A Downward Mobility?

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Power and politics in the Anglican Church. First, as we all know All Anglican priests are under the authority and care of a bishop. That is to say we, as priests, are asked by the Bishop, "And will you in accordance with the Canon of this Church, obey your bishop and other ministers who may have authority over you and your work?" ( BAS P.645). If one wishes to be ordained at that point, it is wise to answer in the affirmative. If you tend to be anti-authority ..... well?
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Now one might want to ask whether their Bishop is more into the authority thing than into the caring thing. Not me, at lest not here in a public forum that the bishop just might read. As a priest that’s a question best left for another day. .
Now Anglican Bishops were, once upon a time, priests who are elected by their priestly peers and also by "elected" lay people. Power and politics at work. Sometimes it seems to me, that the lay members elect a "caring" bishop while priests seem go after the ‘authority’ types. Just my humble opinion - you may want to disagree - and probably will - especially if you are from the priestly caste.
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Now usually Bishops are elected after an extensive campaign for the office in which no-one openly campaigns for and it is a long standing tradition in the election of an Anglican Bishop that those who find their names on the candidates short list not be caught campaigning. They must not appear to have sought the office in any way, and once elected, the new bishop must make a public declaration that "I didn’t seek this office and I really didn’t want it but once the Lord calls ...." Now this may well be true, but as someone else has observed, very few priests, once they have been elected bishop ever turn the job down.
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Priests for that matter, are often heard to say when moving to another parish
"I had no plans to leave this parish, and I’d rather stay here, but the Lord calls."
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Of course the parish the clergy are leaving behind are usually the last people on the planet to know their priest is leaving. All of the interviews, plans and preparations are carried out under the umbrella of secrecy until the big announcement is made public and the people the priest has had the care and cure of souls for are surprised and even shocked, especially if the exercise of keeping the secret has really been successful. Power and politics in the Church.
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Some skeptic cynic has observed that the Lord rarely calls a priest to leave one parish to go to another parish, unless that particular move is viewed as " an upward mobility move" . That usually means leaving a rural ( out in the middle of no where) parish to go to an urban ( city and near a university ) parish, and maybe more money too, if the city parish is wealthy. Now, I know what you are thinking. Didn’t he leave a rural parish to go to a city parish. Now I believe that such a move really was the Lord calling - but I’m perhaps the only person. Such a silly skeptic cynic to think such a silly thought. Power and politics.
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However, the same silly skeptic cynic has also observed that very few clergy actually ever go the other direction - that is - practice a "downward mobility" that that would be seen by their peers as a step downward rather than upward.
In our Gospel today, Mark is telling us something we all know - everybody wants to be a somebody. Even James and John. They were ambitious. They wanted to be Jesus’ left and right hand men. Now I am sure that if Jesus had granted their request, these two brothers would have had a further discussion as to which one of them would actually sit at Jesus’ right and left hand. We all know that being on the right hand side is the more important position. Right? Right.
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The story is told of how a court painter painted the portrait of Oliver Cromwell.
Now Cromwell was afflicted with warts growing on his face. Thinking to please him, the court painter painted Cromwell’s portrait without the warts. On seeing the finished work, Cromwell said "Take it away! Paint me with warts and all." .
As William Barclay observes "It is Mark’s aim to show us the disciples warts and all." The twelve disciples were not a company of perfect people. The twelve disciples were ordinary men, imperfect and ambitious and it was with people just like ourselves that Jesus set out to change the world - and change it he did.
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When this conversation between Jesus and James and John took place, It is just five days before Jesus' crucifixion. Four days before his betrayal and trial. One
day before the clearing of the temple. A few hours before the Triumphal Entry.
