October 20th was the date of one of the strangest ordinations ever to have taken place in the Diocese of Niagara.
When St. Hilda’s left the diocese to join ANiC, Michael Coren was very supportive. Here are a few snippets from his emails at the time:
“You’re doing great work and I know that you’ll be okay in the end.”
“Glory!!!!!!!!!” (after we won our first court case)
“Unbelievable! They are such self-caricatures. I’ll use it on TV and perhaps radio.” (referring to some of the antics of the Diocese of Niagara)
“All four of us on TV tonight supported you – including Sid Ryan and another former NDP candidate. LeDrew too – former Liberal president. We’re getting somewhere. Again, let me know what I can ever do.” (after St. Hilda’s was sued by the Diocese of Niagara)
“I was in Aylseford two weeks ago and met with some liberal Anglicans. My golly they’re a stupid, nasty lot.”
All that was from 2008. Now, in 2019 he is standing grinning in the midst of a bunch of liberal Anglicans, having just been ordained by the bishop of a diocese full of clerics who are “self-caricatures”.
What is the explanation? Has Coren embarked on a fifth column mission designed to bring down the diocese from the inside? Has he completely lost his marbles? Has the the real Coren been taken over by an alien pod?
Perhaps he just has a thing for plump female bishops.
Is ambition the common thread with this man?
1st, focus on Christ, not on the lives of others & what they’re doing
The quality and motivation of people getting ordained in my Church is of vital concern to me. I pray regularly that they may “both by their life and doctrine set forth Thy true and lively word …”
Again the reference to “liberal Anglicans” is simply too polite and does not convey the truth. The fact is that they are APOSTATES and have rejected the authority of Scripture and believe their thinking overrides anything that might be stated in THE BIBLE. This is nothing less than further proof that the ACoC is no longer a Christian church but worships the “god of political expediency”.
I fully anticipate he’ll end up going the way of Cat Stevens and Sinéad O’Connor and eventually pop up at Friday prayers in a mosque, perhaps after making a short detour through Sikhism, Hinduism and Buddhism.
In The Holy Spirit of The Reformation of October 31, not 20, this Ordination would have received the following Charge to the anti-Scriptural Bishop of Niagara from the Scriptural Archbishop of Sydney, Australia,
“Please, leave us”: in Godly Order not to “Bless sin”.
As to the full test of his Grace’s orthodoxy:
the Bishop of Liverpool, UK, begs to differ.
c.c. The Presbytery of Niagara, PCC, Knox (!), Dunnville, who, on Sunday, November 3, 2019, Called, by a Service of Induction, a Minister (and his partner) to Christ’s Pulpit and Christ’s Communion Table:
none of whom has waited upon the due process of Church law (re. Barrier Act+ , v. The Rev. Dr. Wm. Klempa’s May 11, 2016 cautionary epistle in the now defunct ‘Presbyterian Record’) pending the 2020 General Assembly. At the end of the day The Sola Barrier is The Bible.
Niagara -must be something in the water?