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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

>Episcopal Life Daily
>June 19, 2009

Episcopal Life Online is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Panel discusses church's response to plight of world's
refugees in live webcast
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PENNSYLVANIA: Historic bell a feature of new
seafarers' chapel
* PEOPLE - Texas lay leader appointed chief counsel to Federal
Aviation Administration
* PEOPLE - Sister Priscilla celebrates 45 years of diaconal ministry
* ARTS - Artists-in-residence find creative homes in churches and  cathedrals
* DAYBOOK - June 22: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Bruckner - Mass No. 3 in F Minor

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>TOP STORIES

Panel discusses church's response to plight of world's refugees in live
webcast

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] Noorhan Khairalla wept as she shared the
story of her 10-year journey from Baghdad, first to Jordan, and then
to Wilton, Connecticut, during a panel discussion on refugee ministry
held June 19 in the chapel at the Episcopal Church Center in New York.

"First I left a great part of myself in Iraq," said Khairalla through
a translator. "The most precious thing in my life, that was my
parents, I left them behind. I left Iraq because I was afraid for the
lives of my children and my husband because of threats we had received
. I left my precious country and went to Jordan to be a refugee."

Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) hosted a live webcast Eucharist
and panel discussion focused on the plight of refugees to mark World
Refugee Day, June 20.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_110878_ENG_HTM.htm

More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

PENNSYLVANIA: Historic bell a feature of new seafarers' chapel
By Jerry Hames

[Episcopal News Service, Philadelphia] A long-lost bell from a
floating chapel for seamen who worked on ships at Philadelphia's port
160 years ago was rededicated on June 18, along with a new chapel that
serves today's seafarers.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_110880_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Texas lay leader appointed chief counsel to Federal Aviation  Administration

>By ENS Staff

[Episcopal News Service] David Grizzle, a choice for General
Convention lay deputy from the Diocese of Texas and a former vice
president for Continental Airlines, has been appointed by President
Barack Obama to serve as chief counsel to the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA). Grizzle was sworn in June 15.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_110876_ENG_HTM.htm

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Sister Priscilla celebrates 45 years of diaconal ministry

>By Phina Borgeson

[Episcopal News Service] Sister and friends gathered in the chapel of
the Community of the Transfiguration, Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 18 to
celebrate Sister Priscilla Jean Wright's forty-five years of service
in the diaconate. She is believed to be the last deaconess in the
United States serving as a deacon today. Her dual vocation, of sister
and deacon, reflects the deep roots of women's ministry while
responding to changing times.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_110874_ENG_HTM.htm

More People: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_ENG_HTM.htm

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>ARTS

>Inspired and inspiring

Artists-in-residence find creative homes in churches and cathedrals

>By Jerry Hames

[Episcopal Life] James Tinsley recalls biking up steep Cedar Street in
Berkeley, California, four years ago when he stopped to catch his
breath. "I heard the sound of a pipe organ," he said, "and I had the
experience to know that it was an exceptionally [good] sounding
instrument. And it was in tune!"

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_110822_ENG_HTM.htm

More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On June 22, 2009, the church calendar remembers Alban, first martyr of
Britain.

* 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 June 22, 1535, Roman Catholic John Fisher was
beheaded at the Tower of London. Fisher was the only bishop who did
not sign a document that declared Henry VIII of England's marriage to
Catherine of Aragon unlawful. On June 22, 1559, Queen Elizabeth's Book
of Common Prayer was issued (a revision of Second Prayer Book of
Edward VI).

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>CATALYST

"Bruckner - Mass No. 3 in F Minor" from Harmonia Mundi, by Anton
Bruckner, CD, 55:56 playtime, c. 2008, $19.98

[Harmonia Mundi] The Mass in F minor marks a turning point in the life
of Bruckner, then aged 44: crowning his long years of apprenticeship,
it announces the series of masterpieces he went on to compose during
his years in Vienna. The work illustrates the transition between a
certain religious academicism and the Wagnerian heritage, while also
reflecting a profoundly fragmented personality, to whom Philippe
Herreweghe has already devoted three critically acclaimed recordings.

>Track list:

>1. Kyrie
>2. Gloria
>3. Credo
>4. Sanctus
>5. Benedictus
>6. Agnus Dei

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