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>Episcopal Life Daily
>May 28, 2009

Episcopal Life Online is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Covenant working group named

* WORLD REPORT - SCOTLAND: Tutu gets standing ovation from Church of
Scotland after addressing gay issue
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Court begins to consider property issues in
Diocese of New Westminster
* MISSION - Episcopal Relief and Development sends emergency aid to  Pakistan
* PEOPLE - Bronwyn Clark Skov named program officer for lifelong
Christian formation and youth
* PEOPLE ? 'Padre Alberto' joins the Episcopal Church
* PEOPLE - Service set for Margaret Woolverton, who helped found
Women's History Project
* DAYBOOK - May 29, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Great Prayers of the Old Testament

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>TOP STORIES

>Covenant working group named

[Anglican Communion News Service] The text of the Ridley Cambridge
Draft of the propsed Anglican covenant received strong support at the
recent Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) meeting in Jamaica. However
concern was expressed that section 4 had not received the same degree
of provincial consideration that sections 1-3 had. ACC-14 proposed
that provinces be given time to consider section 4, that a small
working group be set up to consider adjustment to section 4 of the
text in the light of provincial responses, and to ask that group to
report to the Standing Committee before the end of the year.

The Archbishop of Canterbury and the secretary general have now
announced the names of the working group. They are:

>* Archbishop John Neill of Dublin (chair);

* Archbishop John Chew, primate of South East Asia;

>* Eileen Scully, Anglican Church of Canada;

* Bishop Gregory Cameron of St. Asaph in the Church in Wales and
former deputy secretary general of the Anglican Communion.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_108039_ENG_HTM.htm

More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife

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>WORLD REPORT

SCOTLAND: Tutu gets standing ovation from Church of Scotland after
addressing gay issue

[Ecumenical News International] During an address to the Church of
Scotland) General Assembly in Edinburgh, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said
that homosexuals have a place in the church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_108053_ENG_HTM.htm

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CANADA: Court begins to consider property issues in Diocese of New
Westminster

[Anglican Journal] The Supreme Court of British Columbia has begun
hearing arguments to decide who owns disputed church buildings and
resources: the Vancouver-based Diocese of New Westminster or parishes
that have left the Anglican Church of Canada.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_108045_ENG_HTM.htm

More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm

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>MISSION

Episcopal Relief and Development sends emergency aid to Pakistan

[Episcopal Relief and Development] The ongoing fighting between
Pakistan's military and the Taliban rebels has caused massive chaos,
violence and displacement in the country. According to USAID, more
than two million citizens have been forced out of their homes since
the fighting intensified in early May. The number of internally
displaced persons (IDPs) continues to increase at an alarming rate.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres,
claims that the current displacement crisis in Pakistan is the most
significant and fastest growing since the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_108037_ENG_HTM.htm

More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_ENG_HTM.htm

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>PEOPLE

Bronwyn Clark Skov named program officer for lifelong Christian
formation and youth

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine
Jefferts Schori has named Bronwyn Clark Skov as program officer for
lifelong Christian formation and youth.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_108059_ENG_HTM.htm

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>'Padre Alberto' joins the Episcopal Church

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Alberto Cutié, a Roman Catholic
priest known internationally as "Padre Alberto" on Spanish-language
radio and television, was received into the Episcopal Church May 28
during a ceremony held at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral  in Miami.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_108057_ENG_HTM.htm

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Service set for Margaret Woolverton, who helped found Women's History
Project

[Episcopal News Service] A memorial service will be held June 13 for
Margaret Ann Richardson Woolverton, who played a leading role in
promoting the study of women?s history in the Episcopal Church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_108033_ENG_HTM.htm

More People: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On May 29, 2009...

* 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 May 29, 1660, King Charles II triumphantly
entered London, marking the full restoration of the English monarchy.
Though Charles promised religious freedom, he cracked down on
Dissenters following a 1661 attempt by religious fanatics to overthrow
him.

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>CATALYST

"Great Prayers of the Old Testament" from Westminster John Knox Press,
by Water Brueggemann, 142 pages, paperback, c. 2008, $16.95

[Westminster John Knox Press] A number of moving prayers can be found
in the Old Testament and throughout Scripture. In this accessible
volume world-renowned scholar Walter Brueggemann offers his insight
and wisdom on twelve prayers in the Old Testament, listening to the
biblical text and explaining how these examples of ancient prayer can
make prayer come alive for us today. Among the prayers explored are
those by Abraham, Moses, Hannah, David, Solomon, Jonah, Jeremiah,
Hezekiah, Ezra, Nehemiah, Daniel and Job. The prayers in this volume
express joy and lament and show the depths of human experience and the
majestic grace of a loving God who hears everything and takes every
prayer to heart.

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