Week
of 5 April 2009
Australia
Parishes
Victoria: Balaclava and Elwood, Holy Trinity Church (Melbourne)
Victoria: East Doncaster, St David (Melbourne)
Book of Common Prayer
A Liturgy for Africa (1964). 'The 1958 Lambeth Conference set out principles for liturgical changes for the Anglican Communion; this Liturgy for Africa was the first result of these new developments.'
Book
Reviews
Sarah Hillman reviews Personality and Prayer: Finding the Prayer Style That Suits You, by
Ruth Fowke and Opening to God: Childlike Prayers for Adults, by Marilyn McCord Adams.
Andrew Davison reviews SCM Studyguide: Theological Reflection, by Judith Thompson with Stephen
Pattison and Ross Thompson.
Raymond Chapman reviews Anglicanism: Essays in History, Belief and Practice edited by Nigel Yates, with
Anglican Liturgical Identity: Papers from the Prague Meeting of the
International Anglican Liturgical Consultation.
Canada
Parishes
Nova Scotia: Parish of Wilmot [Holy Trinity, Middleton; All Saints, Kingston] (Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island)
Church
History
Religious Communities of the Anglican Communion: Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, by T. W. Campbell (2007). This recent, fascinating study of Anglican religious communities is now available online in Adobe Acrobat format.
England
Parishes
Hagley, St John the Baptist with St Saviour (Worcester)
Lemsford, St John the Evangelist (St Albans)
Ombersley, St Andrew (Worcester)
Resources
Messy Church. 'one church's attempt to be church for families who might want to meet Jesus, belong to their local church and bring up their children as Christians but can't cope with traditional Sunday morning church services.
It's a once-a-month time of creativity, worship and eating together.'
Events
England: Cambridge, 17 April 2009: Visions of the Anglican Communion, Past, Present and Future: A Symposium in Honour of G.A. Selwyn
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of G.A. Selwyn, first bishop of New Zealand, advocate of Maori rights, joint secretary of the first Lambeth Conference (and author of an 1838 pamphlet, Are Cathedral Institutions Useless?), a symposium is being held at Selwyn College, Cambridge. Speakers include Rowan Williams, Gregory Cameron, Allan Davidson, Bill Jacob, Warren Limbrick and Colin Podmore. Cost £25.
England: Oxford, 4-6 January 2010: Returning to the Church
Speakers will include Graham Ward, John Milbank, Alison Milbank, Alister McGrath, Vivian Bowland OP and Simon Oliver.
Ireland
Parishes
Ballynahinch, Magherdroll Parish (Down and Dromore)
Letters
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News
Centre
Holy Week has begun. Saving the flag of St George. Bishop of Rochester writes
about why he quit. Two new bishops in Wales. Indigenous legacy in Hawaii.
The high priest of HSBC. Rebuilding the Diocese of Quincy. Anglican Consultative
Council to meet in Jamaica. All this, and more, in the News Centre.
Not
in the Communion
India Christian Mission Church - Episcopal: 'established in 1897 by an Anglican Priest of Beicester of England. [...] Now it is centered at Krishna and West Godavary Revenue Districts of Andhra Pradesh State.'
Scotland
Parishes
LEAD Cluster [St Margaret, Lossiemouth; Holy Trinity, Elgin; St Margaret, Aberlour; St Michael, Dufftown] (Moray, Ross and Caithness)
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USA
Parishes
New York: Copake Falls, St John in the Wilderness (Albany)
New York: Fort Edward, St James (Albany)
Rhode Island: Warwick, St Barnabas (Rhode Island)
Washington: Seattle, All Saints (Olympia)
Washington: Shoreline, St David Emmanuel (Olympia)
Organizations
Blessed Charles Grafton Institute: 'organized in August 2008 with the intention to meet quarterly to both commemorate Blessed Charles Grafton and to study his writings. The Rt. Rev. Charles Chapman Grafton (1830-1912) was Second Bishop of the Diocese of Fond du Lac. He was an ardent supporter of the Oxford Movement which developed into Anglo-Catholicism in the Episcopal Church. His influences on the Episcopal Church are varied and many.'
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. For more information on this and other listings, see our Vacancies Centre. Also scan vacancy pages on diocesan web sites throughout the communion.
Country: Costa Blanca Anglican Chaplaincy (Diocese in Europe) House for Duty priest
World
Dioceses
India: Diocese of Karimnagar - http://karimnagar.anglican.org
Worth
Noting
The ride to salvation in lowly pomp on a donkey: Geoffrey Rowell writes for the Times (London). 'As this week Christians walk the way of the Cross it is to be renewed in that faith, and in that love — in the God whose love will never let us down and will never let us go.'
Resisting the urge to scapegoat: Savi Hensman writes for Ekklesia. 'In Christian belief, being truly attentive to the One who is present in the needy and marginalised (Matthew chapter 25), and who was willing to be sacrificed in order to set others free from destructive patterns of victimising or being victimised, is necessary to achieve fullness of life. Beyond familiar cycles of scapegoating and death lies the hope of an empty tomb.'
The Seven Last Words of Christ: Full Homely Divinity provides a short Holy Week devotional service for the Seven Last Words.
When Sacraments Shall Cease: Kevin A. Montgomery's 2006 thesis on the development of the epiclesis in the Episcopal Church USA's 1979 Book of Common Prayer is now available online in Adobe Acrobat format. |
