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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>September 23, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - SOUTH CAROLINA: State Supreme Court rules in
long-running Pawley's Island case
* WORLD REPORT - AFRICA: High-level leadership consultation addresses
HIV/AIDS, related MDGs
* WORLD REPORT - JAPAN: Presiding Bishop preaches at Evening Prayer
celebrating church's 150th anniversary
* WORLD REPORT - JAPAN: Archbishop of Canterbury preaches for church's
150th anniversary
* MISSION - Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue commission issues
communiqué
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - September 27, 2009 - Seventeenth Sunday After
Pentecost, Proper 21 - Year B
* DAYBOOK - September 24: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Breathe. See. Nourish. Energize. A Pathway to Healing

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

SOUTH CAROLINA: State Supreme Court rules in long-running Pawley's  Island
case

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The South Carolina Supreme Court has
overturned a lower court decision in favor of the minority of the
members of the parish of All Saints, Waccamaw in Pawley's Island,
South Carolina who remained loyal to the Episcopal Church and the
Diocese of South Carolina.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_114921_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

AFRICA: High-level leadership consultation addresses HIV/AIDS, related  MDGs

[CAPA] The Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA), the
coordinating body of the Anglican Church in Africa, held a September
1-2 consultation in Nairobi, Kenya, that brought together former
African heads of state, religious leaders and non-governmental
organizations to discuss the effects of and responses to HIV/AIDS in
Africa in the context of the United Nations Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs).

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_114896_ENG_HTM.htm

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JAPAN: Presiding Bishop preaches at Evening Prayer celebrating
church's 150th anniversary

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
preached September 22 at a service of Evening Prayer, held in the
Tucker Hall on the Rikkyo University campus in Tokyo, as part of the
150th anniversary celebrations of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Anglican
Church in Japan.

The full text of the Presiding Bishop's sermon is available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_114895_ENG_HTM.htm.

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JAPAN: Archbishop of Canterbury preaches for church's 150th anniversary

[Lambeth Palace] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams preached at
the September 23 Holy Eucharist to celebrate 150 years of Nippon Sei
Ko Kai, the Anglican Church in Japan.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_114894_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue commission issues communiqué

[ACNS] The International Commission for Anglican-Orthodox Theological
Dialogue met in Chania, Crete, from Tuesday, September 15 to Sunday,
September 20, 2009, as guests of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, at the
Metropolis of Kydonia and Apokoronos.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_114916_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>CALENDAR

A round-up of upcoming special events, services, concerts and diocesan
conventions taking place throughout the Episcopal Church is available
at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/calendar.htm

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>SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS

September 27, 2009 - Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 21 -  Year B

(RCL) Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22, Psalm 124 (Track 2: Numbers 11:4-6,
10-16, 24-29 and Psalm 19:7-14); James 5:13-20; Mark 9:38-50

>By the Rev. Ken Kesselus

[Sermons That Work] In today's gospel, we hear the intriguing story of
Jesus' disciples trying to stop a man who had been casting out demons
in Jesus' name. They seem to have become especially upset because the
offender was not one of them. In the eyes of the disciples, he was not
part of the inner circle, and he was acting differently from what they
considered to be the norm.

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_114563_ENG_HTM.htm

More Spiritual Reflections:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On September 24, 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 September 24, 1867, 76 bishops from all over
the Anglican Communion met at Lambeth Palace for the first Lambeth
Conference.

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>CATALYST

"Breathe. See. Nourish. Energize. A Pathway to Healing" from Church
Publishing, Inc., by Frances Murchison,139 pages, paperback, c. 2008,
$20

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health practices, this practical guide blends the growing interest in
spirituality and health with the examples set by Jesus, who encouraged
his followers to embrace a life marked by physical healing, emotional
wholeness, and spiritual abundance?moving people from physical pain to
enlightenment and spiritual revelation.

The book offers the four key principles?breathe, see, nourish and
energize -- as a daily living practice for readers to begin nurturing
themselves both from the outside in, and the inside out. The book also
offers techniques to help readers apply these principles in their
dayto- day lives.

A chapter is devoted to each of the four disciplines within the title.
Each chapter describes the practice, placing it firmly and logically
within the context of scripture. Throughout the discourse, the author
shares stories of how people have encountered, struggled, and
succeeded with the different elements of each practice. She also
demonstrates how this overall process can lead to physical, mental,
and spiritual transformation.

Spiritual exercises, along with scripture passages, provide handy
encouragement for readers to begin readily incorporating these
disciplines into their lives.

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