He is risen indeed!
St. Hilda’s sunrise service by Lake Ontario in Oakville this morning. No, we didn’t actually see the sun – just the Son:
He is Risen!
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Bishop Michael Bird spent over $1 million suing ANiC parishes
I had not seen the cost to the Diocese of Niagara of its litigation until this article about Bird appeared in the Anglican Journal. I imagine the diocese views it as money well spent since the sale and demolishing of St. Hilda’s church and rectory alone netted them $2.6 million; and who cares about 1 Corinthians 6:1 when what really counts is at stake?
“Just prior to my becoming bishop, three parishes voted to walk away from the diocese of Niagara,” Bird said in an interview with the Anglican Journal. “There was a subsequent fourth one some months after…that.” What he needed to do, he said, was to draw “a good group of people around the episcopal office.”
Protracted and sometimes rancorous legal battles over the ownership of properties followed. The costs of these battles—which Bird said ran upwards of $1 million—were compounded by the recession of 2008, which drove the diocese into serious financial difficulties.
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Easter Sunrise Service
St. Hilda’s Easter sunrise service on Lake Ontario. There wasn’t much sun:
Toronto in the distance:
Meanwhile, by 7:00 a.m. global warming had struck Oakville – snow on April 5th!
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Bishop Don Harvey Passing the Crosier to Bishop Charlie Masters
Bishops Don and Charlie were at St. Hilda’s this morning for Bishop Don’s Transfer of Authority as ANiC Moderator to Bishop Charlie.
More photos here:
Bishop Don’s address:
The bishops:
Passing the peace:
More peace:
Bishop Don:
Passing the Crosier:
The Cake Before:
After:
The Professional Cake Cutters:
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St. Hilda’s Easter Sunrise Service
St. Hilda’s: the denouement
St. Hilda’s building when it had a flourishing congregation; we have a lot of artists:
St. Hilda’s once the Diocese of Niagara acquired it:
St. Hilda’s once the Diocese of Niagara had sold it for a handsome profit:
St. Hilda’s flattened:
The demolition company did leave just one thing behind in addition to the welcoming, inclusive concrete barrier: the church sign!
It seems that someone has attached a poster advertising where St. Hilda’s went. Fancy that:
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Diocese of Niagara sells rectory to owner of PinkCherry Sex Toys
As part of a negotiated settlement between St. Hilda’s congregation and the Diocese of Niagara, the diocese took possession of St. Hilda’s rectory in 2012 and sold it in December for $650,000.
As is common in this area of Oakville, the new owner of the house tore down the rectory to build a new, much larger house.
The new resident of what used to be St. Hilda’s rectory is Daniel Freedman, owner of PinkCherry Sex Toys, Canada’s largest vendor of…. well, all sorts of interesting items.
Not that the diocese is interested in such things.
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Canada’s part in Christian Unity Week
From here:
Each year, churches in a different country are invited to prepare materials for worship, reflection and prayer during the week, including information about their country’s context. This is the third time in the 100-year history of the Week of Prayer that Canada has been selected as the country in focus. An ecumenical Canadian team prepared the 2014 materials that were reviewed by the World Council of Churches and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; the materials have now been distributed to national church councils around the world. The theme they chose was “Has Christ Been Divided?” from 1 Corinthians.
A touching article. The only problem with it is the photo that should have been used to illustrate the real state of Christian unity in Canada is this one: The Demolishing of St. Hilda’s. Before anyone rashly jumps to the wrong conclusion, I should point out that the Diocese of Niagara does have a heart: it thoughtfully ejected the congregation before knocking down their building.
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St. Hilda’s: the demolition aftermath
St. Hilda’s building, acquired by the Diocese of Niagara for $0 and sold by the diocese for $1.9M is now an empty space.
Curiously, the only part left standing is the sign that used to display the rector’s name and the worship times – now expunged:
In what I am convinced must a divinely appointed metaphor for this tawdry episode in the continuing moral decomposition of the Anglican Church of Canada, a Diocese of Niagara Oakville church has attached to the remnant an advertisement for that most vacuous of Anglican rituals: The Christmas Bazaar:
