Nicodemus Project launches Sunday
The Nicodemus Project will be launched this Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. A litany and prayers for the regular Sunday service and a bulletin insert with information on this project that was conceived at Synod in 2009, are available for use in your parish. Synod 2009 recognized this diocese requires transformational change in the understanding of our church. In John’s Gospel, Nicodemus’ encounter with Jesus leads him to seek transformation as well. He knows that in order to begin a new life focused on God, he must change his ways. Our diocesan pursuit of transformational change through prayerfully revealed priorities is named in honour of Nicodemus.

"We have our inheritance"
From T.S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday
CHRISTIAN AND ANGLICAN: Growing in Communion with Christ
DIOCESE OF FREDERICTON LENTEN STUDY 2010
A Nicodemus Project initiative
Available for download.
It is a study for Ash Wednesday and each subsequent week of Lent
Built upon the Gospels appointed for the coming Sunday
Prepared by Members of the Spiritual Development Team of Diocesan Council

Chaplains at Camp Medley
Camp Medley seeks for clergy to serve as chaplain for a week this summer.  Previous experience is not required.  The chaplain's week involves planning and leading chapel sessions in the morning and the evening as well as participating in day-to-day activities as able.  Spend a week and have an impact on lives for a lifetime.  Contact Shawn Branch <shawnbranch at me.com>.

Parish Returns

2009 Parish Return and 2010 Officers and Contacts working forms have been posted to the Diocesan web site, available for download as a package or as separate files in PDF format. Please remember that Returns are due by 15 March 2010. Visit the Diocesan Information Managment System (DIMS) login page for those links.

View An up-to-date list of diocesan appointments and announcements.

Temporal Transactions

View an up-to-date list of property transactions within the diocese.

Open incumbencies

* Appointment process status:
     H - On hold
     P - In parish profile preparation
     E - Accepting expressions of interest
     I - In the interview process
     A - Awaiting appointment

Diocesan openings

The Nominating Committee currently invites nominations for the following positions:

    • Investment sub-committee (one member)

• Human Resources Committee (one lay position)
• Nominating Committee Member (one lay and one cleric)
  

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RCL Lectionary (Year C)

Sunday, Jan. 31
Fourth Sunday after Epiphany (Green)

Propers 352; Jeremiah 1:4-10; Psalm 71:1-6; 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Luke 4:21-30. Preface of the Lord's Day.

PRAY for the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, Aotearoa (New Zealand), the Most. Rev. William Brown Turei.

Visit these links:
Anglican Cycle of Prayer
Council of the North Prayers
Provincial Prayer Care
Diocesan Intercessions

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"We have our inheritance"
From T.S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday
CHRISTIAN AND ANGLICAN: Growing in Communion with Christ
DIOCESE OF FREDERICTON LENTEN STUDY 2010
A Nicodemus Project initiative
Available for download.
It is a study for Ash Wednesday and each subsequent week of Lent
Built upon the Gospels appointed for the coming Sunday
Prepared by Members of the Spiritual Development Team of Diocesan Council

The Atlantic Seminar in Theological Education
June 13 to 18, 2010
On the campus of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro
Information and registration

Looking for an alb or two
Two new layreaders in the Parish of Stanley need gowns. If you have an extra one it would be appreciated. Contact the Rev. Canon Elaine Hamilton <hamil at nbnet.nb.ca>.

Taking Care of the Neighbourhood: Worship as Public Work for the Common Good
This 2010 National Worship Conference, jointly sponsored by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada will be held July 4-7 at the Vancouver School of Theology, on the UBC campus. Speakers include Distinguished Theologian in Residence Dr. Sallie McFague of VST, and award-winning religion columnist Douglas Todd. The event will also feature insightful workshops and inspiring worship. Deadline for early-bird registration is March 15. Information &registration.

The Anglican Pilgrimage  June 11-25, 2010

Every summer Canterbury Cathedral invites ordinands and newly ordained clergy from around the Anglican Communion to share their lives together, praying, studying and exchanging experiences and ideas. Guided by an international faculty, students live in the International Study Centre at Canterbury. They join the Cathedral community’s daily life which is centred on daily worship. Details and an application form are available on-line.

Mabel C. Dean Memorial Bursary
Applications for the $1,000 Mabel C. Dean Memorial Bursary in support of children of diocesan clergy at university, college or other post secondary institution will be accepted until March 31, 2010 at The Bishop's Office, 115 Church St., Fredericton, E3B 4C8.

Order of St. Luke International Conference Conference

OSL International Conference on healing for the person, the church and the world, June 21-25, 2010, at University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC. with speakers from Wales, Ireland, England, New Zealand, Australia, the United States and Canada. Membership in OSL is not necessary in order to attend. Register here.

