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>Episcopal Life Daily
>January 26, 2009

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - FORT WORTH: Parker County Episcopalians participate
in landmark Eucharist
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Top Anglicans join criticism of BBC for not
airing Gaza appeal
* MULTIMEDIA - Washington National Cathedral hosts inaugural prayer
service
* MULTIMEDIA - Children of the Gospel Choir performs at inaugural prayer
service
* MULTIMEDIA - Presiding Bishop offers closing prayer at inaugural
prayer service
* OPINION - COMMENTARY: We are the hope we've been waiting for
* DAYBOOK - January 27, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Vestry Resource Guide, Revised Edition

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

FORT WORTH: Parker County Episcopalians participate in landmark
Eucharist

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopalians in Parker County, Texas, a part
of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth on January 18 participated in the
first Episcopal Eucharist ever openly celebrated in the county by a
female Episcopal Church priest.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_104376_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Top Anglicans join criticism of BBC for not airing Gaza appeal

>By Trevor Grundy

[Ecumenical News International, Canterbury, England] Archbishop of
Canterbury Rowan Williams and Archbishop of York John Sentamu have
joined in British condemnation of a decision by their national
broadcaster not to air a charity appeal for aid to Gaza.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_104373_ENG_HTM.htm

More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm

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>MULTIMEDIA

Multimedia is available at

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm

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Washington National Cathedral hosts inaugural prayer service

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Mary Frances Schjonberg reports on the
ecumenical inaugural prayer service at Washington National Cathedral.

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Children of the Gospel Choir performs at inaugural prayer service

[Episcopal News Service] Members of the Washington Performing Arts
Society Children of the Gospel Choir sing as the Obamas, Bidens and
Clintons listen during the National Prayer Service at Washington
National Cathedral January 21.

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Presiding Bishop offers closing prayer at inaugural prayer service

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
offers the closing prayer at the inaugural prayer service for President
Barack Obama.

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Multimedia is available at

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm

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>OPINION

COMMENTARY: We are the hope we've been waiting for

>By Dick Staub

[Religion News Service] I'm sitting at the Sundance Film Festival with
young filmmakers and theologians watching the memorable and historic
inauguration of Barack Obama. 

Here, film and politics -- two influential and powerful shaping forces
in American life -- are juxtaposed with my own personal third reality. I
live on a small island well within the reach of politics and media, but
out of their grasp.

Island life is relentlessly local and personal. Many of us came to the
island to leave behind the impersonal forces of American life.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_104367_ENG_HTM.htm

More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On January 27, 2009, the church calendar remembers John Chrysostom,
bishop of Constantinople (347-407).

* 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 January 27, 398, John Chrysostom was consecrated
bishop of Constantinople.

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>CATALYST

"Vestry Resource Guide, Revised Edition" from The Episcopal Church
Foundation, revised by Antoinette (Toni) Daniels & J. Ann Holtz, 80
pages, paperback, c. 2007, $12

[The Episcopal Church Foundation] Newly expanded, updated, and
redesigned, the Vestry Resource Guide is for both first time vestry
members as well as seasoned members who feel they need to review the
responsibilities of vestries. It is a collaboration of contributors and
advisors from all around the Episcopal Church. The new edition combines
the three previous volumes and examines topics such as the ministry of
the vestry, leading in a community of faith, origins and conflict,
stewardship and navigating transitions in clergy leadership.

To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800-903-5544 -- or visit your
local Episcopal bookseller, http://www.episcopalbooksellers.org

More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm

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