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Holocaust survivor shines light on truth
by Samantha Tinker
The Saint John Jewish Historical Museum presented Alex Eisen as their keynote speaker for the Holocaust Remembrance Day on May 2. Eisen, a survivor of the Holocaust, spoke about his experiences fleeing Vienna, Austria to Hungary during the Second World War and later settling in Palestine. At nine years old, he watched the German army invade Vienna with “an open Mercedes and Hitler [inside].” He thought that was a beautiful sight for a child to see, until the next day when the persecution started. Read the story.
2011-2012 Youth Ambassador for World Vision
Kate Hawkins of Christ Church (Parish) Church in Fredericton is one of six Canadian young people chosen to be a 2011-2012 Youth Ambassador for World Vision. With her five fellow ambassadors she will travel to Rwanda this summer and learn firsthand about international development, and learn from local youth in a leadership forum. After the Youth Ambassadors return to Canada, they will have the opportunity to inspire their peers and communities towards greater global action. Kate is a grade 11 student at Fredericton High School and generously involved in her community and her church.
U2charist
Is coming to St. Martin-in-the-Woods, Shediac Cape, on Saturday, May 28 at 8p.m.
Since the late 1970's, U2's music, Christian faith, and social justice activism have inspired many of us to make a difference in the world! Songs like "Sunday Bloody Sunday" right through to "Yahweh" have helped shape our Christian faith and hopes for social justice. A "U2charist" is an Anglican Eucharist service. The purpose is to praise God using the music and words of the rock band U2 - while providing a message about God's call to rally around the Millennium Development Goals and to Make Poverty History - initiatives which The Anglican Church of Canada, PWRDF and justgeneration.ca support. Come and worship in Shediac.
Brookwood Open House
Meet the staff, enjoy the barbecue and get set for summer at Camp Brookwood, June 4, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. And find lots of familiar smiling Brookwood faces on-line.
Please pray for Clergy College
June 12 - 17
Our Lord, we pray that by means of the inspiration and grace which you manifest within us at our Clergy College, we may go forward to build your kingdom of grace in our parishes and in the Diocese. Lead us Lord to use every vehicle sanctioned by your Holy Spirit to bring erring souls to the knowledge of the truth, to enable you to build and renew our congregations, and to see that we ourselves are daily being strengthened in your love and perfect will. As we have been encountered by you, so may we proceed in our ministries to reflect you in all your glory to your people, that our parishes and Diocese would truly experience the blessing and healing of your Holy Spirit. All this we ask in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and for His sake. Amen.
And please register soon
The clergy college organizers have lined up three wonderful speakers — Harold Percy on evangelism, Ruth Code on dealing with loss and change, and Marion Taylor on Old Testament preaching and interpretation. The committee needs to know how many rooms to reserve, so please register as soon as possible.
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The 27th Trinity Divinity Associates' Conference
Reconciliation
With keynote speaker
Anne Mallonee
Vicar of Trinity Wall Street
June 14-16 at Trinity College
Conversation leaders Bishop Mark MacDonald, Canon Dr. Isaac Kawuki Mukasa
Information and registration www.trinity.utoronto.ca
Priests' Silent Retreat
at "The Monestary in Monestary" NS
July 3 - 6 (Sunday evening through Wednesday noon) on
The Reformed Catholicism of John Bramhall (1594-1663) - Classical Anglicanism for our day
led by the Rev. David Curry, M.A., Rector of Christ Church, Windsor (NS). who will read selections from Bramhall — 17th century Archbishop of Armagh and apologist for the reformed catholicism of the Book of Common Prayer in answer to both Roman Catholic and Protestant critics — with participants.
The retreat is especially for priests, but deacons, students, those considering ordination and lay people interested in the subject are also welcome.
Registration $160, includes accommodations and meals from breakfast on Monday through lunch on Wednesday.
For more information and the reading list, contact the presenter, Mr. Curry at <currydp at gmail.com> or the registrar, the Rev. Dr. Ranall Ingalls at <rtrinsj at nbnet.nb.ca>.
54th Annual Diocesan Choir School Registrations
Choir School 2011 July 10-17
Rothesay Netherwood School
Registrater here.
Adult school starts on Thursday evening, July 14.
Mid-week Evensong 7 p.m., July 14 at St Augustine’s Church, Quispamsis.
All choristers welcome — check out the website and consider a wonderful singing experience.
