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November 2018 ISSN 2561-9209-2

City Hall Square, Windsor Ontario

Welcome Home

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Advent, 2018

My dear siblings in Christ,

‘Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.’ (Luke 2:15 NRSV)

L ike the shepherds from St. Luke the Evangelist’s account of the Christmas story and the Magi from St. Matthew’s account, we find ourselves waiting in joyful hope for the annual celebration of the incarnation of our God in the baby Jesus. The cycles of

our lives are beautifully mirrored in the annual cycles of the

Christ’s beloved bride – the church. Just as the hours of daylight dwindle; our gathering as a community and our attempts to support each other

All Saints’ Stained Glass Window Holy Family

In the south nave Gift of the Gall Family 1908

Winter Skating Information Page 6

Holiday Services Sunday December 23

8am 10am Evensong 7:30pm

Monday December 24 Christmas Eve 7pm

Candlelight Service 11pm

Tuesday December 25

Christmas Day 10am

Thursday December 27 11:30am Eucharist

Reverend Robert L. Clifford Rector

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Joyful Giving ~ Time, Talent, Treasure

Why Do I Give to All Saints'? by Christina Simmons

I have attended All Saints' Church since 1988, when I moved to Windsor. I give to the church out of gratitude for what I have received and to further Christian community and action. Raised in the Anglican (U.S. Episcopal) church, I continue to find this particular Christian tradition sustaining for

me as it is embodied in All Saints'. I have gained spiritual knowledge, insight, and inspiration from the preaching and study groups and outstanding music. Most of all, I am grateful for how All Saints' has come to embrace greater inclusivity in regard to race, gender, and sexuality issues at an historical moment full of division in the world around us; only loving community can counter such division. As Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, believed, every act of love or work of mercy can "increase the balance of love in the world." All Saints' takes part in that effort.

Thank you to our photographers in this issue: Sam Bridgen, Matt Hoy, Art Roth, and Thom Smith. Pictures are worth a thousand words. Enjoy the colour snapshots of our parish.

T hank you to Sarah Jarvis for maintaining our web-site.

Check it out. Or if you would like to add something, let the church office know.

AllSaintsWindsor.ca

T hank you, Irene Moore Davis,

who maintains our outreach on Face-book. Like us at:

Facebook.com/ASCOutreach

David Palmer organist circa 1979

Our Choir All Saints’ Sunday

We had 3 Baptisms All Saints’ Weekend.

One was Holly

Heinz. All at

our ancient Font

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through the drear days of the year increase. I pray that this note finds you well and surrounded by people who love you. Please know that your family here at All Saints’ is thinking about you and prays for you often. I have been reflecting lately on the possibility that, in addition to the Ad-vent waiting that we undertake at this time of the year, God is patiently waiting for His bride, the Body of Christ, to make its approach to Him. We are the Body of Christ, that mysti-cal union of all believers the Scrip-tures and our prayer books remind us of.

W e are called to show our love to God and to our neighbours.

We are called to make the light and love of Christ, that we experience so vividly in the Advent and Christmas liturgies, known to the world. Advent all boils down to love. Love from a Saviour. Love to a neighbour in need. All Saints’ is taking up its share in the mission of God in this part of the world. Children are fed and they are nurtured in the faith we hold dear because God has sustained us here

for generations. The elderly and lone-ly are visited and brought together in love and fellowship as we respond to the love and presence that we experi-ence as the Body of Christ. Our job is to be open to the movement of the Holy Spirit as she goes about building up the Kingdom of God.

T his Advent and Christmas we will be gathering in worship and

fellowship often. Keep your eyes on the leaflet and the posters around for your oppor-tunity to help us worship. Please do continue to hold your All Saints’ family in your prayers as we hold you in ours. When you are able, please plan to join us through the Winter. I can be reached in confidence, and at most any time, by email:

rlcliffo@alumni.uwo.ca or by phone/text message:

1(519)318-4430

Peace be upon you and yours these holy seasons.