St. Luke has an interesting perspective on this ambition stuff. Jesus is preparing his disciples for his death, which is just hours away. He gathers the disciples in a room somewhere in Jerusalem and they share a last supper together.
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Jesus took the bread, and gave thanks, and broke it and gave it to the disciples, saying. "This is my body which is being given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way, after the supper, He took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you."
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As Jesus was preparing them for his death, he warned that one of them would betray him and they began to question among themselves which of them might do such a thing. So far, so good, but like Mark’s Gospel, Luke’s Gospel shows us the whole picture - warts and all - for a dispute broke out among them as to which one of them might be the greatest.
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It is tragic that while Jesus was preparing them for his death on the Cross, the disciples were arguing and quarreling over which one of them was the greatest.
Jesus told them bluntly that the standards of this world were not the standards of his kingdom. In Jesus’ Kingdom it is not the king, but the servant that counts.
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In just a few short weeks we will begin to see people in uniforms in shopping malls ringing bells collecting donations for the poor. They are doing the work of the Salvation Army. In 1878, when the Salvation Army was really beginning to make its mark, men and women from all over the world began to enlist.
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A man who had once dreamed of becoming a bishop in another denomination crossed the Atlantic from America to England to enlist in the Salvation Army instead. His name was Samuel Brengle and he left a fine pastorate to join William Booth's Army. At first General Booth accepted Brengle’s services reluctantly and grudgingly. One day Booth said to Brengle, "You've been your own boss too long." So in order to instill humility in Brengle, he made him work by cleaning the boots of other trainees.
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Discouraged, feeling perhaps demeaned, Samuel Brengle said to himself, "Have I followed my own fancy across the Atlantic in order to black boots?" Then, as in a vision, he saw Jesus bending over the feet of rough, uneducated fishermen. "Lord," he whispered, "you washed their feet; I will black their shoes." Samuel Brengle went on to establish the Salvation Army in America."
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What the world needs is service. The hilarious thing is that the business world, the consumer society preachers preach against, know this only too well. Muffler shops are "service centers" and they will crawl under your car and get themselves dirtier, and go that extra mile to fix that muffler just so they can stay ahead of their competitors. They will do it by serving you.
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The church knows this too. We speak of service and servanthood, but it too is hilarious, we then turn around and have more arguments about the importance of positions, power and rank, and more concern about "people’s places" in the church than anywhere else. Ah, good old power and politics.
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Samuel Brengle was reminded of how Jesus washed his disciples feet. Can you imagine a Church where people are more concerned for others than for themselves. A Church that seeks to wash the feet of the poor instead of shaking hands with the rich and powerful. A Church that founds its life in giving, not on what it can get, is a Church that understands what greatness is.
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It took the Cross for James and John to finally understand that Jesus’ Kingdom was not based on worldly standards of ambition or power, but on service.
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We have all kinds of positions in the Anglican Church, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, Archdeacons, Canons, Priests, Deacons, Vocational Deacons, Layreaders, elected delegates to Synod, to name a few. All positions of power, all have the possibility of lending themselves to playing a part in Church politics
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Do I hear the silly skeptic cynic asking, "Are those downward or upward mobility positions?" I believe there is an archdeacon position open, mmm, isn’t that the bishop’s right and left handers? Oh, but then I would have to leave this parish that I’ve become very comfortable with, and I am most pleased with my own title of Warden of Layreaders, but, you know, if the Lord calls ....
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The other week we had a parishioner die in our Parish. As Rector, I made the announcement of this person’s death and of the time and day of the funeral. One parishioner was overheard to say that she must go home and bake something for the funeral. A servant. With such people Jesus can and did change the world.

