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Flora Ann Hine (nee Mowatt)

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Flo was also an active member of St. John’s Anglican Cathedral for the past 43 years.

On March 17, 2012, at Seven Oaks Hospital, Flora Ann Hine began her final journey into eternity.  Flo is survived by her sisters Gladys McCallum (Winnipeg) and Beulah Mowat (Edmonton).  She was predeceased by her husband Stan Hine (1985), her sister Vera Mowat (l985), her brother-in-law Ross McCallum (l989), and her parents Jacob Mowat (l974) and Mabel Mowat (1954).

Flo was born on Lot 110, East St. Paul, July 15, l924.  She attended Donald McLeod Elementary School and East Kildonan Collegiate.  She married Stan on September 24, 1947; they settled in East St. Paul in October 1959. Flo’s early work experience was with Eaton’s Mail Order.  She retired from Manitoba Health Services in 1986 after 33 years of service.

Flo was also an active member of St. John’s Anglican Cathedral for the past 43 years.  She was an Oblate of St. Benedict’s Monastery, Winnipeg since 1994.  Flo had many interests, from sports to reading.  Travelling was of particular interest; the only continent she had not visited was Antarctica. Upon her retirement, Flo became an active member in East St. Paul 55+ Centre.

The Order for the Burial of the Dead with Holy Communion will be held on Thursday, 22 March 2012, at St. John’s Cathedral, 135 Anderson Avenue, Winnipeg.  Officiating will the Very Rev. Paul N. Johnson.  In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the charity of your choice.

Private interment to be held at a later date.

Tribute to Professor Lawrence Ritchie

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Lawrence served at the Cathedral and was greatly loved (98-05).
This Thursday, there will be a concert in his honour at St. John’s College. 
All are welcome to attend. 

Bach’s Birthday

A Tribute to Professor Lawrence Ritchie

A Noon hour concert
In the Chapel of St John the Evangelist
Thursday March 22, 12:15 pm – 1:00 pm
St John’s College, 92 Dysart Road

Performance by
Lottie Enns-Braun: Organist & Sean Tauber: Cellist

Reception to Follow

Memorial Service for Nathanael Meissner

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The Rev. Jack Risk and his wife Christine Willette thank you for your prayers for their son Nathanael John Arthur Meissner who was reported missing in late December 2011 while hiking in the Gatineau Hills.  His death from exposure has recently been confirmed.
A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 31, at St. Matthew Anglican Church, 641 St. Matthew’s Avenue, Winnipeg.
Please direct any memorial donations, with the family’s gratitude, to:  The WestEnd Commons or Resource Assistance for Youth.

Ministry: Prison Related Ministry

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You Visited Me…

Recent research has shown that prisoners who are visited are less likely to re-offend.

Anglicans and Lutherans have planned a meeting on prison related ministry on March 20th.

Recent research has shown that prisoners who are visited are less likely to re-offend.  Last fall the Roman Catholic Archbishop Weisberger called a meeting for his diocese to find out what was going on in ministry in Corrections and to see what more should the church be doing. It was very successful, and we are trying to duplicate it for our churches.

A panel will include a family who had a member who was incarcerated, prison volunteers from our churches, an ex-offender and a Christian NGO helping prisoners.

If this gathering is to be a success we need people to attend who:

  • Work or have worked in the Justice System
  • Families who have or have had a member incarcerated
  • Victims
  • Volunteers
  • Potential volunteers
  • Anyone interested in the Justice System
  • Interested clergy

Tuesday, March 20th

Registration 4:30 pm, wrap up at 8:45pm. Meal will be served.
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
600 Cambridge Street (Cambridge & Corydon)

Please RSVP to Tom Collings 204-772-2892 or tomjulie@mts.net
or Ken Kuhn 204-885-2821 or kenkuhn@mts.net by March 13th.

Teaching our Children: Why did people want to kill Jesus?

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We’ve been careful to teach our kids that Jesus loves each and every one of us, but then when Lent comes, how do we go on to explain why so many people wanted him dead?

Anglican Virtual Church School lesson writer, Fiona Brownlee challenges us to tell our children the whole truth about Jesus:

“I think we need to be honest with our children. I think we need to give them the whole story of Jesus. Not just the parts that make us comfortable.

Jesus during his ministry made many people uncomfortable. He made the religious leadership uncomfortable. He made the political leaders uncomfortable. I think if he visited one of our parishes he would make us uncomfortable as well.

Children need to know that Jesus made and continues to make people uncomfortable. For some in Jesus’ day this discomfort turned into fear and they thought the only way to deal with it was to put him to death.”

– Fiona Brownlee

Read the full article Lent, Children and Honesty about Jesus

Special Service: Mothering Sunday

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Join us at St. John’s on Sunday evening,
March 18 at 7:30 p.m. for Mothering Sunday.
We serve simnel cake with coffee and tea
at a reception following the service.

Mothering Sunday

March 18, at 7:30 p.m.
Reception to follow

Sunday evening, March 18, at 7:30 p.m., the Cathedral will be welcoming the Diocesan community for the annual “Mothering Sunday Service”.

This special Eucharist will also include the reaffirmation of baptismal promises and ordination vows, as well as the blessing of oils by the Bishop for distribution to Diocesan parishes.

The whole emphasis of the day was on the family, both the human family and the family of God, as children came home to visit their parents and worship together.

Mothering Sunday in the Anglican Communion takes its name from Galations 4:26, where Paul says “Jerusalem which is above is free; which is the mother of us all”. This heavenly Jerusalem is our spiritual home, on earth she is the church. In England, mid-Lent Sunday gradually became the universal day for the yearly pilgrimage to the Cathedral or mother church of the Diocese and received the popular nickname of “Mothering Sunday”. Thousands of pilgrims signing the “Ascent Psalms” (Psalms 120-134) would throng the Cathedrals until, after some centuries, the crowds created problems and the “Mothering” services were moved to the Parish churches; in modern times they have been moved back to the Cathedrals.

The whole emphasis of the day was on the family, both the human family and the family of God, as children came home to visit their parents and worship together. Mothers received gifts including Simnel Cake and flowers.

The traditional Simnel Cake probably takes its name from the Latin word “siminellus”, meaning fine wheat flour. The cakes were rich and varied, highly glazed and very hard. Some were star shaped or decorated with pictures of Christ and His Mother. The Shrewsbury Simnel is the cake most commonly used today; it is a rich fruit cake with a layer of almond paste baked into the center and decorated with twelve balls of almond representing the twelve apostles. It is traditional to have the parish children bring the cakes to the alter to be blessed.

– Adapted from the Anglican Church Ladies Cookbook “Best Recipes this side of Heaven”

Bake a Simnel Cake

Traditionally, simnel cake is served on this special occasion. Please assist us in hosting this evening by baking a simnel cake.

Recipes and a sign up list can also be found in the Narthex.

Education Opportunity: Indigenous Wisdom

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Indigenous Wisdom
with Bishop Mark MacDonald

University of Winnipeg
Faculty of Theology

April 30-May 4, 9 – 5 pm
North End Campus
527 Selkirk Avenue

Bishop Mark MacDonald is National Indigenous Bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada. He is also a musician, a theologian, an educator and a healer.

Available for audit,
diploma or degree credit.
For more information please contact Chris Wells at the University of Winnipeg 786-9857.