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Jan. 28, 12 noon Bridge party at St. Mary's Church (York) on McEvoy Street in Fredericton to raise funds for Hatian relief. The event starts with lunch and the entry fee is $10, ($40 per table). To register, or for more info, call Bettie Ann Boulter, 472-4224 or Shirley Hovey, 474-0022.

Jan. 28, 4:30 p.m. PWRDF Diocesan Committee meeting, Synod Office boardroom, Fredericton.

Jan. 30, 9:30 a.m.  Diocesan Council meeting, Christ Church (Parish) Church, Fredericton. (Replaces meeting scheduled for Jan. 20)

Jan. 30, 10 a.m. Mothers' Union Diocesan Council, St. John the Baptist, Riverview.

Jan. 30, 7 p.m. Dessert reception and silent auction fundraiser for the Cathedral Belize mission team at Cathedral Memorial Hall, Church Street, Fredericton.

Jan. 31, 7 p.m. The Rev. Canon Howard Anningson, rector of the Parish of Carleton, will be inducted as rector of the neighbourhing Parish of Victoria at St. Jude's Church, in the Parish of Victoria. He will continue to reside in the Parish of Carleton rectory but will serve as rector of both parishes with the assistance of the Rev. Robert Salloum. A Celebration New Ministry for Mr. Salloum is included in the Jan. 31 Eucharist service as well. Mr. Salloum resides in the Parish of Victoria rectory.

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Haiti: Clean Water from Filthy
A water purification system, with pipes, filters and pumps that was brought from freezing cold Norway to burning hot Haiti, is providing 10,000 homeless Haitians with crystal clear drinking water. The ACT Alliance has brought in specialist water and sanitation facilities, desperately needed in earthquake-hit Haiti. The "water factory" is based in the Belair neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince. The water coming from these taps is the first clean water these people have had since the earthquake. More equipment has been sent to homeless families in Jacmel, on Haiti's southern coast where the ACT Alliance is distributing tonnes of relief materials including four million water purification tablets, jerrycans, blankets and enough healthcare kits to last 10,000 people three months. The ACT Alliance is also involved in psycho-social treatment of the traumatized population.
PWRDF is a partner in ACT — Action by Churches Together

Visit the Diocesan PWRDF or PWRDF National pages.

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Feb. 13, 4-6 p.m. Parish of Bright Annual Pancake Supper, parish hall in Zealand — buckwheat pancakes, sausage, eggs, baked beans, brown bread, ginger bread with whipped cream and layer cakes. ALL PROCEEDS TO HATIAN RELIEF. There is no fixed cost, freewill donations accepted at the door. This is strictly a corporate initiative and is in no way intended to interfere with what you decide to do personally for Hatian relief.

March 5-7, Work and Creativity Retreat led by retired Bishop Bill Hockin at Villa Madonna, Rothesay. Registration $168 single, $248 double, contact Canon John Cathcart <john.cathcart at anglican.nb.ca>. Bursaries are available (contact Canon Neville Cheeseman <neville.cheeseman at nb.sympatico.ca>.

March 20, 10 a.m.  Mothers' Union DiocesanCouncil, St. George's Church, Parish of Carleton, Saint John.

April 20-22, 2010, Clergy Spouse's Conference, Villa Madonna in Rothesay. Please reserve these dates.

May 15, 10 a.m. Mothers' Union Diocesan Rally, St. Mary & St. Bartholomew, Saint John.

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Rupert's Land

The Bishop of Rupert's Land seeks a full-time priest for the Parish of St. Bartholomew in Winnipeg. A complete parish profile and application information are available from <ssuppes at rupertsland.anglican.ca>. Deadline for applications is March 5.

Sorrento Centre
The Sorrento Centre, a Christian-based conference and retreat centre in the interior of British Columbia, seeks an executive director. Further information is available from Kathie MacDuff of the search committee <sorrentocentredirector at gmail.com> until Wednesday, Feb. 3.

Job listings for the Canadian church.

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New Bishop appointed to Episcopal Church of Cuba
Anglican Journal
Jan. 25, 2010

The Metropolitan Council of Cuba has appointed The Rev. Griselda Delgado del Carpio as Co-adjutor Bishop of the Episcopal Church of Cuba. Delgado was appointed after two special electoral synods held last year failed to elect a successor to Bishop Miguel Tamayo Zaldivar, who plans to retire as interim bishop soon. She was chosen from a pool of candidates who were asked for written responses by the Council, composed of Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of The Episcopal Church, and Archbishop Errol Brooks, acting primate of The Church in the Province of the West Indies. The Council has overseen the Cuban church since it separated from The Episcopal Church in 1967 because of difficult relations between the two countries’ governments.  Read the story.

