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>Episcopal News Service
>March 8, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - Three bishops-elect receive church's consent for  ordination
* WORLD REPORT - NEW ZEALAND: New cathedral consecrated in New Plymouth
* PEOPLE - Choral master Richard Proulx remembered for more than five
decades of musical 'genius' ... and in performances to come
* PEOPLE - The Rev. David Tarbet remembered as for seeking 'the Gospel
in people' and ways to serve
* DAYBOOK - March 9: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "The Great 50 Days - The Daily Office from Easter to  Pentecost"

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

Three bishops-elect receive church's consent for ordination

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Bishops-elect in the dioceses of Los Angeles,
Louisiana and Upper South Carolina have received the required consent
of the wider church for their ordinations and consecrations.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_120144_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

NEW ZEALAND: New cathedral consecrated in New Plymouth

>By Lloyd Ashton

[Anglican Taonga] When St. Mary's Church, New Plymouth was consecrated
on March 6 as a full-fledged cathedral -- the first new Anglican
cathedral in New Zealand in more than 80 years -- Bishop Philip
Richardson, of the Taranaki region of the Anglican Diocese of Waikato,
spoke of his hopes for a new beginning.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_120121_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Choral master Richard Proulx remembered for more than five decades of
musical 'genius' ... and in performances to come

>by Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Prolific composer and choral master Richard
Proulx, who wrote his first composition at age 8 and whose musical
career spanned more than five decades among Episcopal, Roman Catholic
and Jewish congregations from Chicago to Washington, died last month,
but colleagues and friends said March 8 that he will live on through
his music.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_120149_ENG_HTM.htm

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The Rev. David Tarbet remembered as for seeking 'the Gospel in people'
and ways to serve

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Colleagues, family and friends celebrated the
Rev. David Tarbet's life by attending a March 6 party already planned
for what would have been his 69th birthday.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_120159_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On March 9, 2010, the church remembers Gregory, bishop of Nyssa.

* 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 March 9, 1995, the Committee for a New Dialogue
on Sexuality met at General Theological Seminary in New York City.

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>EBAR PICK

"The Great 50 Days - The Daily Office from Easter to Pentecost" from
Church Publishing, Frank Tedeschi, editor, 400 pages, paperback, c.
2007, $18

[Source: Church Publishing] Like its companion volume, 40 Days, this
book is intended to be an accessible, doable, toe-in-the-water
introduction to the private recitation of the daily office. It will
contain rite two Morning and Evening Prayer from the Book of Common
Prayer, the Psalter as prescribed and edited for each day from Easter
morning through the Day of Pentecost, the collects, and all bible
readings (New Revised Standard Version) for the two-year lectionary
cycle. The Prayer Book services of Order for Noonday and Compline
(close of day) will also be included for readers who find those times
more suitable for praying an office. Readings, prayers, and psalms
will be included for the major holy days that often fall in Easter
season, including the Annunciation and St. Mark.

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