Week
of 13 August 2006
Australia
Parishes
Victoria: Balwyn North, St Stephen, Greythorn (Melbourne)
Victoria: Hawthorn, Christ Church (Melbourne)
Victoria: Parish
of Inverleigh, Bannockburn and Meredith [St Paul, Inverleigh; St John,
Bannockburn; Epiphany, Meredith] (Melbourne)
Victoria: Parish
of Ormond [Christ Church, Ormond; St Mark, Brighton East] (Melbourne)
Western Australia: Greenwood, Parish of Greenwood (Perth)
Book
Reviews
In the Church Times, Pat Ashworth reviews What
Can One Person Do? Faith to heal a broken world
By Sabina Alkire and Edmund Newell.
In the Church
Times, Stephen Cottrell reviews Contemplative
Youth Ministry: Practising the presence of Jesus with young people by
Mark Yaconelli together with Coming
of Age: Exploring the identity and spirituality of younger men, by
David W. Anderson, Paul G. Hill and Roland D. Martinson.
In the Church Times, Marcus Braybrooke reviews Explorations in Reconciliation:
New directions in theology by David Tombs and Joseph Liechty, editors
Canada
New Brunswick: Parish of Bright [St Paul, Zealand; All Saints, Keswick
Ridge] (Fredericton)
New Brunswick: Moncton, St Philip (Fredericton)
Newfoundland and Labrador: Parish
of Heart's Delight [St Matthew, Heart's Delight-Islington; Good Shepherd,
Cavendish; St George the Martyr, Whiteway; St Matthew, Green's Harbour] (Eastern
Newfoundland and Labrador)
Church
History
Discerning
the Lord's Body, by Frederic Hastings
Smyth (1946). This Marxist Anglo-Catholic
book on the liturgical and theological
implications of the Incarnation has been
long out of print, but is now available
online with permission of the author's
estate. F.H. Smyth (1888-1960) was superior
of the Society of the Catholic Commonwealth.
The
St Albans Psalter. This rarely-viewed 12th century manuscript is
now available online. Images of the original Psalter are accompanied
with commentary. Also available are complete transcriptions, translations,
and essays. The BBC article is available here.
(Cross-listed in Liturgical Recources.) [Note: this site is reported
not to work in some versions of Firefox under Windows].
A
Sermon Preached at the Opening of Christ's Church at Sorel in the
Province of Canada, by John Doty (1785). One of the earliest sermons preached
by an Anglican missionary in today's Canada, this document encourages
United Empire Loyalist churchpeople to support and give thanks for
their ecclesiastical life.
Addresses
to Candidates for Ordination, on the Questions in the Ordination Service,
by Samuel Wilberforce (1860). "Soapy Sam" Wilberforce (1805-1873)
was Bishop of Oxford from 1845 to 1870. This rich commentary on the
ordination service includes 13 lectures.
The Choir School in the American Church: A study of the choir school and other current chorister training models in Episcopal and Anglican parishes,
by Daniel James McGrath (University of California doctoral dissertation, 2005) This dissertation examines the history of Anglican choir schools in the United States, as well as pedagogical methods for parish choirs today. Adobe Acrobat format. (Link downloads the PDF.)
England
Parishes
Alsager, St Mary (Chester)
Balderton, St Giles (Southwell)
Bebington, St Andrew (Chester)
Carlton-in-the-Willows, St Paul (Southwell)
Chapfields, St Mary Magdalen (Coventry)
Cheadle Heath, St Augustine of Hippo (Chester)
Chilwell, Christ Church (Southwell)
Hyde, St George (Chester)
Knutsford, St Cross (Chester)
Micklehurst, All Saints (Chester)
Nottingham (Wollaton
Park), St
Mary (Southwell)
Plumtree, St
Mary the Virgin (Southwell)
Westwood with Jacksdale, St
Mary (Southwell)
Episcopal
Elections or Announcements
Ongoing
The Diocese
of Virginia will elect a coadjutor bishop on 27 January 2007. A dedicated
bishop search website includes a wealth of information about the process
leading up to this election. Nominations will be closed on 1 September
2006.
The diocese
of South Carolina has published a short-list
of three candidates for bishop.
Essays
Ecclesia Semper
Reformanda or So It Goes: In
a new two-part essay, Bishop Pierre
Whalon considers 'where The Episcopal Church is at present
with respect to its inner life and the wider Communion'
and then attempts to provide 'some analysis of what
needs to happen next'.
Letters
to Anglicans Online
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a read. Write a letter of your own to
us for possible publication.
Liturgical Resources
The St Albans Psalter. This rarely-viewed 12th century manuscript is now available online. Images of the original Psalter are accompanied with commentary. Also available are complete transcriptions, translations, and essays. The BBC article is available here. (Cross-listed in Church History.)
News
Centre
Choosing
an archbishop in Melbourne. Heterosexual
strippers annoy Tasmanians. Archbishop of York leads Middle East protest.
Preparing to consecrate US Nigerian bishop. Meeting in Texas of US
conservative bishops. All this, and more, in the News Centre.
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USA
Parishes
Alaska: Eagle River, Holy Spirit (Alaska)
New York: Parishes
of Schuyler County [St John, Catharine; St Paul,
Montour Falls; St James, Watkins Glen] (Rochester)
Pennsylvania:
Philadelphia (Mayfair), Church of the Resurrection (Pennsylvania)
Schools
and Education
Kenyon College. This four-year,
liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio was founded in 1824 by Bishop
Philander Chase and continues to have a close connection
to the Episcopal Church USA.
University
of Delaware Episcopal Campus Ministry. The university
is located in Newark, Delaware.
Vacancies
Centre
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will become for all.
Hong Kong, St Andrews. Associate Minister.
For more information, see our Vancancies center.
Seeking a position? Scan vacancy pages on diocesan web sites with vacancies
listings throughout the communion.
Vestments
Immanu-El
Banners. Based in Michigan, USA. 'specializes in custom-made vestments
and liturgical banners in the iconographic style. Fine appliqué and
painted details are created by hand.' Several photographs of commissions
for Anglican churches are available on the site.'
Wales
Margam Abbey, St Mary the Virgin (Diocese
of Llandaff)
Worth
Noting
The
Care of the Churches: Oliver O'Donovan writes: 'The Anglican
churches are not, and do not claim to be the whole Christian church
as comprehended in its Augsburg-derived formulae. They are a particular
communion of churches that mediates the Gospel in a shared tradition
deriving from English history and the network of global relations
springing from it. The Anglican identity is constituted by its
particular continuities, and cannot survive a decisive breach in
them.'
Scripture
tells us that we hold the Earth in trust for future generations:
Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth,
writes in the Times (London) on global climate change: 'It’s
here that we need to pool our religious wisdom as well as our scientific
expertise. The Hebrew Bible contains some of the world’s earliest
environmental legislation.' |