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Life's Choices

A young man stands in front of Jesus and asks Jesus what must he do to inherit eternal life. Jesus asks him if he knows the commandments and the young man responds that he not only knows them, he has done his best to keep the commandments since he was a young boy.
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Jesus responded by saying there was one thing lacking in the yong man’s life. He then invited the young man to sell everything he had and give the money to the poor, and then he would have treasure in heaven. Then Jesus invited the young man to become a disciple. It was a direct divine invation.
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The story relates how the young man’s face fell and he went away very sad because he had great wealth. The disciples were shocked when Jesus told them it was hard for the rich to enter the kingdom of God. It would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of an needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

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The young man’s face fell. He wanted eternal life but he didn’t want to give up anything in the process. Life is full of decisions. Life is full of difficult choices.
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This past month or so I have been watching the resident squirrel here at the Rectory. He is busy eating acorns from the oak tree that adorns the yard.

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However, if the squirrel is to survive the winter he must make some choices.

First of all, the squirrel needs to know the difference between red oak trees and white oak trees. The difference is possibly Life and Death. The acorns of the white oak do not keep over the winter, but the red oak acorns do - and the squirrel needs to know the difference if he is to survive during the winter months.
Researchers have discovered that given the choice between red acorns and white acorns, the squirrel will chose to eat the white acorns 80% of the time, while choosing to bury or store away the red acorns 60% of the time.
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Also, if the squirrel chooses to eats too many red oak acorns, which produce the best energy, but also have higher levels of toxins, the squirrel may be poisoned.

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If the squirrel chooses to store away the white oak acorns they usually sprout almost right away, so that when the squirrel went to dig them up he would find nothing there as the energy of the acorn has long gone into the root system.

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And so when you see the busy squirrel racing around the yard, and scurrying to the tops of the trees, remember, even the squirrel must make good decisions.

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We all make decisions. You made a decision to come to Church. You made that decision before you went to bed last night. You made a decision what you would have for breakfast, toast or cereal, tea or coffee. You made a decision what you would wear and you will make a decision as to whether or not you will participate in today’ s sermon or whether you will listen or not to the sermon.

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The rich young man in our Gospel Reading was faced with a decision, he must choose his wealth or he must choose to follow Jesus and inherit eternal life. The young man was more committed to his wealth than to having eternal life.

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It needs to be pointed out that Jesus offered an invitation to the young man. It is called the divine invitation. It is a call to become a disciple of Jesus. it is an invitation, not a threat, or a demand, but an invitation to follow Jesus Christ.

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his morning Kristin Byrn Landry is to be baptized into the household of faith. Kristin, according to the Bible, is God’s work of art. God knows everything there is to know about Kristin Byrn Landry. God knowns more about Kristin that even Kristin’s parents. Kristin’s name is engraved on God’s Almighty Hands. The very hairs on Krisins head are number. God knows every thought that this child will have, God knows every word she will speak before those words are even on her lips. God has a plan and a purpose for Kristin - it begins in baptism.

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Through her baptism Kristin Byrn Landry Kristin Byrn Landry will become a member of the Body of Christ - the Church, she will become a child of God, and an inheritor of the Kingdom of God.

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Kristin Byrn Landry’s parents have responded to God’s invitation to have their beautiful daughter baptized this morning and will promise to bring her to Church, teach her the commandments, pray for her and teach her to pray, and to take her place in the life and community of the Church.

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For Kristin Byrn Landry’s baptism to have any meaning, it calls for commitment on the part of Kristin’s parents, God-parents and Grand-parents to see that Kristin is raised in the Church and prepared to become a follower of Jesus.
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Unless we respond to the invitation by way of commitment, we are pretty much the same as the rich young man who was more committed to wealth than he was to his faith or to God
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It is interesting to note that this young man not only knew the commandments, but he perceived that he kept the commandments since he was a boy. Obviously he had been taught them by his parents. Apparently he was a person of faith, at least he was asking the right questions regarding eternal life.
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When Jesus challenged his faith, the young man was no more committed to his faith than the man on the moon. The young man was more committed to wealth.

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As a priest a good many people have sttod at the front of this church and made all kinds of promises on behalf of their children, and many have exchanged vows to each other before God.

No doubt they were sincere when making such promises and vows, however I could count on one hand the number of parents who return to bring their child to God's house as they promised they would and also I can only name two couples who exchanged vows before God in Holy matrimony who still attend church. Life gets busy I guess and we have choices to make God usually gets lost in the shuffle ...... until something goes wrong and life takes a turn for the worst - then God gets a lot of air time. Life, eh?
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We all have choices to make. This morning Kristin’s mum and dad are making a choice on behalf of their daughter. They are making the choice of raising this child in the ways of the Church. Through the commitments of her parents, God-parents and grand-parents Kristin will be an inheritor of the Kingdom of God, a member of the body of Christ, and a child of the living God. Amen and Amen.

Job and Justice

God's Justice & Human Suffering

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF JOB 1:1, 2:1-10
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There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job.

