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Ordinariate Newsletter Articles – Advent 2011
  • A Word from our Bishop
    Bishop Peter R. Coffin
    Dear Friends:

    The light shines in darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.”
    (Saint John1:5)

    As we enter the Holy Seasons of Advent and the Incarnation of our Lord and then Epiphany we find ourselves immersed in a time of profound mystery and joyful hope.  Our God comes to us!  Zechariah proclaims that his son, John the Baptist, will herald “the tender mercy of our God whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us; to give light to them that sit in darkness and to guide our feet into the way of peace”. (The Benedictus – Luke 1:78-79).  At Christmas we rejoice that the Word was made flesh and dwells among us (John 1:14) as he continues to do.   Indeed, before he ascended Jesus said to his disciples then and now: “I am with you always to the close of the age”.    [more...] 

  • A Word from our Archdeacon
    The Advent Hope to Which We Are Called As we enter a new liturgical year, we encounter – once again – the forceful figure of John the Baptist, as he appears on the Advent horizon, and calls us to prepare the way of the Lord.  Yet all too often, as we chart our way through a frenzy of seasonal socializing, shopping and decorating, we find ourselves – when Christmas arrives – feeling: in some ways ready; somewhat tired; but not at all prepared!  [more...]

  • The three new Canons are presented. From left to right: Canon David Greenwood, Canon Michelle Staples and Canon Rick Durrett.

    The Annual Ordinariate Worship Service
    by Padre David Greenwood
    The annual worship service of the Anglican Military Ordinariate was held at Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa on Sunday 13 November 2011.  This was the weekend of Remembrance Day and the Dean of Ottawa and Rector of Christ Church Cathedral, the Very Reverend Shane Parker wanted to link the national services of Remembrance with the historic relationships amongst Christ Church Cathedral and the Diocese of Ottawa and the military.
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  •  Santa: Saint or Secular?
    By Padre Baxter
    A few years ago I met Canon James Rosenthal, who was then the Director of Communications for the Anglican Communion and the editor of Anglican World.  We immediately connected because of our shared belief in the importance of the legends of St Nicholas to the church.  We believe that St Nicholas can be a powerful voice pointing people to the babe at Bethlehem.  Every year in early December, I wear a St Nicholas pin on my lapel, given to me by Canon Rosenthal. I am all too aware of the debate around the commercialism of Christmas.  Still, I have learned that Santa can be a powerful ally for the church if we embrace his saintly origin and educate people that he was not a creation of Coca Cola.    [more...]

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Other Stories of Interest

  • Archdeacon Karl Mclean Leads Worship For Duke And Duchess Of Cambridge 

    Archdeacon McLean and Padre Hounsell-Drover greet the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge


    On Sunday 3 July 2011, the Royal couple, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were on day three of their visit to Canada.  Sailing overnight they arrived in Quebec City onboard HMCS Montréal.  That early Sunday morning they gathered with the ship’s company and several Quebec City guests for Morning Prayer, a Divine Service worship service led by our Archdeacon Emeritus, Padre Karl McLean, former Archdeacon to the Canadian Forces and current Chaplain General. [more...]

Anglican Journal Articles

  • Anglican chaplains bring “spiritual breath” to Haiti

    Padre Shaun Turner welcomes patients to a mobile medical clinic in Tom Gato, north of Jacmel, Haiti.

    Padre Shaun Turner welcomes patients to a mobile medical clinic in Tom Gato, north of Jacmel, Haiti.

    Ali Symons, Anglican Church of Canada
    February 26, 2010 - When Canada’s Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) arrived in Jacmel, Haiti, two days after the earthquake, the staff included medics, engineers, and a chaplain, Anglican Padre Shaun Turner.

    Today, eight chaplains—two of them Anglicans—provide spiritual and ethical support to the Canadian Forces in their humanitarian mission to Haiti, devastated by a Jan. 12 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and displaced another million.    [more... ]

  • Airmen turn to padres in wake of horrific news
    The following article appeared in the Belleville Intelligencer

    LUKE HENDRY The Intelligencer

    8 WING-CFB TRENTON — They are shaken and hurt.

    LUKE HENDRY/Padres of CFB Trenton listen as wing chaplain Stephen Merriman, far right, pauses while recounting the week's work. Present for the Friday meeting were Padres Gerson Flor, left, Allan Lynk, Catherine Askew, Blair Ross and Philip Boudreau. Not pictured: Zibby Jonczyk.

    They have received encouraging messages from across the country, yet some have spat upon a few of their number.

    They are the Canadians who work at the country’s largest air base.

    Like the rest of the Canadian Forces, they have said very little publicly since Col. Russ Williams, this base’s top officer, was arrested Sunday in the killings of two area women and attacks on two more.

    But throughout, they have been talking to a small group of chaplains.

    Wing Chaplain Stephen Merriman calls it “a ministry of presence.

    “I don’t want to see the chaplains in their offices,” Merriman said. “I want to see them with their people.”  So when news of Williams’ arrest broke, the chaplains did what they do every day: they went walking.   [more...]

 

STAFF WRITER

Nov 1, 2009

Padre Catherine Askew

Rev. Capt. Catherine Askew distinctly remembers the moment when she knew she wanted to be a military chaplain to the Canadian Forces.

She was 17 years old and an undergraduate student at university. She had been thinking that a job as an administration clerk would give her a useful skill and some pocket money. Then she met a military chaplain who introduced her to the work of the chaplains’ corps.  [more...]

  • Anglican chaplains help soldiers cope with grief, pain
    LEIGH ANNE WILLIAMS
    staff writer

    Feb 1, 2009 Two Anglican chaplains spent Christmas in Afghanistan, in a month when nine Canadian soldiers died.Peter Coffin, Bishop Ordinary to the Canadian Forces, and Rev. Col. John Fletcher made the trip to support other chaplains as well as the Canadian troops. The visit coincided with a particularly hard time for all the troops as they dealt with the death of nine comrades. …[more...]

 

Mission and Justice Trip Report
Episcopal Church of Sudan – April 2008
Dr. Andrea Mann and Bishop Peter Coffin, Bishop of the Military Ordinariate, attended the Enthronement celebrations of The Most Rev. Daniel Deng Bul, Archbishop of the Episcopal Church of Sudan and Bishop of Juba. Bishop Coffin was the Primate’s representative from the Anglican Church of Canada. Their visit from the 19th to the 25th of April, 2008 included a trip to the Diocese of Lainya, Southern Sudan. … [more...]

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