We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord,

Are changed into the same image from glory to glory,

even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Cor 3:18

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Hope which does not disappoint

Robert Crouse

Heavenly Avarice: The Theology of Prayer

Robert Crouse

The Vision of God: The Christian Doctrine of the Summum Bonum

Kenneth Kirk

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David Phillips

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Accepting Applications for Rector 

In accordance with Diocesan Canon 25, The Right Rev’d Sue Moxley is inviting applications for the position of Rector of the Parishes of Petite Riviere and New Dublin, Nova Scotia. The Parish Profile is on file with the Bishops' Office and may be reviewed by any prospective applicant.
If you wish to be considered for this position, the profile and application form may be obtained by contacting Kelly Appleton at bishopsoffice@nspeidiocese.ca or phoning 902-420-0717  

ON THE ASCENSION.
(from a sermon by Robert Crouse)

The Ascension is all about that spiritual birth. Jesus takes humanity – his humanity and ours – and transforms it, elevates it, endows it with new spiritual life. As an ancient hymn puts it:

                    Yea, angels tremble when they see
                     How changed is our humanity;
                     That flesh hath purged what flesh had stained,
                     And God, the Flesh of God, hath reigned.

The Ascension of Christ proclaims and celebrates our spiritual destiny as sons of God by adoption and grace. We are born of the Spirit, and therefore we are spirit; and spirit cannot ultimately be bound by worldly ends and earthly limitations. By the comfort – the strengthening, transforming power – of the Holy Spirit of God, we are to be exalted “unto the same place whither our Saviour Christ is gone before”. “Our conversation is in heaven”.

“Our conversation is in heaven,” and in the Church’s liturgy, we find ourselves engaged in precisely that conversation, “with angels and archangels and all the company of heaven”. Here, in liturgy, all the arts conspire to solicit mind and heart, to wean the soul from worldliness. A door is opened into heaven.
  

Fr. Crouse's paper from the 2008 Mere Anglicanism conference in Charleston on Anglican Sacramentalism is available here or as a Word document.

THE PARISHES SELECTION COMMITTEE  Posted July 14

The Selection Committee is charged with the task of discerning, along with the Bishop and potential applicants, who the future rector will be for Petite Riviere and New Dublin Parishes (the current Rector will leave after Sept 15).  The members are: George Hilchie, Dennis House, Paul Shields, Barry Smith, Glenna Weagle, Ellinor Williams.  The first task of the Selection Committee will be to create the parish profile.  Please pray for this Committee as it carries out its important work.

THE FORMER RECTOR'S PRESENTATION TO THE DIOCESAN INTENTIONAL LISTENING SEMINAR ON HUMAN SEXUALITY 

Posted June 17

For the webpage please click here. 

For a copy in Word please click here. 

A BLESSING OF THE CHURCHES  

On the Rector's last Sunday in the parishes, he expressed his gratitude to the parishes and prayed a blessing for the churches.  (click here for text.)

Marriage Sermon - GRACE & DAGLEY Posted Sept 9

Do not put asunder your marriage individually with God, and God will teach you all you need to know about marriage with one another.  And you will shine in your lives together as an ever and ever brighter image to the world, an icon, a living picture, of the mystical marriage of Christ and His Church.  (click for full text)

MICHAEL HAWKINS, BISHOP OF SASKATCHEWAN! Posted Mar 16

The Rt. Rev. Michael Hawkins, former rector of the Parishes of Petite Riviere and New Dublin, was consecrated Bishop of the Diocese of Saskatchewan on March 6.  He is shown here with family - wife Kathryn, and children Matthew and Allie. Click the picture for a larger version and click here for more photos of the night.   We join in with gratitude and the praise of heaven singing Te Deum laudamus!

Look down from heaven, behold, and visit this vine,

and the stock that thy right hand hath planted,

and the branch that thou madest so strong for thyself...

Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts;

show the light of thy countenance upon us,

and we shall be whole.

Psalm 80:15, 19