{"id":23792,"date":"2016-02-11T13:17:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T18:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23792"},"modified":"2016-02-11T13:45:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T18:45:47","slug":"attendance-at-queer-eucharist-is-modest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/attendance-at-queer-eucharist-is-modest\/","title":{"rendered":"Attendance at Queer Eucharist is \u201cmodest\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Diocese of Toronto’s St. John\u2019s holds a monthly Queer Eucharist where those still smarting from \u201cthe<\/em> church\u2019s historic condemnation of homosexuality\u201d <\/em>can reassure themselves that what St. Paul and 2000 years of church history said about homosexual acts was wrong all along.<\/p>\n

Rev. Samantha Caravan points out that a lot of \u201cpeople have left the church\u201d<\/em> over this. <\/em>Now, because of the Queer Eucharist, it seems they have returned; all 12 of them.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"On a January evening in Toronto, a dozen or so congregants filter in from the cold into the surprising mauve, green and yellow interior of a stately old church in a leafy west-end neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

They stand to sing Marty Haugen\u2019s \u201cHere in this Place New Light is Streaming,\u201d and listen as the Rev. Samantha Caravan, clad in rainbow vestments, asks for inspiration \u201cto speak a new word, to shout another praise.\u201d Caravan reads a passage from St. Peter\u2019s letter, in which he addresses the persecuted early church: \u201cOnce you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n

A sermon is preached on the need for a faith of inclusion, after which the congregation affirms that it will not \u201cpatronize, exclude or ignore the gifts of any person.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group stands in a circle around the altar and takes the bread and wine. Together, they offer themselves to be leaders of liberation and proclaimers of divine love. To the much-beloved Thaxted tune, they sing, \u201cLet streams of living justice flow down upon the earth,\u201d before gathering for refreshments and chat.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s queer Eucharist night at St. John\u2019s West Toronto.<\/p>\n

It was last fall, says incumbent priest the Rev. Samantha Caravan, when she first suggested having a special Eucharist for LGBTQ people at St. John\u2019s. The church\u2019s historic condemnation of homosexuality, Caravan says, has caused a lot of hurt to non-heterosexuals; a lot of these people have left the church as a result. The idea behind the queer Eucharist, she says, was to welcome them back and to offer them \u201ca safe place to explore what the church and faith might mean to them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Diocese of Toronto’s St. John\u2019s holds a monthly Queer Eucharist where those still smarting from \u201cthe church\u2019s historic condemnation of homosexuality\u201d can reassure themselves that what St. Paul and 2000 years of church history said about homosexual acts was … Continue reading →<\/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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[2348,2346,2349],"class_list":["post-23792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-toronto","tag-anglican-church-of-canad","tag-queer-eucharist","tag-rev-samantha-caravan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23792","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=23792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}