Week
of 17 December 2006
Advent
Resources
Devo-to-Go Podcast.
The Diocese of Texas provides 'daily Advent devotions
produced by Casey Shobe (Christ Church Cathedral, Houston), Melody
Shobe, (St Thomas, Nassau Bay) and Lonnie Lacy (chaplain at Georgia
Southern University). Listen on your computer or download to your
MP3 player to go. Stories are about the presence of God and a reminder
of how near God is to us always.'
Slow
Down. Quiet. It's Advent! We saw this and loved it, so thought
we had to pass it on. From Morehouse Publishing this 'is a gentle—and
fun to read—reminder of the true meaning of the season. Sold in
packs of 25 [US$10.00] for multiple placements around church, in
homes, or as gifts for the congregation. Illustrated by the Reverend
Jay Sidebotham.'
Africa
Tanzania
Diocese of Masasi
Book
Reviews
From the Tablet: John
Habgood reviews God's Universe, by Owen Gingerich.
In the Church
Times: Richard
Cross reviews Medieval Schools: From
Roman Britain to Renaissance England,
by Nicholas Orme.
In the Church
Times: Martin
Warner reviews David Goode's Living Bread:
Prayers of Preparation for Holy Communion with The Seven Sacraments:
Entering the Mysteries of God, by Stratford Caldecott.
Canada
Parishes
Ontario: Thunder Bay, St
Paul (Algoma)
Miscellaneous
resources
Stories of Faith: This
new site just launched by the General Synod of the Anglican Church
of Canada as 'a place for Anglicans to share moments of joy about
their faith, to celebrate aspects of the church that matter to them
and to discuss themes and issues that they care about or feel strongly
about'.
Church
History
Codices
Electronici Sangallenses (CESG) – Virtual
Library. This site provides high-quality
digital editions of 131 manuscripts from
the eighth-century Swiss monastery of
St Gallen.
The Internet
Archive offers a vast
library of digital editions of works in all fields,
but church history and Anglican history are particularly well represented.
Some titles that jump out at us as significant or delightful
are The
Day Hours of the Church of England (1877), Liturgiae
Americanae (1907), Percy Dearmer's Fifty
Pictures of Gothic Altars (1910) and Nunnery Life in the
Church of England (1891).
Polynesia
Patchwork: The Tale of a Pacific Diocese, by C.W. Whonsbon-Aston
(1948). Anglican life in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and other parts of the
southern Pacific is the subject of this illustrated booklet.
England
United Benefice of Chenies,
Little Chalfont, Flaunden and Latimer [St Michael, Chenies; St George, Little Chalfont; St Mary Magdalene, Latimer;
St Mary Magdalene, Flaunden] (Oxford)
Parish of Great Chesham [St
Mary, Chesham; Emmanuel, Chesham; Christ Church, Waterside; St John, Ashley Green;
St John, Bellingdon; St George, Tyler's Hill] (Oxford)
Parish of
Kidlington with Hampton Poyle [St Mary, Kidlington; St John
the Baptist, Kidlington; St Mary the Virgin, Hampton Poyle] (Oxford)
Parish
of Newport Pagnell [St Peter and St Paul, Newport Pagnell; St
Luke, Newport Pagnell; Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Moulsoe;
All Saints, Lathbury] (Oxford)
Benefice of South
Croydon [St Peter, St Augustine] (Southwark)
Terriers, St Francis of Assisi (Oxford)
Episcopal
Elections or Announcements
Complete
The Diocese of Port Moresby,
Papua New Guinea, has elected the Revd Peter Ramsden as its
next diocesan bishop. His consecration is scheduled for 25 March
2007. Ramsden is now Vicar of Long Benton in the Diocese of Newcastle
(UK); he served previously as Vicar General of the Diocese of Aipo
Rongo, also in Papua New Guinea.
On 11 December
2006 the Queen approved
the nomination of the Rt Revd John Lawrence Pritchard MA M.Litt,
Suffragan Bishop of Jarrow, for election as Bishop of Oxford in succession
to the Rt Revd Richard Douglas Harries MA, who resigned on 2 June
2006.
On 14 December
2006 the Queen approved
the nomination of the Revd (Gordon) Keith Sinclair MA, to the Suffragan
See of Birkenhead, in the Diocese of Chester, in succession to the
Rt Revd David Andrew Urquhart BA, on his elevation to the See of
Birmingham.
Letters
to Anglicans Online
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a read. Write a letter of your own to
us for possible publication.
Liturgical
Resources
The
Book of Common Prayer in Mohawk:
An 1875 version of the
American 1789 BCP translated into Mohawk is now available on
Charles Wohler's
magisterial BCP site. The translation is by Eleazar
Williams, an American clergyman (1787-1858) who claimed to be the
Lost Dauphin—the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
News
Centre
New archbishop in Melbourne. Virginia parishes vote to join Church
of Nigeria. Canadian church welcomes court decisions. No fire worship
this year in Chelmsford. C of E conservatives issue draft covenant. All this,
and more, in the News Centre.
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and Ends
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Illinois: Hale Team Ministry [Church of the Redeemer, Cairo; St James,
Marion; St James, McLeansboro; St Mark, West Frankfort; St Stephen, Harrisburg] (Springfield)
Minnesota: Owatonna, St
Paul (Minnesota)
Minnesota: St Paul, St John in the Wilderness (Minnesota)
Minnesota: St Paul, St Mary (Minnesota)
Pennsylvania: Concordville, St John (Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania: Drexel Hill, Church of the Holy Comforter (Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania: Norwood, St Stephen (Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania: Ridley Park, Christ Church (Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania: Wayne, St David (Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania: Wayne, St Mary (Pennsylvania)
Vacancies
Centre
List a parish or diocesan opening for one month at AO — at
no charge. What a bargain! The more you use our free service, the
more useful it will become for all.
Seeking a position? Scan vacancy pages on diocesan web sites with vacancies
listings throughout the communion.
Worth
Noting
An
innocent's guide to things Anglican in the US: Ruth Gledhill
wrote this interesting and helpful guide on her weblog connected
with the London Times.
Commercialisation
of Childhood:
The Archbishop of Canterbury's interview in connection with a recent
report on advertising and childhood.
Graphic
Violence:
Alan Jacobs writes in Christianity Today's Books and Culture on
Edward Tufte's 'profound respect for the power of well-chosen designs—charts,
graphs, outlines, and so on—to convey information quickly and
powerfully'. Reading Tufte, 'You learn to try out various ways
to organize information—historically, thematically, geographically—and
in the process you force yourself to reconsider the way you habitually
organize data in your own head'. |
