PEI Anglicans

"You got hammered at the bar on Saturday but came to church on Sunday….You can sit with me. You’re right where you need to be.

You’re a drug addict but came to church on Sunday….You can sit with me. You’re right where you need to be.

You’re divorced, and the last church you attended condemned you for it….
You can sit with me. You’re right where you need to be.

You’ve had an abortion and it’s slowly eating away at your heart, but you came to church on Sunday….You can sit with me. You’re right where you need to be.

You’ve been unfaithful to your spouse but came to church on Sunday….You can sit with me. You’re right where you need to be.

Here’s the thing, people don’t come to church on Sunday for you to sit in the pew and quietly judge them because you feel that you’re somehow better than them.

People come to church because in their deepest, darkest, most painful moments, they heard about a man named Jesus who could save their soul and they’d like to know Him."

Mark 2:17
On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

APPOINTMENT of VOCATIONS COORDINATOR – Effective October 1, 2024

Bishop Sandra is pleased to announce that the Reverend Carl Fraser has accepted her offer of appointment as our next Vocations Coordinator, effective October 1st, 2024.

FROM THE BISHOP:
Carl has served as Rector for the Parish of Fall River for the past ten years and as an ordained leader in our Diocese for over twenty years. Prior to ordination, he held positions as a Lay Pastor in the Lutheran Church and as a Youth Worker in the Cape Breton and Lunenburg regions. Carl holds a Master of Divinity degree from the Atlantic School of Theology, a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Mary’s University, and a Diploma in Small Business Management.

Carl brings considerable experience and gifts in the disciplines of discernment, questioning, curiosity, listening, and clarifying vocation. This comes from his own vocational journey and ministry, as well as his contributions as a member of Pre-Ordination Review (POR) committees, a supervisor with theological students and postulants for ministry, a mentor for the newly ordained, a Spiritual Director for Teens Encounter Christ (TEC), a certified Education for Ministry (EfM) Mentor, and a Regional Dean. Carl also has considerable experience supporting and empowering laity for the ministries to which God is calling them. He is prayerful and engaging and is deeply committed to helping people discover and explore how God is calling them to live out their baptismal identity as members of the Body of Christ. Carl is a collaborative leader, a thoughtful and clear communicator, a gifted priest, and a wise and discerning fellow traveller on the journey of faith.

Carl’s appointment comes after an extensive interview and discernment process during which we received applications from across Canada and beyond. I am excited to welcome him to this diocesan ministry and am delighted that this is now a full-time position. This shift reflects a growing interest in and discernment about vocations to a variety of ordained and lay ministry roles in our Diocese. I am confident that Carl’s gifts, skills, imagination, passion, and vision will serve us well in the years to come. Carl looks forward to joining our diocesan staff team as we support clergy and lay leaders across Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island in building Christ-centred, mission-minded, ministering communities of faith. Please join me in welcoming Carl as our new Vocations Coordinator.

+Sandra

This is all that remains of our much loved church!

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Trinity VIII, St. Peter's Anglican Cathedral, Charlottetown, PE, July 21, 2024 This is a video of the 10 a.m. Eucharist at St. Peter's Cathedral, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, on Sunday, July 21, 2024.

Mark 12:30-31 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself'. There is no commandment greater than these.”
Happy Pride, PEI! ❤️🧡💛💚💙🖤🤎🩵🩷🤍

We learned just before the 10:45AM service on Sunday morning of some sad news that we shared with the congregation, and we share it now for those who may not have heard.

In the early hours of Sunday, July 14th, a very dear friend to this parish and those in it, and a very faithful man and servant of God and this Parish for his whole life, Gerald Daley, entered eternal rest.

Gerald's health had been declining for some time and he had been in the hospital for months awaiting a placement in a nursing home after falling last year.

Gerald was a fixture at St. Mary's Church, in my time always serving faithfully at the 8am service, but was present at parish events and was well known throughout the community. In the words of his son, Jamie, Gerald possessed an artist's mind and was never short on interesting things to talk about, letters and thoughts to share, and stories from his past.

Someone relayed to me on Monday that Gerald, who was an avid writer of letters to the newspaper and elected officials at every level, had in his possession and quite often called the personal number of then-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to check in on him and let him know his thoughts on goings-on across the country.

We've missed Gerald's regular presence in Church for a few years now, but will certainly miss sharing this world with him which has been made a bit less interesting and enjoyable by his passing from it. However, these are always times for us to express our gratitude to God for the gifts Gerald brought and the promises of God that are being fulfilled for Gerald. May we all look with such faith, hope, and expectation as Gerald had towards the life everlasting with our heavenly father.

Here is a photo of Gerald and the Rector following the Rector's ordination on November 30th, 2016.

Do you have an event going on this summer or something going on early fall that you want other Anglican to know about in your parish?

Drop us a note let us know we post it for you . Coming up on PIA Evans’s page will be posting quick interview with Bishop Sandra that we did at the DCS annual meeting..

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St. Peter's Cathedral - Trinity V - St Peter and St Paul - 30 Jun 2024 A video of the Procession and High Mass at St Peter's Cathedral, Charlottetown, PEI, on Sunday June 30, 2024. The Feast of St. Peter and St Paul is being ob...