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>Episcopal News Service
>October 14, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Council on Foreign Relations hosts Sudanese ecumenical 
delegation
* TOP STORY - Ecumenical sanctions imposed on Southern Cone province
* PEOPLE - Retired New Hampshire Bishop Philip Alan Smith dies at 90
* PEOPLE - Southern Ohio Bishop Breidenthal to deliver DuBose Lectures
* OPINION - Miners' rescue: A miraculous triumph of the human spirit,
By Frank Logue
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS - October 17, 2010 - Twenty-First Sunday After
Pentecost, Proper 24 - Year C
* DAYBOOK - October 15: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "The Interior Castle"

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>TOP STORIES

Council on Foreign Relations hosts Sudanese ecumenical delegation

Religious leaders raise alarm on referendum issues

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Raising awareness of the volatile situation
in Sudan and encouraging high-level advocacy and support ahead of the
Jan. 9 referendum on independence were the focus of a panel discussion
hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations at its New York mid-town
headquarters.

Moderated by Linda Watt, chief operating officer of the Episcopal
Church and a CFR member, the Oct. 14 panel was comprised of ecumenical
religious leaders from Sudan, including Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul of
the Episcopal Church of Sudan.

The leaders are visiting the U.S. intent on raising alarm bells about
the future of Africa's largest nation, which many fear may plunge back
into civil war if action does not continue from the international
community as southerners in Sudan prepare to vote on whether to secede
from the north or remain a unified country.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_125190_ENG_HTM.htm

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Ecumenical sanctions imposed on Southern Cone province

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, secretary
general of the Anglican Communion, has written to Bishop Tito Zavala
of Chile informing him that his membership on the Inter Anglican
Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO) has been
withdrawn and inviting him instead to serve as a consultant to that
body.

The decision, announced Oct. 14 by the Anglican Communion Office, was
made because the primate of the Argentina-based Province of the
Southern Cone, under whose jurisdiction Zavala's diocese falls, failed
to respond to Kearon's request for clarification about his involvement
in cross-border interventions.

Southern Cone Archbishop Gregory Venables has offered oversight to
conservative members of parishes and dioceses breaking away from the
Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada. Venables and
Zavala could not be reached for comment.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_125183_ENG_HTM.htm

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>PEOPLE

Retired New Hampshire Bishop Philip Alan Smith dies at 90

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Philip Alan Smith, seventh
bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, died Oct. 10 in
Alexandria, Virginia, following a brief illness. He was 90.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_125185_ENG_HTM.htm

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Southern Ohio Bishop Breidenthal to deliver DuBose Lectures

>By Richelle Thompson

[Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio] Bishop Thomas E. Breidenthal of
Southern Ohio has been invited to deliver the prestigious DuBose
Lectures at the School of Theology at Sewanee: The University of the
South, an Episcopal seminary in Tennessee.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_125115_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

Miners' rescue: A miraculous triumph of the human spirit

>By Frank Logue

[Episcopal News Service] "Chi, Chi, Chi, le, le, le," a popular
Chilean expression of celebration, came the miners' cry rising from
the depths of the earth and the depths of the human spirit. Not one
life was lost among 33 rescued miners, trapped longer and deeper than
any miner ever to survive a cave-in.

As the eyes of the world fixed on the rescue mission at a camp called
Hope in the midst of a wasteland, there seemed to be two ways to view
the story. Either the world was witness to a miraculous answer to
prayer or we had seen a triumph of human ingenuity, spirit and will.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_125184_ENG_HTM.htm

More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_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 17, 2010 - Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 24 - 
Year C

>By the Rev. Kirk Alan Kubicek

(RCL) Jeremiah 31:27-34; Psalm 119:97-104; 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5; Luke 
18:1-8

[Sermons That Work] Today's psalm, Psalm 119, gives us 176 ways to say
the same thing: "Happy are those who walk in the way of the Lord," and
"Oh, how I love your law!" and "All the day long, it is in my mind."
At 176 verses, it is the longest of all psalms. It consists of 22
eight-line stanzas, each stanza beginning with a sequential letter of
the Hebrew alphabet. It is an astonishing exercise in puzzle working,
poetry, and praise.

Psalm 119 calls for the kind of continued learning Paul commends in
his letter to Timothy. As a subject of our recitation and meditation,
it offers an entrance into a life of continued, endless prayer. So
Jesus tells a story to underscore our need to pray always and not lose
heart. It is what Paul elsewhere commends: "pray without ceasing."

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_124741_ENG_HTM.htm

More Spiritual Reflections: 
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On October 15, the church remembers Teresa of Avila, nun.

* 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 15, 1881, William Temple, archbishop of
Canterbury, was born in Exeter, England.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"The Interior Castle" from Paulist Press, by Teresa of Avila, 225
pages, paperback, c. 1979, $21.95

[Paulist Press] This 16th-century Spanish mystic is considered one of
the most profound spiritual teachers in the history of Christianity.
Father Kieran Kavanaugh, the editor of the volume, says in his
introduction, "The Interior Castle has come to be regarded as Teresa's
best synthesis...If asked to single out one work as her masterpiece,
most of those acquainted with the Teresian writings would probably
choose The Interior Castle." Teresa received the image of the whole
book in a vision on Trinity Sunday, 1577. An early biographer says
that she beheld "a most beautiful crystal globe like a castle in which
she saw seven dwelling places, and in the seventh, which was in the
center, the King of Glory dwelt in the greatest splendor."

The Second Vatican Council pointed out that by penetrating the
revealed message the Christian mystics enrich our comprehension of it
an thievery contribute to the Church's living tradition. Among the
mystics, St. Teresa of Avila holds a unique position as a witness to
divine realities. Her common sense, humor, and penchant for everyday
images liven her writings; but she is above all remarkable for her
analytical abilities in proving the mystery of God's workings in the
soul. On September 27, 1970, Pope Paul VI proclaimed Teresa a Doctor
of the Church. During the ceremony the pope spoke of her as a teacher
of "marvelous profundity."

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