April 23rd will be the 25th anniversary of the murder of one of our priests, the late Rev. John Taylor, who at the time was Rector of St. George’s Parish, Maple Ridge. The Parish Council writes that on that day John “went to his office at St. George’s as he normally would. He did not come home for lunch. He was found by his wife, in his office, dead, by a single gunshot to the head. As of now, no one has been convicted of his murder. Many speculated that he had been shot because of counseling he may have done.” The Bishop asks that throughout the Diocese that Sunday services on April 25th make special note of this quarter-century remembrance.
The current Incumbent of St. George's, the Rev. Roger Cooper has arranged for a website dedicated to John's memory and some resources for use in commemorative worship.
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MAPLE RIDGE TIMES to access an article in that publication's Friday, April 2nd edition.