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Recalling a beloved friend By Catherine Harnish
Thomas Hendricksen carries the cross from Christ Lutheran Church on the first portion of the Good Friday Cross Walk, organized by the Rosemont Ecumenical Group in Regina. Five denominations took part in the event – including from St. James the Apostle (Anglican) – which featured a procession to each church building and short services at each location, culminating in an ecumenical Good Friday service at St. Cecilia’s Roman Catholic Church. Photo – Betty Wagner
Will the rising tide of dementia swamp our churches? By Kylie Taggart In Canada today, a new case of dementia is diagnosed every five minutes. In 25 years, it will be one every two minutes. Are churches ready for a fullblown pastoral crisis? In 1985, Lloyd Hurst retired after 23 years as a Canada Customs Officer at a small border town called Snowflake, Man. He and his wife, Ruth, moved to a house in Morden, Man., with two big apple trees in the backyard. Lloyd settled in quickly, becoming involved in the local United Church, the Legion and the curling club. An avid
woodworker, he would make wooden toy cars and trucks, selling them at craft sales. He and Ruth started travelling to Texas every winter, and golfing became another passion. It was an active life. Lloyd was in his 60s when he and his family noticed something was different. Usually easy-going and quick to laugh, he started losing his temper. “He really had no patience — none. If something didn’t go right, he would instantly fly off the handle,” says his daughter-in-law Andrea Hurst. He began to forget things, too, wandering into a room and saying, “I can’t even (Continued on page 12)
Defining evil By Jason Antonio REGINA – St. Augustine believed that evil isn’t a thing in itself and doesn’t have existence in itself, but instead, is the result of the lack of a good quality in a person or thing which has been turned from its original purpose. “We wouldn’t know light if we didn’t know darkness. But what is darkness? Darkness isn’t the opposite of light in the sense of it being something, it is simply the absence of light,” stated Qu’Appelle Bishop Gregory KerrWilson recently. “Blindness is not actually something; it is the lack of sight. Cold isn’t something, if you know your physics. It is the lack of energy – heat. “And interestingly, I don’t think Augustine knew his physics, but he said that evil is
not something in itself – because nothing can have existence without God – but is in fact the lack of some good.” Kerr-Wilson used another example of a sword, which has no evil properties to it – it being a simple hunk of iron – but when is used by a person for evil purposes such as killing, it takes on the qualities of evil. The object isn’t evil, but the choice to use something in a wrong way is evil. Understanding what sin and evil are and how theologians have viewed the two over the centuries were two of the topics covered during a retreat on March 23-24 at St. Philip’s, Regina, entitled “Soul-full Living: Spirituality for a Busy World”. The retreat was put on by the Qu’Appelle School for Mission and Ministry. (Continued on page 4)
PRINCE ALBERT – Clyne Harradence, DCL QC, a member of the Order of Saskatchewan, recipient of the Anglican Award of Merit, and Chancellor of the Diocese of Saskatchewan from 1962 to 2004, died March 17, at the age of 86. He was born in Blaine Lake, Sask., on July 29, 1925. He is survived by his wife, Helen (Martin) Harradence, his four sons, David, Keith, James and Hugh, and their families. A parishioner of St. Alban’s Cathedral, Mr. Harradence was well known and respected across the diocese. In 1962 he was appointed Chancellor of the Diocese of Saskatchewan and informally appointed himself solicitor-at-large for all of the dioceses clergy. In both capacities he served tirelessly for 42 years, never remembering to send a bill. Mr. Harradence was confirmed in St. Alban’s Cathedral on March 29, 1942, by Bishop Henry Martin, who was to become his father-in-law. Bishop Michael Hawkins, of the Diocese of Saskatchewan, said about Mr. Harradence, “The Church on Earth is much less colourful with the passing of Clyne Harradence. He always had a firm handshake and an endearing smile and those were two complimentary sides of his personality. “There was firmness to his advocacy both as a lawyer and as a traditional churchman as well as a gracious generosity. He was, in the words of the Prayer Book Baptism and Confirmation services, a “soldier and servant” of Christ in the Church and the community. “A devout churchman for 60 years, he remained firmly and unabashedly committed to the (Continued on page 4)