Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Tuesday, April 10 in Easter Week. The Church calendar remembers William Law, priest (1686-1761).
* 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 this day in 1905, Joseph Fletcher was born in Newark, New Jersey. Fletcher was an Episcopal priest who founded the theory of situational ethics in the 1960s and was a pioneer in the field of bioethics. http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83028_ENG_HTM.htm
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Teaching: 2007 Haiti Connection Conference set for Miami
[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Jean Zache Duracin of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti will be among clergy and lay leaders attending the 2007 Haiti Connection Conference April 23-25 at the Wyndham Miami Airport Hotel in Florida.
The primary focus of the conference will be the mission and ministry of Episcopal and Presbyterian outreach efforts, with emphasis on health care, development, and education.
Since the May 2005 gathering in Miami Beach "much has happened [and] much remains to be done," conference planners say.
Presentations on health care in Haiti, institutional church involvement, and primary and secondary education will be made by speakers including Duracin; Abagail Nelson, vice president for Program at Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD); Pix Mahler, Presbyterian Church USA; and Don Tetlock, Church World Service.
Registration for the three-day event is $275 which includes the cost of meeting rooms, five meals, and coffee breaks, and helps to defray the cost of bringing the Haitian delegation to Miami.
For more information visit: http://www.haiticonnection.org.
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EDUCATION
Fresh Start program experiences a 'fresh start'
[Episcopal News Service] With a change in lead agencies and new coordinators, the Fresh Start program is undergoing a "fresh start."
Fresh Start -- a diocesan-led program that seeks to foster healthy relationships among clergy, their congregations and their dioceses during critical periods of transition in clergy leadership -- is sponsored, governed and partially funded by a collaboration of four organizations: the office for Ministry Development; the Church Deployment office; the Episcopal Church Foundation, and the CREDO Institute, Inc.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_84730_ENG_HTM.htm
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General Seminary trustees to consider new seven-floor building
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] At its May meeting, the trustees of the General Theological Seminary (GTS) will consider a new plan for the redevelopment of Chelsea Square that includes a seven-story mixed-use residential building on Ninth Avenue and a five-story administration building to be constructed on 20th Street.
Ward B. Ewing, GTS dean, announced in an April 3 news release that the trustees' executive committee will strongly recommend that the full board approve the plan at its meeting May 14-15.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_84731_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "Mass in B Minor" from Harmonia Mundi, by Johann Sebastian Bach, 2 CDs, $37.98
Collegium Vocale, conducted by Philippe Herreweghe
With soloists Johannette Zomer, Veronique Gens, Andreas Scholl, Christoph Pregardien, Peter Kooy, and Hanno-Muller-Brachmann.
[Source: Harmonia Mundi] The Mass in B minor is the consecration of a whole life: started in 1733 for 'diplomatic' reasons, it was finished in the very last years of Bach's life, when he had already gone blind. This monumental work is a synthesis of every stylistic and technical contribution the Cantor of Leipzig made to music. But it is also the most astounding spiritual encounter between the worlds of "Catholic glorification" and the "Lutheran cult of the cross." No other Mass, no other Requiem was ever again to reach such sublime summits. Instead of suffering from its heterogeneous qualities, the Mass in B minor turns them into the ultimate and most perfect expression of an architectural form that was 'dreamed, imagined, and finally realized.'
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