Elliott's Blog

Our services this week are scheduled for: 11am Morning Prayer, St. John's, Ingonish 7pm Evening Prayer, St. Andrew's, Neil's Harbour All are welcome at our services of worship.

Services of the parish are scheduled for: 11am Morning Prayer, St. Andrew's, Neil's Harbour 7pm Evening Prayer, St. John's, Ingonish. All are welcome at our services of worship.

This week in our Parish is a very special week. We are having a Special Service of the whole Parish during which 14 of our young people will be making their commitment to take on their baptismal vows in the sacrament of Confirmation. We will be blessed to welcome The Right Reverend Sue Moxley, Suffragan Bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, into our midst. The service of Confirmation and Holy Eucharist will be held at 10am at St. Andrew's Church, Neil's Harbour. All are welcome to come and support our young people as they make their commitment to look after their own faith. Also, as always, all baptized Christians are invited to make their communion at our services of Holy Eucharist.

Our services this week are scheduled for: 9am Holy Eucharist, St. Andrew's, Neil's Harbour 11amHoly Eucharst, St. John's, Ingonish All are welcome at our services. And all baptized Christians are invited to make their communion at our services of Holy Eucharist.

The stories coming out of the American South are harsh and frightening. We humans can degrade into horrible creatures all too quickly. What strikes me the most is that it is the poorest of the poor who are affected the most. The rich could afford to escape but the poor had no means by which they could have avoided this terrible scene. The longer this goes on, meaning the longer the homeless are helpless the more they will turn to violence to solve their problems. If reading The Lord of the Flies taught me anything it taught me that we humans will degrade all too quickly and rely upon our instincts for survival of the fittest. I also weep when I read such terrible stories that try to find blame for this disaster. To pin it on a religious group, or sexual persuasion, or on God Himself is seeking to ignore the real reason that this disaster happened. We have been treating the earth that God gave us with such disrespect and abusing nature so much that we have brought this horrific ...