St. Peter St. Paul Anglican Catholic Church

Worship and Tradition

Special Masses & Evensong 2008 (All Evensongs to be at 6.30 pm) Jun 29 Sunday Patronal Festival Jul 25 Friday St. James the Apostle (Evensong) Aug 6 Wednesday Feast of Transfiguration: Evensong/Potluck Supper Oct 13 Monday Thanksgiving (Evensong & Dinner) Nov 01 Saturday All Saints Nov 11 Tuesday Remembrance Day at Commercial Drive Cenotaph Nov 22 Saturday St. Cecilia (Evensong & reception on Friday) Dec 6 Saturday St. Nicholas (Evensong & Reception on Friday)
Pilgrimage 2008 Itinerary. Pilgrims meet at Park Place Pastoral Centre, Wickham, Hants. - A Franciscan House (just near Portsmouth), on Saturday the 30th August, 2008. (There is an excellent rail link from Gatwick airport to Portsmouth where the minibus will be.) We attend Mass at St. Agatha's, Portsmouth on Sunday the 31st August. On Monday, September 1st, we drive in the minibus to Our Lady of Walsingham, where we stay until Friday morning, the 6th September. We leave Walsingham to drive north to Ampleforth, a Benedictine monastery (and school) near York, where we stay for the nights of the 6th and 7th September. Then we travel on to Aske Chapel, Gillingwest (near Richmond, Yorkshire) for Mass on Sunday the 7th September. After Mass, (and lunch) we drive through Wensleydale to the Lake District and Rydal Hall, where we stay until Friday, September 12th. On the Friday morning, we drive to Preston, where there are trains available to major centres, including Manchester Airport. The pilgrimage is centred on the daily offices of morning and evening prayer, and daily Mass. The primary purpose of the Pilgrimage is prayer for the church, for the ACCC and the TAC. The secondary purpose is that assigned by the Primate: to be a witness to the very existence of the TAC at Our Lady of Walsingham. At Rydal Hall, there will be time for discussion, deriving from our prayer and contemplation. Cost for the land portion of the pilgrimage is approximately CDN/US$1750.00 (subject to exchange rate variations).

LIturgy

The Parish of S. Peter & S. Paul offers all who come the opportunity to worship using the liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer (Canada)
We maintain the traditions of Anglican Worship in accordance with the guidelines establ;ished by the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada and the Traditional Anglican Communion worldwide

BR> AFRICA UPDATE Parish of St. Peter & St. Paul, Vancouver BC. It has been three months since the last report on the work we have supported in Africa, with the added incidents of an earthquake in Bukavu (Congo) and an election in Zimbabwe. It is time for an update. The earthquake hit Bukavu, as well as the countryside surrounding in Congo and Rwanda (Bukavu, a city of 600,000 people, is on the border between the two countries) on the 3rd February 2008, as Mass was being said in the chapel in Bukavu. Fr. Steven Ayule-Milenge wrote a very restrained message in which he said that the chapel and offices - recently rented for the next year - had been damaged that he had a sprained and possibly broken -wrist, and that 20 of the parishioners had been admitted to hospital. We are thankful that none of the injuries were very serious, although we prayed for the six people who lost their lives in the earthquake: and for the many others who lost property and belongings in the damage caused. The IAF was able, with the help of a donor in the USA to send moneys immediately, which allowed the hospital bills for 15 of those admitted to be paid. We here in Canada were able to send moneys so that the church could find alternative accommodation both for the chapel and for offices for administration of the Congolese church: and we launched an appeal for urgent help for this purpose. As of Easter Week, 5 of our Bukavu parishioners remained in hospital, and needed to settle their accounts. Thanks to the response to the earthquake appeal, we have been able to send moneys for these fees, as well as enough to provide new furniture and altar linens for the chapel in Bukavu: total $2040.00. The church still needs to replace the chalice and paten ($250.00), as well as reprint prayer books in Swahili which were lost in the damage and destruction ($950.00). Zimbabwe: the people are living under an intolerable burden of amazing inflation and the ensuing poverty, and yet continue to build the church there, under the leadership of Fr. Wellington Ncube-Murinda. Bishop Peter Wilkinson asked us to help in the transfer of funds to the TAC Zimbabwe, which we accomplished: this sum of $5000.00 will be used for the construction of a new church. We have been able to send a gift of $100 income support for each of the 6 ordinands, as well as $200 for travel expenses for clergy to travel to a Regional Deanery Meeting: at which the major topic will be the growth of the church and the need for a new building. Fr. Ncube-Murinda has assured me that we shall have copies of all paperwork in this regard as soon as they have determined the best way to proceed. The CACZ in Zambia is in the process of arranging for a synod at which the decision on the election of anew Bishop will be decided: this will be the first Episcopal election for the CACZ, which is growing as new priests are trained and can develop the congregations. To assist the ordinands, who live `on campus' at Makeni during the week, and whilst there have to grow much of their own food, we have sent $1000.00 for the five ordinands, to be distributed as needed by Fr. Andrew Mukuyamba. As mentioned in the previous report, there is also a continual correspondence with Fr. Alphonse Ndual in Yaound�, Cameroon: and although we have no charitable agreement with the church in Cameroon as yet, we have been able to send the church a number of stoles and maniples, thanks to the gift of St. Patrick's, Pitt Meadows. It has also been possible to send funds, thanks to one donor, so that Fr. Ndual was able to renew his residency permit with the police, thus avoiding the risk of arrest and imprisonment. Back to the Congo, we had sent moneys for the roofing of several churches. One parish, St. Matthieu, Malinde, has asked Fr. Steven Ayule-Milenge to check with us if is may be possible for them to delay building the roof at this time. The reason is that the parish would prefer to wait until the end of the rainy season, in late May or June, so that they can then build kilns, and make cured brick: they can then build a solid building, on which they will put the solid roof: and the they will have the church they can be sure who not fall down i the rainy season. What is really impressive about this is that by sending some roofing material, the parish has now been able to get together to build the solid church: bricks they can make - hut the roof materials they could not afford to buy. Also in Congo, the CIDA grant application is in Ottawa: it is wending its way through the inner workings of CIDA: please keep this in your prayers, as it can benefit over 50,000 peoples' healthcare if approved. Pray for the continuation of this mission outreach, that it may prove successful in funding these projects: but also pray for the success of the Primate's Appeal: as it is the Primate who is the source of Episcopal visits to these churches, the funding for the confirmations of the faithful, the funds to bring the clergy to meetings, and so on and so forth: essential work for the growth and good health of the TAC,. Fr. David R. Marriott SSC

