Episcopal Life Online Newslink April 11, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Earth Keepers encourage pharmaceutical collection for environmental protection * WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Archbishop of Canterbury to speak at news conference April 16 * WORLD REPORT - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: ERD supports communities affected by flooding * WORLD REPORT - KENYA: Archbishop urges Marsabit residents to embrace peace * WORLD REPORT - SRI LANKA: Anglican bishop hails unifying effect of cricket team * SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - April 15 - Second Sunday of Easter - Year C [RCL]
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TOP STORIES
Earth Keepers encourage pharmaceutical collection for environmental protection
By Phina Borgeson
[Episcopal News Service] Earth Keeper team member Kelly Mathews of Big Bay, Michigan, and her husband Chris recently cleaned out their medicine cabinets and found one bottle of prescription sinus medication that was 18 years old.
"I wonder how many people would just pop open the pill container and flush the pills down the toilet," asked Mathews, a 36-year-old Roman Catholic mother of two.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_84803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
CANADA: Archbishop of Canterbury to speak at news conference http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_84814_ENG_HTM.htm
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: ERD supports communities affected by flooding http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_84784_ENG_HTM.htm
KENYA: Archbishop urges Marsabit residents to embrace peace http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_84794_ENG_HTM.htm
SRI LANKA: Anglican bishop hails unifying effect of cricket team http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_84783_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS
Second Sunday of Easter - Year C [RCL]
Acts 9:1-20; Psalm 30; Rev. 5:11-14; John 21: 1-19
By Paul D. Allick
[Episcopal Life] Saul heard a voice from heaven. It was Jesus, whom he had been persecuting. It came suddenly, and a light from heaven flashed around him. The experience was so intense that Saul fell to the ground. The light was so strong that he was blinded. After his encounter with the light and the voice, Saul's life was changed forever. Like Jacob after wrestling with an angel, even his name was changed. At his baptism, Saul regained his sight and took his new name. Saul the persecutor became Paul the advocate. Voices from heaven change everything.
John heard voices from heaven. In fact John journeyed into heaven and saw it all. How he survived such a startling vision is surprising. John stood among the four living creatures, the angels, the elders - there were myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands. John heard them singing praises. And then he hears "every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea." Who could stand such glory? Who could endure the sound of everything that exists singing in full voice?
Full reflection: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_84763_ENG_HTM.htm
More Spiritual Reflections: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm
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