Fr. Langille is the Rector of Messiah Episcopal Church, Saint Paul, MN. Rev. Dave is a Canadian citizen, and native of Nova Scotia, having lived in Minnesota since 1994. He is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, and Regent College, Vancouver, BC. He completed his Anglican year of study at the Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax, NS, where he was formed liturgically at the King’s College Chapel. He continues to pray the Daily Office of the Canadian 1962 Book of Common Prayer, spend time with the Church Fathers, meditate on the Anglican Divines, read the works of Robert Crouse, Simone Weil, George Grant, and keep up with the various and sundry books required of a parish priest.
As a Canadian living south of the 49th parallel, he has thought long and hard about what it means to be Canadian in North America. It is clearly more than donning a Team Canada hockey sweater over his clergy cassock while playing pick-up hockey on a Minnesota lake, as fun as that might be! Having a home on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, where he and his family reside one month per year, has helped him to attend to his own roots. The Langille’s were Huguenots invited to Nova Scotia in 1753 by agents of King George with other European Protestants. His family history continued with New England Planters who were gifted land in Nova Scotia in the 1760’s by the Crown. Remaining loyal during the troubles of 1776, they handed down their royalist and loyalist Toryism to their descendants. His Nova Scotia roots include Cape Breton coal miners, Halifax factory workers, and RCN sailors tinting his own Toryism decidedly “red”. Gratitude for this history, his roots, and his Canadian Anglican faith are much of what have formed him.
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