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Good morning, Anglicans.
It's been a busy week for official news releases and significant
events. Normally Anglicans Online refers you to one or two official news releases
and relies on other sources for much of its reporting. This week there is a bumper
crop of interesting stories from official sources. The Anglican Communion News Service in London does
not have them online yet (10 May), so we refer you to the ECUSA Episcopal News Service. The headlines are
all listed in our New This Week section, should you wish to review
them before downloading this huge file.
The biggest official story: a new Anglican province: deputies from five countries
assembled April 17-19 in San Jose, Costa Rica and officially created a new province,
adopted a constitution and canons, and elected and installed a presiding bishop for
the Anglican Church in the Central American Region (IARCA). The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, primate of the Episcopal Church USA, addressed the inaugural provincial synod (in Spanish!), and presided over
the Saturday morning installation of IARCA primate, Bishop Cornelius Wilson of Costa
Rica.
Speaking of Central America: coffee is the second
most-widely-traded commodity in the world, after petroleum. Most of the money made
in the coffee industry is made by the distributors and not the farmers. Every church
seems to have a coffee hour. Think about buying your church coffee from Equal Exchange. It costs more, of course, but the extra money goes to
the farmers.
The Diocese of Western New York (which does not
seem to have a web page) is currently receiving names for nominees for Bishop. Deadline
is June 15. Contact: The Diocese of Western New York; The Nominating Committee; Box
26; Buffalo, NY 14217; Message/Fax: 716-447-9105.
An interview with Archbishop Michael Peers,
Primate of the Anglican Church in Canada, in Christian Week. He comments on the controversy
surrounding the recent book Mansions of the Spirit, by Vancouver bishop Michael
Ingham. And don't miss the controversy over the narrowly-successful motion asking
the bishop to authorize priests in the Diocese of New Westminster to
bless covenanted same-sex unions. Unless you live there or are steeped in Anglican
trivia, you probably didn't realize that the Diocese of New Westminster and the Diocese
of Vancouver are the same thing. Its real name is New Westminster, but nearly everyone
calls it Vancouver.
The Anglican Breviary is an English translation
of the Roman
Breviary of Pope St. Pius V. It contains the
Offices of Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sexte, None, Vespers, and Compline - and
was last reprinted in the '50s. Daniel Lula of Harvard University is organizing a
private reprinting of this rare work; contact him at dlula@law.harvard.edu for more
information.
Your regular Anglicans Online editor will return
next week. Until then, I remain your editor pro tempore,
Brian Reid
reid@justus.anglican.org
Last updated: 10 May 1998
URL: http://anglican.org/online
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