[ENS] EUROPE: French government seeks help from Episcopal convocation in assisting Baghdad's wounded

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>November 3, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* WORLD REPORT - EUROPE: French government seeks help from Episcopal
convocation in assisting Baghdad's wounded Christians
* WORLD REPORT - International campaign launched against Anglican 
Covenant
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS - November 7, 2010 - Twenty-Fourth Sunday
After Pentecost, Proper 27 - Year C
* DAYBOOK - November 4: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History

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>WORLD REPORT

EUROPE: French government seeks help from Episcopal convocation in
assisting Baghdad's wounded Christians

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The French government is looking to the
Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe to assist in the treatment
and resettling of Christians wounded in the Oct. 31 attack on the
Syriac Catholic Church in Baghdad, Iraq, that left 58 people dead.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_125555_ENG_HTM.htm

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International campaign launched against Anglican Covenant

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The campaign against the Anglican Covenant
was stepped up a gear on Nov. 3 with the formation of an international
coalition that says the covenant would constitute "unwarranted
interference in the internal life of the member churches of the
Anglican Communion, would narrow the acceptable range of belief and
practice within Anglicanism, and would prevent further development of
Anglican thought."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_125551_ENG_HTM.htm

More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_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 7, 2010 - Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 27 - 
Year C

>By the Rev. Lawrence Womack

(RCL) Haggai 1:15b-2:9 and Psalm 145:1-5, 18-21 or Psalm 98 (Track 2:
Job 19:23-27a and Psalm 17:1-9); 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17; Luke
20:27-38

This, the Sunday after All Saints' Day, in many parishes and missions,
holds the place for All Saints' Day. Many congregations - and the
rubrics - allow for the celebration of All Saints' to be transferred
to the Sunday following November 1. But why? What is so important
about the Feast of All Saints' that makes it desirable, acceptable,
and correct to move it to a Sunday?

In order to answer that, let's pay close attention to the lections for
today, not paying attention only to their substance, but their tone.
As we pray today's collect, read or hear read the appointed verses
from the second epistle to the Thessalonians and the gospel of Luke,
what images come to mind? As we meditate on the reading assigned for
this Sunday, this twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost, how are our
imaginations guided and excited? How do we experience and see God's
message for us?

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_125071_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On November 4, 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 November 4, 1740, English priest Augustus
Toplady, author of the hymn "Rock of Ages," was born.