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Week of 29 December 2002

 Epiphany resources  
Our collection of ideas for celebrating the feast, from round the Communion. Have a tradition we've not described? Let us know. You may also find it worth your while to revisit our Epiphany front-page letters from last year, 30 December and 6 January.

Canada
Ontario: Peterborough, St John the Evangelist (Toronto)

England
Penhill, St Peter (Bristol)
St Albans, St Saviour (Hertfordshire)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Church of England: The Right Reverend Michael Arthur Hill, Area Bishop of Buckingham, has been appointed Bishop of Bristol, in succession to the Right Reverend Barry Rogerson (who resigned on 30 November 2002).

ECUSA: The Diocese of Kansas invites nominations, until 31 January, for its next diocesan bishop. The profile is available online.

Exchanges
Ireland -> Scotland / North of England (July / August 2003)
Rector of a large suburban parish seven miles from Dublin city centre looking for an exchange in July or August 2003 in Scotland or Northern England for two to three weeks. Husband, wife, and three young people (12, 13, 14). Responsibilities would include one Sunday Eucharist or no duties at all if that can be negotiated at both ends. Great opportunities for exploring Dublin city and Kildare countryside. Modern four bedroomed house available. Please email sples@indigo.ie for details.

Ireland
Templeport, St Peter (Kilmore) Note: Primarily a photo gallery of the church and gravestones.

News Centre
Staying home for Christmas. Vanishing churches, faith, or priests? Church and state in Serbia. Churches full from fear of war? Becoming a monk. Bishops speak. Archbishop festooned with adjectives. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

USA
Florida: Crystal River, St Anne (Central Florida)
Massachusetts: Beverly Farms, St John (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Beverly, St Peter (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Braintree, Emmanuel (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Brockton, St Paul (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Cambridge, St Bartholomew (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Canton, Trinity (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Foxborough, St Mark (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Harwich Port, Christ Church (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Hingham, St John (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Hopkinton, St Paul (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Lynnfield, St Paul (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Maynard, St George (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Medway, Christ Church (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Middleborough, Our Saviour (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: New Bedford, Grace (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Newton Lower Falls, St Mary (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Peabody, St Paul (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Somerville, St James (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Southborough, St Mark (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Taunton, St Thomas (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: West Newbury, All Saints (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Weston, St Peter (Massachusetts)
New Mexico: Carrizozo, St Matthias (Rio Grande)
New Mexico: Glencoe, St Anne (Rio Grande)
New Mexico: Lincoln, San Juan Chapel (Rio Grande)
New Mexico: Ruidoso, Church of the Holy Mount (Rio Grande)
Texas: McKinney, St Peter (Dallas)

Educational resources
New Jersey: Hoboken, All Saints Episcopal Day School (Nursery through sixth grade)

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
Hermit Finds Life of Quiet Prayer Amid City's Roar: From The New York Times. While most Christians were tuning in to the spirit of togetherness that blossoms around Christmas, Brother Anthony-Francis was making a promise to stand apart.

The next Christendom: an editorial in the Star News (Fredericksburg, Virginia) about the changing global lines in Christianity.

Week of 22 December 2002

Advent and Christmas resources
Our collection of links and resources.

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.