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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>August 24, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Honolulu church marks 50th anniversary of
Filipino-American ministry
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Kairos calls attention to arrests of
Palestinian activists
* WORLD REPORT - SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Town diocese requests pastoral
guidelines for gay members
* OPINION - Women's ordination: not all consequences were positive
* DAYBOOK - August 25: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Mary's Hours: Daily Prayers with the Mother of God

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>TOP STORIES

Honolulu church marks 50th anniversary of Filipino-American ministry

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The 50th anniversary of the birth of
Filipino-American ministry in the Episcopal Church was marked August
22-23 with a weekend of celebrations in Honolulu, Hawai'i.

About 600 people turned out for events at the Hilton Hawaiian Village
Resort and services at St. Paul's Church, where the first
Filipino-American Eucharist was held in August 1959, coinciding with
Hawai'i achieving its U.S. statehood.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_113678_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

CANADA: Kairos calls attention to arrests of Palestinian activists

>By Leigh Anne Williams

[Anglican Journal] Kairos, an ecumenical social justice organization,
is encouraging Canadians to support people who live in the Palestinian
West Bank village of Bil'in who are known for their non-violent
protests but have recently faced military raids and arrests.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_113673_ENG_HTM.htm

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SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Town diocese requests pastoral guidelines for gay  members

[Anglican Church of Southern Africa] The Anglican Diocese of Cape
Town, meeting in synod August 22, supported a resolution asking the
bishops of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa to provide pastoral
guidelines for gay and lesbian members living in "covenanted
partnerships," whilst "taking due regard of the mind of the Anglican
Communion."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_113672_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

Women's ordination: not all consequences were positive

>By Alda Marsh Morgan

[Episcopal News Service] It is interesting to me, as a theologically
educated lay woman and a former lay woman church worker, that the
observations of the 35th anniversary of women's ordination (see
Episcopal Life Online story here
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81840_112947_ENG_HTM.htm) are positive.
There was nothing from the critics of the action and, while there was
acknowledgement that much remained to be done, nothing to suggest that
not all the consequences of 1974 and 1976 were positive.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81840_113679_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On August 25, 2009, the church remembers Louis, King of France  (1214-1270).

* 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 August 25, 325, The First Council of Nicea
closed. Nicaea's First Council was convened in Nicaea in Bithynia
(present-day Iznik in Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I.

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>CATALYST

"Mary's Hours: Daily Prayers with the Mother of God" from Church
Publishing, Inc., by Penelope Duckworth, 151 pages, hardcover, c.
2009, $20

[Church Publishing, Inc.] A contemporary book of daily prayers,
scripture, and meditations organized in a week-long cycle of devotion
to God through the life of the Virgin Mary.  Organized upon the joys
and sorrows of the Marian Rosary, this prayer book encompasses the
life of Mary as she followed her son and experienced her own
discipleship.  It gives those who use it a deeper appreciation of the
life of the woman, traditionally recognized as first among the saints,
who has been cherished as a soul friend to Christians since the
beginning of the church.

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