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>Episcopal Life Daily
>November 9, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - In Hong Kong, Anglican consultation addresses horrors of
human trafficking
* TOP STORY - Bulletin inserts for Nov. 15 remember life and ministry of
Samuel Seabury
* TOP STORY - Vatican releases Apostolic Constitution to welcome former
Anglicans
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - HAWAI'I: Diocese welcomes Micronesia with greetings
of 'ohana'
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - WEST TENNESSEE: Diocese's effort to feed Haitian
children enlists many faiths
* WORLD REPORT - SWEDEN: Lesbian priest ordained as Lutheran bishop of
Stockholm
* PEOPLE - Fairbanks priest Anna Frank honored for public service,
prison ministry outreach
* PEOPLE - First Pakistani woman priest ordained
* OPINION - Vatican's Apostolic Constitution explained
* DAYBOOK - November 10: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Seeing through God's Eyes - Daily Readings for Advent

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>TOP STORIES

In Hong Kong, Anglican consultation addresses horrors of human
trafficking

>By Margaret S. Larom

[Episcopal News Service, Hong Kong] Women and men from around the
Anglican Communion gathered in one of the most beautiful cities in the
world Nov. 2-6 to focus on the ugly billion-dollar trade in children.

The trafficking of human beings, though banned by international and
national laws, is flourishing, about 40 participants learned at a
consultation in Hong Kong. A seemingly insatiable desire for young women
and girls, and boys too -- for sex, for labor, for organs -- is fueled
by evil, by greed, by ignorance, by unbearable choices made in the name
of love, or as a last resort from desperate need.

The participants faced a barrage of statistics gathered by experts, and
listened with broken hearts to stories shared by wounded healers.
Sometimes aghast, sometimes inspired, they grew steadily more familiar
with the "what" and the "where" and the "who," but still could not
fathom the "why."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_116550_ENG_HTM.htm

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Bulletin inserts for Nov. 15 remember life and ministry of Samuel
Seabury

[Episcopal News Service] Each year on Nov. 14 the Episcopal Church
remembers the consecration and ordination in 1784 of Samuel Seabury as
the first bishop of Connecticut and first Episcopal Church bishop in the
newly formed United States of America. Episcopal Life Weekly bulletin
inserts for Nov. 15 mark Seabury's feast day with a brief history of his
life and ministry, carried out as the Episcopal Church established
itself after the Revolutionary War.

Also included in the bulletin inserts for Nov. 15 is a link to a survey
that will give readers an opportunity to weigh in on what they would
like to see in Episcopal Life Weekly bulletin inserts in the coming
year. The survey opened on Nov. 2 and will close Nov. 24.

Bulletin inserts are available at

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_17003_ENG_HTM.htm.

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Vatican releases Apostolic Constitution to welcome former Anglicans

[Episcopal News Service] The text of an Apostolic Constitution, that
outlines provisions to accept groups of former Anglicans who wish to
enter into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, was released
Nov. 9 by the Vatican.

The full text of Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus is
available on the Vatican website at
http://212.77.1.245/news_services/bulletin/news/24626.php?index=24626&p o
_date=09.11.2009&lang=en.

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

HAWAI'I: Diocese welcomes Micronesia with greetings of 'ohana'
Bishop notes historic roots between churches

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Robert Fitzpatrick said ohana-the
Hawaiian word for family-describes the way his diocese received news
that oversight for the Episcopal Church in Micronesia (ECIM), had
shifted to the Diocese of Hawai'i after the 76th General Convention.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_116566_ENG_HTM.htm

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WEST TENNESSEE: Diocese's effort to feed Haitian children enlists many
faiths

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee joined
with other Tennesseans Nov. 7 to pack more that 140,000 meals for hungry
children at St. Vincent's Center for Handicapped Children in
Port-au-Prince and St. Paul's School in Montrouis, Haiti.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_116560_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

SWEDEN: Lesbian priest ordained as Lutheran bishop of Stockholm

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The (Lutheran) Church of Sweden on Nov. 8
ordained a female pastor as Christianity's first openly gay female
bishop. Eva Brunne, 55, was elected in late May to be bishop of the
Diocese of Stockholm by a vote of 413-365 over Hans Ulfvebrand in the
second round of voting.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_116555_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

>First Pakistani woman priest ordained

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Dr. Khushnud Mussarat Azariah
shattered another barrier on Nov. 8 when, by way of the Diocese of Los
Angeles, she became the first Pakistani woman ordained to the
priesthood.

Azariah hoped her "miraculous" day sent a powerful message to women back
home.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_116565_ENG_HTM.htm

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Fairbanks priest Anna Frank honored for public service, prison ministry
outreach

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Ven. Anna Frank, archdeacon of the Interior
for the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska, was awarded the Alaska Federation
of Natives (AFN) President's Award for Public Service for her years of
public service and prison outreach ministry.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_116536_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>Vatican's Apostolic Constitution explained

>By Bill Franklin

[Episcopal News Service] The text of the new Apostolic Constitution for
former Anglicans entering into full communion with the Roman Catholic
Church has now been released. Pope Benedict announces a new path of
unity for Christians separated from the Roman Catholic Church in his
letter. He says: "This Apostolic Constitution opens a new avenue for the
promotion of Christian unity."

But the future of Christian unity foreseen in this text is found by
returning to the past. The document, "On the Groups of Anglicans," seems
to be a return to the philosophy of the 1928 papal encyclical Mortalium
Animos of 1928, "On Fostering True Religious Unity."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_116538_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On November 10, 2009, the church remembers Leo the Great, Bishop of
Rome.

* 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 10, 1889, Edwin Hatch, Anglican Old
Testament scholar, died in Oxford, England. Hatch was best known as the
author of the paper "Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the
Christian Church," which he presented during the 1888 Hibbert Lectures.

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>CATALYST

"Seeing through God's Eyes - Daily Readings for Advent" from Forward
Movement, by Cynthia Caruso, 47 pages, softcover, c. 2009, $3

[Forward Movement] Cynthia Caruso invites us to spend Advent looking at
our world the way God does in our 2009 book of Advent meditations,
asking us to "pretend you are God, walking through own town, our state,
our country, the world ... to look at the world as if you had created it
in love."

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