Moment of error.

Dear editor,

Re: your article "Dean who married same-sex couple prayed he could 'welcome all people" (December).

First, to answer the question posed--whether Dean Peter Wall's decision to marry two women in Hamilton's Christ's Church Cathedral last August was "either a moment of grace or a moment of error,"--it was a moment of error.

A trust has been broken because of Dean Wall's decision to be a maverick and go his own way apart from the Anglican church. If rules need to be bent or broken then it will by the General Synod which will do the bending and breaking. There are no new revelations given by God to individuals; it is the Church (the whole people of God) who decide what is revealed and not. The Holy Spirit speaks and affirms the will of God through His people collectively and not through individuals who pray in their office for guidance--especially on significant matters that affect the whole church.

One cannot let their emotions run their faith life.

I feel that Dean Wall has jeopardized his agility to fulfill his responsibilities as chair of Liturgy Canada. Someone who obviously has no regard for proper procedure and application of those procedures, someone who willfully and knowingly went against well-established church canon, does not sound like someone in a position of leadership to me. As a postulant for ordination, I look to those in his position for guidance. Instead I find apostasy. I do not mast this man with formulating any liturgical change.

Dean Wall should either step down or be asked to leave the position as Chair of Liturgy Canada.

Eric Melby

Postulant

Diocese of Ottawa