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Daybook -- Today is Friday, January 26, 2007, in Epiphany. The Church calendar remembers Timothy and Titus, companions of Saint Paul.
* 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 1985, George Lazenby Reynolds was elected as the ninth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. http://www.episcopaldiocese-tn.org/aboutus.htm
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Presiding Bishop to join religious leaders in meeting with Condoleezza Rice
[ENS] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will be part of a delegation of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim leaders in a January 29 meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about peace in the Middle East.
Jefferts Schori was one of 34 Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders who wrote (http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3654_81283_ENG_HTM.htm) to Rice December 12 asking for a meeting with her to discuss the "urgent situation in the Middle East" and calling on the United States to make peace in the region an "urgent priority."
The leaders, acting as the National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace in the Middle East (http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/international/interreligious.htm), issued a statement (http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/international/nilistatement.htm) the same day, saying that "as Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious leaders, our shared Abrahamic faith compels us to work together for peace with justice for Israelis, Palestinians and all peoples in the Middle East."
Quoting from the religious texts of all three faith traditions, the statement says that "building peace through justice is simultaneously an urgent human challenge and a gift of God."
The leaders expressed disappointment that the United States "did not more actively pursue the Road Map for Peace which we felt held great promise."
The leaders' statement is available from the Episcopal Public Policy Network as a bulletin insert at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3654_81287_ENG_HTM.htm.
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Catalyst: "Mozart: Rare Choral Works" from Gloriae Dei Cantores, performed by Gloriae Dei Cantores with Elizabeth C Patterson, Director, 2-CD Set, c. 2006, $29.99
[Source: Paraclete Press] -- In 2006 the world celebrated a major musical anniversary with the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Musicians and laymen alike have enjoyed the genius of Mozart through his superlative symphonies, operas, chamber and piano music. In addition, his Requiem, left incomplete at his death, remains one of the most beloved of sacred choral works.
Now, Gloriae Dei Cantores presents a rare look at a side of Mozart that is not so well known: his contribution to music for the Church. While he lived and worked in Salzburg, Mozart composed numerous masses, litanies, vespers services and motets. Gloriae Dei Cantores has selected a sampling of these works for Mozart: Rare Choral Works, a celebratory musical tribute honoring Mozart's birthday.
Included in this recording are two rarely heard major works of great beauty and invention: Davide Penitente K. 469 and the Litaniae de venerabili altaris Sacramento K. 243. David Penitente draws upon the psalms of David, both penitential and joyful, and uses the music of Mozart's Vienna Musician's Benevolent Society. The Litany for the Veneration of the Sacred Altar was used in Salzburg Cathedral, possibly for the feast of Corpus Christi and contains music of great imagination and color. Also included is a further litany, several motets and two of the famous church sonatas for small orchestra and organ, all giving a rounded picture of Mozart the sacred musician.
Mozart: Rare Choral Works will be a fascinating experience for all classical music lovers as well as those interested in a lesser-known side of the great genius.
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