TheBulletin.ca Journal of Downtown Toronto
The clergy and congregation of St. James Cathedral held a retirement party for The Reverend Canon David Brinton, Sub-Dean and Vicar at the Cathedral for sixteen years, attended by well over 100 parishioners. Fr. Brinton was bestowed with gifts, roasted to a turn – musically – and the Old Vestry of the Cathedral has been renamed the Brinton Vestry in recognition and celebration of his service.
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- The Choir (I) Laura McAlpine, Peter Mowat, Teresa Mahon, Andrew Walker, Rebecca Claborn.
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- The Choir (II) Shannon Mercer, Heather Wilke, Neil Antonoff, Julia Oliverio, Lindsay McIntyre, Graham Robinson.
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- Robert Coates, Melissa Creighton, Don McKay.
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- Sharon Danley and Rob.
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- Marie and Grayson Nuttall.
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- Stephen Greene and Dunstan Morgan.
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- Patricia and Craig Dack.
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- Paula Thomas, Kate Merriman, Rollo Myers, Anne Harker, Linda Schultz.
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- Sean Dennis, Ashling McWilliam, Chun Lo.
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- Ric and Christine Hillier and Lay Delegate to Synod Bob Simpson.
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- Members of the Mandarin Federation of Canada: Han Yao, Eleanor Liu, Mia He, Rev. James Liu, Rebecca Chang.
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- Ted Hawken, Andrea and Rob Saffrey.
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- Daughter and Mother Jennifer Deacon and Jane Jeffrey.
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- Music Director Robert Busiakiewicz provides a little light accompaniment.
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- His Grace the Most Reverend Colin Johnson, Archbishop of Toronto and Karin Tari.
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- Don Wiebe, Bill Riddell, Shelley Boyd.
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- Anne Sophie Roy and Athena Mattheo.
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- Emcees for the evening: The Dean of Toronto and Rector of St. James Cathedral The Very Rev’d Andrew Asbil and Lay Delegate to Synod Angela Carroll.
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- The Peoples of the Congregation.
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- Music Director Robert Busiakiewicz leads the Choir in a Roast Upon Psalm 132: “I will not suffer mine eyes to sleep nor mine eyelids to slumber/Neither shall I accept bad flower arrangements / nor when other preachers preach for far too long.”
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- Rev. David Brinton, the Roastee.
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- “Archbishops and deacons alike shall fear and love my name / For mine organization is mighty, my e-mail is swift and a mighty force.”
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- “The Lord God hath made a faithful oath unto David / David I shall bless the with an full head of hair.”
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- “Thou shalt be majestic in song; thy knowledge of Hymnody shall be very great. / …/O Lord spare me from the musicians / Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”
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- Rollo Myers
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- “Thou shalt be Vicar for sixteen years / Thou shalt bless the animals, thou shalt bless both man and stinking beast.”
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- Music Director Busiakiewicz then led the Choir in the secular Anthem “The Parting Glass.”
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- “Goodnight and joy be with you all.”
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- Morning Wang and Rev. James Liu of the Mandarin Ministry then presented Rev. Brinton with a replica of the Five Oxen, which hangs in the Palace Museum of the Forbidden City.
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- The Old Vestry has been renamed the Brinton Vestry,