What's In A Name?

By the Rt. Rev. Dr. Carmino de Catanzaro

We are delighted to reprint this statement written by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Carmino J. de Catanzaro as a statement of what the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada stands for:

"We are Anglican in background and tradition. We are Catholic - not in the sense of Roman Catholic, though, no doubt, we have much in common with them. Rather, we accept the whole Christian Faith. We dont want to be cafeteria-style Christians, who pick and choose the parts of the Christian religion that we like, and turn up our noses at the rest.

"We therefore accept all that Jesus Christ has taught. He is the eternal Son of God, the Way, the Truth, and the Life, who was born into this world as a human child of the Virgin Mary, lived among us as a perfect human being, died on the Cross, rose from the dead, and lives and reigns for evermore. He is the Centre of our Faith - no one else. What we believe, we believe because of Him. He is the standard of what is right or wrong, true or false - not what society or the contemporary world thinks.

"Because we believe in Jesus Christ, we believe in the Bible. We believe the Bible because it speaks of Him, His acts, His teachings. It points forward to them in the Old Testament; it relates them directly in the Gospels; it looks back on them and reflects on them in the Acts and Epistles. It looks forward to His Second Coming and final Judgement of mankind in the Book of Revelation. The Bible is infinitely precious to us because of Jesus Christ. We do not want to avoid it or explain it away!

"Because we believe in Jesus Christ, we accept the Creeds. They summarize what Christians, guided by the Holy Spirit, have always believed about Him. We recite them with pride and confidence, not with tongue in cheek. They express the convictions by which we live and die.

"Because we believe in Jesus Christ, we accept His commandments. We know that we are responsible to Him as the judge of all mankind. We also know that we often fail to measure up to them, but that He offers us forgiveness of sins and His Holy Spirit to overcome our weaknesses and shortcomings and make us like Him.

"Because we believe in Jesus Christ, we believe in His Church. It is His Church, subject to His marching orders, sent by Him to witness to His truth to all men everywhere. It is not ours to change as we see fit, to make into a social club for our kind of peple, or into a political organization to prop up the existing order or to bring about social change.

"Because we believe in Jesus Christ, we believe in His Sacraments. We believe that in Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Communion, Absolution, Holy Unction, Holy Matrimony, and Holy Orders He really is present and acts for our salvation, and that we must meet Him in faith and penitence.

Because we believe in Jesus Christ, we believe in the sacred Ministry. Bishops, priests, and deacons are His agents who must act on His instructions, first given to the Apostles. They must proclaim His Word, administer His Sacraments, and on His behalf minister to people. Their role is not to be glorified social workers, political agitators, or amateur psychologists. We do not accept women priests because Jesus our Lord did not choose women Apostles. For us that is enough. He, the eternal truth, knows better than any of us.

"We do not set up ourselves as being better or more perfect than other people. We know that we are imperfect and sinful, and that our only hope is in trying to obey our Lord Jesus Christ and to worship Him.

"We do not wish to be another sect of Christians. On the contrary, we rejoice that so many believe what we believe and want to be as close to them as possible. We desire to be at one with them in the one Christ, the Son of the living God, risen, ascended, and glorified.

To Him be all honour and glory for ever and ever! Amen.