By CHRISTINA BLIZZARD
Starting a new job is always stressful.
Starting a new job in the middle of a pandemic, when you’re a parish priest, the church is physically closed and your faithful flock is locked down made it doubly so for the Rev. Molly Finlay, who took over as incumbent at St. John’s Norway Anglican church at Woodbine Avenue and Kingston Road last year.
She visited the church just once before it was shut down for the second time last November.
“It’s certainly hard to enter a new community. As a leader, it was especially hard during a pandemic, when you can’t get to know people face to face. It’s also a very exciting time to enter into a community because you’re all in it together. We’re all in it together in real time,” Finlay said in a recent interview.