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>Episcopal News Service
>April 23, 2010

Episcopal News Service is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens.

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - VERMONT: Diocese receives EPA Environmental Merit  Award
* WORLD REPORT - SINGAPORE: Global South Anglicans call for action  against 
Episcopal Church, Anglican Church of Canada
* DAYBOOK - April 26: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Celtic Twilight 7: Sacred Spirit"

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

VERMONT: Diocese receives EPA Environmental Merit Award

>By Anne Clarke Brown

[Diocese of Vermont] Members of the Diocese of Vermont's Earth Stewards  
Committee accepted an Environmental Merit Award from the New England  Office of 
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at a ceremony at  Boston's Faneuil 
Hall on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, April 22.

The annual EPA awards recognize "outstanding environmental advocates who  have 
made significant contributions toward preserving and protecting our  natural 
resources," according to a letter from Curtis Spaulding,  director of the EPA's 
New England Office.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_121842_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

SINGAPORE: Global South Anglicans call for action against Episcopal  Church, 
Anglican Church of Canada

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] A communiqué issued April 23 at the end of  the Fourth 
Anglican Global South to South Encounter in Singapore called  on Anglican 
Communion provinces to "reconsider their communion  relationships" with the 
Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal  Church.

The communiqué said the two provinces must show "genuine repentance"  for 
actions that it said show they "continue in their defiance as they  set 
themselves on a course that contradicts the plain teaching of the  Holy 
Scriptures on matters so fundamental that they affect the very  salvation of 
those involved."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_121838_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On April 26, 2010, the church remembers Saint Mark.

* 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 April 26, 1992, Episcopal Church of Our Savior  and 
Community Center opened in the heart of Manhattan's Chinatown - the  first new 
Episcopal Church building in the City of New York in more than  30 years.

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>EBAR PICK

"Celtic Twilight 7: Sacred Spirit" music CD. 12 musical selections.  $16.98.

[Valley Entertainment] Celtic Twilight 7: Sacred Spirit weaves a Celtic  knot 
of sacred music from antiquity to the present. The central feature  of the 
Celtic worldview is the intimate relationship of humans with the  natural 
world--"a holy intimacy between the human and the divine in  nature"--and "a 
sense of spirit presences in nature" as Thomas Berry  says. This feeling is 
expressed in many of the pieces on this album. A  very similar worldview 
infuses the music of the brilliant 12th century  German visionary Hildegard von 
Bingen. Like the Celts, Hildegard  believed that the natural world is a Divine 
creation, filled with Divine  beauty and Divine energy, and this is the theme 
of her songs. Some of  the best Celtic artists have recognized their kinship 
with her and have  made her music their own. This album features several songs 
by Hildegard  in unique arrangements that are so radiantly Celtic in spirit, 
they  almost transport the listener to the holy wells of Ireland.

Also featured are top-notch Irish choir Anúna, great Celtic artists  Áine 
Minogue and Cathie Ryan, brilliant English cellist Matthew  Barley, virtuoso 
fiddler Mark O'Connor and his Appalachia Waltz Trio,  the perfectly-tuned 
English choir The Cambridge Singers, and the  wonderful Medieval/Eastern fusion 
ensemble Stellamara.

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