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		<title>Chaplaincy On DART OP Hestia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I received the message at 0700 in the morning 14, Jan 2010.  The Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) was to be deployed to Port au Prince, Haiti and I was to be their Chaplain.  By 1900 I had packed my kit (which was, previously, carefully packed for winter exercises), said goodbye to my family and was aboard a bus to Trenton.  Just over 200 of us flew out first thing the next day to ground zero of the disaster zone.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>by Padre Shaun Turner, Petawawa</em></p>
<p>I received the message at 0700 in the morning 14, Jan 2010.  The Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) was to be deployed to Port au Prince, Haiti and I was to be their Chaplain.  By 1900 I had packed my kit (which was, previously, carefully packed for winter exercises), said goodbye to my family and was aboard a bus to Trenton.  Just over 200 of us flew out first thing the next day to ground zero of the disaster zone.</p>
<p>Chaplaincy on a DART mission is an intense deployment ministry on steroids.  Helping medical teams as a spare set of hands (doing one’s best impression of Father Mulcahy), providing pastoral care to Canadian’s waiting at the embassy for evacuation, walking alongside search and rescue personnel, liaising with local religious leaders and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), accompanying Army personnel on rescue missions to gather stranded Canadian nationals in order to provide pastoral care, and much more; all the while keeping one’s primary mission of Moral, Ethical and Spiritual support to the troops as the priority.  A DART mission takes its toll on Forces personnel as it is a highly intense, no-notice deployment without a firm end-date.  Chaplain support to these Canadian heroes is a no-fail task, and an honour for anyone chosen to walk along-side them as their Padre.</p>
<p>The DART mission on OP Hestia included 2 phases.  The first weeks were spent providing emergency response in the capitol of Port au Prince.  This was the most intense time of operations.  Every day brought a different challenge for DART personnel.  As Chaplain there is no ‘regular daily schedule’, one simply endeavours to keep up and walk with the Forces personnel however possible.</p>
<p>The latter phase of the DART mission followed a move to the southern city of Jacmel.  During this time the DART Chain of Command set up 3 locations: the main ‘Camp Jacmel’ from which operations deployed, a local medical clinic in the city and a water purification site.  As Chaplain, the ministry consisted of regular visits to all these locations, as well as ministry of presence and operational involvement with Mobile Medical Teams, the World Food Programme’s food distribution, supporting local orphanages and search and rescue.  An average day’s ‘battle rhythm’ included up 20 mins before reveille (wake up), breakfast with HQ staff and then out with selected section to ministry of presence, involvement in operations or local Religious and NGO Engagement, dinner with troops, Commander’s Update Brief and an evening of circulating with soldiers where it didn’t take long for someone to seek the Padre out for a discussion.</p>
<p>Aside from the lifelong friends made on the deployment, the ministry highlight involved the Sunday practice of providing Communion services at all three locations.  Bringing the presence of Christ as He is found in the bread and wine into the midst of our soldier’s daily routine was an honour and privilege.  It became known as the Padre’s ‘travelling road show’.</p>
<p>This is Chaplaincy to the Canadian Armed Forces.  The convergence of physical challenge, emotional stress, vocational ministry and God’s grace create, for me, an amazing experience of constant ministry and growth.  There is no life like it.</p>
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		<title>Why the Silent Night Project? – Q &#038; A with the Archdeacon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>With the Silent Night Project in full swing many are asking some excellent questions.  What follows are excerpts from responses given by Archdeacon Fletcher to some questions posed to him and to Bishop Coffin by a  reporter from the Halifax, “Chronicle Herald”.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>With the <a title="http://www.anglican.ca/silentnight/index.html" href="http://www.anglican.ca/silentnight/index.html">Silent Night Project</a> in full swing many are asking some excellent questions.  What follows are<strong> </strong>excerpts from responses given by Archdeacon Fletcher to some questions posed to him and to Bishop Coffin by a  reporter from the Halifax, “Chronicle Herald”, as well as the Bishop Ordinary’s video introduction to the project which can also be found on the Silent Night Project <a title="http://www.anglican.ca/silentnight/index.html" href="http://www.anglican.ca/silentnight/index.html">webpage</a>. </em><em>The Silent Night project is a demonstration of support by the people of the Anglican Church of Canada. These kinds of initiatives remind Sailors, Soldiers and Air Personnel that whether they are at home or abroad, the communities of Canada take an active interest in their well being. While this is an Anglican Church of Canada project, Chaplains serve in support of all Canadian Forces members and each other. Any initiative that assists one group of Chaplains in particular, helps everybody.</em></p>
