Anglican Conversation: Diocese of New Westminster

Mark MacDonald is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. 12 Noon Eastern; 1:30pm Newfoundland; 1pm Maritimes; 11am Central and Saskatchewan; 10am Mountain a...nd Yukon; 9am Pacific. Topic: Gospel Based Discipleship Time: Nov 25 , 2020 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Every time we engage the Gospel. The Gospel of the Day is Luke 21:12-19 Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82591609134 Meeting ID: 825 9160 9134 One tap mobile +12042727920,,82591609134# Canada +14388097799,,82591609134# Canada Dial by your location +1 204 272 7920 Canada +1 438 809 7799 Canada +1 587 328 1099 Canada +1 647 374 4685 Canada +1 647 558 0588 Canada +1 778 907 2071 Canada +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 929 436 2866 US (New York) Meeting ID: 825 9160 9134 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbFns8HtV6 For I will give you words . . . (This Holy Bible was presented to the Mohawks by Queen Anne)

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This coming Sunday, October 18 we Celebrate the Holy Feast Day of Saint Luke the Evangelist Luke is mentioned three times in the Letters of Saint Paul, once as the beloved physician, but the Church remembers him chiefly as the author of two books which came to be included in the New Testament. The first book is the one we know as the Gospel according to Luke, where he told the story of Jesus, his preaching and mighty work in the border-country of Galilee, his suffering, dea...th and resurrection at the very heart of Israel, in Jerusalem itself. The second of Luke’s two books is the Acts of the Apostles. In this work he told how the good news was spread: how the apostles began their preaching at Jerusalem and moved westwards with the gospel until they reached the very centre of the Roman empire, the city of Rome itself. Thus, in these two books, Luke presented a comprehensive history of the gospel in terms of a journey from the hinterland of Judea to the heart land of imperial power and civilization. We offer thanks to God for bestowing such gifts of understanding and literary skill on Luke, and we celebrate Luke himself because he responded so faithfully to the working of grace. But still, we remember the story-teller for the story that he told; and that story is the Lord’s story. So, on this his day, we can honour Saint Luke no more highly than by joining in the telling of that story, which God gave him power to give us; that story which is the praise of God through Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit.

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On October 15 the Anglican Church commemorates, Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross. Teresa of Avila was a Spanish nun of the sixteenth century whose visions of Christ and gifts as a spiritual director have placed her among the greatest of all Christian mystics. She was the only daughter of a minor nobleman and entered the Carmelite convent in her native town of A’vila when she was twenty-one. Over the next two decades she endured many illnesses, one of which left her paral...yzed, and also a nagging sense that in her prayers and devotions she was doing nothing more than treading water. Then, in answer to her despair, she began to have visions and hear interior voices. The most famous of these experiences, known as transverberation of the heart, took place over a number of days in 1559. At her left side Teresa beheld an angel who held a golden spear with a flaming tip, with which he pierced her heart again and again. Teresa later wrote that each time the angel withdrew the spear she was ‘ ‘left completely afire with a great love for God, and knew that her soul would never be content with anything less than God." John of the Cross was the greatest Spanish mystic of the sixteenth century, and his writings still nourish modern Christians in their hunger for true experience in the spiritual life. John was born in 1542, and became a Carmelite friar at the age of twenty-one. Four years later he met Teresa of Avila and joined in her reform of the Carmelite Order, serving as confessor to Teresa’s nuns. His prominence in the reform-movement made him a target of intrigues; twice he was abducted and imprisoned. After Teresa’s death he also suffered vindictive treatment at the hands of his own superiors in the Reformed Carmelites, and their harshness contributed to his death in 1591. - Exceprts from "For All the Saints"

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Many thanks to the Reverends Christine Rowe and Philip Cochrane for sharing photos from the Annual November Bishop's Retreat for Clergy held at the Loon Lake Retreat Centre in Maple Ridge. This year's leader/facilitator was Archbishop Mark MacDonald, who became the Anglican Church of Canada’s first National Indigenous Anglican Bishop in 2007, after serving as bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Diocese of Alaska for 10 years. (The National Indigenous Anglican Bishop was made an Arch...bishop by resolution of General Synod, 2019.) The title of the 2020 Retreat was: The Sanctification of the Name of God: An Urgent Matter in an Urgent Time. As you can see from the photos it was a very rainy couple of days. Archbishop MacDonald holds a B.A. in religious studies and psychology from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn., an M.A. in divinity from Wycliffe College, and did post-graduate work at Luther-Northwestern Theological Seminary in Minneapolis. He has had a long and varied ministry, holding positions in Mississauga, Ont., Duluth, Minn., Tomah, Wis., Mauston, Wis., Portland, Ore., and the southeast regional mission of the Diocese of Navajoland. Immediately prior to his ordination to the episcopate, Archbishop MacDonald was canon missioner for training in the Diocese of Minnesota and vicar of St. Antipas’ Church, Redby, Minn., and St. John-in-the-Wilderness Church, Red Lake, Red Lake Nation, Minn. He is the board chair for Church Innovations, Inc., and a third order Franciscan.

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Many thanks to Derek Simpkins for this Harvest Thanksgiving Sunday (October 11) photo of the nave and chancel at St. John's, Shaughnessy. Photo taken from the famous SJS Gallery.

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Many thanks to Jane Dittrich for these photos and captions. During the months of September and October 2020, Team PWRDF Vancouver raised a record total of $6,395.00 for the Anglican Church of Canada's international and emergency aid organization, the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund. The annual Ride For Refuge took place much differently this year due to restrictions on group gatherings due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the related health protocols. The official d...ate for this multi-city event was October 3, which also happened to be the date of the Diocese of New Westminster's Episcopal Election, when the Rev. John Stephens, Rector of St. John's, Shaughnessy was elected Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese. Here is a link to Jane's full coverage of Team Vancouver's Ride for Refuge activities in 2020. https://www.vancouver.anglican.ca//ride-for-refuge-2020-te