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October has been an eventful month for the Anglican Communion. A new Archbishop of Canterbury was announced, and GAFCON issued a communique in response, calling for an end to communion with the See of Canterbury. ...

St Peter’s Seafarers’ Church, the situated inside the newly renovated The Mariners, was recently dedicated and consecrated on the evening of 26th September.

The Ordination of Deacon for the Diocese of Western Kowloon took place on 21 September (Sunday, St Matthew’s Day) at St Andrew''s Church, where the Diocesan Bishop, the Most Revd Andrew Chan, ordained Ryan Muir as a deacon.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, I give thanks to God that I have this wonderful honour of introducing myself and my ministry to you in this short article.

The annual Dining with the Archbishop event took place on 6 September at All Saints’ Cathedral, attended by approximately 100 young members from the Diocese of Hong Kong Island, the Diocese of Eastern Kowloon, the Diocese of Western Kowloon, and the Missionary Area of Macau.

Fr Christopher John, Minister General of the First Order of the Society of St Francis, visited Hong Kong from 18 to 29 September this year.

The 13th Provisional Council of the Macau Missionary Area was held in the afternoon of 5 July at St Paul’s Church in Macau. The theme of this council was ‘The Missionary Diocese in Advent’.

Celebrating its 160th anniversary, St Stephen’s Church celebrated a Thanksgiving Eucharist on the afternoon of 28 June.

Thanks to the invitation of Fr Christopher John, Minister General of the First Order of the Society of St Francis, we travelled to Stroud, Australia, from 26 May to 1 June, to the Hermitage of St Bernardine, popularly known as the ‘Assisi of the South’. The visit became a week-long retreat, and an opportunity for us to experience Franciscan monastic life.

In my third year at university, I was doing an
exchange program in the Netherlands, enjoying a rich experience in academia and culture. One day, I received a text from Revd Matthew Lee saying, ‘are you interested? Do you have time?’ with an attachment of an introduction to the Anglican Communion Youth Network (ACYN) Creation Care Committee.