Session Three

SESSION THREE:                     

THE CONTEXT OF ANGLICAN WORSHIP        

This session focuses on: (1) the global, world-wide Anglican Communion, and (2) local, geographic, historical and social contexts, identifying those nations on whose land we worship.

Link for Recording of Session Three

Practical Skills and Outcomes This session prepares participants to:

• understand the Worldwide Anglican Communion and its cultural diversity 
• understand the impact of European settlers in British Columbia
• gain an awareness of those whose land we now occupy 
• understand how this history impacts on the Anglican Church here
• understand the purpose and importance of acknowledging the land  

Preparation

 To prepare for this session, please read chapters 9-14 of Joan Chittister’s ‘The Liturgical Year’, and answer the question below. (250-500 words only). Be prepared to discuss your answer in a small group in class.  

Joan Chittister speaks (p. 68) of the “preparing an Advent heart.” In preparation for Session Three, which looks at the historical and cultural context in which we worship, reflect on the fact that Jesus was born into land occupied by Roman colonists and lived in a complex society of many cultures, a society filled with injustice. In our time of Advent waiting in the ancestral land of First Nations people, to what do you feel called?

Submit your reflection here

Resources

A helpful and succinct article, including a short video, on the evolution of the Anglican Communion, can be found at https://www.anglicancommunion.org/structures/what-is-the-anglican-communion.aspx 

• What Does it Mean to be Anglican? (video)
• What is the Anglican Communion? (video)
• Article and short video on the evolution of the Anglican Communion: https://www.anglicancommunion.org/structures/what-is-the-anglican-communion.aspx 
• A resource for preparing a thoughtful land acknowledgment
• A podcast on land acknowledgment (38 minutes in)
• The Promise of Anglicanism