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Week of 22 December 2002

Advent resources
Our collection of links and resources.

NEW Sermons on the 'O' Antiphons, by JM Neale (Project Canterbury): See sermons XLV, XLVI, and XLVII.

NEW A stained-glass window Advent calendar from Grace Cathedral (San Francisco) with audio clips, articles and books.

Associations, Guilds
Liturgy Canada: 'A society of men and women committed to the ongoing renewal of the Church in worship and mission. Our ministry is to provide resources which focus the debate, inform the practice and evaluate the experience of our liturgical life'.

Society of Mary: A devotional society, with a worldwide membership, founded in England in 1931. The website provides a wealth of information.

Australia
New South Wales: Sydney, Peninsula Community Church (Sydney)

England
Hoole, All Saints (Chester)
Tilehurst, St Michael (Oxford)
Guiseley, St Oswald (Bradford)

Exchanges: Organist
Sabbatical opportunity: Study leave coming up? Vacation? Recently retired? In exchange for serving as very part-time organist, we offer a two bedroom apartment (and bicycles and a car) on a unique island on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Last winter we hosted two visiting theologians. We are now exploring hosting visiting musicians in the very pleasant 'winter' and spring here, and perhaps the summer. Traditional, eucharistically-centered liturgy. New Zimmer all digital two-manual organ (see www.zimmerorgans.com). Sorry, no parish website at the moment, but see www.sanibel-captiva.org and write DonaldAFishburne@aol.com, Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Sanibel, Florida, USA.

Music
St Dunstan Plainsong Psalter: The Psalms of David and the Canticles pointed and set to the ancient Gregorian and British tones, together with 'The Order for Matins and Evensong', in a New Western Rite Publication by Lancelot Andrewes Press of Glendale, Colorado. The website includes generous PDF samples.

News Centre
Virgin birth a humbug? ABC says gay priests not on his agenda. ABC gives the Dimbleby lecture. People comment on it. Bethlehem will be open for Christmas. Training for clergy in Illinois. Challenge in Kenya to bishop's election. Blessing for gay couple planned in Vancouver. ECUSA churches found tolerant of sexual differences. African churches are not. Another take on the Christmas story. All this, and more, in the New Centre.

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USA
Washington, DC: St Paul (Rock Creek Parish) (Washington, DC)
Wisconsin: Rhinelander, Saint Augustine (Fond du Lac)

Vacancies Centre
Have a post to fill in your parish? A vacancy on your diocesan staff? Advertise beyond your own national church. List your opening for one full month at AO for free. Looking for a position? Check out vacancies on diocesan web sites throughout the communion. Visit the Vacancies Centre for more.

Vestments
Desmarais and Robitaille (Canada): 'Professional liturgical design consultation, conception of fine ecclesiastical articles and furniture, design and creation of original stained-glass art for liturgical space and a complete line of vestments, statues, sacred vessels, accessories and religious art'. Download the catalogue (PDF) to see their line of vestments, which are oddly not mentioned on the website.

Worth Noting

Ex-Soldier, Now a Bishop, Deals With Blood on His Hands: In the New York Times series on the 10 Commandments, Bishop George Packard, Bishop Suffragan for Armed Services of the Episcopal Church in the USA, reflects on his experience in the Vietnam War.

For churches, births and rebirths: David W. Dunlap writes for The New York Times about the restoration and renovation of church buildings.

Girl meets God: Memoir of a spiritual journey. Dale Neal writes in the Citizen-Times (Asheville, North Carolina) about Lauren Winner's conversion to Anglicanism.

A nurturing place on the border of despair: Lee Lawrence writes in the Christian Science Monitor about life at the Theodore Schellner School in Jordan.

Reconciling the helplessness and the humanity of the baby Jesus: Peter Steinfels, writing in The New York Times, reviews the Christmas Tryptych as theology rather than just art.

Size matters: Rachel Harden, writing in the Church Times, notes that recent research indicates that large churches attract more new members than smaller churches.

Taking the Jesus story back to basics: Giles Fraser, writing originally for The Guardian but published here in The Sydney Morning Herald, argues that the Christmas Story is supposed to be disruptive, even offensive.

Week of 15 December 2002

Advent resources
Our collection of links and resources.

NEW Sermons on the 'O' Antiphons, by JM Neale (Project Canterbury): See sermons XLV, XLVI, and XLVII.

NEW A stained-glass window Advent calendar from Grace Cathedral (San Francisco) with audio clips, articles and books.

Associations, Guilds
Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament: This is the oldest devotional society in the Anglican Communion with branches in the UK and the US.

Church History
Journal of an Episcopalian Missionary's Tour to Green Bay, 1834: A glimpse into a missionary priest's travels in the US midwest the year before he was consecrated 'Bishop of the Northwest', his diocese encompassing Missouri, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska.

England
Bloomsbury, St George (London)
Kirkstall, St Stephen (Ripon and Leeds)
London, St Augustine (London)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Church in Wales: The Church in Wales elected a new Bishop of Monmouth, the Right Reverend Edward William Murray (Dominic) Walker, currently Bishop of Reading. Details here.

Europe
Greece: Athens, Greater Athens Anglican Chaplaincy (Diocese in Europe)

Events (Television)
BBC One: Thursday, 19 December 10:35 pm-11:20 pm (GMT)
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: 'In his first public speech, two weeks after taking office as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams argues the case for morality and religion in the market driven world in which we live. A world where, he argues, it seems that even Governments have little power compared to multi-national companies. The Dimbleby Lecture is an annual event dedicated to the memory of the famous broadcaster Richard Dimbleby'. It appears that earlier lectures are available for download. We hope this will be the case with Abp Williams's.

News Centre
Australian priest injured in church collapse. Methodists and angels. Church choir in Uganda. General Synod in Melanesia. Santa Claus asserts his existence. US Anglican Congress meets in Atlanta. New conservative group issues condemnation. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Not in the Communion
Resources
St Andrew Theological College and Seminary: Associated with the Orthodox Anglican Communion.

USA
Florida: West Palm Beach, Holy Trinity (Southeast Florida)
Idaho: Emmett, St Mary (Idaho)
Michigan: Houghton, Trinity (Northern Michigan)
North Carolina: Fayetteville, St Paul-in-the-Pines (East Carolina)
Ohio: Portsmouth, All Saints (Southern Ohio)
South Carolina: North Charleston, St Thomas (South Carolina)
Tennessee: Gallatin, Church of Our Saviour (Tennessee)
Tennessee: Hendersonville, St Joseph of Arimathea (Tennessee)

Schools
Virginia: St Catherine's School (K-12 school for girls), Richmond
Virginia: St Christopher's School (K-12 school for boys), Richmond
Virginia: St Margaret's School (K-12 school for girls), Tappahannock
Virginia: St Stephen's and St Agnes School, Alexandria

Vacancies Centre
Have a post to fill in your parish? A vacancy on your diocesan staff? Advertise beyond your own national church. List your opening for one full month at AO for free. Looking for a position? Check out vacancies on diocesan web sites throughout the communion. Visit the Vacancies Centre for more.

Worth Noting

Canterbury finds itself a startling new voice: A N Wilson, writing in The Telegraph, reviews the poetry of Rowan Williams and likes what he sees.

Christmas message from the Archbishop of Canterbury: Available in seven languages.

Is the Pope Catholic? Gerald Warner, writing in The Spectator, argues that perhaps the reason for the current meltdown in the Roman Catholic church is that John Paul II is scandalously liberal.