UPDATE: CofE’s General Synod vote on women bishops was lost. Votes for the measure were: House of Bishops: 44 in favour; 3 against; 2 abstain House of Clergy: 148 in favour; 45 against; 0 abstain House of Laity: 132 in favour; 74 against; 0 abstain It needs 2/3 majority in all houses. The Church of
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Make Preparation: Liturgy Planning Notes By Paul Gibson (free download). Thank you so much to David who, in a comment on this site, alerted me to this wonderful new (free) online resource. The Canadian Anglican Book of Alternative Services (BAS) came out in 1985. It was a significant new Anglican prayer book. Contemporary, renewed liturgy
General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada is being held at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from June 3 to 11, 2010. The Vision 2019 presentation on June 4, 2010 opened with the above evocative video. Watch the live webstream on anglican.ca Get real-time updates via anglican.ca or by following on Twitter
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The Anglican Church of Canada joins the Church of England, the Scottish Episcopal Church, The Episcopal Church (USA), and others in placing their liturgical texts online. The goals are to assist liturgy planners and to encourage future web-based work of liturgical text development. Every week many worship planners spend hours on their computers, researching and
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Whenever I am part of the Easter Vigil I am always delighted if there are baptisms. Recently I was part of conversations where some people were seeing “baptism at the Easter Vigil as distracting from Easter” and, also, seeing immersion as “un-Anglican”. 1) Behind the “baptism at the Easter Vigil is distracting from Easter” idea,
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Go forward in your time machine to a few years from now and imagine seeing on eBay or Trade Me: “For Sale, one partly used Anglican Covenant – owner hoping to recoup at least some of the significant amount of money and hope invested in it.” The first drafts of the covenant were so un-Anglican
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Images from Saturday’s Installation of the 8th Bishop of Christchurch, Bishop Victoria Matthews, speak for themselves. A thousand people packed the cathedral for a warm welcome which included Ngai Tahu and the Hui Amorangi O Te Waipounamu and Tikanga Pasefika. Bishop Mark MacDonald, National Indigenous Bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada, preached. Photographs sourced
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