Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Tuesday, October 2, 2007.
* 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 1808, Allen Chatfield, priest and hymn translator, was born at Catteris (Cambridgeshire), England.
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TEACHING
Society for the Increase of the Ministry celebrates 150 years of helping seminarians
[Episcopal News Service] The sesquicentennial celebration of the Society for the Increase of the Ministry (SIM) will take place October 2 at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, where three faculty members, including the college president, were among SIM's founders.
Participants of the celebration will include Arizona Bishop Kirk S. Smith, who will preach at a choral evensong in the college chapel; the Very Rev. Martha J. Horne, recently retired dean of the Virginia Theological Seminary, who will deliver the keynote address at the dinner; and Connecticut Bishop Andrew D. Smith, who will serve as host.
Founded in Hartford, Connecticut, SIM's aim was both to recruit clergy candidates and help in their education and training. Since 1857, SIM has provided more than $6.5 million in scholarship grants to more than 4,700 students.
As it celebrates 150 years, SIM is spearheading an initiative called Funding Future Leaders: A National Endowment for Episcopal Seminarians (FFL), to raise $200 million over the next 20 years. The money will provide $10 million in annual income for needs-based scholarship grants, which will help significantly, reduce the need for student loans.
Further information is available here at http://www.simministry.org and http://www.fundingfutureleaders.org.
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Catalyst: "Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light" from Random House, Inc., by Mother Teresa, edited and with commentary by Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., 404 pages, hardcover, c. 2007, $22.95
[Source: Random House, Inc.] During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of the sick, the dying, and thousands of others nobody else was prepared to look after has been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. Little is known, however, about her own spiritual heights or her struggles. This collection of her writing and reflections, almost all of which have never been made public before, sheds light on Mother Teresa's interior life in a way that reveals the depth and intensity of her holiness for the first time.
Compiled and presented by Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., who knew Mother Teresa for 20 years and is the postulator for her cause for sainthood and director of the Mother Teresa Center, Mother Teresa brings together letters she wrote to her spiritual advisors over decades. A moving chronicle of her spiritual journey -- including moments, indeed years, of utter desolation -- these letters reveal the secrets she shared only with her closest confidants. She emerges as a classic mystic whose inner life burned with the fire of charity and whose heart was tested and purified by an intense trial of faith, a true dark night of the soul.
Published to coincide with the 10th anniversary of her death, Mother Teresa is an intimate portrait of a woman whose life and work continue to be admired by millions of people.
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