Michael Bird starts his new job on June 1st. He will no longer be a bishop but incumbent of an area parish – a group of churches that are too small to employ their own rector, so they share one.
I am unable to dispel the feeling that there is more to this odd move than meets the eye.
From here:
Bishop John is pleased to announce that a new Area Parish (comprised of Ascension, Killaloe; All Saint, Petawawa; Epiphany, Barry’s Bay; Holy Trinity, Madawaska; Holy Trinity, Pembroke; St. Anthony, Whitney; St. Augustine, Beachburg; St. George’s, Alice; St. John’s, Eganville; St. John’s, Tramore; St. Patrick’s, Stafford; St. Paul’s, Cobden; St. Stephen’s, Micksburg; and St. Thomas, Rankin) will come into being on June 01, 2018. The following clergy have been appointed to serve in this new ministry:
- The Rt. Rev. Michael Bird, to be Incumbent; effective June 01, 2018
- The Rev. Matthew Brown, to be Associate Incumbent, effective June 01, 2018
- The Rev. Susan Clifford, to be Associate Incumbent, effective June 01, 2018
- The Rev. Gillian Hoyer, to be Associate Incumbent, effective June 01, 2018
Interesting.
This clearly shows the ACoC is no longer a Christian church but worships that detestable god of political expedience. Michael Bird should have been dismissed long ago and now will continue to spread his apostasy with virtually no resistance.
So I count 4 officials (I will not refer to these individuals as “Priests”) to administer to (I will not say that these individuals are providing “Ministry”) 14 groups. 4 to cover 14, or approximately 1 for every 3.
Is that what can be afforded? Has the AcoC declined so much that this is now what it is at? How long until these groups are no longer able to pay the costs of simply keeping a building in good repair?
One wonders what these officials of the AcoC are thinking. Surely they must know that all of these groups have suffered significant declines in every way measurable. Yet they persist in doing the same thing and hope for a different result.
This decline started back in 1964, about the same time as the “innovations” were first getting started. As much as I love the BCP and grew up with the 1962 edition one can see in that edition that some innovations had already begun. Just look at the schedule for daily readings and you will see certain Palms are completely left out. This even though every Word of God is pure like silver refined in an earthen vessel seven times. Why then would even just one of God’s Words be left off the schedule???