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Suicide Eucharists

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Just as the burgeoning euthanasia industry dons the grim reaper’s cowl before swinging its scythe through an increasing number of Canada’s ageing infirm, so Anglican clerics, eager to keep abreast of the latest in do-it-yourself death, robe up to administer a Suicide Eucharist. A Canadian Anglican variation on the Last Rites: Last Wrongs.

Niagara’s (ex-Niagara now) Michael Bird does it:

Last September, Niagara Anglican,
 the newspaper of the diocese of Niagara, reported that Bishop Michael Bird had released a set of revised guidelines “to ensure pastoral care is available to those who inquire about or qualify for and claim the legal right to medical assistance in dying.”

So does the Diocese of Huron’s Keith Nethery:

“My role, what God has called me to do, is to go and be present…so that people have someone to journey with,” says Canon Keith Nethery.

At last the Anglican Church of Canada has found a way to attract new customers.

St. Paul’s Cathedral, London to hold U2charist

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St. Paul’s Cathedral will hold its fourth U2charist on May the 4th.

A U2charist is “a communion service, or Eucharist, accompanied by U2 songs” designed to encourage people “to rally around the Millennium Development Goals”.

It appears to make no pretence to having much to do with Christ’s body and blood and, since I think the Millennium Development Goals are a thoroughly odious substitute, I will probably not attend.

Add to this the fact that Bono sees no hypocrisy in tirelessly championing the taxpayer funded Millennium Development Goals while having just made $1 billion from his Facebook shares on which he will, no doubt, pay no tax and I can’t see why anyone would want to attend.

Nevertheless, a prior effort managed to fill the cathedral; it adheres to the received Anglican dogma that it doesn’t matter what you do with people who attend church, as long as you get them there.

Bono does allow churches to use his songs without paying a copyright fee, though: very sacrificial.

Here you will see one of my biggest fans, Rev. Keith Nethery interviewing the organiser: