THETRINITARIANSM OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF THE ANGLICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH / SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2017 T 6 A A L 4 I D H N T 1 D E G 3 T R T L L E S S E I R . C S E T I N A S L O E A I N R N T T V A , C I I C C R A S E O I T T A R . H E N 8 Q 0 O 1 U L 2 E I 0 S C T E C D H U R C H P e U D r N m . P e S o i n . t n A v P N - e o P r I s o r , t o D C . a 5 f g O i 3 t e 7 Tarpaulin covering saved the altar and pews from damage when unrelenting rain from Hurricane Harvey caused the 7 ceiling of Holy Cross Church to collapse. Members of St. HURRICANES Augustine’s pose outside their new church building. WREAK HAVOC From left, they are Roy Hipkiss, Laurence TEXAS CHURCH’S CEILING COLLAPSES; Mead, Judith Anderson, Deacon Richard SOUTHEAST U.S. PARISHES IN DANGER Mulholland and Margaret Mead. A pair of back-to-back monster hurri- beat and thinks this was a message from canes ravaged the Atlantic and Gulf of God to get out of the old building and into Mexico coasts of the United States during the new.” the last week of August and early Septem- No sooner had Harvey done its work ber, collapsing the ceiling of a Texas church than Hurricane Irma blew in, doing mas- and putting ACC parishes in Florida and sive damage in the Caribbean and wreak- elsewhere in the Southeast in harm’s way. ing havoc throughout almost the entire PATIENCE,PRAYER PAY The ceiling in the nave of Holy Cross, state of Florida before moving into Georgia Cleveland, Texas collapsed under the and South Carolina. Jacksonville, Florida weight of more than four feet of relentless had record flooding, and there was also OFF FOR UK PARISH rain from Hurricane Harvey, which dev- severe flooding in Savannah, Georgia and It took two years of searching followed as reasons to seek a new home. astated the Houston metropolitan area, in Charleston, South Carolina. by a year of negotiations and patient wait- He went on to explain how things devel- the northwestern part of which Cleveland In an email to Archbishop Haverland, ing, but the congregation of St.Augus- oped: “When we began to look, we orig- is situated, and much of the rest of East the Very Rev. Jean Bien-Aime, vicar gen- tine of Canterbury, Canterbury, inally confined ourselves to other rented Texas. There was also water damage in the eral of Haiti, reported that ACC work England has finally got a church build- properties. Although our income is relative- sacristy and back room, said Holy Cross’s there had escaped the worst of Irma. ing it can call its own. ly generous and has created stability for us rector, the Ven. James G. Monroe. As THETRINITARIAN went to Recently, the Rt. Rev. Damien Mead, in Canterbury, we lacked the money nec- Fortunately, the mobile home Holy press, no confirmed reports of damage to who in addition to being Bishop of the essary to put toward a commercial deposit.” Cross uses as a parish hall did not sustain ACC parishes in Florida and elsewhere in United Kingdom is also rector of St. Augus- Property in South-East England is among damage, and the parish’s new church build- the Southeast were available. However, tine’s, received confirmation that a Christ- the highest-priced in the United Kingdom, ing, in the finishing stages of construc- news reports suggested that, at the very ian bank has agreed to a mortgage to enable so St. Augustine’s didn’t think it would tion, was likewise intact. Tarpaulin was least, churchfolk there had to cope with the congregation to buy a former Metho- ever save enough, Bishop Mead said. But placed over the altar, pews and other fur- downed trees, high water and lack of dist chapel in the village of Painters Forstal, in 2015 he received a letter from a solici- nishings, sparing them from damage, Fath- power, in some places for days and pos- just outside Canterbury. tor acting as executor of an estate in which er Monroe said. sibly weeks. The congregation’s current home is a St. Augustine’s had been left a legacy. The congregation is meeting in the St. Michael and All Angels parish in former Brethren meeting house/chapel in A chance email to Methodist Church parish hall until electricity and air-condi- Orange Park outside Jacksonville posted on central Canterbury, which it has leased for headquarters in London, asking if they tioning are connected in the new church its website that services on Sunday, Sept. the last ten years at a commercial rent. It had churches or chapels for sale in Kent, building. 10 had been canceled, although Morning has also served as the pro-cathedral of the brought a reply from a staff member who “All of our people weathered the storm Prayer was broadcast. Diocese of the United Kingdom, an honor said he was aware of a chapel near Canter- with no flooding or damage,” Father Mon- Further reports will be available on the the new building will assume. bury that was coming up for sale. roe added. “Our congregation is very up- ACC’s website, www.anglicancatholic.org. Bishop Mead cited increased parking Bishop Mead made inquiries and discov- charges in city car parks, the high rent and SONSHINE:A REFLECTION/2 a need for better stewardship of resources Please see UK PARISH/8 WWW.ANGLICANCATHOLIC.ORG • FACEBOOK.COM/ANGLICANCATHOLICCHURCH 2 THETRINITARIAN SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2017 METROPOLITAN’S MESSAGE THETRINITARIANSM VOL. XXXVI, NO. 5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2017 A PIVOTAL MOMENT THETRINITARIAN, the Official Gazette of the Anglican eptember 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the While the saintly Bishop James Orin Mote was never Catholic Church, was first published in April 1979 as the of- Congress of St. Louis and of the Affirmation of St. Metropolitan of the ACC’s Original Province, he served sev- ficial voice of the Diocese of the Holy Trinity. In 1982, it be- Louis which issued from that Congress. In Septem- eral times as Acting Metropolitan, when the office was came a churchwide publication of The Anglican Catholic ber 1976 a General Convention of the Episcopal vacant, in virtue of his seniority as a bishop consecrated at Church. S Church, meeting in Minneapolis, fundamentally altered Denver in 1978. Bishop Mote’s addresses to Provincial PUBLISHERS the doctrine, worship, and moral teaching of that Church Synods on several occasions over the years used as a metaphor The College of Bishops in which many of us were born and raised. Doctrine was for our Church the 40 years spent in the wilderness by the altered by the decision to purport to ordain women to the Israelites during the Exodus. The metaphor was almost irre- EDITOR priesthood. Worship was altered by the adoption of a new sistible, since the Exodus involved an initial liberation, great John Omwake and radically different prayer book. graces and triumphs, but also frequent schisms, murmur- P.O. 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