<p><strong>1. Why doesn’t the military fund the Anglican Bishop Ordinary?</strong></p>
<p>Each of the major faith groups in Canada that provides chaplains for the CF, has a representative who serves on the Interfaith Committee on Canadian Military Chaplaincy, (ICCMC). This Committee, which represents the various different faith groups of Canada , not only provides faith group oversight of the ministry of CF chaplains, but also serves as an advisory body to the Minister of National Defence concerning all matters relating to military chaplaincy.</p>
<p>The ICCMC is not only responsible, as sort of a credentialing body, for endorsing perspective applicants for military chaplaincy, but even more importantly, it is responsible for helping ensure, and maintain, the vital link between individual chaplains and the civilian faith groups to which they belong.</p>
<p>Although the CF does understandably compensate ICCMC members for travel and other expenses associated with the committee’s work, in direct support of Chaplaincy, the ICCMC members <em>(as representatives of their respective civilian faith groups) </em>do not receive any salary or stipend from the Canadian Forces. If they remunerated at all for their roles on behalf of their respective faith group, that remuneration would come for the faith group to which they belong. For some faith traditions, membership on the ICCMC is a voluntary and part-time endeavour.  The Anglican Church of Canada would like to see the Bishop ordinary’s position as a paid (by the church) position. The Silent Night Project is an effort to raise funds in the church to help make this possible.</p>
<p><strong>2. Does “ordinary” mean “ordained”  or something else?</strong></p>
<p>In order for any our military chaplains to be truly effective within the ecumenical and multi-faith ministry context of the CF Chaplaincy, it is absolutely essential, to both their personal and professional well-being, that they remain thoroughly grounded in, and well connected to, their own religious traditions and faith communities. Key to this for those who are Anglican Chaplains is, of course, the ministry of the Anglican Bishop Ordinary.</p>
<p>The term “Ordinary” is an ecclesiastical term, denoting a person exercising ordinary jurisdiction connected with the office they hold office.</p>
<p><strong>3. What does a Bishop Ordinary do, and why is this Silent Night project important/helpful?</strong></p>
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<p>The Anglican Bishop Ordinary is the civilian church leader who serves as the Anglican Church of Canada’s representative on the ICCMC.  As Bishop Ordinary, he/she also has governance responsibilities within the Anglican Military Ordinariate of Canada, which is the non-territorial ecclesiastical jurisdiction that includes all of the Anglican Chaplains serving in the CF, as well as all of the Anglican military members and their families.</p>
<p>On behalf of the Anglican Church of Canada, the Bishop Ordinary functions as a chief pastor to all of the Anglican service men and women in the CF, and their families, and is also kind of like a ‘chaplain to our chaplains’. The Bishop prays for us, and visits us, and cares for us pastorally and spiritually, and keeps us well grounded within, and sustained by, our Anglican tradition. He or she represents the wider church to us, but of equal importance, also represents us and our stories, within the life and the witness of the wider church.</p>
<p>In addition to this, the Bishop Ordinary also represents the Anglican Church of Canada in the important ecumenical role it has to play on ICCMC, a committee, which endorses and oversees the ministry of all CF chaplains, and advises the Government of Canada on all matters pertaining to CF Chaplaincy. As military chaplaincy continues to become more diverse and more demanding, it’s clear that the role of the Bishop Ordinary will, similarly, become more demanding.</p>
<p><strong>4. Is it as much about awareness as about raising the funds to support the Bishop Ordinariate?</strong></p>
<p>Absolutely. The funds contributed to the Silent Night Project are not as important as is participating in the project, or as is learning more about this important ministry of our military chaplains and our Anglican Bishop Ordinary. Just as the Silent Night Project is a project of the whole Anglican church, so is the ministry of the Anglican Bishop Ordinary and the Anglican military chaplains he cares for.</p>
<p>It was the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, who requested that the Silent Night Project donations be channelled to the Bishop Ordinary Trust, which is a trust that was established by the former Primate, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison (who was himself a former Bishop Ordinary). It is our hope that with time, and with the support of Anglicans right across the Church, that we will eventually be able to build an endowment sufficient enough to provide the Bishop Ordinary with a stipend commensurate with the important and demanding ministry that he/she exercises on behalf of the whole church as well as provide some funding for lay staff support and for required travel not immediately related to support for the whole CF Chaplaincy, and so not funded publicly.</p>
