This spring the 17 members of the Primate’s Commission will start considering how to translate General Synod’s 2010repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery into tangible action. Thecommission also has mandates to address the practicalities ofreconciliation and the persistent injustices in Canada’s indigenous communities.
Derived from the old English word for “lengthen” (as do the days in spring), Lent is the 40-day period of prayer, penitence and pondering before Easter.
As a teenager, Christiana Joan Clark would stay after class and passionately argue points with her history teacher.
With its theme of “Church for Every Context,” the annual Vital ChurchPlanting (VCP) conference launched on January 30 at St. Paul’s, BloorStreet, in Toronto. Sponsored by the Anglican diocese of Toronto andWycliffe College’s Institute of Evangelism, the conference bringsinspirational speakers and how-to workshop leaders together each year toexplore new directions for the missional church.
Thank heaven for iTunes. And Bose audio. Without these technological tools the 11 congregations in the far-flung parish of southeast Labrador would have no organ, and some even no choral music at Sunday services.
On January 25,1944, as much of Chinalay in the iron grip of the Japanese invasion, the church marked agroundbreaking event. A fearless Anglican bishop, discerning a matchbetween wartime need and a uniquely gifted person, ordained a humble yetsteel-spined disciple of Christ into the priesthood. The bishop wasRonald Hall of Victoria and the ordinand was Hong-Kong-born Li Tim-Oi,the church’s first woman priest.
Her Honour Dr. Mayann Elizabeth Francis has always gone wherever shefelt God was calling her to go. That has made for an exceptionallyvaried journey that includes sociology, X-ray technology, law, publicadministration, theology and human rights.
Anglican churches are among the most picturesque and varied examples of Canadian architecture. Each one is a unique and cherished emblem of its parish and a beckoning sanctuary for the world-weary—whether it’s a 19th-century wooden chapel in a field or a glass-and-concrete urban temple.
Don Cherry is such a devout Anglican that on a visit to National Post columnist Fr. Raymond J. de Sousa, he impressed the Catholic priest by reciting the Book of Common Prayer’s Confession-from “Dearly beloved brethren” to the end of the Absolution.
At age 92 and in her 35th year and 12th consecutive term as mayor ofMississauga, Ont., Canada’s sixth-largest city, Hazel McCallion isshowing no signs of slowing down. In fact, she’s devoting her last twoyears in office to solving the seemingly insoluble problem of gridlockin the Greater Toronto Area.
All Saints’ or All Hallows’ Day, the Solemnity of All Saints, commemoratesall the unsung saints and martyrs throughout Christian history, those who haveno designated feast day in the calendar but are believed to have attained thebeatific vision of God in heaven.
This is a day of prayer for the departed faithful. Like All Saints’Day, this commemoration is tied to the profession in the Apostles’ Creedof the communion of saints, which former Archbishop of Canterbury RowanWilliams broadly interprets as the “sharing between holy people” or the”sharing of holy things.”
Historically, the Western church has observed this as a night of vigil, prayer and fasting before All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day.
The Rev. Tim Sale likes the title “the longest-serving honorary assistant in the world.” He has earned it at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Winnipeg.
For the Hon. Clyde K. Wells, early education meant a one-room Anglican schoolhouse in the tiny railway town of Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland-Labrador.
Monica Pattencame by her lifelong passion for philan-thropy honestly. “My parentswere my role models,” says Patten, who in June was named a member of theOrder of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honours.
As the historic first-ever Joint Assembly wound down, attendees steppedup to the mic with sincere praise—and constructive gripes that may helpthe next assembly go even more smoothly than this one did.
They’ve been training for weeks. Some are local, others from out of town. They are Lutherans and Anglicans, clergy and laity, young and old. They are the roughly 100 volunteers who help run the complex machine that is Joint Assembly.
With Archdeacon Sid Black at the helm, the presentation by the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples kicked off with a couple of rousing Gospel-style tunes sung and played by Bishop Mark MacDonald, NIGP (“national indigenous guitar player”).
Bishop Phillip Poole, chairman of the Anglican Church of Canada’s pension committee, introduced resolutions on the church’s pension and continuing education plans. The five resolutions, recommended by the trustees, were previously presented to the pension committee and the Council of General Synod.
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