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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

>Episcopal Life Daily
>September 11, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Manhattan's St. Paul's Chapel a shrine to 9/11
* TOP STORY - Sudan peace, advocacy are top priorities for U.S.
Episcopalians
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - DALLAS: Second stockbroker-priest on leave pending
investigation
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - EAST CAROLINA: Former Seychelles bishop Santosh K.
Marray to assist diocese
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - NAVAJOLAND: Convocation planned for October 17
* WORLD REPORT - SOUTHERN AFRICA: Bishops acknowledge 'deep desire'
for unity, commitment to covenant
* PEOPLE - Jennifer Ernst named partnerships coordinator for Sudan
* ARTS - Cathedral artist interweaves many images
* DAYBOOK - September 14: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The Episcopal Musician's Handbook - Lectionary Year C - 2009 -
2010

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>TOP STORIES

Manhattan's St. Paul's Chapel a shrine to 9/11

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] Rain, at times heavy, and winds gusting
strong enough to turn an umbrella inside out didn't stop crowds of
visitors and mourners from standing vigil at Ground Zero on September
11 while the names of the dead were read out loud during the
now-traditional ceremony remembering those killed in the 2001
terrorist attack on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers.

Across the street at St. Paul's Chapel the Bell of Hope rang at 8:46
a.m. - the time eight years ago when the first of two hijacked planes
struck the towers. A Mennonite youth choir assembled in front of the
chapel and sang throughout the morning.

Immediately following the September 11, 2001 attack, St. Paul's, a
chapel of Trinity Church Wall Street, became a staging ground for
volunteers and relief workers. Today it is a shrine. Thousands of
people pass through the chapel in lower Manhattan daily on their way
to and from Ground Zero, where terrorists steered two planes into the
Twin Towers, destroying them and killing more than 2,700 people.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_114628_ENG_HTM.htm

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Sudan peace, advocacy are top priorities for U.S. Episcopalians

American Friends visit congressional offices, call for urgent action

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Efforts to build up partnerships with the
Episcopal Church of Sudan (ECS) and advocacy for Africa's largest
country have been bolstered in recent months with U.S. Episcopalians
recognizing the growing urgency to take action and ensure that the
fragile peace agreement doesn't collapse and plunge the country back
into civil war.

Among recent efforts by Episcopalians that support a lasting peace in
Sudan are two resolutions passed by the 76th General Convention, an
advocacy letter from 92 bishops to President Barack Obama, and a joint
letter by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and Sudan
Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.

Most recently, the American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan
hosted a September 10 symposium in Washington, D.C. that brought
together its board members, advocacy experts and Episcopal Church
leaders to gain a fuller understanding of the challenges in securing
peace in Sudan and to strategize on the most appropriate steps for
action.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_114611_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

DALLAS: Second stockbroker-priest on leave pending investigation

Diocese, seeking to restore confidence, issues more stringent
clergy-laity standards

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] A second stockbroker-priest in the Episcopal
Diocese of Dallas has taken a leave of absence from ministry at least
temporarily pending a diocesan investigation into alleged financial
improprieties involving parishioners.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_114655_ENG_HTM.htm

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EAST CAROLINA: Former Seychelles bishop Santosh K. Marray to assist diocese

[Diocese of East Carolina] Former Bishop of Seychelles Santosh K.
Marray will become an assisting bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of
East Carolina beginning in October.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_114617_ENG_HTM.htm

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NAVAJOLAND: Convocation planned for October 17

>Two candidates vy for leadership role

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church in Navajoland is poised
to, at an upcoming October 17 gathering, vote on its own leadership.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_114626_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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>WORLD REPORT

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Bishops acknowledge 'deep desire' for unity,
commitment to covenant

[Episcopal News Service] The bishops of the Anglican Church of
Southern Africa have issued a statement saying that there is a deep
desire among the bishops throughout the Anglican Communion to maintain
the bonds of unity and expressing their commitment to the exploration
of an Anglican covenant.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_114624_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Jennifer Ernst named partnerships coordinator for Sudan

[Episcopal News Service] Jennifer Ernst of the Episcopal Diocese of
Virginia has been appointed as the new coordinator of partnerships for
the Episcopal Church of Sudan (ECS).

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_114603_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>ARTS

>Cathedral artist interweaves many images

Interfaith Art Project highlights Philadelphia community's diversity

>By Jerry Hames

[Episcopal Life] For Zoe Cohen, it was the opportunity to create
something at her own initiative that first attracted her to the
one-year residency offered to artists by the Philadelphia Cathedral,
the Episcopal cathedral in West Philadelphia.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_114605_ENG_HTM.htm

More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On September 14, 2009, the church remembers Holy Cross Day.

* 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 September 14, 1847, Holy Eucharist was
celebrated by an Anglican priest for the first time in Mexico. On
September 14, Francis Scott Key, an Episcopalian and cofounder of the
American Sunday School Union, was inspired to write "The Star-Spangled
Banner" during the bombardment of Fort McHenry during the war of 1812.
The song became the national anthem in 1931.

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>CATALYST

"The Episcopal Musician's Handbook - Lectionary Year C - 2009 - 2010"
from The Living Church Foundation, Inc., edited by Joseph A.
Kucharski, 251 pages, paperback, c. 2009, $27

[The Living Church Foundation, Inc.] The 53rd Edition (Year C)
2009-2010 of the Episcopal Musician's Handbook provides church
musicians with a helpful guide and resource when choosing and
implementing various musical selections.  This book contains entries
from BOTH the Revised Common Lectionary and the Prayer Book
lectionary.

To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800-903-5544 -- or visit
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