Please note that Church House except for the Anglican Book Centre bookstore will be closed between the end of the business day on Dec. 22 and 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, January 2.
The Joint Anglican Lutheran Commission announces a Hymn Text Competition to celebrate Six Years of Full Communion between the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.
Christmas has taken on a very special significance for Lois and I this year as we prepare to celebrate the nativity of our Lord with a new grandson. At Thanksgiving we travelled to Vancouver Island for a parish anniversary and to share in a dinner that the bishop had organized. One of the joys of visiting that part of Canada is that our son David, his wife Jillian and our granddaughter Jessica live there and so we were also able to share in Thanksgiving with them. Our son and daughter-in-law were expecting a child but sometimes our timing isn’t what God (and a baby) have in mind. I was thrilled that our dear little grandson Matthew Thomas Cameron Hutchison, arrived on Saturday October 7 at 11:48 AM, weighing in at 8 lbs. 14 oz. – two weeks before the due date. Lois was in tears to hear that they had chosen Thomas, as that was her father’s name.
The following statement was issued today by the Venerable Michael Pollesel, General Secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada.
General Synod has launched a new website — www.storiesoffaith.ca — to which you are invited to contribute.
Let us now dwell upon the things we have and know that are worthy of celebration. Advent is a time of preparation for the great joy of the birth of Christ. Let us look at the church where we live and contemplate what we have that gives us joy, or solace, or pride. Let us share that joy with each other this Christmas season.
The Ask & Imagine youth programs and Anglican youth initiatives got an early Christmas present this year.
In a new segment of the webcast +Andrew: Conversations with the Primate posted today, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison reflects on valuable lessons to be learned from the challenges of rural ministry. But these pale, the Canadian primate says, when considered in the context of ministry in the North, where the all the skills and resources of the church are challenged in a unique way.
As Christians we pray this day in the light of a global disaster the momentum of which has built for 25 years. Since the first appearance of the pandemic an estimated 65 million people have been infected with HIV, of whom 25 million have died. In 2005 alone an estimated 4.1 million people became infected with HIV and an estimated 2.8 million people have died of AIDS related illnesses. This pandemic has reached alarming proportions, affecting and infecting many who have not the knowledge or the personal autonomy to avoid transmission. It is now women and young people who face the highest rates of infection; the most vulnerable who bear the heaviest burden.