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>Episcopal Life Daily
>November 12, 2009

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Episcopal-Moravian full communion could offer mission  'riches'
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop pays tribute to 'influential'
work of the Mothers' Union
* MISSION - Rounding out worship: Seating helps churches enliven
worship, grow and offer hospitality
* DAYBOOK - November 13: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Songs in Waiting - Spiritual Reflections on Christ's
Birth - A Celebration of Middle Eastern Canticles

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>TOP STORIES

Episcopal-Moravian full communion could offer mission 'riches'

Presiding Bishop joins in dialogue of possibilities

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service -- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania] The process for
building a closer relationship between the Episcopal and Moravian
churches is taking place in the denominations' decision-making bodies,
but the realities of that work will bear fruit in their congregations
and beyond.

That was the consensus of a morning's worth of conversation and
worship Nov. 11 at the Moravian Theological Seminary here.

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Rev. Thomas Ferguson,
associate deputy to the Presiding Bishop for ecumenical and
interreligious relations, and the Rev. David Bennett, president of the
Moravian Church's Eastern District Executive Board talked for an hour
with a group of about 50 Episcopalians, Moravians and seminary
students of other denominations.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_116738_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Archbishop pays tribute to 'influential' work of the Mothers'  Union

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has
paid tribute to the work of the Mothers' Union, describing it as "the
most influential and widespread lay movement in the churches of the
communion, and probably among the most active lay groups in any
Christian denomination."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_116714_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

>Rounding out worship

Seating helps churches enliven worship, grow and offer hospitality

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] St. Paul's Episcopal Church "just felt so
strange" to Victoria Ellis when she first visited the Pomona,
California, parish a few years ago.

Not the liturgy; the seating. Gone were the once-standard
forward-facing stationary wooden pews. Instead, rows of linked
rust-colored fabric chairs encircled a 39-inch-diameter terra cotta
baptismal font, flanked by a portable lectern to the west and a
movable altar to the east.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_116715_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On November 13, 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 13, 354, Augustine of Hippo, author of
Confessions and City of God, was born in Thagaste.

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>CATALYST

"Songs in Waiting - Spiritual Reflections on Christ's Birth - A
Celebration of Middle Eastern Canticles" from Church Publishing, Inc.,
by Paul-Gordon Chandler, 108 pages, hardcover, c. 2009, $20

[Church Publishing, Inc.] There remains a constant need for new
perspectives on the liturgical church seasons in order to keep them
spiritually fresh and to bring them to life in new ways. This book
will enable Christian readers to experience a new depth in their faith
journey as they celebrate the season of Advent.

This is a short book of spiritual meditations for the Advent season on
the four "Middle Eastern" songs sung around the birth of Jesus:
canticles that play an important role in the liturgical worship of the
church over the centuries. These canticles include: the Song of Mary
(Magnificat), Song of Zechariah (Benedictus), Song of the Angels
(Gloria), and Song of Simeon (Nunc Dimittis). The devotions emphasize
the Middle Eastern cultural elements of these songs.

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