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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

>From Episcopal News Service

Daybook, January 6, 2006 - Friday Forum

Epiphany: Listening, learning to mark new series

(ENS) - Recalling the Magi bringing gifts from distant lands and across
diverse cultures, today's Feast of the Epiphany marks the opening of
a new series of Episcopal News Service articles reflecting facets of
listening and learning around the worldwide Anglican Communion.

Shaping this series is the sense of discovery and new realization inherent
in the concept of "epiphany" - also the name of the liturgical season
into which the Church Year enters today and continues through February
28, before Lent commences on Ash Wednesday, March 1.

Highlights of the series will include reports leading up to the Anglican
Women's Empowerment meetings in New York February 24th to March 8th in
conjunction with the 50th anniversary session of the United Nations
Commission on the Status of Women. For more information see the AWE
website at: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/uncsw.htm and the UNCSW
website at: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/

Also featured will be coverage of companion relationships linking Anglican
provinces and dioceses, and the work of the Episcopal Church's Office
of Anglican and Global Relations, including its call to congregations
to observe February 26, 2006, as World Mission Sunday.

It is further hoped that the series will prove useful to the Listening
Process reaffirmed in 2005 by the Anglican Consultative Council for the
purpose of heightening understanding among the Communion's 38 member
provinces.

The ENS series will begin Monday, January 9, and will provide one new
article each business day for the next eight weeks. As always, ENS
welcomes readers' comments and story leads, which may be forwarded by
e-mail to news@episcopalchurch.org.

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