Here are a number of miscellaneous pictures taken by Deborah Gyapong at the recent General Synod of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada held in Vancouver, BC.
Lighting candles on the Altar
Sister Carole Barker and Mother Wendy James of the Servants of the Sacred Cross
The House of Bishops
Members of Friends of the Canadian Ordinariate
Carolyn Haymon, the wife of Fr. Doug Haymon from Spencerville, ON parish
Fr. Sean Henry
Tim Smith, our high tech guru, made it possible for me to blog from Synod.
Bishop Carl Reid and Dean Shane Janzen
Bishop Mercer's sky-high mitre, officially now part of Anglican Patrimony
Fr. Chris Lepage from Prince Edward Island
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The last photo is of Fr. Chris LePage, of Prince Edward Island.
These are wonderful pictures, and I am so happy to see a TAC priest from P.E.I., the garden Province. This is just lovely.
P.K.T.P.
PKTP, I didn't think I'd ever say this, but I am actually growing fond of you.
I am glad you are enjoying the photos.
And Fr. Chris prays the Sarum Mass in Latin!
Deborah
Dear Mrs. Gyapong:
Thank you for your kind words.
Your news is absolutely wonderful. I had no idea. I wonder if Fr. LePage would consider doing this on the every-Sunday basis, perhaps as a second Sunday Mass (we Latins allow our priests to say up to five Masses of Sunday obligation under the New Code–which, I admit, is wildly excessive)? I ask because there is no T.L.M. on any basis at all for Latin traditionalists on P.E.I. and, if you are an Islander, even the new bridge will deter you from crossing over to N.S.
I love the Sarum Use and every supporter of the T.L.M. would find it to be entirely glorious (pardon the evangelical term). I think that the Roman Offertory is better (as I've remarked before on other threads) but I much prefer the Sarum Communion to the Roman one. Yes, we are allowed to love both the sparser Latin tradition (think Roman centurions) and the mroe florid Gallican forms, just as we are allowed to love Classical and also Gothic architecture.
A Sarum Use Latin Mass on the 'other' Island at the other end of the Dominion would be superlative. I might even have to abandon my dislike (not fear) of flying and visit there just to advance fellowship a bit. There is now hope that we shall have Latin Masses in Moncton and Halifax and perhaps Antigonish in the coming months. We have one at St. John's in Nfld. The TAC has Fr. Warner at Sydney and its own parish church at Halifax; it also has a parish in the D. of Saint John in N.B., at Fredericton. And now this splendid news about P.E.I.
Catholics of all rites and uses are about to have far more options in Atlantic Canada. This is just great news all round.
P.K.T.P.