January 2022 Archives - The HighWay

Arise! Shine! Your Light Has Come!

Lynne McNaughton — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 18:00:44 +0000

Epiphany is the season of responding to the Light of Christ, the presence of God in our midst. (That is the astounding Good News of the Incarnation: God is with us! We are not alone!) The Light of God is in us, among us and in the world; how do we soak up that Light? Not to bask in it (although that is a good beginning and that is what we need to do at Christmas) so much as to reflect it, to focus that light to shine into the reality of our world.

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Changing Church – Part 3

Neil Elliot — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:55:46 +0000

The green book, or the BAS, is the second huge change which many of us have lived through. Many grew up with the BCP in its various Canadian guises. Whilst the Canadian BCP underwent some changes in 1918 and 1962 they were not substantive.

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The Induction of The Very Reverend David Tiessen

John Miller — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:50:06 +0000

The induction of the Very Rev. David Tiessen as the Incumbent of St Michael and All Angels, Kelowna and installation as the Dean of the Diocese of Kootenay was held on 23 November, the day of the commemoration of Hilda, the Abbess of Whitby. During her opening remarks, Archbishop Lynne McNaughton said the induction of David has been long anticipated. It has been that.

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Turning the Calendar

David Tiessen — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:45:57 +0000

As we flip the calendar from the year that has been to another now beginning, I cannot help but recall just how much that act was anticipated a year ago. Most of us were turn- ing from 2020 to 2021 with great anticipation: “2021 can’t come fast enough” and “good riddance to 2020.”

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Cranbrook & Golden Update

Kevin Arndt — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:40:17 +0000

In 2020, the Parish of Christ Church, Cranbrook suffered a double blow: the first was the shutdown that we all experienced in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The second came in June, with the retirement of the Reverend Yme Woensdregt after sixteen years of ministry at Christ Church and in the surround- ing community. The parish was at a crossroads.

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Christmas ends with Epiphany Light

Yme Woensdregt — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:35:40 +0000

Last month, I wrote about several festivals celebrating the light during this season of winter in the northern hemisphere. Western Christians continue to celebrate the light in the festival of Epiphany, the climax of our Christmas season. It comes after the Twelve Days of Christmas (December 25 – January 5) and heralds the revealing of the light.

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What’s in a Name?

Karen Archibald — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:30:12 +0000

“I have called you by your name, you are mine.” says Isaiah 43:1. Right from the early days of the Bible we are taught that names matter. We are told that God calls us by name and knows us intimately and singularly, and that we are, each of us, God’s own.

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At Sorrento Centre

Michael Shapcott — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:25:15 +0000

For the second time in four months, evacuees from natural disasters have crowded into the Shuswap region in the northwest corner of the Diocese of Kootenay. In July, it was people fleeing the wildfires, and in November, it was people fleeing landslides and flooding.

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The Flight from Egypt

Nick Pang — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:20:24 +0000

They left in the dead of night while no one was watching. That’s often how three people, each with their own stories and their own dreams become nothing but numbers: three people, lost in a sea of eighty-two million displaced persons around the globe.

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In Memoriam The Rev. Elizabeth Lewis 1942-2021

The HighWay — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:16:34 +0000

Elizabeth was born in Cambridge, England, the third of three children, with older brothers John and Richard Morley. She spent her formative years in Great Shelford and attended the local church school. At the age of eight, she joined Perse School for Girls in Cambridge where she met and became life-long friends with Tessa Beresford and Angela Wright. Elizabeth’s interest in nursing was formed early and she was a member of the Red Cross.

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