That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God

and turned away from evil. One day the heavenly beings

came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan

also came among them to present himself before the Lord.
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The Lord said to Satan, "Where have you come from?"
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Satan answered the Lord, "From going to and fro
on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."
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The Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There
is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears
God and turns away from evil. He still persists in his integrity, although
you incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason."
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Then Satan answered the Lord, "Skin for skin! All that people have

they will give to save their lives. But stretch out your hand now

and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face."
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The Lord said to Satan, "Very well, he is in your power;

only spare his life."
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So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and inflicted loathsome

sores on Job from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
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Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself,

and sat among the ashes.
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Then his wife said to him, "Do you still persist in your integrity?

Curse God, and die."

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But he said to her, "You speak as any foolish woman would
speak. Shall we receive the good at the hand of God, and not
receive the bad?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

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A away up there beyond the clouds, where no human eye can see, an extraordinary conversation took place. It was a conversation between the spirit of all things evil and the Spirit of all things good. It was a conversation troubling to the human mind. It was a conversation that would take everything a man had. When one thinks of the story of Job, the first thing that comes to mind is that no human could ever have eavesdropped on such a conversation - so therefore the story is meant perhaps as a play - a play about God's justice and the problem of human suffering. That is not to say that Job did not exist as a person - the Bible acknowledges that he did indeed exist and perhaps it was his story that inspired the author of the Book of Job,to document this problem of how good people, blameless and upright, often suffer greatly.
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AND SO THE PLAY UNFOLDS. ACT ONE: When called by God to give account for his doings, the evil one, Satan, boasted that he had gone to and fro through the earth, insinuating that he had met no resistance or hindrance to his will and found no one to stand up to oppose his ability to move freely and to act out on his own pleasures and purposes.
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He boasted that he had gone everywhere unhindered and unchallenged, like a king marching through his own dominions, acting out his pleasures and purpose.
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ACT TWO: It was then that the great and Almighty God reminded the evil one that there was at least one place on earth and among people where he would not gain entry.
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It was then that the great and Almighty God reminded the evil one that there was one place on earth and among people where he would find no foothold or entry.
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It was then that the great and Almighty God reminded the evil one that there was one place on earth and among people where his power was totally ineffective.
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It was then that the Great and Almighty God held up to the evil one His servant Job. It was this man, the man named Job, the one we remember wrongly for his patience in the face of suffering, when in fact he is to be remembered for his endurance in the face of suffering - a suffering that most of us cannot imagine.
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ACT THREE: "Have you considered my servant Job? Asked the great and Almighty God. There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil. He still persists in his integrity, although you incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason."
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Job. A blameless and upright and Godly man who shuns evil in all its insidious forms. The heart of Job was like an unassailable castle, perfectly loyal to Almighty God, the King of Heaven. "Have you considered my servant Job?"
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ACGT FIVE: It was here, at this point, the question now asked that the evil one defied God, which ought not to surprise as defiance and rebelliousness is his trademark.
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The evil one defied God and told the great and Almighty One that his servant Job was only upright and blameless because of his prosperity. The evil one in his act of defiance insinuated that God’s servant Job was only loyal to God because his prosperity made it profitable to be so. Take it all away and then see if your servant Job will remain blameless, upright and loyal.
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The great and Almighty God, in what give great cause for concern, took up the challenge of the evil one and gave Satan permission to take away all that Job had and owned which Satan insinuated were the props by which Job was held up by. Job only had faith in God because he prospered and was wealthy.

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Do you hear that, the great and Almighty God was willing to gamble with his servant Job’s integrity and loyalty and gave divine permission for the evil one, the accuser, to pull the rug of wealth and prosperity from under Job’s feet.

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The great and Almighty God was willing to put his servant Job to the test. Well, that is perhaps not quite true. The great and Almighty God was willing to put Job through the ringer and allow Satan to kick him then when he was down. The only thing the evil one was not permitted to do was to take Job’s life from him.
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ACT SIX: In consequence of this, all Job's wealth went in one black day, and not even a child was left to whisper comfort. He was left penniless and childless, but Job did not sin by charging God with any wrong doing.
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Next, now poor, penniless, in great grief, mourning the destruction of his family, and loss of fortune, the evil one next assailed Job by destroying his health.

