The diocese continues to try and make a case that it has a vibrant and emerging congregation at St. Matthew’s, Abbotsford, a parish that left the diocese for ANiC  because of its heretical drift. Here is a photo of the emerging congregation:

Funnily enough, while occupying St. Matthews with fifteen squatters, the diocese has been busy closing what it sees as non-viable parishes with a far higher number of parishioners.

Here is the fond farewell from St. John’s, Burnaby:

And here, from St. Peter’s:

Notice the difference? It’s hard not to conclude that the Diocese of New Westminster is only prepared to maintain a small – minuscule, actually – parish when, by doing so, it furthers its plan to deprive a thriving ANiC parish of a building .