Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Wednesday, May 30, 2007. The Church calendar remembers Ember Day.
* 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 1819, Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta, wrote the famous missionary hymn "From Greenland's Icy Mountains."
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WEEKS AHEAD
Full calendar: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_1669_ENG_HTM.htm
Events
6/1/2007 >> GROSSE POINTE, Michigan: Antique Show
6/3/2007
>> ORKNEY SPRINGS, Virginia: Art and Soul: Nurturing your Spiritual Life through the Creative Arts
6/8/2007
>> LEWISBURG, Pennsylvania: Diocese of Central Pennsylvania to meet in convention >> SPECULATOR, New York: Diocese of Albany to meet in convention >> HENDERSONVILLE, North Carolina: Province IV 16th Annual HIV/AIDS Healing Retreat
6/9/2007
>> WASHINGTON, D.C.: Bread for the World Summit - Sowing Seeds: Growing a Movement
6/10/2007
>> HENDERSONVILLE, North Carolina: Making Disciples: Healing the World
6/11/2007
>> PARSIPPANY, New Jersey: Executive Council to meet
6/17/2007
>> WASHINGTON, D.C.: Cathedral celebrates the state of Florida
6/20/2007
>> MONTEAGLE, Tennessee: Annual Global Episcopal Mission Network gathering
6/21/2007
>> FORT THOMPSON, South Dakota: Annual Niobrara Convocation
6/22/2007
>> SEATTLE, Washington: Renovate: Episcopal Campus Ministry Conference 2007
6/23/2007
>> WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia: Legacies and Promise conference
6/25/2007
>> WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia: National Network of Episcopal Clergy Association conference
Music
6/1/2007
>> FORT WASHINGTON, Pennsylvania: Celtic Service
6/3/2007
>> SALEM, Oregon: An afternoon of Sacred Jazz >> THOUSAND OAKS, California: Vocal recital
6/7/2007 >> NEW YORK CITY: Music at Holy Trinity
6/9/2007
>> GALVESTON, Texas: Expressions of Praise - A Gospel Revue
Full calendar: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_1669_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "On the Road with Francis of Assisi: A Timeless Journey Through Umbria and Tuscant, and Beyond" from Random House, Inc., by Linda Bird Francke, 266 pages, paperback, c. 2007, $15.95
[Source: Random House, Inc.] From Assisi -- a small Umbrian town that now draws two million visitors a year, making it second only to Rome as an Italian pilgrimage destination -- Saint Francis crisscrossed Italy for 20 years. And so too does the author travel through the "green heart" of Italy to hill towns and cities such as Siena, Bologna, Venice, Gubbio, and Rome, and to the many mountaintop Franciscan sanctuaries from La Verna and Le Celle di Cortona in Tuscany to the Rieti Valley.
Along the way, Francke movingly depicts the many miracles Francis performed and draws us into the splendid beauty of the landscape that inspired the saint's love for nature and regard for all living things. Unlike Francis, however, whose asceticism caused him to add ashes to his food to deaden its earthly pleasure, Francke and her husband indulge in the fabled Umbrian cuisine, from wild boar to the region's famed black truffles, and the incomparable local wines.
On the Road with Francis of Assisi embraces the spirit and person of its legendary subject, and invites the reader to marvel at his spiritual intensity and follow in his footsteps through the timeless beauty of Italy.
To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at http://www.episcopalbookstore.org or call 800-903-5544.
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