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Primates plan pre-Lambeth in Jerusalem Global Anglican Future Conference announced By SUE CARELESS An eight-day Holy Land conference in mid-June is being scheduled just six weeks before the once-per-decade Lambeth bishops’ conference in Canterbury. Read more...
Parishioners at Stanley Mission in northern Saskatchewan prepare for a celebration of Confirmation, when over 50 of their youth will receive the laying-on-of-hands. TAP explores the meaning of this ancient rite.
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February 2008 Vol. 4. No.2
Pentecost, El Greco, 1596-1600. |
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Christ is not the light of individual consciences or of one theological system or another. The star that enraptured the magi shone for a few Persian sages but was significant for the whole of creation.
Photo: SA Gateway
By DION OXFORD Then the idea hit me--why not open our own laundry business, do our own linens and hire folks who live in our shelters to work there? We could offer life-skills and job coaching, a basic finances course, and teach a trade all at the same time.
Lent isn't just about sin - it's about our wholeness in Christ. None of the stories we will hear in the Gospel are about demons primarily; they are about us being saved from demons. That is, the Gospels are about our being set free from the spiritual forces of evil which we so often let rule in our minds and hearts.
Photo: K.B. Wales The Oakville native has just illustrated and written an unusual Bible picture book for children and adults. Paterson talks with Sue Careless about what inspires his work and his life.
Reviewed by PETER T CHATTAWAY Who could have foreseen that, as the year progressed, the films dealing with teen pregnancy, including Juno, would be increasingly bold in expressing their implicitly pro-life—not “anti-choice,” but certainly pro-life—sensibilities?
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January 2008 James I. Packer: Anglicans adrift Ron Csillag: Paul Ken Imai, a TAP Tribute R.I.P. Sue Careless: Art after the Incarnation
December 2007 Catherine Edward: What Child is This? Some Books the West Coast Recommends
November 2007 David Reed: CULTS: Dangerous Religion or Maligned Minority? Mouneer Anis: An Ambiguity of Non-Compliance Michael Hawkins: Deadly Sorrow: Accidie the sin we don't like to talk about
Autumn 2007 Margaret Avison (1918-2007): Leading Questions, a poem Raymond deSouza: The Dark Night of the Soul
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By SUE CARELESS An eight-day Holy Land conference in mid-June is being scheduled just six weeks before the once-per-decade Lambeth bishops’ conference in Canterbury.
Diocese of Recife withdraws from the more liberal Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil and joins the Southern Cone.
China prints 50 millionth Bible Staff China’s only authorised Bible publisher, Amity Printing, is set to become the world’s largest producer of Bibles and has just printed its 50 millionth Bible.
New Zealand parishioner saves church from fire By REBECCA PALMER A parishioner who extinguished a church fire with cushions and jugs of water says God must have been watching over the historic building till she got there.
Staff The former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has left the Anglican Church and converted to Roman Catholicism.
Muslims demand 'no-go' bishop resign Staff British Muslim groups have called for the resignation of the Pakistani-born Bp of Rochester after he claimed Islamic radicals had turned parts of Britain into "no-go" areas for non-Muslims.
Vatican: More exorcists to be trained Staff As the world has become more drawn to the occult, the Pope has ordered his bishops to train more priests as exorcists.
• Sanctuary seekers burned alive• Coke add called blasphemous • Fort Worth recommends joining Southern Cone• Christmas violence in India• Notorious bishop refuses to step down
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Photo: Sue Careless By ALEX NEWMAN Call it a rite of passage or a bred-in-the-bone tradition for cradle Anglicans like myself, but when your kids turn thirteen, something called Confirmation happens.
Photo: Sue Careless
By SUE CARELESS The Primate sent a letter to fellow Primates in the Anglican Communion “to dispel rumour” about what is happening in the national church regarding same-sex blessings.
By CHARLES LEWIS Canons are to lose titles and clergy will soon be required to renew more than just their usual ordination vows.
Criminal deaths alleged at residential schools Staff Some residential school survivors are alleging criminal deaths occurred at their schools and plan to detail their allegations when they appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
• Masters named general secretary of Common Cause • CBC rejects bookstore add
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By GAVIN DUNBARWhy is Easter so early this year? Easter is the pre-eminent moveable feast (that is not fixed on a civil calendar), in that once its date has been determined all other moveable feasts (Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity) are calculated in relation to Easter’s date. In the West we celebrate Easter on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the Spring Equinox. This means Easter could be celebrated as early as March 22nd, and as late as April 25th. Eastern Orthodox churches will celebrate Easter on April 28th as they base their calculations on the Julian Calendar while Western churches use the Gregorian Calendar. The good news in all of this is that we will have the longest Trinity Season this century.
Contrition: From the Latin contritus “ground to pieces.” It conjures up the image of the weight of one’s sin crushing the penitent. This ‘grief of soul’ is a necessary step in any true conversion of faith. David’s Psalm of Penitence (Psalm 51) is the model of Contrition for many Christians and is employed liturgically on penitential occasions. Martin Luther was suspicious that the Church, through encouraging contrite acts, would cloud the purity of Justification by Faith alone. He argued that a contrite heart was not created by the pious act of a Christian but was a sign that God’s prevenient grace was active in the life of the Christian convicting hearts of the need for repentance. Ultimately contrition is a grace that leads to greater restoration with God. “A broken and contrite heart, O God you will not despise.”
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Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. |
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