<p><strong>5. The web info touched on how the role affects all military personnel, not just Anglicans, but perhaps you could explain a bit.</strong></p>
<p>Except in very specific ecclesiastical matters, members of the ICCMC speak with one voice. The advice and participation of every member, therefore, affects the ministry of all Chaplains. Likewise, the manner in which the various Faith Groups of Canada work together on the ICCMC, serves as a model for ministry in a multicultural environment such as the CF. While an individual chaplain will be a member of a particular faith group and will bear particular relevance to members sharing that faith, Chaplain Services must be relevant to all. Canadian Forces Chaplains, Anglicans and all others, “minister to their own, facilitate the worship of others and care for all.”</p>
<p><strong>6. Can you compare the role of the clergy in the military to civilian work?</strong></p>
<p>Military service, both for those in uniform, and for their families, all too often forces the individual to explore the deep cost of sacrifice. Fear and loneliness, death of a loved one, and life-changing injury, are just a few of the experiences  that can threaten a person’s ability to function effectively, unless he or she is willing to explore the deeper spiritual questions that lie at the root of the understanding of self.  For this reason, the military community recognizes that chaplains — who are experienced in addressing spiritual issues — are a critical component in the care and support of our sailors, soldiers, airmen and women and their families.</p>
<p>Although not all our service men and women and their families attend churches, temples, mosques or synagogues, they all do know that they can turn to their ‘Padre’ as someone who cares, and can help. Through their ministry of presence within our units, and on our bases and wings,.. both at home and overseas,.. our chaplains are a powerful sign of meaning and encouragement, and an ever-present source of comfort and hope.</p>
<p>For our Anglican Chaplains: the role and support of the Anglican Bishop Ordinary is important to their effectiveness, and health. Accordingly, as the Silent Night Project website states, it is hoped that they and their ministry, will be greatly enhanced because, “funds from the Silent Night Project will bolster chaplains’ ministry by supporting the work of their pastoral head, the Bishop Ordinary.”</p>
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		<title>In the Lenten Wilderness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I looked out of the cockpit window of the C-17 and saw nothing but blue and brown. It was breathtaking. We were somewhere over Egypt, I was told, and beneath us was a vast expanse of mountains, desert, sea and sky. Blue and brown.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center"><strong>(or, as the Archdeacon would have it, Giving up Ottawa for Lent)</strong></p>
<p><em>By Maj the Rev. Lisa Pacarynuk</em></p>
<figure id="attachment_32385" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-32385" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-32385" src="http://www.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/lisa-afg1-300x225.jpg" alt="Maj the Rev. Lisa Pacarynuk" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/lisa-afg1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/lisa-afg1.jpg 622w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-32385" class="wp-caption-text">Maj the Rev. Lisa Pacarynuk</figcaption></figure>
<p>I looked out of the cockpit window of the C-17 and saw nothing but blue and brown. It was breathtaking. We were somewhere over Egypt, I was told, and beneath us was a vast expanse of mountains, desert, sea and sky. Blue and brown. I was trying in vain to recall those maps at the end of my Bible, suddenly not an image on paper anymore, but a real place, a real desert, a living and breathing place, far from snow and ice of Canada.  Was I seeing where Moses walked?St. Augustine? Saints and followers of God throughout the ages? I couldn’t say for certain. All I knew was that I was on an adventure, a Lenten journey like none other I had experienced.</p>
<p>I left Canada at the end of January on a short deployment, a TAV, to replace the two chaplains deployed to OP ATTENTION in Afghanistan as they each took their holiday.  I was slated to be there until the end of March, a period of time which would frame the 40 days of Lent nearly perfectly.  I had never been to Afghanistan before, just heard the stories of the dust, the heat (and the cold), the danger, the brokenness and the hope. I was excited and afraid, armed with prayer and prayerbooks to minister to the troops in their workplaces and make sense of that wilderness journey given us every year to change our hearts and return to God.</p>
