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>Episcopal News Service
>May 10, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Bulletin inserts for May 23 feature reflection on  Pentecost
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOS ANGELES: Newport Beach breakaway congregation
again asks California Supreme Court to hear property claim
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOUISIANA: Morris K. Thompson consecrated as
diocese's 11th bishop
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Church publishes amended draft legislation
on women bishops
* WORLD REPORT - SOUTH AFRICA: 'Green bishop' wants rich to repay
'ecological debt'
* PEOPLE - Marybeth Yuen Maul of Hawai'i remembered for pioneering  spirit
* OPINION - Seeing God's face in Haiti's children
* OPINION - Poverty and the need for relationship
* DAYBOOK - May 11: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Episcopal Musician's Handbook Year A 2010-2011"

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>TOP STORIES

Bulletin inserts for May 23 feature reflection on Pentecost

[Episcopal News Service] What if the Holy Spirit answered our
Pentecost prayers? In "Rushing winds, tongues of flame," the Episcopal
News Service Weekly bulletin insert for May 23, the Day of Pentecost,
the Rev. Tony Clavier asks that question, with thoughts on the
perceived impropriety of the first disciples and the likely effect if
Christians today really let the spirit of God transform their lives.

Clavier is rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, La Porte, in the
Diocese of Northern Indiana.

Inserts may be downloaded at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

LOUISIANA: Morris K. Thompson consecrated as diocese's 11th bishop

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The Very Rev. Morris K. Thompson was ordained
and consecrated May 8 as the 11th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of
Louisiana during a two-hour ceremony at Christ Church Cathedral, New
Orleans.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_122127_ENG_HTM.htm

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LOS ANGELES: Newport Beach breakaway congregation again asks
California Supreme Court to hear property claim
By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Attorneys for a Newport Beach breakaway
congregation on May 4 petitioned the California Supreme Court a third
time in an effort to be declared the owner of church real property and
other assets.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_122140_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Church publishes amended draft legislation on women bishops

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Church of England has published amended
draft legislation that could pave the way for women to be consecrated
as bishops, but not until at least 2014.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_122138_ENG_HTM.htm

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SOUTH AFRICA: 'Green bishop' wants rich to repay 'ecological debt'

>By Munyaradzi Makoni

[Ecumenical News International] South Africa's "green bishop" says
those who have exploited the African continent should repay an
"ecological debt."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_122126_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Marybeth Yuen Maul of Hawai'i remembered for pioneering spirit

>ENS Staff

[Episcopal News Service] Family and friends gathered May 7 at Grace
Episcopal Church in Ho'olehua, Moloka'i in the Diocese of Hawai'i to
celebrate the life of Marybeth Yuen Maul, who served as an attorney
and judge for nearly 40 years.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_122150_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>Poverty and the need for relationship

>By Mark M. Beckwith

[Diocese of Newark] More than 150 people came from all over the
country to attend a Domestic Poverty Conference held recently in
Newark. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori came and gave an
eloquent and comprehensive overview of the various dimensions of
economic poverty -- and challenged us to respond.

Two former diocesan priests, the Rev. Jim Snodgrass, a missioner in
Puerto Rico, and the Rev. Eric Duff, executive director of Episcopal
Community Services of Northern California, the original founders of
The Apostles' House, returned and attended a dinner hosted at the
house, which has grown into one of the largest service providers for
low-income people in greater Newark. Many people from the diocese
attended the conference to listen, learn, facilitate, network and
organize.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_122143_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Seeing God's face in Haiti's children

>By Sienna Nelson

[Episcopal News Service] House. Flower. Truck. Airplane.

House.  Flower.  Truck.  Airplane. Those are the images that the
children of Diocese of Haiti's St. Vincent's School for Handicapped
Children in Port-au-Prince draw over and over again.

The kids don't draw what we see on the news - hunger, pain, suffering.
That isn't what they see. Whenever they have a crayon, colored pencil
or anything that leaves a mark, they draw a house or a flower or a
truck or an airplane. They draw hopeful images in a land filled with a
reality of destruction, extreme poverty and hardship.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_122136_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On May 11, 2010...

* 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 May 11, 1851, the first missionary, the Rev.
William Richmond, arrived in Oregon.

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>EBAR PICK

"Episcopal Musician's Handbook Year A 2010-2011" by The Living Church
Foundation, softcover, spiral binding, c. 2010, $28.

[The Living Church] The 54th Edition (Year A) 2010-2011 of the
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guide and resource when choosing and implementing various musical
selections. This book contains entries from BOTH the Revised Common
Lectionary and the Prayer Book lectionary. Features plainsong psalm
settings for congregational use in Advent and Lent (Year C, RCL)
pointed by Canon Joseph Kucharski.

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