Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Tuesday, July 17, 2007. The Church calendar remembers William White, Bishop of Pennsylvania (1748-1836).
* Today in Scripture:
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm * Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm * Today in History: On this day in 1996, David Hogan, a composer whose Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis Mt. St. Alban were commissioned for the consecration of Washington National Cathedral, was killed in the explosion of TWA flight 800 to Paris. _____________________
TEACHING
Annual Jonathan Daniels and All Martyrs of Alabama pilgrimage set for August 11
[ENS] The ninth annual Jonathan Myrick Daniels and Martyrs of Alabama Pilgrimage honoring Daniels and others, who lost their lives during the civil rights movement, will take place August 11 in Hayneville, Alabama.
Daniels was the 26-year-old Episcopal seminarian who answered the call of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to help register African-American voters in Alabama, only to be shot and killed months later, on August 20, 1965, while shielding a then 16-year-old Ruby Sales from the shotgun fired as she attempted to enter a store to buy something to drink.
Addressing this year's assemblage will be Dr. Tommie "Tonea" Stewart, an acclaimed actress, professor, and director of the theatre department at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama. Stewart is best known for her role as Aunt Etta in the television series "In the Heat of the Night."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_88170_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "The Night Offices - Prayers for the Hours from Sunset to Sunrise" from Oxford University Press, by Phyllis Tickle, 460 pages, hardcover, c. 2006, $28
[Source: Oxford University Press] In The Night Offices, Tickle offers the perfect complement to The Divine Hours, the first major literary and liturgical reworking of the sixth-century Benedictine Rule of fixed-hour prayer. This volume brings together prayers, psalms, hymn texts, religious poetry and other readings not included in the original trilogy and covers the offices for the hours from late evening (Compline) to early morning (Prime). Those who appreciate The Divine Hours will recognize Tickle's simple, elegant format, her use of a modern calendar rather than a liturgical one, and the single ribbon in the binding, to track one's progress through the year.
As in the trilogy, Tickle makes primary use of the Book of Common Prayer and the writings of the Church Fathers, and she draws all the scriptural readings from the Revised Standard Version. The book includes a set of Matins, Lauds, and Prime specific to each day of the week and varied only by month. Thus, the Monday reading for January would be used every Monday in January, but Monday in February would have new offices for it. The cumulative total, being 84 Matins, 84 Lauds, and 84 Prime (252 offices), fits neatly into a single, nightstand edition, a small, compact book that can be comfortably held in the hand.
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