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>Episcopal Life Daily
>November 6, 2009

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Texas: thousands attend Fort Hood vigil for the dead,  wounded
* TOP STORY - Jerusalem bishop, partners aim to coordinate mission in
Middle East
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - Six dioceses gather to grapple with budget, canons
and celebrate mission
* WORLD REPORT - PAKISTAN: Church-run school burned down in suspected
terrorist attack
* MISSION - Holy Land's children are focus for St. Nicholas Day
* OPINION - Matching structure to mission
* ARTS - Music album raises money for Episcopal-Lutheran Gulf Coast
recovery efforts
* DAYBOOK - November 9: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The Womb of Advent

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>TOP STORIES

Texas: thousands attend Fort Hood vigil for the dead, wounded
Chaplain: 'remembering the young people who died'

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg and Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Mourners at a prayer vigil on the evening of
Nov. 6 filled a stadium at the Fort Hood Army Base near Austin, Texas,
where a day earlier a gunman killed 13 and wounded 31 military and
civilian personnel.

Lt. Col. Dave Scheider, an Episcopal chaplains stationed at the Texas
base, said the Fort Hood community was grieving, shocked, and
overwhelmed by sadness in the aftermath of Thursday's rampage.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_116529_ENG_HTM.htm
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Jerusalem bishop, partners aim to coordinate mission in Middle East

'Absence of genuine peace' presents ministry challenge to Christian  community

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The small Christian community that remains in
the Middle East is united in its effort to "witness to the living
Lord," Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem Bishop Suheil Dawani said this
week in New York.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_116528_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

Six dioceses gather to grapple with budget, canons and celebrate mission

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] As the Episcopal Church's fall diocesan
convention season continues, six dioceses gathered over the Oct.
30-Nov. 1 weekend.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_116444_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

PAKISTAN: Church-run school burned down in suspected terrorist attack

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] A historic girls' school run by the Church of
Pakistan was burned to the ground Nov. 3 in what is suspected to be
the latest act of terrorism against the Christian minority in the
predominantly Muslim country.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_116454_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Holy Land's children are focus for St. Nicholas Day

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] All Episcopalians, especially children, are
being asked to celebrate St. Nicholas Day on Dec. 6 this year by
showing concern for other children in the Holy Land and making an
offering to help brighten their future.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_116440_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>Matching structure to mission

We must listen to the Spirit and then respond to the call

>By Katharine Jefferts Schori

[Episcopal News Service] God does work in mysterious ways. There are
deep parallels between how God's mission to heal or reconcile the
world has proceeded in centuries past and how it proceeds today.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_116458_ENG_HTM.htm

More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm

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>ARTS

Music album raises money for Episcopal-Lutheran Gulf Coast recovery  efforts

[Episcopal News Service] Top artists from the worlds of country, folk,
blues, gospel and Cajun music have put their talents where their
hearts are in "Forgotten but Not Gone", a new album created to help
restore the homes, communities and dignity of tens of thousands of
Gulf Coast residents still displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_116467_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On November 9, 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 November 9, 1851, William Crosswell, priest and
hymnist, died in Boston, Massachusetts.

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>CATALYST

"The Womb of Advent" from Church Publishing, Inc., by Mark
Bozzuti-Jones, 114 pages, paperback, c. 2007, $13

[Church Publishing, Inc.] This talented and imaginative writer offers
a unique perspective on the season of Advent. Along with Scripture
readings and prayers, he offers four weeks of meditations that focus
on the growth of Jesus in the womb of Mary as he approaches the day of
his birth, learns his mother's voice, responds to the presence of
light and dark, and begins to position himself for birth. What does
this teach us about our own spiritual journey through Advent? That
waiting and preparation is essential to the Christian life. By
reflecting on our own birth experiences and Jesus's own progress
through the womb, Christians learn how to remain intimate with God,
how to approach the light, and how to get ready for new birth in
Christ.

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