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>Episcopal News Service
>June 9, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - 'We are a resurrected church,' Haiti's bishop says
* TOP STORY - Episcopal Church eager to deepen partnership with Anglican  
Church of Canada, presiding bishop says
* WORLD REPORT - SOUTH AFRICA: Religious leaders warn about HIV during  World 
Cup
* MISSION - Episcopal Relief & Development responds to tropical storms,  
volcanic eruption
* MISSION - 2009 Mission and Resources Annual Report
* MISSION - Seabury-Western, Bexley Hall consider partnership
* MISSION - Communiqué from the Anglican Jewish Commission's fourth  meeting
* PEOPLE - CPG president plans to retire
* PEOPLE - Schools association appoints 4 to board
* MULTIMEDIA: Video: Supporting the Episcopal Church of Sudan in times  of need
* MULTIMEDIA: Video: Video: Relationship between Episcopal Relief &  
Development, Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil is 'mutual'
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS -June 13, 2010 - Third Sunday After Pentecost,  Proper 
6 - Year C
* DAYBOOK - June 10: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Episcopal Shield Cufflinks with Tie Tack & Lapel Pin"

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>TOP STORIES

'We are a resurrected church,' Haiti's bishop says

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Diocese of Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché  Duracin 
said June 8 that he hopes the diocese and the country can  "rebuild a new 
mentality."

Duracin spoke briefly to ENS June 8 after a long day of meetings at the  
Episcopal Church Center in New York City.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_122816_ENG_HTM.htm

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Episcopal Church eager to deepen partnership with Anglican Church of  Canada, 
presiding bishop says

>By Marites N. Sison

[Anglican Journal] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has said  that 
the Episcopal Church is eager to deepen its partnership with the  Anglican 
Church of Canada, noting how the two churches have "common  roots and history."

Episcopalians are "deeply grateful for our friends north of the border,"  said 
Jefferts Schori, addressing the 2010 General Synod of the Anglican  Church of 
Canada on June 8 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. "We're eager for  what you can teach 
us out of your experience, and we're energized about  the possibilities for 
increased mission partnership."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_122814_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

SOUTH AFRICA: Religious leaders warn about HIV during World Cup

>By Fredrick Nzwili

[Ecumenical News International, Nairobi] A group of African Christian  and 
Muslim leaders is warning of increased vulnerability to HIV  infections during 
the soccer World Cup in South Africa which runs for a  month from June 11.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_122749_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Episcopal Relief & Development responds to tropical storms, volcanic  eruption

[Episcopal Relief & Development] Although the 2010 Indian Ocean cyclone  and 
Pacific hurricane seasons have barely begun, South Asia and Central  America 
have already experienced devastating storms.  In the aftermath,  Episcopal 
Relief & Development is working with regional partners to  support communities 
in need.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_122808_ENG_HTM.htm

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Seabury-Western, Bexley Hall consider partnership

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Bexley Hall Seminary and Seabury-Western  Seminary 
said June 8 that they are considering forming a partnership to  share 
fundraising, communications, financial services and other  operations.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_122801_ENG_HTM.htm

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>2009 Mission and Resources Annual Report

Multimedia, updates tell the story of the work of the Episcopal Church

[Office of Communication] The Episcopal Church June 8 issued a report  
detailing the work accomplished in 2009 by the Church Center staff.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_122804_ENG_HTM.htm

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Communiqué from the Anglican Jewish Commission's fourth meeting

[ACNS] The fourth meeting of the Anglican Jewish Commission of the  Archbishop 
of Canterbury and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel took place at  Lambeth Palace, 
the residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury on 24th  and 25th May 2010/ 11th 
and 12th Sivan 5770. The Commission's mandate is  taken from the provisions of 
the joint declaration of the Archbishop and  the Chief Rabbis at Lambeth Palace 
on 6th September 2006 and confirmed  at their second meeting in Jerusalem on 
31st October 2007.

Full communiqué:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_122788_ENG_HTM.htm

More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_ENG_HTM.htm

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>PEOPLE

>CPG president plans to retire

[Episcopal News Service] T. Dennis Sullivan, president and chief  executive 
officer of the Church Pension Group and a member of the Church  Pension Fund 
Board of Trustees since May 2004, has told the trustees  that he plans to 
retire.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_122812_ENG_HTM.htm
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>Schools association appoints 4 to board

[National Association of Episcopal Schools] Laurie Bottiger, Monica M.  
Gillespie, Edward Kim, and the Rev. Canon John H. Taylor have accepted  
appointment to three-year terms on the governing board of the National  
Association of Episcopal Schools (NAES), beginning July 1.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_122800_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

Video: Supporting the Episcopal Church of Sudan in times of need

[Episcopal News Service] Richard Parkins, executive director of the  American 
Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan, and Jennifer Ernst,  partnerships 
officer for the Episcopal Church of Sudan, talk about ways  people can support 
Sudan as it works to rebuild, and maintain peace,  following civil wars 
spanning some 39 years.

Video:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm#ooid=V4bGxnMTpI5suJSrw 
cfzZUh3N20t5wF9

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Video: Relationship between Episcopal Relief & Development, Igreja  Episcopal 
Anglicana do Brasil is 'mutual'

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Relief & Development President Robert  
Radtke says that the relationship between the agency and the Igreja  Episcopal 
Anglicana do Brasil is a mutual one. Speaking June 6 from the  IEAB's 31st 
General Synod just outside Sao Paulo, Radtke says the  Brazilian province is 
adept at running social and development programs.

Video:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm#ooid=I4ZGxnMTrwrU5Q9ow 
vMzcVXRhiMUhNqZ

More Multimedia: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_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

June 13, 2010 - Third Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 6 - Year C

>By the Rev. Elizabeth Easton

(RCL) 1 Kings 21:1-10, (11-14), 15-21a and Psalm 5:1-8 (Track 2: 2  Samuel 
11:26-12:10, 13-15 and Psalm 32); Galatians 2:15-21; Luke  7:36-8:3

[Sermons That Work] Today's story from Luke could easily be a  contemporary 
one-act play - a single scene where characters, conflict,  and social norms 
clash together to reveal an unexpected and utterly  transformative truth. The 
set: a well-decorated dining room, simple but  expensive looking. The 
characters: Simon the Pharisee, a curious  intellectual with an eye for the 
interesting; Jesus of Nazareth, the  guest of honor and eventual game changer; 
and the Woman with the  Alabaster Jar, a character with no name who is the 
source of the scene's  most uncomfortable moments.

Full reflection:  
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_122419_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On June 10, 2010, the church remembers Ephrem of Edessa, deacon.

* 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 10, 869, Patriarch Photius I of  Constantinople was 
condemned by a Roman synod and later by a general  council at Constantinople. 
But the various rulers of the area began  choosing up sides, leading toward the 
split of the Eastern and Western  churches within the next 200 years.

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