Atlantic Food Justice Camp
June 23-25, Big Lake Camp, Oxford, NS
Young people and adults come together to learn more about our food system and the ongoing challenges of world hunger.
Learn more and register.
Churches robbed, communities devastated
An update on events and valuable information in risk management
from Eccleiastical Insurance
God and Money Workshop
May 19-20, Trinity United Church, Summerside, PEI
Presented by the AST Integrated Alumni Association
Workshop presenter Dr, David Deane, AST PRofessor of Systematic and Historical Theology
Details and registration
Horizon Health Network Annual Spiritual Care Conference
Spirituality and Healthy Aging
8 a.m. - 4 p.m., May 31
Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital Auxillary Theatre
Featuring William (Bill) Randall with co-facilitator Daphne Noonan
Details and registration information
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May 17 - 19 Clergy Spouse Retreat, Villa Madonna, with speaker Liz Harding.
May 18, 2:30 p.m. Synod Agenda Committee, Synod Office board room.
May 19, 10 a.m. Council Stewardship Team, Synod Office board room.
May 19, 1 p.m. Synod Planning Committee meeting, Fredericton Inn.
May 20-23 TEC 19, Camp Medley. Registrar Karen Bent <4bents at nb.sympatico.ca>.
May 21, 3:30 - 6 p.m. Parish lobster supper, St. Clement's Church Hall, Dumfries. On the menu: lobster, potato salad, creamy coleslaw, sliced tomato and cucumber on a bed of lettuce, homemade rolls, lots of pie, tea/coffee. For those who don't want lobster there will be ham with all the fixins'. The lobster is $25/plate, the ham is $12.
May 21, 4 p.m., 5:15 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Salmon barbecue at All Saints Church, 150 Crock's Point Rd., Keswick Ridge — includes salmon, baked potatoes, fresh fiddleheads, baby carrots, special dessert, coffee and tea. Roast beef served to non-lovers of salmon. Reservations required for each sitting. $14 per person, children under 12 half portions for $7. For reservations please call either Lois Poore at 363-4229 or Eugene Price 363-4463.
May 22, 4 & 5:30 p.m. Salmon & Fiddlehead Supper at the Anglican Church Hall, 71 Main Street, Stanley. Call Maxine, 67-2099 or Susan, 367-2017 to reserve seating time. Roast beef available for non-fish lovers. Adults $12, children under 12 $8. *Reservations Recommended* Sponsored by the Anglican Parish of Stanley.
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May 24, 7:30 p.m. Fredericton area Ultreya at Christ Church Cathedral.
May 25, 11 a.m. Annual meeting Church of England Institute at Anglican House, 116 Princess Street in Saint John.
May 28, 8:30 - 11 a.m. Community Breakfast at St. Luke's Church Hall, corner of Metcalf Street and Lansdowne Avenue, Saint John. Sausages, toast, eggs, home fries, coffee, tea and juice. $5 per person. A joint presentation of the Saint John Y's Men and St. Luke's, with proceeds to youth outreach programs.
May 28, 8 a.m. Giant yard sale, breakfast, lunch and open house day at St. Augustine's Church, 239 Quispamsis Rd. in Quispamsis. Come for a full breakfast for just $6, shop at the yard sale, stay for a beef soup lunch ($5), and take a guided tour of the church and facilities. More information here.
May 28, 7 p.m. St. Luke's and St. John's (Parish of Prince William) Spring gala at the Nackawic Lions Centre — auction with Neville DeLong, musical entertainment with Noel Nason and Cora Morrison, the Soggy Mountain Boys, and church musicians; special guest Katie Pearl (rumoured to be a distant cousin of a very famous Grand Old Opry star); and a fabulous dessert buffet with tea and coffee. Admission $7.50. For more information call Shirley, 463-2749 or Jean, 575-2502.
May 29, 10:30 a.m. Archbishop Claude Miller will attend 200th anniversary celebrations at Christ Church, Bloomfield. Many will dress in period costume for the occasion.
May 29, 3 p.m. 2-for-1 Choral Concert at St. Augustine's Church, 239 Quispamsis Rd. in Quispamsis. This inaugural concert of the 2011 season features the Lintuhtine Choir from Oromocto, a full four-part choir offering folk, classical, and other styles; and Riversong, a popular nine-women chamber choir from Riverview offering madrigals, folks songs, classical pieces, and arrangements of many other styles. Added bonus: the Lintuhtine Youth Choir will also sing. Tickets are $10 at the door (students $5).
