Letter to the editor: A church's fate
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article41812
- Author
- Hartropp, Simon
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2018 May
- Author
- Hartropp, Simon
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2018 May
- Volume
- 144
- Issue
- 5
- Page
- 4
- Notes
- "I read your editorial 'What happens when a church dies ?' (March 2018, p. 4) with great interest. Our church will close progressively during the last week of March [2018], then a new amalgamated church should be inaugurated on a different side [sic i.e. site] during Easter Sunday April 1 [2018]. It seemed to me that your story touched on four aspects, all of which we are wrestling with as we go through the shutdown phase: what happens to the hardware that was part of the church building and provides something of a means to maintain memories ? What happens to the building itself as it impacts the local community ? What happened to the individuals who comprised the church that met at that place ? How did Christ's mission continue in that locale as 'church' once the building there closed ? As we are still in the midst of this, we are perhaps a bit too early for your challenge (to send photographs, reflections or anecdotes). But if I have understood it correctly, I'll ask colleagues to keep a lookout and make a point of 'memorializing' such happenings so that we might be able to contribute something in the future". [Text of entire article.]
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of the Resurrection, Valois (Pointe-Claire, Que.)
- Church closures - Anglican Church of Canada