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June 30, 2022

Fr. Stephen Vail’s Last Service at the Cathedral

Sunday September 11th at 11am, Fr. Stephen will be celebrating his last service at St. James Cathedral prior to his retirement and move out east.  There is some interest in a group from All Saints’ attending the service.  What we need to know is how many and should we travel together by bus.  

Please RSVP before July 25th by emailing Eleanor Stevenson at esteve910@nullsympatico.ca if you are interested in attending and travelling as a group. Or fill out this quick 1 min. survey to record your preference  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HRVMVL2  

 

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June 30, 2022

God’s Wonder Lab, July 25-29

July 25-29: The Vacation Bible Camp team is excited to announce that we will be hosting 30 kids at camp this year! Parents who registered will be receiving an email in the coming week with future instructions.

We are looking for donations of snacks, craft supplies, décor appropriate for a science classroom, clothing we can use to recreate Bible time costuming (such as large shirts) and any monetary donations would be extremely helpful.

We are looking for two more volunteers! We need a crafts leader and a group leader. Teens over the age of 14 can volunteer and their time can be credited towards their high school community service hours.

For more information or interested in volunteering or would like to donate, please contact our new summer student employee, Rachel at RachelCanWallace@nullgmail.com.

 

Filed Under: Uncategorised Written by allsaintswhitby

June 30, 2022

Jacky’s Thought & Prayer for the Day

June 30, 2022

Reconciliation: what comes next?
by Jacky Bramma

I don’t imagine I am alone in feeling confused, angry and, above all, very sad when I think of the horrible legacy of the residential schools in Canada. Confused, because I don’t understand how such atrocities could have happened in the name of Christianity; angry because they went on for so long and the resulting trauma is still wreaking havoc on so many Indigenous people; sad because I dearly want Reconciliation to happen NOW, but there is still so much to learn before we can get there.

Over recent years I am encouraged by the desire and the efforts of the Anglican Church to tell the stories and the truths of those who suffered and are still suffering. There are many sources of information, both from within and outside the church. The writing and preaching of the late Ginny Doctor, for example, is both gentle and inspiring and really worth exploring online. During Lent this year, All Saints ran a course using the Anglican Church of Canada’s documentary Stolen Lands-Strong Hearts. This focused on the Doctrine of Discovery and the subsequent wiping out of so many Indigenous people and their culture. We were also encouraged to give our Lenten offerings to the Mishamikoweesh initiative to provide clean water in that community. The planting of the Three Sisters Garden in our community garden pays homage to traditional Indigenous planting methods.

Earlier in June a small group attended Mapping the Ground We Stand On in the church hall, which enabled us to visualize the huge number of Indigenous nations and see the disastrous results of colonialism, in addition to sharing our own families’ settler stories.

Collective education aside, however, it is important for each of us to continue our own individual journey of learning. For me it has been enhanced by reading books by Indigenous authors. Earlier this year I read Permanent Astonishment: A Memoir by Cree author and performer Tomson Highway. He was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic caribou-hunting family. Far from being a litany of their hardship and poverty, this book is joyful, funny and a delight to read. Much of the humour comes from the struggle the Cree people had in pronouncing English words, and so they would approximate with amusing results. (I recall that one of the priests was dubbed “Father Egg-Nog”, the closest they could get to his name!)

Recently I read the award-winning novel, Five Little Indians by Michelle Good, whose mother and grandmother, both Cree, were residential school survivors. It took nine years to write, and, as the title suggests, tells the story of five Indigenous children and their lives after residential school in a remote area of BC, beginning in the 1960s. Once released they had to make their own way without any skills, support, or families in the seedy foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, a world which did not welcome them. With compassion and insight and based on much of the truth she learned from her own mother and grandmother, Michelle Good chronicles the desperate quest of these five children to come to terms with their past and find a way forward. Although the content is difficult to face at times, the story is told with great tenderness and beautifully written. Spoiler alert: the book ends on a hopeful note! It takes time for what we learn to settle, and we each digest it at our own pace. So, the journey continues and there’s a long road ahead, but we have no choice but to move forward one step at a time.

In the words of Richard Wagamese: We are all one energy, one soul, one song and one drum. We are all one drum, and we need each other. Fly, and tell your story to all who will listen.

IRISH JESUIT PRAYER:
All we do our whole lives long is to go from one little piece of holy ground to the next. Lord, give me the strength to keep going in between. AMEN

Filed Under: Together Apart Written by allsaintswhitby

June 23, 2022

Mthr Jennifer’s Thought & Prayer of the Day

Thursday, June 23

by the Rev. Jennifer Schick

This coming Sunday at 9:30 we’ll be baptizing Bailey, a new member of our church into the life of Christ.

The baptismal service is a rite of initiation into faith in Christ for the candidate for baptism, but also an affirmation of our faith for all other Christians.

In the service, all members of the church are invited to renew their faith and promise to be the living symbols of Christ’s life here on earth.

We do that through the reaffirmation of our baptismal calling. Each petition is made to inspire us and challenge us to live out our faith in the world.

In the baptismal service we are encouraged to respond to each statement with “I will, with God’s help.” This speaks both of our responsibility as Christians to live out our calling, but also reminds us of the grace of God — that in faith we never walk alone, because God is always present to help us in any kind of need.

As we begin our summer, it is good to prayerfully read over each petition and think through – how do we OR how will we, live out our own baptismal promises as the people of God? (Hint – Coming to church is a good start! 🙂

The baptismal promises are as follows:

Will you continue in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in the prayers?
I will, with God’s help.

Will you persevere in resisting evil and, whenever you fall into sin, repent and return to the Lord?
I will, with God’s help.

Will you proclaim by word and example the good news of God in Christ?
I will, with God’s help.

Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your neighbour as yourself?
I will, with God’s help.

Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being?
I will, with God’ s help.

Will you strive to safeguard the integrity of God’s creation, and respect, sustain and renew the life of the Earth?
I will, with God’s help.

Prayer:

Heavenly Father, we thank you that by water and the Holy Spirit you have bestowed upon us your servants the forgiveness of sin, and have raised us to the new life of grace. Sustain us, O Lord, in your Holy Spirit. Give us an inquiring and discerning heart, the courage to will and to persevere, a spirit to know and to love you, and the gift of joy and wonder in all your works. Amen.

  • Prayer from the Baptismal service in the Book of Alternative Services (BAS)

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