Week
of 15 December 2013
Africa
Dioceses
Nigeria: Diocese on the Lake - http://onthelake.anglican.org
Nigeria: Diocese of Okigwe North - http://okigwenorth.anglican.org
Australia
Parishes
Tasmania: Bridge of Hope Anglican Church (Tasmania)
England
Parishes
Cawston, St Agnes (Norwich)
Resources
The Cleaver Ordination Candidates Fund. 'exists for the support and encouragement of Anglican ordinands committed to a traditional Catholic understanding of the priesthood and episcopate, and to urge the importance of continuing sound theological learning among the clergy'.
Events
USA: New York City, 22 December 2013: Blue Christmas
'Not everyone experiences the holidays as a time of joy and cheer; this service offers respite from the holiday rush. Come to All Saint's [sic] Chapel inside Trinity Church for meditative music, healing prayer and a quiet space to reflect on the year.'
Letters
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News
Centre
Australia: Gospel for Hearers.
New bishop for Bath & Wells.
Dalit Christian rights rally in North India.
Zimbabwe update.
Age takes toll of NZ Anglicans. All this, and more, in the News Centre.
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in the Communion
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USA
Parishes
Virginia: Woodbridge, St Margaret (Virginia) [newest parish in the diocese, founded in 1963]
Vacancies
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World
Resources
Coins for Cuba. 'The focus for this site is to raise awareness of the needs of the Episcopal Church in Cuba, the needs of congregations, clergy and especially the church buildings. Coins for Cuba will also look at ways and means to support Cuban students in seminary and studying towards ordination in the Episcopal Church in Cuba.'
Worth
Noting
The Body of Christ Grows into the Mind of Christ: Twenty Minutes with Derek Olsen: AO editor Richard Mammana interviews the secretary of the Episcopal Church USA's Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music. From The Living Church (Milwaukee).
He shone with the light of Christ: Nelson Mandela's prison chaplain, Harry Wiggett, recalls being humbled by his spirituality. At one solitary eucharist, Mandela invited the warder, a member of a church where blacks and whites were not allowed to worship together, to share the communion - and he did. From The Church Times (London). |