Episcopal Diocese of Haiti caring for 23,000 quake survivors
By Mary Frances Schjonberg

Episcopal News Service
January 24, 2010
The Episcopal Diocese of Haiti is caring for close to 23,000 Haitians in at least 21 encampments around the earthquake-devastated country. The information came Jan. 23 in a letter from Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin to Episcopal Relief & Development President Robert Radtke and posted here. In the letter, Duracin said that the diocese and the organization are working "hand-in-hand," telling Radtke he has "complete confidence in you and your agency. Please tell our partners, the people of the Episcopal Church, the people of the United States and indeed the people of the world that we in Haiti are immensely grateful for their prayers, their support and their generosity," Duracin wrote. "This is a desperate time in Haiti; we have lost so much. But we still have the most important asset, the people of God, and we are working continuously to take care of them." Read the story.

Anglican housing project in Ottawa gets big boost from Catholic nuns
by Leigh Anne Williams
Anglican Journal
Jan. 23, 2010
A major donation from an order of Roman Catholic nuns has put a diocese of Ottawa ministry much closer to its goal of building a supportive housing facility for 42 women in need. The Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Pembroke donated $1 million to Cornerstone’s housing project.  Sue Garvey, director of Cornerstone, thanked and praised the Grey Sisters for their ongoing support and generosity toward Cornerstone. The relationship first began when Cornerstone was interested in buying a residence owned by the sisters but could not get enough funding, she said. Since that time, the sisters have given donations regularly and donated to help Cornerstone cope with a crisis in November when a fire damaged one of its facilities, killing one resident. Read the story.

Aid organization says Haiti is best helped by cash donations
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
Jan. 21, 2010
The most immediate and useful way to help millions of Haitians affected by the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake is still through cash donations, an aid worker has advised. “Unfortunately a lot of people aren’t keen on giving money. They want to do something more concrete. But in fact, if they really want to help, money is the most useful thing,” said Sarah Wilson, a communicator from Action by Churches Together (ACT) International, a global humanitarian alliance of churches and agencies. “Even here, we’re going to be distributing money in limited quantities to certain people because there is food available to buy, [it’s] just that people don’t have any money.” (Anglican Journal interviewed Wilson in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince via Skype, a software application that allows telephone calls via the Internet.) Read the story.

Need to redefine church is urgent, bishop says
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
Jan. 21, 2010
Chateauguay, Montreal: National Anglican Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald has urged the Anglican Church of Canada to “find other ways to be church,” especially among the marginalized sectors of society. Ministry to the marginalized is “one of the critical needs,” that the church needs to address, Bishop MacDonald said in a presentation to the first National Theological Conference held here Jan. 5 to 7. Read the story.

Aboriginal parishes in Keewatin to get their own area bishop
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
Jan. 19, 2010
If all goes according to plan, aboriginal parishes in the diocese of Keewatin’s Northern Ontario region will have their own area bishop by March 6. On Jan. 5, the executive council of the eccclesiastical province of Rupert’s Land unanimously granted a request from the diocese of Keewatin to hold an election. The area bishop will work with both the Bishop of Keewatin and the National Anglican Indigenous Bishop. Read the story.

Newspaper ads reminds society of obligations to the poor
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
Jan. 19, 2010
Encouraged by the success of its advertisements in the Toronto Star, the Anglican diocese of Toronto is getting ready to have more published. The ads, which ran before Thanksgiving and then again before Christmas, urged Canadians to remember the poor, the homeless, and how God’s love manifests. Read the story.

‘Faith and courage in the midst of great tragedy’
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
Jan. 18, 2010
“What do we say in Easter?” the Rev. Yves Eugene Joseph asked worshippers who on Sunday, Jan. 17, packed Église de la Nativité, a modest church in Montreal’s North that is home to Canadian Anglicans of Haitian origin. “We say, Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.” This, he stressed, “is our faith.” Through tears and sobs, the congregation responded with a chorus of “Amen. Hallelujah!” Read the story.

Woman as candidate for bishop 'significant' says campaigner
by Trevor Gundy
Ecumenical News International
Jan. 18, 2010
London: The chairperson of a group campaigning for women bishops says she is disappointed that the Rev. Alison Peden was not elected Britain's first female Anglican bishop but that it is, "significant and encouraging" for a woman to have been one of the three candidates that the Scottish Episcopal Church considered. Read the story.

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Busy, busy, busy  by Tim Elliott

Haitian kyrie available for download

Action: A call to all Canadian about climate change

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1 Chronicles 29:10-11, 14

Blessed are you, 0 Lord, the God of our ancestor Israel, forever and ever. Yours, 0 Lord, are the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and on the earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, 0 Lord, and you are exalted as head above all . For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.

From the Ven. John M. Robertson, National Gift Planning Officer, Department of Philanthropy
Anglican Church of Canada



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Oops! A bulletin blooper:

As we move into the new worship center we want to ask everyone to avoid carrying food or drink (coffee, soft drinks, candy, pot) into the sanctuary.

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