Fred Hiltz is busy trying to organise a prayer vigil for Theresa Spence’s meeting with Stephen Harper. It includes the inevitable attempt to cajole God with native voodoo: there are prayers “based on the colours of the medicine wheel”.
Unfortunately, Theresa Spence has decided not to attend. Apparently it’s because the Governor General, David Johnston, won’t be there – not just spite to make Fred Hiltz look foolish.
Spence has already written to Buckingham Palace and I imagine that, if David Johnston does buckle to pressure, Spence will want the Queen there too – I’m sure the Anglican Church of Canada can supply one if ER can’t make it.
Fred will, no doubt, be offering fervent thanks to Grandmother Moon if the meeting actually happens and Spence’s imminent starvation is averted.
From here:
Ali Symons, Anglican Church of Canada January 09, 2013.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, and National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald are calling for a prayer vigil in support of the meeting of national Indigenous leaders with Prime Minister Stephen Harper Jan. 11.[….]
Prayer resources for a vigil are also available online, including Honouring the Four Directions, the Great Thanksgiving of the Haudenosaunee, and the Athabascan Litany.
I stayed out of the digs at Spence’s weight, even though I find most fat people grotesque, especially her.
Spence thinks she represents a sovereign indigenous nation. Spence needs to learn that leaders of sovereign nations do not send Her Majesty letters. They send ambassadors. It is also rather cheeky of her to assume that she can make any demands upon Her Majesty or Her Regents. I think the poor woman, besides being a dangerously obese criminal; suffers from delusions of grandeur. Enjoy you fish soup Spence because Her Majesty and Her Regents are not in the habit of being ordered around by criminals.
This is who I think Ms Spence is. She is a hideously ugly woman who is trying to divert attention away from the fact that under her watch, money given to her “nation” by the federal government for the benefit of her constituents has been misspent and unaccounted for.
The only thing that could make this whole situation more entertaining for me would be ELCIC national bishop lending her support. With any luck, she will join Spence in her hunger strike and starve herself to death.
Dear Farmer,
If you were to meet me you would know I am not grotesque, fat yes, but a beautiful child of God upon whom there is no shame. I have come to see a person’s heart is the gauge of their beauty, not their physicality or dis-abilities, and I encourage you to to the same, with the love Christ has put in your heart.
I know our body is a temple of God, but our hearts are a “House of Prayer”, and I pray Chief Spence can lose wieght for her health and well being.
There is a true story to tell about a Bishop who remarked to one of his Vicar’s, “You know Charles, your body is a temple of God!”
To which the Vicar replied,
“I know— I’m building a Cathedral!”
“A kind word in due season–how good it is!”
So contemptible has this church become, that it is even regarded as a joke by the irreligious and ungodly. The only unfortunate thing about this slow, lingering, yet comedic demise, is that it tarnishes the name of real Christianity with the plastic, pretentious, political fake.
David Johnston is simply being consistent. He has always said that he cannot attend events that are primarily political. It’s Chief Spence who keeps changing her mind.
Some fast, soup instead of solid, what a load of balcony. My wife’s soup is a meal in itself. Cry me a river. If the first nations are so hard done by how did she get so rotund? Not the image of Ghandi at the wheel!
As a little exercise, when I read something like what the ACoC has issued, I have begun trying to discern whether there is in place any premise other than that conservatives are wrong. In other words, if the ACoC were genuinely interested in justice in this situation, would they not begin their analysis with the problem of poverty among the Attawapiskat at the same time as they asked where $104 m went?
If The Gospel is preached people attend, give their 10% to God and Serve God.
The Timing of the Anglican Church of Canada must come from God.
But what is the Anglican Church of Canada? A political party? A social club? A happy-clappy transcendental therapy group? Probable answer: people with little notion of God (true notion of true God) whatsoever, meeting because they feel it is right to do so with shoulder tapping. And please don’t forget the cookies we need news for our diocesan newspaper.
How is this near being a Christian church?
I’m sure the Church Fathers would be vocal against the heresies permeating through the ACoC (pantheism, paganism, pelagianism, arianism, you name it!).
How is it possible for orthodox Anglicans not to switch to ANiC or the Ordinariate?
FCG, you asked:
“How is it possible for orthodox Anglicans not to switch to ANiC or the Ordinariate?”
Simple, there are loads of parishes in the ACC that are actually growing and doing really amazing ministry, and the worship is uplifting and the preaching is relevant. These places “do” exist.
Besides, if you split it is only a matter of time before the new manifestation – in this case ANiC – splits itself. Either women’s ordination or something else will cause you to split. There are thousands of Christian denominations that give evidence to the fact that there is not uniformity of creed or practice in the Christian church.
Ya gotta stop splitting.
Eph 3: 20,
You are quite correct in saying that people should stop splitting. It is harming the visible Body of Christ and the witness of the Church. That is why I reverted to Catholicism.
And I left Catholicism because I could not tolerate the limited role for laity in parish-based operation, support married clergy, women priests and believe in divorce where Christ approves of it.
I will say the RC church’s enthusiasm for family and life is laudable and regretably absent in most Protestant churches.
There are good qualities in both the Roman Catholic and Reformed Churches