Episcopal Life Online Newslink December 11, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Continuing Episcopalians making plans to reconstitute Diocese of San Joaquin * WORLD REPORT - INDONESIA: Archbishop of Canterbury urges 'moral vision' on climate change * OPINION - Hail Mary surprise: We should share the prayers that console us
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TOP STORIES
Continuing Episcopalians making plans to reconstitute Diocese of San Joaquin Parishes can choose their future, canon to the ordinary says
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] Local leaders, along with those from the wider church, are already making plans for the continuation of the Diocese of San Joaquin following a vote to disassociate from the Episcopal Church.
Michael Glass, a San Rafael, California-based attorney who represents congregations and individual Episcopalians who wish to remain in the Episcopal Church, told Episcopal News Service (ENS) December 11 that he, local leaders, Chancellor to the Presiding Bishop David Booth Beers, and leaders from Episcopal dioceses surrounding San Joaquin "are coming together very soon to finalize our coordinated efforts to provide for the leadership needs, the legal and pastoral issues, and the financial concerns of our brothers and sisters in San Joaquin, and to provide for the continuation of the diocese."
The Rev. Robert Moore will meet with the group as well. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori appointed Moore "to provide an ongoing pastoral presence to the continuing Episcopalians in the Diocese of San Joaquin," said the Rev. Charles Robertson, canon to the Presiding Bishop.
Moore is the husband of Bishop Suffragan Bavi Edna "Nedi" Rivera of Olympia, the daughter of San Joaquin Bishop John-David Schofield's predecessor, Bishop Victor Rivera.
"The Presiding Bishop wants the people of San Joaquin to be assured of her prayers and also of her support in the coming days," Robertson said.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_92634_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
INDONESIA: Archbishop of Canterbury urges 'moral vision' on climate change http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_92600_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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OPINION
Hail Mary surprise We should share the prayers that console us
By Mary McWilliams
[Episcopal Life] My years of practicing and teaching massage therapy have included coaching clients and students through grounding techniques, and I've emphasized to them that grounding is not just a way to get back into your body after a massage, but also for keeping your head when life gets bumpy.
At no other time had this become more apparent to me than a couple of years ago when I had a breast MRI. Mind you, I wasn't concerned about the results. In my gut, I felt everything was okay. But given my mother's death to breast cancer and the density of my first mammogram, I appreciated my doctors' rather hypersensitivity and desire to eliminate any questions they had about my tests.
I'd had CT scans before and expected the MRI to be similar. I was planning to just lie back and take a nap. Not so, I soon found out. There would be loud noises, the technicians told me. Okay. I can handle noise.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_92619_ENG_HTM.htm
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