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Wholehearted Worship for Holy Week and Easter Season

Lynne McNaughton — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000

This year as the Diocese lives more fully into our value of “Wholehearted Worship,” I invite you once again to tend carefully the traditions of your congregation for Holy Week and Easter Season. How can the old traditions be carried out in ways that enhance your worship? Do your traditions carry clear meaning or have […]

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Bishop Lynne’s Reflection for Lent

Lynne McNaughton — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:58:22 +0000

What does our Diocesan theme of “Whole-hearted worship” look like for your worshipping community in the Season of Lent? What preparation do you need, in your body and soul and community, to really be free to celebrate the Resurrection? One season of Lent in the parish, I went into the sanctuary on the Saturday afternoon […]

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ADVENT Reflection

Lynne McNaughton — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 09:50:44 +0000

One of the fragile antique decorations that came out of its careful wrapping the first Sunday of Advent in my childhood home was a holder for four tiny candles, the size of birthday cake candles. When they were lit they created enough heat that the rising air set spinning a delicate windmill of angels, whose […]

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Sacramental Community

Lynne McNaughton — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:59:47 +0000

One of the things that gives me great joy as Bishop is gathering with Lay Ministers around the Diocese. Certainly with the Diocesan value on “Whole-Hearted Worship,” preparing people for worship leadership is key. An important part of the work of a bishop is teaching, “equipping the saints for the work of ministry.” (Ephesians 4: […]

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Around Kootenay Diocese with Bishop Lynne McNaughton

Lynne McNaughton — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 08:50:54 +0000

Stagleap Provincial Park Two Diocesan events happened in the South West Kootenays. Sunday, August 17 was the fourth annual eucharist service on the Kootenay Pass, with 7 congregations joining in: Christ Church Creston, Creston United Church, St. Paul’s Salmo, St. John’s Fruitvale, St. David’s Castlegar, St. Andrew’s Trail and St.Stephen’s New Denver. There were four adult […]

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Decolonizing Theology!

Lynne McNaughton — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 08:48:33 +0000

For four days in July, I had the immense privilege of attending a conference of the Anglican Communion Theological Education Commission, of which I am a member appointed from Canada. The conference “Decolonizing Theological Education for Discipleship,” was with Church leaders and young theologians from North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Our guest […]

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Bishop’s Easter Reflection

Lynne McNaughton — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:56:01 +0000

Happy Easter! I am always grateful that Easter is a whole season, not just one day, but fifty days. The wisdom in the liturgical calendar recognizes it takes an entire season for Easter to take effect and for the resurrection to sink in. We move slowly from shock or skepticism towards recognition of Jesus alive […]

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HOLY WEEK as a Spiritual Practice

Lynne McNaughton — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 08:59:54 +0000

As Easter arrives so late this year, this issue of the HighWay will arrive before Holy Week. My Easter greeting to the Diocese will arrive by email, at Easter. But now in the remaining days of Lent, it is worth pondering Holy Week itself as a spiritual practice. How do the liturgies and readings of […]

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Discipleship — Lenten Practices

Lynne McNaughton — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:59:46 +0000

Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, […]

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A Model for Daring Discipleship for Seniors!

Lynne McNaughton — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:59:14 +0000

Bishop Lynne McNaughton’s Reflection — February 2025 February 2, 2025 in our liturgical calendar is a Holy Day: the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. In the middle of this year’s long season of Epiphany, when we reflect on our baptismal ministry, our discipleship, this Holy Day jolts us into another image […]

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