May 29, 4 p.m. Illustrated presentation on the recent mission trip to the Diocese of Ho, Ghana, by students from St. Paul's, Hampton, and the chair of the Companion Diocese Committee, Heather Miller at Christ Church Cathedrakm Fredericton. Everyone welcome. Light refreshments to follow.
May 30, 7 - 9 p.m. Miramichi Ultreya, St. Mary's Church, 507 Wellington St., Chatham.
May 31 Deadline for applications for Scott Clarkson Educational Scholarship.
May 31, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Spirituality and Healthy Aging, a conference presented by the Department of Spiritual and Religious Care, Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital, Fredericton. Information brochure
June 2-5 Women's Cursillo Weekend. Sponsor and Clergy Sponsor Forms available from Cursillistas. Send completed forms to Allen Gilliss, 479 South Napan Road, Napan, NB E6L 1N9 or Paul MacDonald, 118 McKeen Drive, Keswick Ridge, NB E1N 4W4.
June 4, 9 a.m. - noon Yard Sale at Trinity Church, 115 Charlotte St., Saint John. Bring your green friendly shopping bags and fill them with bargains. Coffee and muffins, $2. All proceeds to the church renovation fund.
June 4, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Diocesan Mothers' Union meeting, St. John's Church, Parish of Richmond - 3667 Route 540, Richmond Corner.
June 11, 2011, 9:30 a. m. PWRDF workshop, Trinity Church, Sussex.
June 12-17, 2011 Clergy College, Fredericton.
June 16-19 The Power of Caring through Shifting Tides, The Canadian Association for Parish Nursing Ministry (CAPNM) Annual General Meeting (Details and Registration), Crandall University, Moncton.
June 18, 12:30 p.m. NB Cursillo Secretariat Meeting, St. Andrew's Anglican Church Hall, 323 Main St., Route 8, Doaktown. Followed at 2:30 p.m. by a Grand Ultreya.
July 10-17 Diocese of Fredericton Choir School, RNS, Rothesay. Adult choristers join the program July 14-17.
August 19, Application deadline for Vaughan Park Anglican Retreat Centre 2012 Residential Scholarship in Auckland, New Zealand.
Sept. 23, 7 p.m. to Sept. 24, 3 p.m. Diocesan Mothers' Union overnight at Camp Medley.
Sept. 29- Oct. 2 Men's Cursillo Weekend. Sponsor and Clergy Sponsor Forms available from Cursillistas. Send completed forms to Allen Gilliss, 479 South Napan Road, Napan, NB E6L 1N9 or Paul MacDonald, 118 McKeen Drive, Keswick Ridge, NB E1N 4W4.
Oct. 15, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Refreshing Youth Life in the Church, A Day of ideas and ‘how to’s’ for Sunday School Teachers and Youth Leaders at St. Mary and St. Bartholomew's Church, Saint John.
Nov. 13, 4 p.m. Public liturgical celebration of 40 years of dialogue between the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in Canada, St. Joseph's Oratory, Montreal. Local worship resources available soon.
Nov. 30-Dec. 2 Reflecting the Light of Christ, the 35th Anniversary of the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood in the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Invitation Website Registration (deadline Oct. 1, 2011)
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Circumpolar Inuit set conditions for resource development
by Diana Swift
Anglican Journal
May 17, 2011
Mary Simon, national Inuit leader, welcomed the release of the Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on Resource Development Principles in Inuit Nunaat (Inuit Nunaat refers to the Inuit homeland across the circumpolar region.) The five-page declaration was signed on May 11 in Nuuk, Greenland, by international Inuit leaders gathered there for the Arctic Council ministerial meeting. Read the story.
Muslim-Christian meeting in Lebanon warns against internal divisions
by Judith Sudilovsky
ENInews
May 17, 2011
Jerusalem: Lebanese religious leaders have warned against growing internal divisions in their country and urged national leaders to work towards unity and tolerance, following a joint Christian-Muslim meeting convened on May 12 in Bkirki by newly appointed Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai. Read the story.
Inter-faith forum seeks ways 'to improve society'
by Jonathan Luxmoore
ENInews
May 17, 2011
Warsaw
Inter-faith initiatives should focus on the practical, non-political task of building grassroots relationships, according to participants at an inter-religious symposium which ended on May 15 in Poland. "Such initiatives usually take place at a political level, and consist of panels of experts speaking to passive audiences," said Yehuda Stolov, founder and executive director of the Jerusalem-based Interfaith Encounter Association, which promotes peace in the Middle East and sponsors regular Palestinian-Israeli encounters. Read the story.
