Anglican Communion News Service - Digest News

The Archbishops from the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

Christmas is often a time when we have many expectations – of whanau being together again, lots of food, especially kai moana, carol services and a chance to rest and unwind. The reality is often different. For all too many households, Christmas can be a time of short tempers, road rage, family strife, hardship, stress, overspending and growing debt, drunkenness or violence.

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A new look website will make its first appearance on the Feast of All Saints, 1 November, 2007 at the normal address: www.anglicancommunion.org

The site is enhanced by a user friendly design that we hope will enable you to use the site even more fully in your own ministry and work.

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The Revd John Kafwanka, research/project officer for Mission and Evangelism at the Anglican Communion Office in London, looks ahead to the 2008 Lambeth Conference of Bishops and speaks about its mission focus.

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Some 30 members of the Compass Rose Society made a study visit to Salisbury Cathedral this past weekend.

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By the Revd Jim Rosenthal, ACNS Editor

The 10th anniversary of the tragic death of Diana Princess of Wales will be commemorated in a memorial service on 31 August at the Guards Chapel in Westminster, London. Those attending the service have been personally invited by Prince William and Prince Harry. Among the names are people involved in the charities that Diana supporter as well as her personal friends and members of the Royal Family.

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Any Anglican Episcopal church with an image of The Transfiguration is asked to send a photo (scan) ASAP to the Editor, for use in our magazine. We are also looking for images of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany events in parishes. 

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Arzobispo – El fracaso humano se supera por medio del amor de Dios

El Arzobispo de Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, dice que todo el peso del fracaso humano no puede extinguir el amor creativo de Dios. En su Sermón de Pascua, predicado en la Catedral de Canterbury esta mañana (Domingo 8 de Abril, Fiesta de Resurrección), el Dr. Williams dijo que el conflicto y el fracaso son parte de la condición humana, pero que la muerte y resurrección de Jesús transforma completamente esa realidad:

‘Compartimos una historia humana en la que todos estamos atrapados en una triste maraña de egoísmos, temores y otros males. Pero Dios ha entrado en esa historia humana; ha vivido una vida divina e incondicional en una vida humana de carne y hueso.’

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The Archbishop of Canterbury's Panel of Reference for the Anglican Communion report and recommendations in respect of the Diocese of Florida are now available at the following link on the Anglican Communion website.

http://www.aco.org/commission/reference/docs/Florida_final.pdf

The Panel of Reference is chaired by the Most Revd Peter Carnley and first met in July 2005.

The mandate and functions of the Panel are available here:
http://www.aco.org/commission/reference/mandate.cfm

A Mothering Sunday ethical giving campaign launched by the Mothers’ Union (MU) is already having a positive impact on the lives of mothers across the developing world and in the UK.

Through their ethical giving catalogue, Make a Mother’s Day, supporters have donated over £90,000 to support and promote family life, far exceeding all expectations. 

The income from the gifts, which include support for mums in prison, provision of community midwives and training of local trainers to bring literacy and health education to communities, will be used to support both disaster relief work and long-term development work carried out by the MU.

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On the Status of Women

In the name of God, Saviour, Redeemer, and Giver of Life.

We, the women of the Anglican Communion gathered in New York as the Anglican Consultative Council delegation to the 51st Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, and as members of the International Anglican Women's Network representing the diversity of women from across the world-wide Anglican Communion, wish to reiterate our previously stated unequivocal commitment to remaining always in 'communion' with and for one another.

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Anglicans around the world will begin observing Lent with service of penitence, litany, Eucharist and imposition of ashes. Lent is uniquely ‘popular’ with Anglicans with study guides, projects, appeals (such as the Anglican Church of Canada) and Lenten books - as with the traditional Archbishop of Canterbury's lent Book.

From Aotearoa/New Zealand and Polynesia website:

Lent is a period of intense preparation for Easter. It's also called the ‘forty days’ - there are forty week days between Ash Wednesday and Easter Day.

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In the first week of February about 25 Anglicans will be gathering in Nigeria to explore issues of faith and citizenship in a context where Christians and Muslims are living closely together. NIFCON – the Anglican Communion Network for Interfaith Concerns – responded to the invitation of NIFCON President Archbishop Josiah Idowu Fearon who was keen to address the issue of how Christians can be fully involved in their communities when there are significant tensions between their faith and Islam.

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From Trinity Church Wall St New York

Merry Christmas from ACNS

Click to listen: http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/welcome/?article&id=821

New Bishops announced for the Diocese of Wollongong - Australia, South West Florida - USA and the Diocese of Oxford - England.

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20 November saw the beginning of the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the Anglican Centre in Rome. Celebratory events include the re-launching of the library on 20 November following its recent expansion (1,000 new volumes added, taking the total to 14,000). The evening will also see the presentation of two new books on Anglicanism: 'Anglicans in Rome' by Fr Fred Bliss, former professor of ecumenism at the Angelicum University in Rome; and 'La riforma anglicana: storia ed evoluzione della Chiesa d'Inghilterra e della Comunione anglicana' by Gino Patriarchi (in Italian).

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The Archbishop of Canterbury's PANEL OF REFERENCE (POR) for the Anglican Communion report on the Diocese of New Westminster is now available at the following link on the Anglican Communion Website:

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Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane - Statement on the Global South Communique

24 September 2006

I thank God for the fellowship I enjoyed with my brother Primates of CAPA and the Global South, in Kigali last week, as we shared concerns about the Anglican Communion and other matters of common interest.

I wish to offer this clarification of the position of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, in light of the potentially misleading impression that our Province has endorsed the Communique issued at the end of the meeting.  Whereas Canon Livingstone Ngewu and I were present in Kigali, neither of us were made aware even of the possibility of a communiqué in the name of the Primates of the Global South, prior to its release.

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The Anglican Communion Office has now updated the Anglican Cycle of Prayer (ACP) web site with material for the fourth quarter (October - December 2006).

The ACP is available for download in three formats at www.aco.org/acp/downloads.cfm.

The main calendar page can be found here

'Grace and Necessity: Reflections on Art and Love' from Morehouse Publishing, by Rowan Williams, 172 pages, hardcover, $19.95.

In his first major new work of original theology for some years, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, explores the borderlands between theology, art and literature in order to pioneer a new theological expression of grace and human creativity.

Profoundly influenced by some of the most original and creative minds in the recent Catholic tradition - Jacques Maritain, the artist Eric Gill and the poet and painter David Jones - he explores a new aesthetic and the concept of an artwork as a structure in itself and not as a 'reproduction.' The sign or symbol, whether verbal or material, is a necessary vehicle of meaning and not an illustration of it, calling not for reduction or explanation but response.

In Archbishop Williams' development of his theme he discusses modern philosophy (Wittgenstein's aesthetics) but also examines modern art, the work of the American writer Flannery O'Connor and the writings of the poet and artist David Jones on art and sacrament and the underlying theology of artistic production.

To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at http://www.episcopalbookstore.org

Source: Morehouse Publishing

The Anglican Communion Office has now updated the Anglican Cycle of Prayer (ACP) web site with material for the third quarter (July - September 2006). The ACP is available for download in three formats at www.aco.org/acp/downloads.cfm

The main calendar page can be found here