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>Episcopal Life Daily
>November 11, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - Southern Ohio gets approval for same-gender
blessings as dioceses gather for annual sessions
* WORLD REPORT - AFRICA: Churches want new international engagement on  Sudan
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop's sermon to mark the passing of
the World War I generation
* WORLD REPORT - SCOTLAND: Churches worried about assisted suicide  'guidelines'
* PEOPLE - Karen Meridith appointed as director of Sewanee's Education
for Ministry program
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - November 15, 2009 - Twenty-Fourth Sunday
After Pentecost, Proper 28 - Year B
* DAYBOOK - November 12: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The Meaning is in the Waiting

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

Southern Ohio gets approval for same-gender blessings as dioceses
gather for annual sessions

>By Pat McCaughan and Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Authorizing same-gender blessings and
welcoming new congregations highlighted decisions in some of the nine
Episcopal Church dioceses that held annual policy-making gatherings
during the Nov. 6-8 weekend.

>Full story:

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

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>WORLD REPORT

AFRICA: Churches want new international engagement on Sudan

>By Fredrick Nzwili

[Ecumenical News International, Nairobi] Africa's largest church
grouping is calling for urgent international re-engagement on southern
Sudan, saying resettlement programs are failing and a fragile peace
pact is being flouted.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_116692_ENG_HTM.htm

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ENGLAND: Archbishop's sermon to mark the passing of the World War I  generation

[Lambeth Palace] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams preached in
Westminster Abbey on Armistice Day 2009, to mark the passing of the
veterans of World War I, as well as the whole generation whose lives
spanned the twentieth century.

The full text of the archbishop's sermon is available at
http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/2600 and the audio is available
at http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/media/audio/7/p/ABCs_sermon.mp3

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SCOTLAND: Churches worried about assisted suicide 'guidelines'

>By Trevor Grundy

[Ecumenical News International, Edinburgh] Leaders from Anglican,
Protestant and Roman Catholic churches have met Scotland's First
Minister Alex Salmond to discuss concerns about regulations on
assisted suicide in neighboring England and Wales.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_116697_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Karen Meridith appointed as director of Sewanee's Education for Ministry  program

[Sewanee] The School of Theology of Sewanee: the University of the
South has announced the appointment of Karen M. Meridith as director
of the Education for Ministry program. Meridith, who has extensive
experience in Christian education, most recently has been director of
operations for the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. Her
appointment is effective Jan. 1, 2010.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_116673_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>CALENDAR

A round-up of upcoming special events, services, concerts and diocesan
conventions taking place throughout the Episcopal Church is available
at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/calendar.htm

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>SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS

November 15, 2009 - Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 28 -  Year B

(RCL)1 Samuel 1:4-20 and 1 Samuel 2:1-10 (Track 2: Daniel 12:1-3 and
Psalm 16); Hebrews 10:11-14 (15-18) 19-25; Mark 13:1-8

>By the Rev. Dr. Joseph S. Pagano

In T. S. Eliot's poem, "The Four Quartets," he talks about going to a
church at Little Gidding, the site of a small Anglican religious
community founded in the seventeenth century. Eliot writes, "You are
not here to verify, instruct yourself, or inform curiosity or carry
report. You are here to kneel where prayer has been valid."

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_116272_ENG_HTM.htm

More Spiritual Reflections:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On November 12, 2009, the church remembers Charles Simeon, priest.

* 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 November 12, 1701, the Carolina Assembly passed
the Vestry Act of 1701, making the Church of England the official
religion of the Carolina colony. Active opposition by Quakers and
other religious Nonconformists who lived there ultimately convinced
the proprietors of the colony to revoke the act in 1703.

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>CATALYST

"The Meaning is in the Waiting" from Paraclete Press, by Paula Gooder,
137 pages, foreword by Lauren F. Winner, paperback, c. 2009, $14.99

[Paraclete Press] Advent is about learning to love the waiting...

Waiting is the primary lesson of Advent, says Paula Gooder. In the
company of the biblical characters with whom the candles on the Advent
wreath are traditionally associated, she helps us to discover very
different kinds of waiting:

* Abraham and Sarah -- who waited a lifetime for the fulfillment of
God's promises.

* The Hebrew prophets -- who waited for God's intervention, both
longed for and feared.

* John the Baptist -- whose ministry marked the end of one era and
anticipated the new.

* Mary -- whose life was shaped by waiting and by events beyond her  control.

The Meaning Is in the Waiting is arranged for daily reading in the
hectic run-up to Christmas. This thoughtful book will enable you to
grow more fully into a way of being that is expectant rather than
urgent, more focused on God's presence right now than on some imagined
future. You will venture on this journey in companionship with the God
who waits with us.

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