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>Episcopal News Service
>February 2, 2010

Episcopal News Service is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens.

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - ENS Weekly bulletin inserts for Feb. 14 mark World Mission  Sunday
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: 'Jesus wouldn't want bishops in House of
Lords,' says critic
* WORLD REPORT - ZIMBABWE: Persecuted Anglicans stage prayer protest
* MISSION - Episcopal Partnership for Global Mission launches social
networking site
* OPINION - Top 10 iPhone apps for organizing a priest's life
* DAYBOOK - February 3: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - EBaR Pick: Pilgrim Road: A Benedictine Journey through Lent

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>TOP STORIES

ENS Weekly bulletin inserts for Feb. 14 mark World Mission Sunday

[Episcopal News Service] The church's work around the world is as
important as its work around the corner. To increase awareness of --
and participation in -- the wider global mission of the church, the
last Sunday in Epiphany is designated as World Mission Sunday.
Episcopal News Service Weekly bulletin inserts for that day - Feb. 14
- outline the day's theme, World Mission and the Environment, and
includes information about companion diocese relationships, one of the
most important avenues for mission in the Episcopal Church and the
Anglican Communion.

The full text of the insert is below. Additional resources for World
Mission Sunday, including posters in English and Spanish, are
available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/wmsunday.

Bulletin inserts may be downloaded at

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

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: 'Jesus wouldn't want bishops in House of Lords,' says critic

>By Trevor Grundy

[Ecumenical News International, London] If Jesus were on earth today,
he would ask why the Church of England still has 26 of its bishops in
U.K.'s unelected upper chamber of parliament, the House of Lords, a
British commentator on Christian affairs has said.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_119072_ENG_HTM.htm

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ZIMBABWE: Persecuted Anglicans stage prayer protest

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Anglicans in Zimbabwe's Diocese of Harare
held an open-air prayer meeting on Sunday, Jan. 31, in protest of the
ongoing persecution from local police that has prevented them from
worshipping freely in their own church buildings.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_119071_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Episcopal Partnership for Global Mission launches social networking site

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Partnership for Global Mission,
a network of global mission organizations and activists, recently
launched a new website with a social networking component to provide a
platform for mission enthusiasts to connect with one another.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_119060_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

Top 10 iPhone apps for organizing a priest's life

>By Michael Pipkin

[Episcopal News Service] As priest-in-charge of a growing church, I am
in good company with many of my colleagues when it comes to finding a
happy balance between work, family and everything else that life
throws at us.

The church is a sometimes-frenetic place that often doesn't fit well
into our culture's 9 to 5, Monday through Friday paradigm. How do we
find time to help out with grocery shopping, house cleaning, plan for
vestry meetings and worship, manage staff, read and respond to 100+
e-mails a day, spend time with our children, plan a great adult
education program, spend meaningful time with our spouse, and
cultivate a rich spiritual life that feeds?

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_119074_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On February 3, 2010, the church remembers Anskar, archbishop of
Hamburg, missionary to Denmark and Sweden.

* 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 February 3, 1980, David Henry Lewis, Jr. was
consecrated suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.

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>CATALYST

EBaR Pick: "Pilgrim Road: A Benedictine Journey through Lent" from
Church Publishing, Inc., by Albert Holtz, O.S.B., 178 pages,
paperback, c. 2006, $11

[Church Publishing, Inc.] In the view of St. Benedict of Nursia, the
Lenten journey is an inner pilgrimage with Christ into the deepest
parts of ourselves, to be marked not so much by external observances
such as fasting and self-denial as by a deepening of our relationship
with God.

Benedictine monk Albert Holtz develops that journey theme through
meditations written during a 15-country pilgrimage during a sabbatical
year. At the heart of each reflection is the lesson it teaches about
our inner spiritual journey.

By applying Benedict's monastic wisdom to the everyday concerns and
aspirations of modern Christians, Pilgrim Road helps contemporary
spiritual seekers keep Lent as a positive, meaningful, and fruitful
experience.

To order, please visit Episcopal Books and Resources online at
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, call 800-903-5544, or visit your
local Episcopal bookstore.