Episcopal Life Online Newslink June 20, 2007
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* TOP STORY - June 24 bulletin insert features Latin American Ministries * DIOCESAN DIGEST - NEWARK: Assisting Bishop plans to finish book, spend time with youngest daughter * DIOCESAN DIGEST - SAN DIEGO: Diocese files suit against three parishes over property * DIOCESAN DIGEST - SOUTH CAROLINA: Youth group responds to firefighter deaths * DIOCESAN DIGEST - SOUTHEAST FLORIDA: Episcopal minister leads mission to establish church * DIOCESAN DIGEST - WASHINGTON, DC: Episcopal-founded school plans expansion * DIOCESAN DIGEST - WASHINGTON, DC: Cathedral's 'dreamers and believers' celebrated in new exhibit * WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Primate urges Synod members to embrace 'ethic of respect' * WORLD REPORT - NIGERIA: Christian Association elects new president to succeed Akinola * SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - Fourth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 7) - Year C [RCL]
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TOP STORIES
Episcopal Life This Week: Bulletin Insert for June 24, 2007
The Latin American Ministries of the Episcopal Church -- advanced by its Spanish-speaking members, congregations and dioceses -- are rich with spiritual and cultural heritage and growth. Learn about Latin American Ministries in the Episcopal Life This Week bulletin inserts.
Bulletin inserts are available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_8852_ENG_HTM.htm
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
NEWARK: Assisting Bishop plans to finish book, spend time with youngest daughter http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_87097_ENG_HTM.htm
SAN DIEGO: Diocese files suit against three parishes over property http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_87096_ENG_HTM.htm
SOUTH CAROLINA: Youth group responds to firefighter deaths http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_87093_ENG_HTM.htm
SOUTHEAST FLORIDA: Episcopal minister leads mission to establish church http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_87095_ENG_HTM.htm
WASHINGTON, DC: Episcopal-founded school plans expansion http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_87094_ENG_HTM.htm
WASHINGTON, DC: Cathedral's 'dreamers and believers' celebrated in new exhibit http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_87075_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
CANADA: Primate urges Synod members to embrace 'ethic of respect' http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_87090_ENG_HTM.htm
NIGERIA: Christian Association elects new president to succeed Akinola http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_87104_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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SPIRITUAL REFLECTION
Fourth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 7) - Year C [RCL] 1 Kings 19:1-4, (5-7), 8-15a or Isaiah 65:1-9; Psalm 42-43 or 22:19-28; Galatians 3:23-29; Luke 8:26-39
By Ken Kesselus
[Episcopal Life] Last December, after a Fort Worth, Texas, policeman was killed in the line of duty, his family spent a gut-wrenching week, planning and attending the funeral and having many conversations with those whose lives had crossed that of their loved one. When all was said and done, this young officer's mother realized that one story moved her more than any other. Two days after his death, one of her son's colleagues working his old beat arrested a crack-using, trouble-making, small-time crook who was well-known by all of the police who patrolled there. Cuffed and standing in front of a patrol car, the arrested man said he had heard that one of them had been killed and asked who it was. After learning his name, the man fell to his knees sobbing. After he finally regained control of himself and was in the car, the officer asked what was wrong with him. He cried, "That cop was the only one who ever showed me any respect."
The character of this police officer mirrors the value of respect for all others to which St. Paul points in today's Epistle reading. "There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus."
We are saved and freed by God's love, graciously poured out to us, despite our being sinful and undeserving. It is God's gracious love that unites us with Christ. It is our union with Christ that unites us to all other human beings. It is this union that dissolves the potential divisiveness of human distinctions. It is this union with Christ that breaks down whatever walls of separation we arbitrarily create among people.
Full reflection: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_86947_ENG_HTM.htm
More Spiritual reflections: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm
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