{"id":18410,"date":"2012-12-28T20:51:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T01:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18410"},"modified":"2012-12-28T20:51:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T01:51:56","slug":"diocese-of-montreal-to-move-forward-in-gods-mission-by-closing-another-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-montreal-to-move-forward-in-gods-mission-by-closing-another-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Montreal to \u201cmove forward in God\u2019s mission\u201d by closing another church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18411 alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/28-12-2012-8-33-40-PM.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"190\" \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montreal.anglican.ca\/adm\/media\/assets\/PDFs\/Newspaper\/2013\/MA130101.pdf?ext=.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> <i>(page 7):<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Past and present clergy, wardens, altar servers, choristers. Organizers over the years of Sunday school, bazaars and rummage sales and men\u2019s activities. Altar guild members.<\/p>\n<p>Partners in other churches. Bishop Barry Clarke of Montreal \u2013 from 1993 to 2004 parish priest of St. Paul\u2019s Church in Lachine \u2013 asked members of these and other groups in a near-capacity congregation of over 300 parishioners and wellwishers to stand and be recognized as he presided over a closing service marking the end of the 139-year history of the parish.<\/p>\n<p>He also urged them not to waste energy trying to assign blame for the closing of the church or to focus too much on its dramatically impressive buildings, dating from 1963-64.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026..]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us to move forward in God\u2019s mission we have to do things differently,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The diocese has no discernible plan to \u201cdo things differently\u201d; unless you count its accelerating descent into heresy tinged liberalism accompanied by an increasing cannibalisation of its assets in order to stay afloat \u2013 all disguised as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montreal.anglican.ca\/en\/About-Us\/Ministry-Action-Plan-%28MAP%29\" target=\"_blank\">Ministry Action Plan<\/a> &#8211; as <em>different.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Page 8 of the same paper, without the least hint of irony, proudly announces: &#8220;Quebec diocese to offer blessings to same-sex couples&#8221;, something that the Diocese of Montreal approved in 2010. Catering to 0.8% of the population has worked out <em>so<\/em> well for other dioceses that Quebec has decided it wants a piece of the action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here (page 7): Past and present clergy, wardens, altar servers, choristers. Organizers over the years of Sunday school, bazaars and rummage sales and men\u2019s activities. Altar guild members. Partners in other churches. Bishop Barry Clarke of Montreal \u2013 from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-montreal-to-move-forward-in-gods-mission-by-closing-another-church\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[2109,1479],"class_list":["post-18410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-montreal","tag-diocese-of-montreal","tag-st-pauls-church-in-lachine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}