelites joined some some of the ancient gods were of the local Canaanite tribes, the being replaced. The Philistines, people gradually moved boat people from Greece, ar - throughout the land and settled rived in Canaan about this time into various areas. These areas and settled on the coast in the helped shape the tribes of Israel. south, the area now called the This tribal structure developed Gaza Strip. These new arrivals because of natural divisions in would encounter the Israelites the land. Their God, Yahweh, during the next couple of cen - who helped the escaped slaves turies, and it is from the through their long sojourn in Philistines that we got the name the desert, was accepted as the Palestine. God of this new nation as it There is evidence suggesting struggled for identity in Canaan. unrest among some of the These are exciting and fascinat - Canaanite tribes against their ing stories about the beginning rulers. It is into this land that of this holy nation living in obe - the children of Israel arrived dience to their one God. about 1250 BCE. I think the Is - ORDAINED raelites settled into the more Four candidates are ordained to the Sacred Order of Deacons at St. James Cathedral on May 5. Joining Bishop mountainous central highlands, The Rev. Canon Don Beatty is Philip Poole are, from left, the Rev. Mark Regis, the Rev. Kevin Wong, the Rev. Ian LaFleur and the Rev. Randy which were sparsely populated, an honorary assistant at St. Greve OHC. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON and may have joined up with Luke, Dixie South, Mississauga. 16 The Anglican N E W S Summer Issue, 2013 Priest cycles to work on Earth Sunday Church makes changes to help environment

BY HENRIETA PAUKOV postable cups, cutlery and plates. They have also made more sub - WHEN the Rev. Stephen Kern stantial investments in environ - asked his congregation to walk, mental protection. During the re - carpool or cycle to church on cent Our Faith-Our Hope fundrais - Earth Sunday, April 21, he led by ing campaign, the congregation example. He cycled to St. Philip on- made greening the church one of the-Hill in Unionville from his the three focuses of fundraising. home in Aurora. “It was great but “We’ve made a steadfast progress it was cold!” he says about the on that,” says Mr. Kern. “We’ve The Rev. Stephen Kern stops outside St. Philip-on-the-Hill, Unionville, after cycling from his home in Aurora. hour-long, 29 km ride. “It was mi - spent about $18,000 putting in ther - PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON nus two degrees Celsius when I mal windows, which decrease our left at 6:15 a.m. I didn’t get any heating costs and our air-condi - street out here, Kennedy Street,” whole church. If we don’t take a tion , which focuses on environ - frostbite or anything, so that was tioning costs, but are also helping says Mr. Kern. “It would be quite a much more responsible attitude to mental degradation, and were good. It was lovely to be cycling as to lower our carbon footprint.” looming visual on the church.” how we live and our relationship deeply affected by what they saw. the sun was rising.” The churchwardens are also Mr. Kern says he is pleased that to creation, how can we really wit - They made a list of things they The congregation got into it, leading a project to install LED the Diocese of Toronto encourages ness to our children the impor - could change in their daily lives to too. “A couple of families cycled bulbs in some of the lights in the parishes to celebrate Earth Sun - tance of their lives and their well- help reduce their impact on the and walked so I’m encouraged sanctuary and are investigating day (a bulletin insert for Earth being?” environment. about that,” says Mr. Kern. “I the costs of installing solar panels Sunday, from the Creation Matters Mr. Kern’s personal commit - “Cycling more is a part of that,” preached on water issues and the on the church’s large south-facing committee, has been emailed to ment to environmental protection he says. “I’m going to commit to sacredness of water.” The same roof. “We feel it would be a wit - parishes for the past few years) is not limited to Earth Sunday, ei - cycle a couple of times a week day, the church banned the use of ness to the broader community and believes the environment is “a ther. He and his family recently from Aurora to Unionville during Styrofoam in favour of com - because we have a very busy growing and a critical issue for the saw the documentary film Revolu - the summer months.” Middle class feeling bite, forum told BRIEFLY