<p>I have spent my days with our dedicated and generous troops, and have been able to do a little work with the Afghan army and see how we are mentoring those of another culture and world-view.  I burned last year’s palms in a fire pit in a corner of the camp, and celebrated Ash Wednesday with Christians of different denominations, in English and French, in a chapel in a camp surrounded by those who profess another faith. With a few other souls, I began that wilderness journey, accompanied, like Jesus, by the Holy Spirit and the Word of God.  I listen to the excitement and struggles of our soldiers passing through their own wilderness of loneliness and learning. The psalms of this Lent echo in my heart – psalm 91 from the 1<sup>st</sup> Sunday of Lent: “<em>Under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day</em>…Psalm 27 from the 2<sup>nd</sup>: <em>The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?</em> Psalm 63 from the 3<sup>rd</sup>:  <em>O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you/my flesh faints for you as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.  </em>Suddenly, they are real, the real prayers of real believers walking through the wilderness, seeking courage and strength and walking towards the new life that comes from resurrection, new birth, and homecoming.</p>
<p>As I write this, Lent has reached its half-way point.  I have changed camps, met new people and felt the growing heat of the impending Afghan springtime.  The Holy Week journey of suffering and death are still ahead, with the promise of resurrection peeking in behind it. When the Easter season begins, I will be back in the Canadian springtime, through the wilderness into the season of new beginnings, grateful for the adventure and forever changed.</p>
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		<title>Outreach Project To Jamiyah Children’s Home Singapore</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In the midst of the busy sea-training and transit by HMCS REGINA to Op ARTEMIS, the Ship’s Company had an opportunity to provide aid to a large group of excited orphans at the Jamiyah Children’s Home during our replenishment port visit in Singapore. </p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>by Padre Nigel Tulley</em></p>
<p><img decoding="async" class="alignright size-full wp-image-32380" src="http://www.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/Jamiyah.jpg" alt="" width="432" height="324" srcset="https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/Jamiyah.jpg 432w, https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/Jamiyah-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px" />In the midst of the busy sea-training and transit by HMCS REGINA to Op ARTEMIS, the Ship’s Company had an opportunity to provide aid to a large group of excited orphans at the Jamiyah Children’s Home during our replenishment port visit in Singapore.  With the full support of our Captain, Commander Boyd, and Canada’s High Commission in Singapore, a contingent of sailors and members of the High Commission visited the orphanage.  They presented fundraising cheques and much needed appliances to the total of $ 12880.00, for the orphanage.  It was a memorable experience for HMCS REGINA and the High Commission staff as they went on a tour of the new orphanage.  Just completed, it has a desperate need for more accommodation for the growing number of children placed in the Home’s care!</p>
<p>“As the number of underprivileged children continues to grow in Singapore, there is a great need for more facilities like this,” states the Home’s Administrator Mr. Kayat.  “Jamiyah Children’s home which actually means ‘House of Bliss’ receives the full support of the National Singapore Council of Social Services, but we depend mostly on donations from organizations like Canada’s Navy.”</p>
<p>As we enjoyed the tour we met a myriad of children from 2 to 19 years and learned that Jamiyah Children’s home is part of a voluntary welfare organization which was established in 1993.  This venture was part of a response to a developing concern by Singapore’s Social Services around the growing numbers of neglected children, many of whom had been abused, or have special needs.  Mr. Kayat, in his presentation, was able to articulate that many of the 89 orphans currently at the home come here feeling lonely, abandoned and uncertain about their future. The home with its caring staff and volunteers comprised of educators, mentors, previous graduates and counsellors provide a climate of protection, support, stability and family.</p>
<p>“Some of these children have experienced trauma and saw their dreams crushed because of abuse and rejection.  We, here at the home, provide a holistic approach which offers shelter, care, and development for the children.  That is why we are truly glad to have you all here during our observance of the Muslim celebration of Ramadan to share in this vision of caring for them,” smiles Mr. Kayat.</p>
<p>As the tour continued, we had a chance to meet graduates of the orphanage who had gone on to become doctors, teachers, engineers and media and business officials.  We could see they really celebrated the accomplishments of the children and greatly appreciation our visit.  As a way of showing our support we had an opportunity to finish up some minor renovations to the home and later had some significant interaction time with the children doing arts and crafts projects.  It was exciting for the crew of HMCS REGINA to have an opportunity to support the important work done at the home and many of the sailors had thoughts of their own children back in Canada who await their return.</p>
