San Lorenzo Ruiz Anglican Church: TIME OF SERVICES at San Lorenzo Ruiz

TIME OF SERVICES at San Lorenzo Ruiz

Sunday Services are now on Sunday at 12:30
Come and Join us before the Service
Christian Education-
More than a Bible Study and Bible Stories-
More than just study of what we believe
More than just memorization of Scripture Stories

Our Location now is at Saint Simon's Anglican Church
525 Bloor Street East and Sherbourne St.
Sherbourne Subway please exit at Glen Road.

416-456-7417

Two main Outreach Proposals Revisited

Hello All.

I agree with Father Ariel proposition, This outreach mission is one of
the reason why I join San Lorenzo Ruiz Congregation. This can also augment
the initiatives of having Father Bax be actively involved in the community
outreach manpower requirement. My input are as follows:

1 The proposed name "San Lorenzo Ruiz Outreach Centre"
2. The existing seven group leaders be the first 7 directors, we elect a
chair
3. Registration for non-Profit organization at Ministry of Consumer
Relation cost $125.00
4. We shall keep it separate entity but the financial administration
and records will be centralized and reported to and under our main church
San Lorenzo Board of Management.
5. I volunteer myself as facilitator/Resource person during the
formation.
6 With the help of new IT web design of Father Ariel outreach is very
doable.
7. We can out reach organization who are actively involve in new settlement
programs by incorporating Faith services.

GOD Bless!

Willie Nabus


On 1/27/07, ariel@dumaran.com
wrote:

Dear Friends,

>About few years ago, a former nun Chit, organized a group called
Family Aware.
>It was supporting the re-unified family. I was their chaplain, and I
>was involved in preventing domestic violence in the community.
>Family Aware conducted workshops and orientation for newcomers and new
>canadians whose parents and loved ones have been away for so long and
>reunited with them in new Environment.
>
>About 10 years ago San Lorenzo Ruiz spearheaded a committee called
>Centre for Human Empowerment. It was born out from two members of the
>parish. Uncle Barron James and Kenneth Borrett. Ken Borrett was our
>church warden and became an Anglican Priest through San Lorenzo Ruiz.
>Barron James used to be a stock broker and currency trader who lost
>their jobs in the 90's. Ken worked for the banks since he was a teen
>ager. We formed the group to help community and new canandians find
>some wholesome guidelines for them to focus on what makes them happy
>and what makes them valuable contributor to society. There was a
>Spiritual focus and social and economic focus as well.
>
>We published A Newsletter "Change". But eventually it was not
>continued because Barron James and Kenneth Borrett did not continue
>with us.
>
>However, we can revive their ideas.
>1. Chit Bautista's Family Aware- Reunification and family issues
>2. Empowerment of human goals and aspiration through sound health and
>sound economic development.
>
>Our Committee needs a name
>and a Mission Statement:
>And we need an Official Organ a Newsletter and e-newsletter
>I will provide a website for Blog and Portal. I will donate and host
>it in my Server.
>
>So we need to meet and draw a membership...committee. with annual
fees.
>and by laws and constitutions.
>
>Sincerely
>
>
>Father Ariel Dumaran

