Diocesan Synod - 23-26 April in Greenwood, SC, hosted by St. Andrew’s. The Clergy Retreat, conducted by Fr. Jerry McKenzie, from Cortez, CO, begins after lunch on Wednesday, April 23 and ends before lunch on Thursday April 24. The Clericus begins after lunch on Thursday April 24. Friday morning the 25th is the Chrism Mass and Friday afternoon is the Business Meeting, with the Banquet on Friday evening.

The program for the Anglican Church Women will begin on Wednesday, April 23 after lunch with a Liturgical Sewing Workshop and continue until lunch on Thursday, April 24 with an Altar Guild Workshop, both conducted by Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan, Directress Emeritus of the Albany Diocesan Altar Guild in New York. The ACW luncheon and General Meeting are on Thursday April 24.

Our Banquet Speaker this year will be the Rev. Canon Arthur Middleton, sometime Rector of Boldon and Canon Emeritus of Durham Cathedral in England. At St. Chad’s College in Durham, Canon Middleton has been a Tutor, a member of the College Council and Acting Principal. He is an experienced lecturer, retreat conductor and prolific writer. His books are Towards a Renewed Priesthood, The Peculiar Character of Anglicanism, Fathers and Anglicans: The Limits of Orthodoxy, The Spirit of Anglican Devotion in the 16th – 17th Centuries, Prayer in the Workaday World, Catholic or Protestant – Essential Anglicanism and Restoring the Anglican Mind (2008). He has completed three lecture tours in Canada and Australia and will be doing another lecture tour in Australia in the Autumn 2008. He and his wife Jennifer have two grown sons.

Also coming from England is the Rev. Canon Geoffrey M. Neal, the Ouse Regional Dean under the Bishop of Richborough in Forward in Faith/UK, and one of the founders of FiF. Canon Neal served with us in Marshall and Winchester, Virginia, from 1995 to 2000 and in 1998 encouraged us to become involved in FiF, which led the following year to involvement in Scandinavia. He is now working with Canon Middleton and a host of others in the Anglican Alliance to build up an awareness of what our Anglican patrimony is – the gifts we bring to the rest of the Body. The Neals live in Bedfordshire and have four children.

Those not in the Diocese of the Holy Cross who wish to attend all or any part of the Synod, e-mail afdv1@yahoo.com or phone 610-415-9788 for a registration packet.

Summerville - Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas meeting for officers and voting members, Tuesday, April 8, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., at the RE Diocese of the SE Headquarters.

Hyattstown (Montgomery County) – Holy Family Parish is hosting a Saturday, May 24 meeting of all orthodox Anglican parishes of what could be called the Anglican Fellowship of the Susquehanna Valley – parishes around New Holland, Lancaster, York, Gettysburg and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and around Frederick, Hyattstown, Gaithersburg, Joppa, Havre de Grace, Baltimore, Annapolis, Easton and the East Shore of Maryland. All orthodox bishops, clergy and laity of the various jurisdictions are invited for Morning Prayer at 10:30 a.m. followed by a catered meal and a meeting to get to know each other as fellow Anglicans in the region, and to begin to do more together, with action points on building up our fellowship. There will be a small charge, and we can adjourn by 2:30 p.m. Holy Family has an excellent facility for this, just off I-270, between Frederick and Gaithersburg. Visit their website at http://holyfamilymontgomeryparish.org. The next Fortnightly on March 8 will feature an on-line registration. Meanwhile please copy this Fortnightly notice to everyone you know who might be interested.