<p>“I’m so glad I participated in this outreach,” comments one of the young Leading Seaman.  “It’s being involved in humanitarian projects like this when we sail around the world that makes me feel really proud to be a Canadian,” He adds with a smile.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>by the deployed captain-chaplains of TF 1-10 A system of differing roles and responsibilities is nothing new to Anglican’s within the church or the military; but sometimes the question is posed “just what does the chaplain who is a Major do?”  The Afghanistan Roto Task Force 1-10 (TF 1-10) chaplain team leader, Major the Reverend [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>by the deployed captain-chaplains of TF 1-10</em></p>
<p>A system of differing roles and responsibilities is nothing new to Anglican’s within the church or the military; but sometimes the question is posed “just what does the chaplain who is a Major do?”  The Afghanistan Roto Task Force 1-10 (TF 1-10) chaplain team leader, Major the Reverend Maude Parsons-Hörst, filled many different roles in a recent deployment to Afghanistan.  Starting with an Imposed Restriction (IR) posting to Petawawa, Padre Parsons-Hörst arrived with a positive attitude wishing to foster a team spirit that would get us through our tour. Her focus was to allow each team member to ‘play to their strengths’ and encourage growth.  Through our autumn deployment planning and throughout our participation in Exercise MAPLE GUARDIAN held in California, January through March 2010, Padre Parsons-Hörst was a facilitator between the team and Canadian Military Training Centre (CMTC) chaplain staff, an advocate for the team within the Petawawa base, and in communication with the “then deployed” Team Leader “chaplain-majors” in theatre asking questions and seeking lessons learned information.</p>
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<p>When the TF 1-10 team arrived in theatre, the TFK Senior Chaplain, Major Andre Gauthier, was already in place.  Part of the task of the TF 1-10 team leader was to link with and support this ‘overall chaplain team leader’ which was accomplished through facilitating team meetings, participating in Next of Kin (NOK) visits, filling the TFK Major role while he was on HLTA, taking silent hour duty calls on a weekly rotational basis etc etc.  Part way through the TF 1-10 tour, Major Grahame Thompson came in as the TFK Senior Chaplain.  Major Parsons-Hörst provided the continuity link for this transition as she continued her previous supportive roles.</p>
<p>Both majors provide links with the chaplain net back in Canada.  The regular work of Monthly Reports, Professional Development Reports (PDR) and Chaplain Evaluation Reports (CER) all continue, as do chaplain postings and course requests. The Majors do this mentoring/administrative “office type work” while continuing to serve as chaplain to their own units, the Operational Mentor and Liaison Team (OMLT) – pronounced as <em>omelette</em>, Military Police, and the Task Force Headquarters (TFK HQ) staff.  They also provide chaplain support to Kandahar Air Field (KAF) based soldiers and Units while other chaplains are working outside the wire.  With regard to the deployed chaplain team, the majors supervise with professional critical thinking; think and act in terms of the larger team; anticipate and adapt to changes and challenges, and exemplify professional integrity in all they do.</p>
<p>Any special visits such as NOK family or VIP’s were a welcome and meaningful ministry of the senior chaplains.  Requests were received throughout the tour for special services such as dedications of plaques to the TFK Memorial or services for anniversaries of a death by a family member working in KAF.  Attendance and presentations at weekly Coalition Chaplain meetings as well as representing the Canadian chaplain team at Coalition Ramp Ceremonies (often held in the early morning hours) all fell within the majors’ responsibilities.  Regular Sunday church services also were frequently handled by the majors as captain chaplains, scheduled for services, sometimes found themselves called away for operational needs.</p>
<p>The pastoral support provided by Major Parsons-Hörst in remembering the chaplains who were “out and about” in prayer and connecting with them through email, played a vital part in energizing the ministry of the team.  Simply keeping track of who was where and who was available was a challenge at times, but essential to support the ministry needs of our deployed members</p>
