[ENS] DIOCESAN DIGEST - PENNSYLVANIA: Rector calls on bishop to 'sacrifice' for diocese / PEOPLE - B

>Episcopal News Service
>August 11, 2010

>Episcopal News Service is available at
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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PENNSYLVANIA: Rector calls on bishop to 'sacrifice'
for diocese
* PEOPLE - Bishop Peter Lee named interim dean at General Theological
Seminary
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS - August 15, 2010 - Twelfth Sunday After
Pentecost, Proper 15 - Year C
* DAYBOOK - August 12: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Why Haven't You Left? - Letters
from the Sudan"

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

PENNSYLVANIA: Rector calls on bishop to 'sacrifice' for diocese

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The rector of the historic Christ Church in
Philadelphia is urging Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Bishop Charles
E. Bennison to "prayerfully consider making the sacrifice of not
returning" to the diocese as bishop.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_124004_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Bishop Peter Lee named interim dean at General Theological Seminary

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee, former bishop of
Virginia and currently interim dean of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral,
has been named as interim dean of General Theological Seminary in New
York, according to a press release.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_123995_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>CALENDAR

A round-up of upcoming special events, services, concerts and diocesan
conventions taking place throughout the Episcopal Church is available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/calendar.htm

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>SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS

August 15, 2010 - Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 15 - Year C

>By the Rev. Susanna Metz

(RCL) Isaiah 5:1-7 and Psalm 80:1-2, 8-18 (Track 2: Jeremiah 23:23-29
and Psalm 82); Hebrews 11:29-12:2; Luke 12:49-56

[Sermons That Work] Hebrews and the gospel this week! Read them again
when you get home. Then read them again and again - maybe every day this
week - because if we could really understand and then take to heart
these two passages, we just might be convicted enough to open ourselves
to the fire of the Spirit and then to bring that fire to our church.

Jesus uses that exact image: "I came to bring fire to the earth, and how
I wish it were already kindled!" He's speaking to his disciples - the
ones who would have to take up his mission and message and make it known
to the rest of the world. Can you hear his frustration? "What stress I
am under until it is completed." Jesus knew he would not be among the
people much longer. Those religious leaders of the time, who had lost a
real sense of faithfulness, were already wondering how to get rid of
him. Their fire had long ago gone out and their hearts were set on their
own glory and not the glory of God.

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_123683_ENG_HTM.htm

More Spiritual Reflections:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On August 12, 2010, the church remembers Florence Nightingale, nurse,
social reformer.

* 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 August 12, 1827 William Blake, English poet and
artist, died. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake's work is
now considered a significant contribution to the history of both poetry
and the visual arts.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"Why Haven't You Left? - Letters from the Sudan" by Marc Nikkel,
paperback, 208 pages, Feb 2005, $20.

[Church Publishing] As a missionary in the Sudan, amid unrest and war
following Sudanese independence, Anglican priest Nikkel wrote these
quasi-public letters -- missionary epistles -- to his friends and
supporters back home in the USA. These letters present a vivid picture
of daily struggle in an impoverished, war-torn, but lavishly beautiful
country.

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