Two more provinces affirm Anglican Covenant
Anglican Church of Canada Web News
May 16, 2011
The Church of the Province of South East Asia and the Church of Ireland have affirmed the Anglican Covenant. On May 13 the Church of Ireland's General Synod voted to "subscribe" to the covenant and on May 8, South East Asia issued a letter of accession. The Church of Ireland, in its press release announcing the decision, noted that the General Synod chose the word "subscribe" over "adopt." "Subscribing the Covenant is an indication that the Church of Ireland has put its collective name to and aligned with it," read the statement. "The Covenant sits under the Preamble and Declaration of the Church and does not affect the sovereignty of the Church of Ireland or mean any change in doctrine." Read the story.
Artificial flooding brings out volunteers
Anglican Journal
May 14, 2011
The small Manitoba towns of Elie, Fairford, Newton and St. Francois Xavier are bracing themselves for the artificial flooding by Assiniboine River waters scheduled for today. But as they fear for their homes, shops, vegetable farm and ranches, their hopes and dreams, there’s one bright spot. People are coming together to help. In Newton, seven kilometers from the Hoop and Holler Bend, where the Assiniboine dike is expected to be breached, Michelle Dunbar, was deeply touched when 50 people braved rain and high winds to sandbag the home her late husband built for her. A truck brought the sandbags from a town two and half hours away. “The community has been wonderful, “ Dunbar told CBC News. She is a widow raising a nine-year-old granddaughter on her own. Read the story.
'I prayed to God for a mission'
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
May 13, 2011
Surrounded by the beautiful Kawartha Lakes, a popular destination for tourists, Peterborough, Ont., seems an unlikely hometown for people struggling to survive. And, indeed, most of the poverty is invisible, says the Rev. Cathy Stone, deacon of St. Barnabas Anglican Church in downtown Peterborough. “People are couch-surfing or they’re living in cottages that do not have running water or proper insulation.” Domestic violence, even in idealized rural areas, is a big issue, as Stone discovered when she and her husband, Ron, moved to Peterborough from Toronto in the 1990s. They had given up their executive recruitment business, and Stone, who was not yet ordained, got involved in community work with the Ontario Provincial Police. Read the story.
In Qatar, faith groups grow through Anglican centre
by Matthew Davies
Episcopal News Service
May 13, 2011
Friday evening in Qatar and the Islamic call to prayer echoes throughout the capital city Doha, but it's not just the Muslim community that is preparing for worship. In a section of Doha, in an expanding development that has come to be known as Church City, thousands of Christian migrant workers worship freely with the blessing of the Qatari authorities. Christianity in this Islamic state was once an underground religion, but today it thrives, thanks in part to people like the Rev. Bill Schwartz, an Anglican priest and an Episcopal Church missionary. Read the story.
Ecumenical projects in Nigeria to unite Christians and Muslims
by Obed Minchakpu
ENInews
May 13, 2011
Jos, Nigeria: An ecumenical organization, the Fellowship of Churches of Christ in Nigeria, said it plans to establish small business and agricultural enterprises that will bring Christians and Muslims together in the troubled north-central part of Nigeria, which seen recent religious conflicts. "We believe that projects jointly owned by Christians and Muslims cannot be destroyed because they belong to them ... and [would] bridge the relationship gap between them," Helen Philemon Haggai, co-ordinator of the fellowship's peace desk, told ENInews. Read the story.
Deadline approaches for Common Experience payment
Anglican Journal
May 12, 2011
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and Service Canada are reminding former Indian residential schools students that the deadline for applying for the Common Experience Payment (CEP) is this coming Sept. 19. The CEP is an element of the 2007 court-supervised Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement involving former students, the federal government and churches that administered the schools in the 19th century. The Anglican Church of Canada, which administered about three dozen schools, is a signatory to the agreement. Read the story.
Huron confers doctor of divinity on US presiding bishop
by Diana Swift
Anglican Journal
May 12, 2011
The Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church, received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Huron University College, London, Ont., as part of its May 5 theology convocation. Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, delivered the citation, and the Right Rev. Robert Bennett, Bishop of Huron, hooded Bishop Jefferts Schori. In a stirring go-get-’em address to convocation, the bishop likened the newly laureated students to Abraham and Sarah “going off to meet surprising people, in unknown communities, and encountering unforeseen challenges, simply because that’s where you’ve been called to go.” Read the story.