<p>Sometimes it is easy to look at the role another person plays and be the armchair quarterback.  It is good to remember that much more goes on behind the scenes of anyone’s work than first glance might have you believe.  Heading up and mentoring TFK and TF 1-10 chaplain teams certainly was <strong><em>major</em></strong> work.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>INSTALLATION OF CANADIAN FORCES ARCHDEACON BRIGADIER-GENERAL KARL McLEAN AS CHAPLAIN GENERAL The wind might have been blowing strongly and the rain may have been about to set in, but inside the Roman Catholic Cathedral Basilica of Notre Dame, in Ottawa on 12 September 2010 the crowd was warm and excited.  The new Chaplain General of the Canadian [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-32376" src="http://www.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/Karl_Maclean.jpg" alt="" width="230" height="288" />INSTALLATION OF CANADIAN FORCES ARCHDEACON </strong><strong>BRIGADIER-GENERAL KARL McLEAN AS</strong><strong> CHAPLAIN GENERAL</strong></p>
<p>The wind might have been blowing strongly and the rain may have been about to set in, but inside the Roman Catholic Cathedral Basilica of Notre Dame, in Ottawa on 12 September 2010 the crowd was warm and excited.  The new Chaplain General of the Canadian Forces was about to be installed.  Our own colleague, Archdeacon Karl McLean, newly promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General, and selected by the Interfaith Committee on Canadian Military Chaplaincy (ICCMC) was about to be appointed by the Chief of Defense Staff to become the head of the military chaplain Branch and the leader of over 200 Regular Force and 100 Reserve Force chaplains, the  dozens of congregations of the military chapels across Canada and abroad, and the caretaker of the faith for the tens of thousands of Canada’s military members and their families.</p>
<figure id="attachment_32377" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-32377" style="width: 418px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-32377" src="http://www.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/BGenMclean.jpg" alt="BGen Karl McLean's installation" width="418" height="288" srcset="https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/BGenMclean.jpg 418w, https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/BGenMclean-300x207.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-32377" class="wp-caption-text">BGen Karl McLean&#8217;s installation</figcaption></figure>
<p>The service started with the sound of the pipes, as LCol (Ret’d) the Rev. Canon Bill Fairlie piped the procession  down the aisle of the Basilica.   Music was certainly central to the entire afternoon.  There were anthems by Christ Church Cathedral’s Girls’ Choir, the Cathedrals Men and Boys’ Choir, and solos by its Organist and Director of Music Matthew Larkin.  The Canadian Forces Aboriginal Advisory Group’s Drumming ensemble also led in a moving chant for leadership, surrounding Padre McLean and raising their voices and drum beats, first to the roof and then to the heavens.</p>
<p>Prayers were offered by all the denominational representatives of the ICCMC and by the Most Rev Claude Miller, Metropolitan of Canada, Bishop of Fredericton and Karl’s home bishop.  The central moment of the afternoon was when the Chief of Defense Staff and Bishop Peter Coffin (Chair of the ICCMC) signed the installation documents.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This was the Consecration of The Rt. Rev. James ‘Jay’ Magness , Suffragan Bishop for Federal Ministries of the Episcopal Church of the U.S.A.  which took place at Washington National Cathedral, June 19, 2010.   As such, Bishop Magness will be the endorsing authority for all American Episcopalian military chaplains.    Chief Consecrator : The Most Rev. [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This was the Consecration of The Rt. Rev. James ‘Jay’ Magness , Suffragan Bishop for Federal Ministries of the Episcopal Church of the U.S.A.  which took place at Washington National Cathedral, June 19, 2010.   As such, Bishop Magness will be the endorsing authority for all American Episcopalian military chaplains.    Chief Consecrator : The Most Rev. Katherine Jefferts Schori – Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.   Col. Karl McLean was given the honour of being one of the ‘Presenters’ of the new bishop.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>“My Role in the CFDS” is a segment in The Maple Leaf, a biweekly newspaper of the Canadian Armed Forces / Department of National Defence. The segment features military and civilian personnel and occupations throughout the Defence Team. Featured profiles use real-life stories to illustrate the dedication, excellence and professionalism of personnel and employees in [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>“My Role in the CFDS” is a segment in </em>The Maple Leaf<em>, a biweekly newspaper of the Canadian Armed Forces / Department of National Defence. The segment features military and civilian personnel and occupations throughout the Defence Team. Featured profiles use real-life stories to illustrate the dedication, excellence and professionalism of personnel and employees in their day-to-day jobs under the purview of the Canada First Defence Strategy (CFDS).</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong><em>As appeared in “The Maple Leaf”, 26 May 2010, Vol. 13, No. 18</em></strong></p>