Blessings,

Robert+

Robert L. Clifford+ Continued From Page 1

Reverend Robert Clifford Mission Work @ University Of Windsor

Reverend

Bev Diet

Holiday Harmony: Grief during the Christmas season

C hristmas can be a very intense

time of the year. We will look

at some background of this and our

very high expectations of Christmas.

Grief is also intensified at this time

whether it happened this year or 10

years ago or more. We look at our

expectations of Christmas and how

these affect our experience. Also it

seems to be a time of contradic-

tions. We could be hearing Jingle

Bells or Silent Night and yet not

feeling happy or peaceful within

ourselves. It is interesting that malls

at times are decorated with Victori-

an Christmas decor and signs pro-

claiming the Dickens Christmas

spirit. In the lush display we are

lulled into forgetting that the true

Christmas spirit of Dickens had to

do with family traditions, the love of

humanity and compassion for the

poor - not the marketing needs of a

consumer economy . Finally we will

look at resources and suggestions to

make our experience healing.

Grief & Loss Seminars will be held

each Sunday during Advent after the 10am Service in the parish library Join us: Christmas Evensong Sunday December 23 rd 7:30pm

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Summer Baptism

Does The Holy Ghost Go Out on Hallowe’en? Yes! In October Robert+ had one of the largest Bible studies in recent All Saints’ history. Pumpkins at the Rectory.

Some of the 8am, congregation, September

Art Roth, Beryl Roth Kevin Roth, Robert with Elina Maddison, Laura Jelenič, Miriam Roth, Gordana Jelenič, Jernej Jelenič, Mark Roth.

Summer Baptism

Guy Jolin welcomes worshippers in the nave

Jeff Wilkinson Jazz Night

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October St. Luke Seniors’ Luncheon

Buy a priest a Beer/Cola Manchester Pub

Worship on the Square

Rene Dumouchelle refinishing one pair of the historic oak church doors.

September Cooks St. Luke’s

Betty Richards

With Robert+

Parish Hall

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All Saints’ Skating Program

A t All Saints’ church with winter comes the skate program, an outreach of the church to the community at large. Start-

ing in December on Saturday mornings from 10 am to noon and going for 3 months we make ice skates available at no cost to anyone who asks, for the day or the season. All we ask is that peo-ple take care of them and return them when they say they will. In January and February, we offer free skating lessons at Charles Clark Square on Saturday mornings from 10 am to 11:30 am (ice conditions permitting). Then at 11:30 we offer hot homemade soup and fresh fruits and vegeta-bles to the skaters and their families in our activ-ity room. We also have helmets available to bor-row. Last year approximately 350 people bor-rowed skates over these 3 months. We have acquired the skates over about 30 years as donations and via purchases at thrift stores, most being acquired in the past 16 years. We have had well over 2,000 pairs of skates pass through our hands. Groups call to arrange to borrow skates and helmets for their special events. They will bor-row from 10 to 100 pair at a time. Last year we provided about another 350 pairs of skates this way.

For the past 3 winters, in early February, we have partnered with the local YMCA to offer the Newcomer

Skate event, when we reach out to people new to Canada to try ice skating on Charles Clark Square and to enjoy food and drink hospitality at the rink and in our parish hall. People of all ages and many different countries come togeth-er to try something new and healthy and get exposed to having fun outdoors in the winter. Our church volunteers and friends and many volunteers from agencies working with new-comers make this a big event. In 2018 there were approximately 250 people at the rink that afternoon. We hope to host this event again in 2019.

T his year we want to give away some of our skates, as our inventory of children’s skates

is well beyond our needs. All of this happens because good people volunteer their time to give others a unique op-portunity to ice skate at a time when children and youth are more sedentary and less healthy, when it is important for all of our community to share common experiences in peace. We welcome more volunteers and we thank All Saints’ church for making its facilities availa-ble for this activity.