Anglicans aim for abuse-free churches
by Ali Symons
Anglican Church of Canada Web News
May 12, 2011
From June 23 to 26, an international Anglican conference will convene in Victoria, B.C., to explore how churches can be safer environments for vulnerable youth and adults. "Partnering for Prevention: Addressing Abuse in our Communion and in our Communities" is the second conference convened by the Anglican Communion Safe Church Consultation. "We cannot begin to pretend to serve people's spiritual selves when we are not providing sanctuary for their physical selves," said Marion Little, who is coordinating the conference along with the Rev. Mary Louise Meadow. Read the story.
Queen's visit to Ireland may 'heal divisions'
by Trevor Grundy
ENInews
May 11, 2011
Canterbury, England: Religious leaders are hailing Queen Elizabeth II's historic state visit to Ireland next week as a sign of reconciliation following centuries of sectarian hatred and violence. Arriving in Dublin on May 17 for a four-day visit, the queen will be the first British monarch to set foot in the republic since its founding in 1923 and the first to travel to Dublin since King George V in 1911. She is scheduled to visit Dublin's Garden of Remembrance, which honors those who died fighting to free Ireland from British rule. She also will visit Croke Park Stadium, where British troops killed 14 people in 1920, and attend a state dinner in Dublin Castle, long a symbol of British power in Ireland. Read the story.
Program addresses high suicide rate in Canada’s North
by Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal
May 11, 2011
Just as she was preparing to mail out information to the first group of Anglican participants taking an online suicide prevention course, Cynthia Patterson received a letter from a parishioner in an indigenous community in Eastern James Bay, Ont. A 15-year-old girl had hanged herself in her grandparents’ basement.
To Patterson, appointed coordinator of the Council of the North’s suicide prevention program in 2009, this only served to underscore the urgency of addressing the high incidence of suicide among the country’s aboriginal people. Read the story.
Guest reflection: Overcoming Our Rage
by The Rev. Dr. Gary Nicolosi
Anglican Journal
May 11, 2011
On Sunday night, May 1, the world got word that Osama bin Laden was dead—shot in the chest and head by a United States Navy Seal assassination team. Almost immediately crowds started to gather around the White House and in cities across America, celebrating the covert affair that successfully killed the architect of the worst attack on the United States in its history. At Annapolis, West Point, and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, cadets cheered, sang the national anthem, and chanted "U.S.A.!" College students around the nation did much the same thing. Read the story.
Christian-Muslim clashes in Egypt leave 12 dead
by Fredrick Nzwili
ENInews
May 10, 2011
Nairobi, Kenya: Christian and Muslim clashes in Egypt have left 12 people dead, 238 injured and two Coptic churches in Cairo burned, the state media reported. Faith and political leaders condemned the weekend violence, which was triggered by rumours that a woman who had converted to Islam was being detained at the sixth-century Coptic Church of St. Mena in the working-class neighborhood of Imbaba in northwest Cairo. It's the worst sectarian violence since protests in February overthrew Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's long serving president, and the clashes are presenting fresh challenges to the military-led government. Read the story.
Religious leaders urge Russians to heed lessons of World War II
by Sophia Kishkovsky
ENInews
May 10, 2011
Moscow: Patriarch Kirill I of the Russian Orthodox Church and Rabbi Berl Lazar, the chief rabbi of Russia, speaking at separate ceremonies on May 8 and 9, urged Russians to heed the lessons of World War II. The end of the war, known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War, is marked on May 9 in most of the other former Soviet republics as Victory Day over Nazi Germany. Soviet civilian and military deaths in the war are estimated at upwards of 20 million and the losses are still seared into memories here, even of those born long after the war. Read the story.
Historic Indigenous documentaries online
by Ali Symons
Anglican Church of Canada Web News
May 10, 2011
General Synod has released six documentaries of national Indigenous Sacred Circles for general viewing online. Since 1988, six Sacred Circle meetings have brought together hundreds of Indigenous Anglicans from across Canada to share experiences, celebrate the work of the spirit, and take steps toward self-determination. Historic moments are captured in each of the documentaries. The 1988 video includes powerful testimonies of former residential school students, some of who were sharing their stories in public for the first time. In the 1993 video, Archbishop Michael Peers, then Primate, apologizes for residential schools on behalf of the Anglican Church of Canada. In the most recent video, from 2009, Indigenous Anglicans chart a path for alternative governance structures. Read the story.
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