is the 11th biggest economy in the Paper returns Canadians world.” The problem is that the in September benefits of economic growth are struggling not being shared widely. The bot - The Anglican will not be pub - tom 40 per cent of Canadian soci - lished in August. It will return in ety is living on less money than in September. To stay informed to pay for the 1970s. Only 27 per cent of job - over the summer, visit the dio - less workers in Ontario can ac - cese’s website, www.toronto.an - basic needs cess employment insurance bene - glican.ca. The staff and volun - fits. Meanwhile low-paid workers teers of The Anglican wish you a BY MURRAY M AC ADAM now make up 23 per cent of On - pleasant summer. tario’s workforce, and the mini - POVERTY has spread so deeply in - mum wage has not been raised for English bishop to be to Canadian society that middle- three years. class people and their children She zeroed in on the federal keynote speaker are now feeling its bite. Faith tra - government’s Temporary Foreign Bishop Stephen Cottrell of the ditions, however, can inspire peo - Worker program as an example of Diocese of Chelmsford in Eng - ple to think deeply about the soci - what’s gone wrong. At a time land will be the keynote speaker ety they want, and build an econ - Anglicans gather at Queen’s Park. From left: the Rev. Andrea Budgey, when one in five young workers in at next year’s Clergy Confer - omy in that spirit. Elin Goulden, the Rev. Maggie Helwig, Bishop Philip Poole, Beth Baskin, Toronto can’t find work, there are ence, to be held June 4-6 at Those where the key findings of Lanadee Lampman, Ruth Schembri, Murray MacAdam, Sue Ann Elite, now 340,000 foreign workers in Brock University in St. a Queen’s Park forum on April 18 Sheri Cameron. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON Canada, many of them doing low- Catharines. He will speak on the called “Awakening the Middle skilled work for highly profitable topic of “Making Christians.” Class,” sponsored by the Inter - other,” she noted. “When one is Keynote speaker Armine Yal - corporations such as fast food faith Social Assistance Reform suffering, none are well. It is our nizyan, an economist with the chains. Fund provides Coalition. It attracted 100 faith responsibility to find ways of Canadian Centre for Policy Alter - While outlining measures that leaders, as well as Premier Kath - speaking and thinking about our natives and a CBC radio commen - could make a difference for low- vestments for bishops leen Wynne and several cabinet common life. We are able to tell a tator, provided statistics to back income people, such as more af - Did you know that the diocese ministers. Bishop Philip Poole al - different story about ourselves, up this message. More and more fordable housing, Ms Yalnizyan has a Vestment Fund? The fund so attended, along with 10 other not a story about the accumula - Canadians struggle to pay for ba - also reminded her listeners that receives donations from individ - Anglicans. tion of material goods to acquire sic needs such as housing and ed - ultimately this comes down to uals and parish groups who are In a powerful theological reflec - status or ward off fear, not about ucation. Ontario’s poverty rate their values and a vision for the interested in making donations tion, the Rev. Maggie Helwig, self-protection as the ultimate val - has been growing during the past common good. “At the end of the to provide vestments for new chair of the diocese’s Social Jus - ue, but a story about solidarity.” two decades, and now stands at day, it’s the promise of abundant bishops. Donations by mail can tice and Advocacy Committee, That can enable us to welcome more than 12 per cent. We cannot life that we can offer to one anoth - be made payable to the Anglican contrasted the envy and fear by each other and realize that every - promise our children that they er. The abundant life is in our Diocese of Toronto and sent to which so much of society is driven one can have enough, instead of will remain in the middle class, midst. If we’re not committed to the Diocesan Centre, 135 Ade - and which divides us from one an - being manipulated into thinking she said. “People are worried this, we will all pay the price.” laide St. E., Toronto, ON, M5C other, with the vision of solidarity that “those people,” such as the about what’s going to happen to 1L8. To make gifts directly by that underlies not just Christiani - undeserving poor and refugees, them and their children.” Murray MacAdam is the credit card, call An Tran in the ty but other major faith traditions are the root of our problems, she “This is not for a lack of mon - diocese’s Social Justice and Stewardship Office at 416-363- as well. “We are all part of one an - said. ey,” noted Ms. Yalnizyan. “Canada Advocacy consultant. 6021, ext. 243.