Art Roth, Skate Program Coordinator

Robert+ & Bev+ October Eucharist @ Amica

The LGBT community, also referred to as the gay community, are welcome at All Saints’ Anglican Church City Hall Square.

W e acknowledge that the land on which we stand and in which we serve is the traditional

territory of the Ottawa, Chippewa, and Pottowato-my/Powtawatamie nations of the Three Fires Con-federacy, and Huron/Wyandot nation. We also acknowledge that we are parties to Treaty 116 (signed May 15, 1786), McKee Treaty 2 (signed May 19, 1790), Treaty 12 (signed Sept 11, 1800), and Treaty 35 (signed Aug 13, 1833) signed by our ancestors.

A s the sun set on November 11th, Rever-end Robert had a litany of reconciliation.

We then sounded our bell 100 times. All gath-ered got a chance to pull the rope. We were joined by Pastor Paul Poolton and many from St. Augustine of Canterbury Church.

Complimentary chili with apple cider, and ice cream were served in the parish hall.

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Thank you! Bruce Tucker and Tina Simmons have graciously donated towards the costs to print this news-letter in colour. Thank you. The Herald Press is our printer. They have been printing publications for All Saints’ Church since 1897.

Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning If I lacked anything. ‘A guest,’ I answered, ‘worthy to be here.’ Love said, ‘You shall be he.’ ‘I the unkind, ungrateful? Ah my dear, I cannot look on thee.’ Love took my hand, and smiling did reply, ‘Who made the eyes but I?’ ‘Truth Lord; but I have marred them; let my shame Go where it doth deserve.’ ‘And know you not,’ says Love, ‘who bore the blame?’ ‘My dear, then I will serve.’ ‘You must sit down,’ says Love, ‘and taste my meat:’ So I did sit and eat.

Love (1633) George Herbert Poem submitted from Tina Simmons

Terry Williams—Custodian— Special Acknowledgement Your newsletter editor wishes to thank the W.D. Lowe grad! Your certification in many trades benefits our parish church.

Arthur Carlisle +

Rector 1918

Robert Clifford+ Rector 2018

With the Essex Kent Scottish Regiment our parish came together to recognize the centennial conclusion of the Great War, World War I. St. Augustine Of Canterbury Church

joined with us.

Reverend Paul Poolton, Reverend Robert Clifford, Reverend Bev Diet, Padre Catherine Elsdon.

Thom Smith - Archives Display

The original bulletin from 1918 was found in our archives. We used a similar leaflet for 2018.

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Newsletter Copyright©2018 All Saints’ Anglican Church 330 City Hall Square W, Windsor, Ontario Canada N9A 1J3

ISSN 2561-9209 Publisher Robert L. Clifford+ Editor Thom Smith Registered with the National Library and Archives, Ottawa, Canada

Soup & Scripture

January 15th & 22nd 2019

Bible Love Connection

With Supper January 29th February 5th, & 12th

Join us Thursdays

11:30am for the

Eucharist Good

Shepherd Girl Guide

Chapel

Please Join us for Supper and Bible Study 6:30pm Tuesday December 4th Tuesday December 11th

VERY SPECIAL MUSIC AT CHRISTMAS TIME.

HANDEL'S MESSIAH , performed by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra and choir, will be presented on Sunday, De-

cember 9, at St Anne's Catholic church in Tecumseh, starting at 7:30 pm. It is always more fun to attend an event with friends, so a quantity of tickets will be made easily available here at the church when you sign up for them on the bulletin board in the hall way. The full price is $32 per ticket. Too much for you? Then pay $20. Still too much? Then pay what you can. -but COME. The difference will be made up from our Ontario government Seniors Moving Forward fund. The church is accessible. Need transpor-tation ? Talk to Art Roth

A Great Church In Action

Hugs Thom Smith Newsletter Editor

sirtfs@gmail.com 519 915-9050

Tuesday Bible Studies with Robert Clifford +

Bishop Linda Nicholls

Detroit Historical Society visits All Saints’ Church