<figure id="attachment_32369" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-32369" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-32369" src="http://www.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/photoamo-300x298.jpg" alt="Padre Askew with a Veteran at Vimy" width="300" height="298" srcset="https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/photoamo-300x298.jpg 300w, https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/photoamo-150x150.jpg 150w, https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/photoamo.jpg 553w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-32369" class="wp-caption-text">Padre Askew with a Veteran at Vimy</figcaption></figure>
<p>Padre Askew’s job as a CF chaplain often means that no day is like another. As a member of the Forces and an officer, she deals with the usual e-mail, phone calls and paperwork every day. However, her work is directed mostly by the needs of the people she serves.</p>
<p>Her most memorable moment as a CF chaplain came in April 2007, when she gave the Rededication Prayer for the Vimy Memorial – in Cree. “I was strengthened as I thought of the sacrifice of those young men so long ago,” she says, “and most especially of the Aboriginal soldiers who, in their day, never heard a military chaplain pray in an Aboriginal language.”</p>
<p>CF chaplains provide pastoral care and guidance to personnel and their families— compassionate leave issues, marital counselling, spiritual direction—and advice to COs on the spiritual, ethical and moral concerns of the unit – workplace conflict and other broader issues.</p>
<p>“I work to help CF personnel and units be spiritually, ethically and morally healthy, thus enabling them to fulfill their mission,” she says. “These functions contribute to the overall operational readiness of individual members and of units as a whole.”</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-32370" src="http://www.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/HPIM0165-1-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224" srcset="https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/HPIM0165-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/HPIM0165-1-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/HPIM0165-1-768x573.jpg 768w, https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/HPIM0165-1.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Padre Askew is an Anglican priest who received her Masters of Divinity from Trinity College Toronto. She has civilian experience as an advocate in indigenous justice issues and as the rector of her own parish in British Columbia. She’s worked alongside chaplains from many different churches and a variety of faith groups.</p>
<p>Her involvement in the Defence Aboriginal Advisory Group has given her the opportunity to explore her Aboriginal identity and work to address the needs of current Aboriginal Defence Team members.</p>
<p>When Capt Askew retires, she would like to know that Aboriginal identity is an integral part of the identity of the whole Defence Team. “I would like to look back and see that Aboriginal people following a traditional path in their spirituality are able to do so freely and easily within the Defence Team,” she says. “We are walking that path now but we are still very early in the journey.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-32371" src="http://www.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/118_1804-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/118_1804-300x225.jpg 300w, https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/118_1804-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/118_1804-768x576.jpg 768w, https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/118_1804.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />“I believe that, in celebrating and supporting the individuality of our members, we will have a healthier Defence Team as a whole.”</p>
<p>While her faith motivated her toward ordination in the Church, Padre Askew says, “it is the dedication, sacrifice and camaraderie of the Defence Team that energizes, inspires and sustains me in my role as a military chaplain.”</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Des membres du clergé de l’Église anglicane régionale apprennent le travail des aumôniers sur le terrain Par le Capt Jeff Noel « Ce fut une expérience enrichissante et qui m’a ouvert les yeux », affirme le révérend chanoine Brett Cane, recteur de l’Église anglicane de St. Aiden’s, à Winnipeg. « Je ne connaissais pas du tout le travail des aumôniers militaires ni [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><em>Des membres du clergé de l’Église anglicane régionale apprennent le travail des aumôniers sur le terrain</em></strong></p>
<p><em>Par le Capt Jeff Noel</em></p>
<figure id="attachment_32404" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-32404" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-32404 size-medium" src="http://www.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/WG2010-0165-08-cropped-1-300x252.jpg" alt="Des membres du clergé anglican, dont la plupart proviennent de la région de Winnipeg, ont visité la 17e Escadre récemment pour connaître davantage le rôle et le travail des aumôniers militaires." width="300" height="252" srcset="https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/WG2010-0165-08-cropped-1-300x252.jpg 300w, https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/WG2010-0165-08-cropped-1-768x644.jpg 768w, https://amo.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/WG2010-0165-08-cropped-1.jpg 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-32404" class="wp-caption-text">Des membres du clergé anglican, dont la plupart proviennent de la région de Winnipeg, ont visité la 17e Escadre récemment pour connaître davantage le rôle et le travail des aumôniers militaires.</figcaption></figure>
