It says so here:
Healing and Reconciliation Month
Dioceses and parishes are invited to observe a “Healing and Reconciliation” month starting on May 26, the National Day of Healing and Reconciliation, and concluding on June 21, National Aboriginal Day.
Now the ACoC has stopped abusing native children, are they also going to stop using the courts to abuse fellow Christians who happen to disagree with them?
Bishop Michael Bird – are you listening?
The Diocese of Niagara is intent on doing its bit for the eradication of swine flu. To this end, they have for some time forbidden intinction at the Eucharist:
However, he said, the practice of dipping the wafer, called intinction, may carry a higher risk since fingers are also often dipped into the wine. During the SARS outbreak in Canada, at least one diocese, the Diocese of Niagara (Ontario), banned intinction in its churches. The Anglican Church of Canada published on its website a research report on risks of infection and communion practices.
Of course, when it comes to the spreading of AIDS amongst homosexuals, the diocese is considerably less fastidious about who dips what into whom. This is because so many of its clergy are, themselves, enthusiasts of the practice.
Rev. Cheryl Fricker is the rector of St. Aidan’s Oakville; she has also been parachuted into St. Hilda’s as the “priest in charge” at the diocesan Potemkin St. Hilda’s.
At the building sharing hearing, the court gave the diocese access to St. Hilda’s building from 7:00 am – 10:00 am Sunday morning and for a 4 hour afternoon and 3 hour evening period. The diocese, having no shame whatsoever, has appealed to people attending local parishes to come to their 8:30 a.m. Sunday service. They haven’t had much success. Orthodox Christians who remain in the diocesan parishes have expressed disgust at the diocesan attempts to create a bogus parish.
All this is being done to create the illusion that the diocese needs the building to accommodate the hoards of people desperate to attend a diocesan service in the sparsely furnished, orange-carpeted, mould-smelling structure at 1258 Rebecca Street, Oakville.
The diocese is so confident – or perhaps sloppy – that they are not even bothering to conceal the fact they are moving meetings from another parish to St. Hilda’s simply for the reason of occupying it. For example St. Aiden’s brazenly advertises that it has moved its bible study location:
Wednesday Bible Study
St. Aidan’s, Oakville
Our Wednesday Bible Study resumes looking at the resurrection appearances of Jesus in the four Gospels. All are welcome 1:30 to 3:00 at St. Hilda’s Anglican Church Oakville
Cost: no fee
April 29, 2009 – 1:30
There is little hope that anyone in the diocesan administration has enough moral fibre to protest, but, parishioners of St. Aidan’s, you do not need to be a party to the diocese’s contemptible games.
Michael Coren, on his Facebook Wall, gives a measured and nuanced response to this:
Incredible. These people represent the final spasms of a moribund liberal cult. They have only a few years left.
A generous assessment.
The land of mindless, trite clichés is ripe with drivel so meaningless that to dwell there too long can induce a spontaneous lobotomy, rendering the hapless victim fit for nothing other than to be a business executive or, even worse, a bishop.
One of the most irritating is this: “Think Outside the Box”. It made its initial assault on humanity in the 1970s and was rapidly spread by Management Consultants who made a living preying on gullible executives. It is a tribute to its inventor that, just like a cleverly designed computer virus, it spread and multiplied and can still be found today living in the backwater recesses of pedestrian minds everywhere.
It takes an especially vacuous cove to come up with the vapid jumble of nonsense compressed into the following couple of sentences; it would be beyond most, but Michael Bird, bishop of Niagara is up to the task:
What I have absolutely no interest in, however, is a ministry of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. I need your commitment, your willingness to journey and take risks, your capacity to dream and think outside the box, in order to build upon and grow the work and ministry of this diocese in the days to come.
Here we have the jewel of clichés set in a dazzling array of Titanic deckchairs, journeyers, commitment, dreamers, risk takers, builders and growers.
The most potently mind-numbing concoction outside of an Indaba group.
Here are the five points:
The only point that, on the surface, may have a tenuous connection to Christianity is “Life changing worship”. Closer inspection reveals that even that is all about the worshipper, not God, the object of worship.
These five “focus points” appear to be a collection of random clichés cobbled together from mediocre “How to run a business” seminars. It is difficult to ascribe meaning to the bishop’s apparition, but each of us may have a favourite banality upon which we would like to concentrate. Mine would be “outstanding leadership for ministry”, since it is the one component of the bishop’s chimera that is easy to fulfill: fire everyone at head office from the bishop on down – the lights could then be turned off at the Cathedral and its offices, thus fulfilling “Effective resource management“.
Once the flotsam is jettisoned from 252 James Street, the unjust lawsuits against ANiC would cease – completing point 3 – permitting ANiC to concentrate on innovation and worship – points 1 and 4. Perhaps it’s not such a bad plan after all.
After the Diocese of Niagara threatened me with a lawsuit for exposing Michael Patterson’s lies, what have they actually done? Nothing so far. Which leads me to believe that it’s all about this:
The Church of the Resurrection in Hamilton, Diocese of Niagara had a Maundy Thursday drive-through foot-washing.
Some might consider the drive-thru foot wash irreverent or disrespectful, the priests acknowledged.
“Sometimes you have to step out of the box,” said Burke.
“We need this kind of diversity,” Murray agreed. “There’s more than one kind of tree in the woods and if we’re kind of fruity, that’s fine.
It’s hard to disagree with that last sentence: the Diocese of Niagara is extremely fruity.
How does a liberal Anglican priest get around the uncomfortable predicament of not actually believing the Christian faith?
One way is illustrated below by Peter Wall, Dean and Rector of Christ’s Church Cathedral, diocese of Niagara. In the first clip, he declares he believes in the Virgin Birth, but he doesn’t know what it means.
He also has no idea what the Resurrection is:
So Peter Wall doesn’t know what the Virgin Birth means and doesn’t know what the Resurrection is, but after “struggling”, against all reason claims – with an air of effete condescension – he believes both.
It’s no wonder Anglicanism in the West has become a denominational village idiot.
