Welcome to St Philip's

The Anglican Church of St Philip's O'Connor, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Services on Sunday: Holy Communion 8am and 10am. Wednesday 10am

Priest:(the Rev'd) Rebecca Newland. Ph 6161 7334, Fax 62307775, e-mail stphil@grapevine.com.au
PO Box 6022 O'Connor 2602
Wardens: Ruth McGorman-Mann, Denise Manley, Roger Sharp

Our Vision is to be a Christian, caring community
which embraces and honours difference
and offers a place to celebrate and grow spiritually.


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What does it mean to be an Anglican?

An old version of this page is at AnglicanOLD.html. (This includes a Graham Downie interview with Jane Shaw, linked at a Wikipedia site). This link was found through Statcounter.
Some links:

365 reasons to be an Episcopalian (or Anglican) from Louie Crew. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/365plus.html

http://stpatricks.episcopalatlanta.org/pass.html From the USA: how to pass as an episcopalian. (a U.S. Anglican).
The guide starts: "The first things other protestants notice about Episcopal worship services are our brief exercise periods or "Holy Aerobics." We stand at times, we kneel at others, and sometimes we even bow, genuflect and cross ourselves like Roman Catholics. Practices vary from church to church, and even among individual parishioners. If you stand when others kneel or don't bow when others do, most everybody will simply think, "that's the way he or she does it at their home Parish." No problem… In other words, just relax feel at home with us!"

http://www.gracechurchinnewark.org/macquarrieessay.htm What separates us from Roman Catholics? An essay by John Macquarrie from the website http://www.gracechurchinnewark.org/ Grace Church in Newark.
"I think that a great many Anglicans, even an overwhelming majority of them, will agree with me if I first of all answer the question by saying that, in a very real and important sense, nothing separates us from the Catholic Church. Anglicanism has never considered itself to be a sect or denomination originating in the sixteenth century. It continues without a break the Ecclesia Anglicana founded by St. Augustine thirteen centuries and more ago…"

and from the Bishop of California:
http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/archives/001126.html

An article from the USA on the divisions in the Anglican church. "Gay and lesbian issues serve, instead, as a smokescreen for the primary tensions concerning exclusion and power. The "homosexuality agenda," as conservatives call it, is used as a divide-and-conquer tactic, sometimes setting people of color against one another and confusing progressives as to who their allies are." Enlightening comments on the Episcopalian Church in the USA.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/21350/ originally from www.thewitness.org.

Official Anglican comment can be found at the Anglican News Service.

And from Melbourne http://www.media.anglican.com.au/ another source of Anglican news.

Interesting interview with Archbishop Frank Griswold (ex-Primate of the USA Epsicopalian Church) http://belief.net/story/162/story_16282.html
He says that the present controversy in the Anglican communion is more to do with right wing groups trying to get control of the generally more liberal episcopalian church in the USA. They are well funded and influence other parts of the world.

Anglican Links

http://anglicansonline.org/index.html

Anglican Cycle of Prayer

and Australia:
http://anglicansonline.org/world/aus.html (St Philip's is on this page)

pdf files are read with the free reader available at
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Old "calendars":
| Advent Calendar 2003 | Advent Calendar 2004 | Lenten Calendar 2004 | Lenten Calendar 2005 |
Advent Calendar 2005 | Lenten Calendar 2006 | Advent Calendar 2006 | Lent 2007 | Advent 2007 | Lent 2005/8