Associated Parishes Participates in Canadians' 'Worship '75'
Diocesan Press Service. June 23, 1975 [75234]
HAMILTON, Ontario (Canada) -- Associated Parishes elected new officers during its annual meeting held in conjunction with "Worship '75 "a symposium held the last week of May and sponsored by the Canadian Liturgical Society at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Provided for clergy and laity, chiefly of the Anglican Church of Canada, the symposium focused upon "The Celebration of The Word ;"the number of participants more than doubled the expected registration.
Mrs. Donald (Vivian) Kingsley, Grace Parish, Holland, Michigan was elected president of Associated Parishes, to succeed the Rev. Dr. H. Boone Porter, Jr., who completed a two-year term. A student of Bible, theology and liturgy, and of the Holy Land, Mrs. Kingsley is a member of the Standing Liturgical Commission and has served on two of its sub-committees, the Eucharist and Daily Offices. An elected member of the diocesan executive council, she was the first woman from Western Michigan elected as a General Convention deputy, in 1973. A member of the diocesan liturgical commission, she just completed a three and one-half year term as president of Episcopal Churchwomen during which she brought into the diocese outstanding leaders in the fields of theology, liturgy and lay ministry.
Other council officers elected include: vice president, the Rev. Richard Grein, rector, St. Michael's Parish, Mission, Kansas; secretary, the Rev. Lawrence Rouillard, campus pastor, Durham, New Hampshire ; treasurer, Arthur Jenkins, coordinator in the Associated Parishes corporate office, Washington; and member-at-large, the Rev. Dr. Samuel E. West, rector, Trinity Parish, Marshal, Michigan, a co-founder of the group.
Keynote speaker for the symposium was the Rev. Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B., chief editor of "Worship," Collegeville, Minnesota, member of the board of directors, National Liturgical Conference (Roman Catholic). Other distinguished speakers included the Rev. David Hay, Knox College, Toronto, past chairman of the Committee on Church Worship, Presbyterian Church of Canada; the Rev. Dr. Eugene B. Fairweather, Trinity College, Toronto, Anglican scholar; the Rev. Dr. Howard Hageman, President, New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Jersey, chairman of the worship committee, Reformed Church of America; and the Rev. Joseph Cunningham, executive secretary, Liturgical Commission, Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. Two Associated Parishes council members led workshops: the Rev. Dr. H. Boone Porter, Jr., on liturgical preaching; and Thomas Babbitt, architect, Litchfield, Connecticut, on the liturgical use of space.
Two Canadian members of Associated Parishes council, the Very Rev. Joseph Fricker, dean of Hamilton Cathedral, and the Rev. Borden Purcell, had major roles in planning the symposium. At the cathedral a paraliturgical evening was held offering historic and contemporary musical forms to illuminate the Celebration of the Word, chiefly centered in the singing of the Psalms. The cathedral was crowded for the event which made use of both vocal and instrumental music.
The council also is making preliminary arrangements to provide an Associated Parishes hospitality room at the General Convention in Minneapolis, and to offer those present explanatory hand-out brochures related to proposals for Prayer Book revision. Associated Parishes reasserted its purpose of continuing research into the deeper understanding of liturgy in The New Life in Christ, making plans for research programs in the next two years. Task assignments were made for various council members to be responsible for the drafting of new publications to offer Episcopalians, the timing to be coordinated with decisions that may be forthcoming at General Convention in relation to revision of The Book of Common Prayer.
Associated Parishes hopes to continue and strengthen its interest and assistance, realizing that at the time of the next General Convention it will complete 30 years of existence and service in the Church.