Week
of 7 January 2007
Africa
Miscellaneous resources
Solar
Light for Africa: SLA's 'goal is to educate
the public on the advantages of renewable energy for the benefit of impoverished
communities throughout the world.' It was founded in 1997 by retired
Episcopal Bishop Alden Hathaway. To date, this organization has provided
electrical light and power to more than 2,000 facilities, such as medical
clinics, orphanages, schools, churches, and private homes located in
rural regions of East Africa.
Australia
Miscellaneous
resources
Anglican
Retirement Villages.
As a subsidiary of the Diocese of Sydney, this organization administers
more than 16 retirement communities.
Book
Reviews
Mother Teresa: Saint or
Celebrity, by Gëzim Alpion, is reviewed in The Tablet
by Kathryn Spink.
The
Cambridge History of Christianity: Eastern Christianity, edited
by Michael Angold, is reviewed in the Church Times by Hugh Wybrew.
Made
for Laughter,
by Sheila Cassidy, is reviewed in the Church Times by Pat Ashworth.
Books,
Magazines, Authors
Earth
and Altar:
A Journal of Anglican Life and Worship. This fine, promising site
offers the Advent 2006 issue of a new journal for download. E-mail
subscriptions are free. We look forward to their next issue.
Canada
Manitoba: Winnipeg, Church of the Good Shepherd (Rupert's Land)
Church
History
Arthur
Featherstone Marshall was an Anglican
priest who converted to Roman Catholicism
in the 1860s. His controversial and satirical
writings include The
Comedy of Convocation of the English
Church (1868) and The
Old Catholics at Cologne (1873),
both of which still entertain today and
include trenchant commentary of Anglican
life and thought.
Sea-Girt
Yezo:
Glimpses at Missionary Work in North Japan, by John Batchelor (1902). English
missionary John Batchelor (1854-1944) wrote this book about his field of work
on the Japanese island of Hokkaido for a children's audience. He also translated the
Book of Common Prayer into Ainu, a fast-disappearing language. The book includes some
fascinating
pictures of church life on Hokkaido in the late nineteenth century.
England
New Malton, St Michael (York)
Parish of Harwell
and Chilton [St Matthew, Harwell; All Saints, Chilton] (Oxford)
Riccall, St Mary (York)
York (Dringhouses), St Edward the Confessor (York)
York (Fulford), St Oswald Parish Church (York)
York (Tang Hall), St Hilda (York)
Ireland
Kinneigh Union
of Parishes [St Mary, Desertserges; St Patrick, Murragh;
St Bartholomew, Kinneigh; St Paul, Ballymoney; Christ Church, Kilmeen] (Cork,
Cloyne and Ross)
Letters
to Anglicans Online
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Liturgical
resources
AO staff
member Peter Owen has digitized the
first edition (1899) of The Parson's
Handbook,
Percy Dearmer's famous treatise on Anglican liturgical principles and
practice.
News
Centre
Marriage in the (Rhode Island) cathedral. Invitations sent to next primates'
meeting. Canada appoints national indigenous bishop. All this, and more, in
the News Centre.
Odds
and Ends
The Li Tim-Oi Foundation:
'In 1994, on the Golden Jubilee of Li Tim-Oi's priesting, Archbishop
Donald Coggan launched the Li Tim-Oi Foundation in St Martin-in-the-Fields,
London.
It has so far helped 190 women from 67 dioceses in 11 provinces of the Anglican
Communion [...] More than 50 have been or will be ordained. Without
the help of the Foundation, they would not have been able to fulfil
their vocations to leadership roles in their own countries.'
Religious
Orders
Alton Abbey:
A Benedictine monastery in Beech, Hampshire, England. This simple
site provides contact information and a message of welcome.
St
Andrew's Priory: 'a new Benedictine foundation for men located
in Alfred, Maine. Being a new monastic foundation there is a sense
of excitement and newness, but with this comes challenges to be over
come. The work of Benedictine life is ancient, built on the lives
of many monks and nuns past.'
St Mark's Benedictine
Abbey:
This homepage for Anglican Benedictine monks and nuns in Australia
provides information on quiet days, guest houses, parish visits, retreats, vocations,
history and oblates. St Mark's Abbey is located in Camperdown, Victoria.
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USA
New York: New York, Church
of the Intercession (New York)
Oregon: Happy Valley, Holy Family (Oregon)
Oregon: Medford, St Mark (Oregon)
Oregon: Portland, Ascension (Oregon)
Pennsylvania: Aston, Calvary Church, Rockdale (Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania: Compass, St
John (Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania: Exton, St Paul, West Whiteland (Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Trinity Church, Oxford (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.
England. Ainsdale, St John (Liverpool). Organist and Choirmaster
For more information on this and other vacancies, visit our Vacancies Centre.
Seeking a position? Scan vacancy pages on diocesan web sites with vacancies
listings throughout the communion.
Worth
Noting
Three good reflections on the Epiphany: From
Geoffrey Rowell in the Times (London); from Christopher
Howse in the Telegraph (London); and from
Judith Maltby in the Guardian (London).
Ashes
May Hold Joan of Arc's Secrets:
American National
Public Radio has this story about a large team of European scientists
now examining what are believed to be the ashes of Joan of Arc, currently
kept in a French museum in the Loire valley.
The
Church Goes On:
American Episcopal priest Ivor Hughes reflects in The Living Church (Milwaukee)
on his optimism about an exciting future for the parishes he serves, despite
difficult times in national church politics. 'Is a possible break-up the
only topic of the agenda around the country? Are there other congregations
simply trying to get on with their mission and ministry without pressing
the self-destruct button?' |