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Satan, with the great and Almighty God’s permission afflicts Job from head to toe with great weeping sores. Even here, the evil one, the tempter, the accuser, uses Job’s wife to encourage Job to curse God that God might inflict the final stroke due to all who dare curse him. Then Job would die, his suffering ended.
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ACT SEVEN: Job, his integrity intact and his loyalty to God unmoveable, unshakable, only steadfast, tells his wife to not be so foolish. Job’s great statement stands the test of time as he replies: "Shall we accept good from God and not trouble?"
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Saint Paul tells us to give thanks in all circumstances. That doesn’t mean giving thanks "for" all circumstances. We don’t thank God when a child is murdered execution style while at school. We don’t thank God when an earthquake happens and thousands upon thousands of people are swept away in angry waters. No, we give thanks "in" such circumstances for the strength to endure and for the hope for the future, or else we may all just curse God and die.
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There is so much more to the story of Job. Satan not only uses Job’s wife to undermine his faith in God, the evil one uses Job’s three friends who conclude after much discussion and deliberation that Job must have done some terrible thing to displease God and thus deserve such harsh judgement and punishment.
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To fully understand the Book of Job, one must understand how uniquely it reflects Israelite thinking. To put it succinctly and perhaps too simply, if one prospered such as the wealthy Job certainly did, then God was clearly with him. If one suffered as Job now suffered this was a sign that God had turned against him. The Book of Job sets out to turn this abstract thinking upside down and on its head. A person can suffer terribly but that does not mean that God has forsaken them.
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ACT EIGHT: Milk truck driver Charles Robert had more than murder on his mind when he entered the one room Amish schoolhouse. Police have revealed that Roberts also had implements of sex and torture with him and apparently his twisted plans went way beyond murder. Also in a suicide note Roberts wrote to his wife, he indicated that he was filled with so much hate against himself, towards God and was filled with an unimaginable emptiness since the death of his daughter, who only lived for twenty minutes after being born in 1997.
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Along side Charles Robert's destructive anger and violent hatred - we find only humble faith and forgiveness from the Amish community. It was reported that the Amish community has plans to help Roberts widow and three children and have asked people not to think evil of Charles Roberts but to offer forgiveness to him and his family. NBC News reported an Amish midwife saying that the Amish community was planning to take food over to the widow and family of Charles Roberts.

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She said, "This is only possible if you have Christ in your heart."

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Like Job, they Amish, in their pain and suffering trusted that God knows best.

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A staggering thought: somehow in the midst of human suffering, our pain and hurt is a part of that great cosmic battle between the powers of good and evil that is beyond our comprehension.

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In the midst of the battle, whether it be battling cancer, fighting other diseases, even in the midst of war and terorrism, our willingness to trust in God shows our hope for tomorrow.

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Christ defeated the powers of sin, evil and death on the Cross.

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We need only speak the name "Jesus" and Satan is silenced.

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Salt you say?

Servants - Ambassadors - Leaders - Teachers

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Servants - Ambassadors - Leaders - Teachers
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"For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good;
but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it?
Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."

