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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>October 7, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - NORTHERN MICHIGAN: Diocese to celebrate Tom Ray's
ministry as assisting bishop
* WORLD REPORT - UNITED KINGDOM: Archbishop and Youth Parliament
representative 'Value the Vote'
* MISSION - NetsforLife receives $1.34 million USAID grant
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - October 11 - Nineteenth Sunday After
Pentecost, Proper 23 - Year B
* DAYBOOK - October 8: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Feasting on the Word - Preaching the Revised Common
Lectionary - Year B, Volume 4

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

NORTHERN MICHIGAN: Diocese to celebrate Tom Ray's ministry as assisting
bishop

[Episcopal News Service] Retired Diocese of Northern Michigan Bishop
Tom Ray has become the assisting bishop of the diocese.

The diocese will celebrate its relationship with Ray during the
diocese's 114th annual diocesan convention October 30-31 when it meets
at St. Stephen's Church in Escanaba.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_115394_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

UNITED KINGDOM: Archbishop and Youth Parliament representative 'Value  the
Vote'

[Lambeth Palace] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams met October 6
with Victoria Fowler, a member of the U.K. Youth Parliament, to
discuss the Value the Vote campaign, which aims to incorporate
political education into the secondary education curriculum.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_115376_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

NetsforLife receives $1.34 million USAID grant

[ERD] NetsforLife, Episcopal Relief and Development's program
partnership to combat malaria, received a three-year, $1.34 million
grant for its work in Ghana from the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID).

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_115395_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

October 11 - Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 23 - Year B

(RCL) Job 23:1-9, 16-17 and Psalm 22:1-15 (Track 2: Amos 5:6-7, 10-15
and Psalm 90:12-17); Hebrews 4:12-16; Mark 10:17-31

>By the Rev. Kirk Alan Kubicek

[Sermons That Work] "Then who can be saved?" they asked Jesus.

How often we ask ourselves that very question. Oh yes, day to day we
put on a good face and project an image of confidence to the world
around us. Like the man in today's gospel reading who seeks Jesus to
ask how he might inherit eternal life, we like to believe we know all
the answers and have done all the right things.

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_115056_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On October 8, 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 October 8, 1882, Walter Russell Bowie, priest
and theologian, was born in Richmond, Virginia.

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>CATALYST

"Feasting on the Word - Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary - Year
B, Volume 4" from Westminster John Knox Press, edited by David L.
Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor, 347 pages, hardcover, c. 2009,
$39.95

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