The World is watching the Anglican Church

a c c w e b n e w sThe Anglican Church of Canadahttp://www.anglican.ca/

General Synod takes shape on eve of official openingVIANNEY CARRIERE,DIRECTOR, GENERAL SYNOD COMMUNICATIONSWINNIPEG, JUNE 18, 2007 -- Anglicans from around the country converged onWinnipeg yesterday on the eve of the official opening the Anglican Church ofCanada's 38th General Synod.It was a day of frantic getting ready, with the Skyview Ballroom of thedowntown Marlborough Hotel being converted into a plenary hall, displaysbeing erected throughout the hotel and, in the afternoon, the first round ofregistrations for General Synod delegates who in the next few days willshape the church's future.The Anglican General Synod has completely taken over two downtown hotels forits triennial gathering, with overflow going into a third. The Marlboroughis where many General Synod members and staff will be housed from now untilthey disperse June 25, and it is also the venue for all of the meetings thatwill be happening.The nearby Radisson Skyview Hotel is also taken over and participants in thegathering who could not be accommodated in those two places are in York theHotel, several blocks away.It is the first time in the memory of many people attending this synod thatthe church's chief governing body meets in a hotel. Traditionally, GeneralSynod is held on a university campus, but there was no such venue inWinnipeg that could accommodate this year's gathering.The General Synod will officially get under way Tuesday evening with anopening Eucharist in the Cathedral Church of St. John.Wednesday will see General Synod members at work with the minutia ofadministering a national church, dealing with resolutions, reports fromcommittees, councils and boards and the election of officers and committeemembers.However, the two key events of the 38th General Synod will come later in theweek. On Friday, clergy and lay members will elect a new Primate ornational leader to succeed Archbishop Andrew Hutchison who is retiring, andon Saturday attention will turn to the divisive issue of the blessing ofsame-sex unions.This website (www.anglican.ca) will have news releases and features on keydevelopments. The General Synod website will also have live coverage of theproceedings, including the opening service, the election of a new Primateand the closing and installation service. The church's national newspaper,Anglican Journal, will also provide extensive coverage on its own website,www.anglicanjournal.com and will be publishing a daily edition for theduration of the meeting.

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Grand of Opening of San Lorenzo Ruiz at St. Simon's Church on July 2007

We are now located at St. Simon's Church at the Sherbourne Subway at Glen Road Exit. Main
Intersection is Sherbourne and Bloor St. just before the Danforth Ave. For more information please call 416-456-7417.
Our Worship Service will be at 12:00 (preparation) 12:30 Mass and Healing Once a month.
There will be prayer and praise to be announced regularly. A Charismatic service. San Lorenzo Ruiz is traditionally evangelical but liturgical in worship, and catholic in piety. We are progressive parish which is liberal, evangelical, and catholic. We are not afraid of criticism of the church as a human institution. We know by being transparent to the world and we express our love for the hoursehold faith, we can be true disciples of the highest truth. We are not afraid of questions, and doubts. We are open to Reason, Tradition, and Scriptures. We know that these are living reality within the Living Community of God in the world. We are open to dialogue with non-believers and seekers, and those who are of secular persuasion. There is a possibility for that journey in the truth when we share our faith with those who seeking the truth. We embrace modern science and also hold to the eternal truths of ancient Holy Scriptures revealed to us by prophets and sages.

HISTORY OF THE CHURCH

In 1991, a small group of evangelical persuasion at the St. Jamestown area mostly Filipinos started worshipping at an Old schoolhouse run by the french senior citizens of the Sacre-Coeur Church at Bleecker St. The Rev. Ariel Dumaran, a Baptist evangelical pastor left his church in Scarborough to form a Filipino Evangelical in Toronto near the Filipino community. At this time, 5 families gathered at this schoolhouse every Sunday morning. Rev. Ariel Dumaran, phoned the Diocese after so many months of soul-searching to inquire about ordained ministry. Rev. Ariel Dumaran attended an Episcopal Church in USA while he was in the seminary and was impressed by Liturgy. While he was at the evangelical church here in Canada, he started a group at St. Andrew's United Church where Rev. John Hartley started as a pastor. The congregration grew and decided to have a church in Scarborough. Rev. Ariel Dumaran, felt the need to become part of mother church instead of just being independent evangelical church. He then went to attend St. Paul, and found that he can be comfortable with the Anglican Church. He asked some of the people from his former church, and some remained to in their evangelical tradition as independent, while others decided to join and support the ministry in downtown. Others felt, that they want only to assist the formation of the church on an interim basis. About 25 members joined and we became part of the Deanery of St. James, and we contacted St. Peter's Anglican Church whose priest was at the time very receptive to helping us. Rev. Gordon Finney was the Rector. He was also a former missionary in Malaysia, and understood some of Filipinos cultural situation being himsef an American. The Rev. Roland Kawano, an American priest, met Ariel and arranged to have conversation with Bishop Arthur Brown and Bishop Terence Finlay of the Diocese of Toronto. At this time there was no Filipino Anglican witness to the City. The group has to undergo catechuminate or teaching and guidance. Rev. Gordon Finney, became Ariel's supervisor and mentor, while Ariel studied at UFT Wycliffe and Trinity College for Anglican content. Rev. Ariel Dumaran has Master of Divinity at Faith Theological Seminary, of Dr. Carl MacIntyre of the old Princeton Seminary. Ariel has to take some courses on Anglican Ecclessiology and others. He was appointed as Lay Pastoral Assistant while growing the congregation at St. Peter's. About 25 members were received into the Anglican Communion with their evangelical tradition and ethos. We were conferred a name after the Filipino saint, San Lorenzo Ruiz by Bishop Terence Finlay and according to canon 25 were made a "deemed" parish and a mission in the Diocese. A Parish without boundary as Fr. John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church claimed later of his movement in England.
From then on, in 1993 Ariel was ordained as deacon and a year later was ordained presbyter "priest" and he became incumbent of the Parish of San Lorenzo Ruiz. He was ordained as a deacon in St. James Cathedral, and was priested at St. Peter's.

