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>Episcopal News Service
>October 6, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORIES - Episcopalians join 10/10/10 global work parties
nationwide
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Restructuring announced at General Synod
offices
* PEOPLE - RPM Bowden, lifelong Episcopal churchman, dies at 80
* PEOPLE - Three elected to Episcopal Church Foundation board
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS - October 10, 2010 - Twentieth Sunday After
Pentecost, Proper 23 - Year C
* DAYBOOK - October 7: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Feasting on the Word Year A 
Volume
1: Advent Through Transfiguration"

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>TOP STORIES

Episcopalians join 10/10/10 global work parties nationwide

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] Flooding in Pakistan, record rainfall in 
Latin
America, the Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a 
dead
climate bill in the U.S. Senate -- severe storms and environmental
disasters have dominated headlines this year.

On Oct. 10 -- 10/10/10 -- millions of people, including Episcopalians,
will take actions, large and small, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions
and combat climate change by joining a Global Work Party.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_125014_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

CANADA: Restructuring announced at General Synod offices

Cuts to infrastructure aimed at achieving balanced budget for 2011

>By Leigh Anne Williams

[Anglican Journal] Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican 
Church
of Canada, met with General Synod staff on Oct. 5 to discuss major
infrastructure changes made to achieve a balanced budget for 2011.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_125002_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

RPM Bowden, lifelong Episcopal churchman, dies at 80

>By Nan Ross

[Diocese of Atlanta] RPM Bowden, a lifelong Episcopal churchman who
served as a deputy to 10 General Conventions and two terms on the
church's Executive Council, died Oct. 5 in Atlanta after an extended
illness. He was 80.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_124997_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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Three elected to Episcopal Church Foundation board

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church Foundation's board of
directors elected three new directors.
They are Judith Gaillard Jones, of Pacific Palisades, California; Mark
A. Jones, of Decatur, Georgia; and David S. Wasik, of Richmond,
Virginia.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_125008_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

October 10, 2010 - Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 23 - Year 
C

>By the Rev. James Liggett

(RCL) Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 and Psalm 66:1-12 (Track 2: 2 Kings 5:1-3,
7-15c and Psalm 111); 2 Timothy 2:8-15; Luke 17:11-19

[Sermons That Work] "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us." That's a good
prayer to know. The story of the ten lepers is really a story about 
life
and death. It is really a story about our lives, and about our deaths 
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and about the choices we have. It's a simple story, very familiar. But
it is easy to miss what is really going on.

We need to remember what it meant to be a leper. Being a leper meant
being worse than dead. Lepers were considered evil and unclean. They
were excluded from every part of community life. They could not live,
worship, eat, walk, or talk among "normal" people. They had to stay 
at a
distance from life and to survive, as best they could, on the leavings
and the charity of others. The horrible progress of their disease was
probably far from the worst thing they suffered. They had nothing, and
no hope, yet they could - from forty paces - watch the real world, and
real life, happen just outside of their reach.

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_124644_ENG_HTM.htm

More Spiritual Reflections:

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On October 7, 2010...

* 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 October 7, 1573, William Laud, archbishop of
Canterbury, was born in Reading, Berkshire. Laud was a fervent 
supporter
of King Charles I of England, whom he encouraged to believe in divine
right.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"Feasting on the Word Year A Volume 1: Advent Through Transfiguration"
from Westminster John Knox Press, edited by David L. Bartlett and
Barbara Brown Taylor, 472 pages, hardcover, c. 2010, $39.95

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