St. Matthias’ Anglican Church in Alberta, Canada, is now requiring all attendees to be vaccinated, and show proof of it at the door.
Reverend David Pickett, the head priest of the church, sent an email to congregants on January 7th where explained that he and the church leadership decided on this decision, and is not a government edict.
The email was sent to Rebel News, and a portion of the email reads as follows:
There is no change to provincial rules, and the current position that the Bishop will support local decisions to offer in-person worship.
Beginning This Sunday January 9th, please bring your proof of vaccination to attend worship (kids excepted) Our goal is to be able to clearly reassure anyone who asks that, yes, everyone who comes to worship is vaccinated.
At The End of Worship, Please Wave And Go Home! Anyone want to be the heavy and interrupt conversation? So, it’s the honour system, I think. We are all craving real life visits, but we just can’t right now. While less deadly, Omicron is more contagious than previous variants. To be safe at worship (and out of respect for those who have no choice but to be present) we need to head home as soon as it is over. I don’t believe in fate, but please don’t tempt it. More accurately, don’t give the virus any chance.
Communion in Cohorts Come up the centre aisle, distance sanitize, and let the stuff dry while you wait. Come to the rail on alternating sides as the one before you leaves. Put one hand on top of the other. Keep your mask on, then consume the host after the clergy have moved away.
The church’s website has been updated to also reflect these new rules:
Our worship is currently in-person with careful protocols. You are welcome at 8am & 10am.
Please mask, distance, and bring documetation of vaccination.
Communion is offered in one kind only, and we cannot hold coffee hour.
The 10am liturgy is recorded then posted to youtube later in the day.Please find COVID mutual care info HERE. We thank God for sending us scientists and vaccines. To get a vaccine is to obey Christ’s commandment to “love our neighbours as ourselves”. The church is called to hold the gift of life as sacred and to hold the common good of people as our highest value. Please Register with AHS for your vaccine today!
Read more about it here:
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[12] But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. [13] The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.John 10:12-13
Anglicanism is just “Catholic light,” so they already had salvation messed up to begin with; but this is the icing on the cake.
It just further demonstrates just how fake these all these preachers and congregations are, and the world sees them for who they really: spineless pansies.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Proverbs 28:1
Moreover, I am so sick and tired of that ruse these liars keep spreading – that the MEDIA told them to say – of, “love our neighbors as ourselves.” With that logic, you could apply to it anything and everything. It’s a lie from Satan himself, though, it is not the most subtle thing he’s devised. But, it’s not like he had to try hard to deceive these losers and professing Christians, who were already of the world, to believe anything.
Proof That Jesus Christ Is AGAINST Vaccination
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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They love to twist that particular scripture to justify death shots “love thy neighbor as thyself,” nice try, devils.
This is what corrupting the scriptures, infiltrating the denominations and churches, and ‘transforming’ them by their sorting small groups & ‘loving the pillars holding up progress’, and the ‘doctrinal rather than spiritual/mystical’ out the doors, was all about all along. It was a sort of persecution & a shock, but actually the mercy of God to those who stood: leaving & preaching with boldness, who fled, or who were shook out in confusion ….at least at first. God gave us opportunity & warning to repent, to nail some things down before the real storm & trials came.
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We should have seen it coming. So should the Jews, but Jesus was patient with the disciples as he brought them up to speed & prepared them for what was to come; even while there were some ready & watching like Simeon and Anna at the Temple, no doubt seen as ‘crazies’ by their ‘good religious’ contemporaries as well as the ‘cool’ & worldly syncretized. And, then he was patient with them, instructing & preparing them for the postponement of the kingdom, the changing dispensation. Praise God for his mercy, even with severity & chastening. So much better to be with chastening than without it & found to be a spiritual bastard in the end. Romans 11:22; Hebrews 12 KJB.
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They honestly believe they’re more spiritual. Loving. That they’re ‘winning’….just like they did at Calvary. Posting their braggadocio on splacebook about the good works they’re doing in tornado-ravaged Kentucky….but without real Bible or Gospel it’s all vain. Humanist works and vanity. Even so, God sometimes brings lost people to examine the Bible by such halfway things, if they don’t just stumble into more humanist idolatry with Christianese frosting….spiritual gmo seed & craft.
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But we know God’s not mocked or caught by surprise….and like you said, they’re faithless cowards. Bullies & liars & thieves….murderers…..just like the false religious leaders under Sadduccean Caiphas and Annas, the proud Pharisees, the Herodians. They had wealth & power by compromise &/or by synthesis, syncretism with Rome & the Greeks, too.
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Nothing new under the sun. Save maybe the technology accrued with exponential knowledge….and when we consider Genesis 6…and the case of Solomon: maybe not even that so much! One thing’s for sure: they’re predictable once your eyes & ears are opened & you’re seeing through the lens of uncorrupted scripture, hearing by the word of God. 1 Timothy 4& 6, 2 Timothy 3&4; and James 4&5 KJB. 2 Peter 2&3. Jude.