Non-native priest adopts aboriginal symbolism.STAFF The Saskatoon Saskatoon (săskət  n`), city (1991 pop. 186,058), S central Sask., Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. (Lutheran) Native Ministry at St. Thomas Wesley United Church is moving towards modifying worship services to include an indigenous sacred circle format, a reading of Scripture in Cree and prayers that would incorporate native symbolism SymbolismIn art, a loosely organized movement that flourished in the 1880s and '90s and was closely related to the Symbolist movement in literature. In reaction against both Realism and Impressionism, Symbolist painters stressed art's subjective, symbolic, and decorative . Rev. Shawn Sanford Beck, an Anglican priest recently installed as director of the ministry run by the Saskatchewan synod SYNOD. An ecclesiastical assembly. of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) (French: Eglise Evangelique Lutherienne au Canada) is Canada's largest Lutheran denomination, with 182,077 baptized members in 624 congregations. (ELCIC ELCIC Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada ), announced the changes recently. (The Anglican Church of Canada and the ELCIC have been in full communion Full communion is a term used in Christian ecclesiology to describe relations between two distinct Christian communities or Churches that, while maintaining some separateness of identity, recognise each other as sharing the same communion and the same essential doctrines. since 2001.) "As a white person, he (Mr. Beck) sees his role as a transitional one, preparing the ministry so that it can be handed over when the right native person comes along," reported Canada Lutheran, the ELCIC magazine. The ministry, which began in 1988, provides both pastoral care and advocacy for natives in the community. The Lutheran bishop of Saskatchewan, Cindy Halmarson, said the ELCIC was drawing from the Anglican church's long history with aboriginal people. Despite the difficulties of the residential schools, wrote Bishop Halmarson in a column for Canada Lutheran, "many First Nations people continue to identify with the (Anglican Church of Canada)." The installation of Mr. Beck, she added, "opens the possibility of greater co-operation with Anglicans and the opportunity to learn from the experience of the (Anglicans) in their relations with First Nations people." |
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