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 Hallo
again to all as we draw closer to Christmas. Our New
This Week roster is perhaps the largest it's ever been, so if you'd
like a quick skim of our latest listings, head there. We have new parish
listings, new cathedral listings, a new online bookstore, new event
announcements, a truly amazing Anglican Gradual and Sacramentary, and
a chock-a-block News Centre.
Most
sensible people have done their Christmas shopping, but if you're not
sensible, do see the famous
top 12 gifts chosen by our friends at Ship of Fools. (Including
one we'd love but probably won't receive ...)
Can't
find that elusive clergyman to whom you want to snail-mail  Christmas
greetings? The Church of England, long served by the trusty Crockford's
Clerical Directory, has for some time offered a dial-in Internet bulletin
board with the latest listings. If you've not experienced one of these
(common before the Web got going) you might find the experience, um,
unique. Once connected you can retrieve a host of clerical information.
(Full
information is kindly made available by the Diocese of Peterborough.)
Sound too formidable? Perhaps you'll want to purchase
the
paper Crockford.
 We
note that Church Publishing,
the
ECUSA printing arm (not a technical description) now offers an online
bookshop and ordering. Their newest CD (the tediously titled 'The
Rite Song')
offers complete music and words
for all ECUSA-sanctioned hymnals.
 Did
you miss a children's Christmas pageant in your own parish? If so, you
can experience one, scene by scene, put on by a small
parish in Ontario, Canada. We were quite taken
with a pageant on the web. Your AO News Centre editor spent many years
as the director of the children's Christmas pageant in his parish, and
he really appreciates the amount of work that goes into something like
this. (Script quality matters, too.)
 Some
of you will recall hearing about or reading that the National Catholic
Reporter (a USA Roman Catholic magazine) sponsored a worldwide art competition,
to solicit works portraying 'Jesus 2000'. The top four works have been
chosen,
and you might find it interesting to see the
image judged to be in first place--and why.
Walsingham,
long a place of pilgrimage in England, now has
an official web site, jointly sponsored by the Anglican and Roman
Communions, both of whom have a claim to this hallowed place.
The
choir of the chapel of King's College Cambridge will be offering their
service of Nine Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve. You can find full
details, including the programme, here,
including what you need to know to listen on the Net.
We
are approaching the fifth anniversary of the founding of Anglicans Online.
We promise that we won't build a dome to celebrate, nor will we release
our own brand of electric power generator, but we might do something
light-hearted. Watch this space.
We
wish a Happy Christmas to all our friends round the world: love,
light, grace, and peace to each of you as you celebrate the nativity
of our Saviour's birth.
Last
updated: 19 December 1999
URL: http://anglicansonline.org
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