<p>« Ce fut une expérience enrichissante et qui m’a ouvert les yeux », affirme le révérend chanoine Brett Cane, recteur de l’Église anglicane de St. Aiden’s, à Winnipeg. « Je ne connaissais pas du tout le travail des aumôniers militaires ni le rôle essentiel que joue notre personnel des FC dans l’Escadre. »</p>
<p>Parrainés par le Capitaine (révérend) Gordon Mintz, aumônier de la ligne de vol de la 17<sup>e</sup> Escadre, des membres du clergé de l’Église anglicane régionale ont eu la chance, la semaine dernière, de se familiariser avec la façon dont les aumôniers s’y prennent pour desservir une organisation aussi diversifiée et dynamique.</p>
<p>« Les membres du clergé (anglican) de la région étaient vraiment contents d’être informés directement du stress vécu par les familles militaires qu’ils voient lors de leur rassemblement. Ils ont également apprécié en savoir plus long sur le rôle des aumôniers dans le soutien des nos familles militaires », ajoute le padré Mintz.</p>
<p>Pendant son séjour au sein de la 17<sup>e</sup> Escadre de Winnipeg, le clergé a aussi assisté à une série de présentations sur les rôles que remplissent les militaires de « l’équipe de Winnipeg » et sur ce qu’ils apportent à la ville, à la province et au pays.</p>
<p>Parmi ceux qui ont participé à la séance se trouvait le Très Révérend Donald Phillips, évêque du Diocèse de la terre de Rupert, et le Très Révérend Peter Coffin, de l’Ordinariat militaire anglican.</p>
<p>« L’expérience a de loin dépassé mes attentes », a admis l’évêque Coffin, après qu’on lui a demandé ses impressions sur le rassemblement du clergé de la région dans l’Escadre.</p>
<p>Pour obtenir de plus amples renseignements au sujet des aumôniers dans les Forces canadiennes, veuillez consulter le site <a href="https://www.canada.ca/fr/ministere-defense-nationale/programmes/aumonerie-royale-canadienne.html">https://www.canada.ca/fr/ministere-defense-nationale/programmes/aumonerie-royale-canadienne.html</a>.</p>
<p>D’autres renseignements sur la 17<sup>e</sup> Escadre Winnipeg sont diffusés à l’adresse <a href="https://www.canada.ca/fr/force-aerienne/organisation/escadres/17-escadre.html">https://www.canada.ca/fr/force-aerienne/organisation/escadres/17-escadre.html</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 16:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Members of Anglican Regional Clericus learn firsthand how CF chaplains operate By Capt Jeff Noel “It was a very worthwhile and eye-opening experience for me,” said Rev. Canon Dr. Brett Cane, the Rector of St. Aiden’s Anglican Church in Winnipeg. “I had no idea how military chaplains work or of the crucial roles played by [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><em>Members of Anglican Regional Clericus learn firsthand how CF chaplains operate</em></strong></p>
<p><em>By Capt Jeff Noel</em></p>
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<p>“It was a very worthwhile and eye-opening experience for me,” said Rev. Canon Dr. Brett Cane, the Rector of St. Aiden’s Anglican Church in Winnipeg. “I had no idea how military chaplains work or of the crucial roles played by our Forces personnel at the Wing.”</p>
<p>Sponsored by the 17 Wing’s flight line chaplain, Captain (Reverend) Gordon Mintz, members of the Anglican Regional Clericus had the opportunity last week to receive a ‘behind the fence line’ insight into how military chaplains deal with the challenges of ministering to such a diverse and dynamic entity.</p>
<p>“The local (Anglican) clergy was very appreciative of learning first-hand the stresses on military families that they see in their congregations and learning more of the role of chaplains in supporting our military families,” said Padre Mintz.</p>
<p>The clerics’ time at 17 Wing Winnipeg also included a series of briefings on the roles performed by the men and women of ‘Team Winnipeg’ and the impact they, and the wing, have upon the city, the province, and the nation.</p>
<p>Among those attending the session was the Right Reverend Donald Phillips – Bishop of the Diocese of Rupert’s Land and the Right Reverend Peter Coffin – Anglican Military Ordinariate of Canadian Forces.</p>
<p>“It far exceeded my expectations,” said Bishop Coffin when asked his thoughts on the gathering of local clergy at the wing.</p>
<p>For more information on chaplains in the Canadian Forces, please visit <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/programs/royal-canadian-chaplain.html">https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/programs/royal-canadian-chaplain.html</a></p>
<p>For more information about 17 Wing Winnipeg, please visit: <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/air-force/corporate/wings/17-wing.html">https://www.canada.ca/en/air-force/corporate/wings/17-wing.html</a></p>
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