This moving toward a catholic and liturgical form of worship, did not take away San Lorenzo Ruiz zeal for the gospel, rather enhances their ministry towards new immigrants particularly that of the Episcopalians and the Aglipayans or the Philippine Independents. In a sense San Lorenzo Ruiz reaches the non-evangelical filipinos in their own traditions and comforts. Several liberal Roman Catholics joined us as well because they find the pastoral ministry of San Lorenzo Ruiz is welcoming to lapse catholics and others who are marginalized.

During this period, Christianity Today featured churches in the USA which were evangelicals and pentecostals but moved to a more catholic churches like Orthodox, Episcopalian, and Roman. Most of them were in groups like the members of the Assembly of God, Church of God, Seventh Day Adventists, Nazarenes, etc whose church leaders converted to Historic and Traditional Churches. We hear most stories of people coming from catholic churches moving to evangelicals. But in this case it is more of groups and leadership. Like the Campus Crusade in the south who became part the Antiochian Orthodox Church of America, and retained their evangelical approach to Mission. A Pentecostal group also in Georgia converted to Anglican Church somewhere in 1990's as reported by Christianity Today.
Today, Christ the King, is part of the Diocese in Valdosta, Georgia. For more information on this, look for Christianity today in Google.
The pendulum is beginning to swing in the other direction. Aside from this there is a growing number of churches that are moving to independent catholicism. Meaning, churches who formed catholic churches without Rome or Cantenbury and Constantinople.
According to one church historian, the catholic faith will remain strong in the 21st Century, and their population will continue to increase specially in the so-called Thirdworld countries. However, majority of them will retain their tradition with openness to Pentecostal leanings and charismatic practices even in the Mainline churches and denominations.

San Lorenzo Ruiz parish is basically an evangelical Bible Study group which sought to rejoin the mother church, and desired for sacraments understood in evangelical way. San Lorenzo Ruiz today maintain these two spirituality in its life. The evangelicals continue their Bible Study, emphasis in prayer meetings and evangelism, and like charistmatic spirituality as well and the catholic members their novenas, prayers, rosary and their love for the saints , respect for Traditions, Feasts, and even Roman's primacy, and respect for ecumenical churches. San Lorenzo Ruiz and its leaders maintain their evangelical connection. And at the same time respect our Anglican roots in the Episcopal Church and Philippine Independent Church.

MISSION STATEMENT

"The mission of San Lorenzo Ruiz is to worship God according to Scriptures and to live our lives by the Power of the Holy Spirit, so that we become like Jesus Christ, whose purpose is to bring the kingdom of God in our world through the Gospel."