Mark 9:50

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At one time Toronto was known as "Toronto the good". In those days (roughly from the 1880s until 1950) the buildings that towered over the city were alike churches. St. James Cathedral, Anglican; St. Michael's Cathedral, Roman Catholic; Metropolitan Church, Methodist. Huge structures all, they rose up above everything else in the city and dominated it. Not only did church buildings dominate the city, so did church leaders. No city politician dared defy church leaders. No public servant or board of education official would say or do anything that simply flew in the face of the church's convictions. Back in the days of "Toronto the good" a clergyman (Rev. Maurice Cody) was even president of the University of Toronto, Canada’s most prestigious educational institution.
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What buildings dominate Toronto's skyline now? What buildings tower over the city now? BANKS! They are all banks! Toronto Dominion was the first superstructure, followed by the Bank of Montreal, the Commerce Bank, The Royal Bank, the Bank of Nova Scotia, and Canada Trust.
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Clearly, it's the pursuit of money and the handling of money and the magnification of money that characterises the city now. Compared to the bank buildings the cathedral churches look like tinker-toys, the playthings of children. And compared to the pursuit of money and the handling of money and the magnification of money (what the banks are about), what the churches are about looks like – does anyone know or care what the churches are about?
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William Howland was salt. He possessed a bubbly enthusiasm and phenomenal capacity for hard work. By the age he was 25, William Howland was president, vice-president, or a director of more than a dozen companies in the fields of insurance and finance, electrical services, and paint manufacturing. When he became president of the Queen City Fire Insurance Company in 1871, he was the youngest insurance company president in Canada. As well, Howland was President of three influential organizations: the Toronto Board of Trade, the Dominion Board of Trade, and the Manufacturer’s Association of Ontario. Out of his love for his country, he served as Chairman of the Canada First movement, personally financing its weekly newspaper "The Nation".
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At age 32, William Howland was led to Christ by his priest, Dr. W.S. Rainsford of St. James Anglican Cathedral. His life-changing experience gave him a new passion for helping the poor. He became involved helping with the Hillcrest Convalescent Hospital, the YMCA, the Haven Home for Unwed Mothers, the Prisoner’s Aid Association, the Central Prison Mission School, and the Toronto General Hospital. Night after night, Howland visited the slums, going from house-to-house, and reaching out to the poor, the sick, and the alcoholic. He also purchased 50 acres to start an Industrial School in order to steer youth away from the life of crime.
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Other initiatives were his building an alternative school for drop-outs, and a Home for the Aged and Homeless Poor. When he began to teach an interdenominational bible study for 100 young men, his new priest J.P. Lewis objected to Howland’s involvement with non-Anglicans. Out of this rejection, he began the interdenominational Toronto Mission Union, which operated seniors’ homes, convalescent homes, and Toronto’s first-ever home nursing service.
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Because of his great compassion for the poor, he was elected as Mayor of Toronto in 1885, with a strong mandate to clean up the city. Howland signaled his arrival in the mayor’s office by installing a twelve-foot banner on the wall, reading, "Except the Lord Build the City, the Watchman Wakes but in Vain".
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Despite fierce opposition, Howland was so successful, that Toronto became nicknamed "Toronto the Good". As champion of the poor, Howland and his Alliance friend, Rev. John Salmon, would tramp the lanes and alleys, feeding the poor, praying over the sick, and comforting the sad. With a population of just 104,000, Toronto had over 800 licensed and unlicensed saloons. Over half of all criminal offenses recorded in 1885 were related to drunkenness.
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Howland is described in Desmond Morton’s book "Mayor Howland: the Citizen’s Candidate" as the first reform mayor in Toronto’s history. Due to bureaucratic corruption, municipal garbage collection was all but non-existent. Even City Hall’s own garbage was rarely picked up. Rotting garbage fouled the alleyways, yards, and streets, giving Toronto a reputation for flies, stench, and disease. With no general sewage system, Toronto lived on the verge of a typhoid epidemic. Children swam in the same Toronto harbour area into which raw sewage was flowing from the ditches. Toronto’s fresh water supply was sucked through leaking and rotting wooden pipes, half buried in the sewage and sludge of the Toronto harbour.
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Howland believed that we didn’t usually need more laws; we just needed to enforce the ones that already existed. He shocked the city bureaucrats by enforcing the already existing bylaw which forbid the depositing of garbage within the city limits. After he threatened to send the city commissioner to jail for breaking this bylaw, garbage miraculously began to be collected!
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William Howland died unexpectedly at age 49. With more than a thousand mourners on foot from all social classes, it was the largest funeral procession that had ever been held in Toronto.
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A poem published in the Toronto Globe said of Howland:
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"And not Toronto mourns alone;
All Canada his fame had heard;
His name is dear, a household word,
And far and wide, his worth was known".
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May William H. Howland continue to be a living symbol of the difference that just one Canadian can make. He understood what Jesus meant when He said that we are to be salt. Salt preserves food and brings out the flavour within food.
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We are to be the flavour of God - no matter where we may find ourselves.
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Our Words, our actions, can flavour conversations and events,
we are to be salt - in a world full of vinegar.
Servants - Ambassadors, Leaders and Teachers of and for Jesus Christ.