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Daybook -- Today is Friday, October 27, 2006.
* Today in Scripture: Daily Office meditation: http://www.forwardmovement.org/todaysreading.cfm * Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm * Today in History: On this day in 1977, Texas Bishop Milton Richardson was elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Church Pension Fund. http://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_numbe r=77367
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Diocesan Digest
ALASKA: Juneau man pleads guilty to Episcopal church arson http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_78967_ENG_HTM.htm
CONNECTICUT: FBI investigating church music director http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_78978_ENG_HTM.htm
EASTERN MICHGAN: First bishop says farewell, second bishop addresses convention http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_78963_ENG_HTM.htm
KANSAS: Bishop tells convention to persevere in diversity http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_78989_ENG_HTM.htm
UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA: Diocese called to continue 'healthy church initiative' http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_78992_ENG_HTM.htm
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World Report
CONGO: Ugandan priest is first foreign bishop to be consecrated in province http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_78983_ENG_HTM.htm
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Multimedia: Bishop Suheil Dawani speaks about recent developments in the Middle East
[ENS] The Rt. Rev. Suheil Dawani was consecrated bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem in January 2006 and will officially take office as diocesan bishop in 2007.
While visiting the United States October 2006, he spoke with Episcopal News Service about recent developments in the Middle East and how they have impacted the lives of the Palestinian people. Dawani also shared his vision and hopes for the future as he begins to lead the diocese in these challenging times.
Video and audio streams of Dawani's interview are available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_59911_ENG_HTM.htm.
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Catalyst: "The Saint Helena Psalter" from Church Publishing, Inc., by The Order of St. Helena, 242 pages, hardcover, $20
[Source: Church Publishing, Inc.] -- For several years, the sisters of The Order of St. Helena, a monastic community in the Episcopal Church, have been revising their services of worship. The primary goal of the revision is opening up the human vocabulary of prayer and expanding the ways in which we name and worship God.
This version of the Psalter, based upon the translation in the Book of Common Prayer, softens the exclusively male Hebrew terminology for the Creator God and recasts texts in ways that avoid the need for a he (or she) personal pronoun.
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