We Pray You To Illumine the World
September 12, 2007
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…We pray you to illumine the world with the radiance of your glory… Peace I give to you; my own peace I leave with you…
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Caravaggio: Man and Mystery
September 12, 2007
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was a late 16th century painter whose personal life and artistic career were both controversial. Caravaggio’s use of light is considered
California Supreme Court to hear church property cases
September 12, 2007
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The California Supreme Court today agreed to hear an appeal by several churches in the Diocese of Los Angeles. The California Court of Appeals had earlier ruled that the Diocese, not the church congregations, owned parish property.
Duncan’s inversion
September 12, 2007
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Lionel Deimel did not attend the Pittsburgh Diocesan Council meeting this week, but he received a report for someone who did. The council met to
Misfeasance? Malfeasance?
September 12, 2007
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Another update: Stand Firm in Faith has an email that certainly looks like an apology from a NAN reporter who claims to be the one
Archbishops in US this month
September 12, 2007
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When the House of Bishops meets this month which Anglican Communion primates will be in attendance? There will be our own Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts
Rowan Williams profiled
September 12, 2007
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As to the covenant, he would indeed like to see “a much greater convergence of our canon law” toward “some kind of worldwide screening process” that would make it possible to resolve any “really bad procedural blunder that caused scandal and damage to a church in a province.” But every Anglican province at present “has what is in principle a self-sufficient system of canon law.” To introduce any element into these provincial systems that gave jurisdiction elsewhere “would be a huge innovation.”
Two dioceses to consider proposals to leave national church
September 12, 2007
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In separate announcements made yesterday two Network dioceses issued statements regarding proposals to cut ties with the Episcopal Church. Fr. John Spencer, President of the Quincy Standing Committee, made it clear that the Diocese is not trying to preempt the upcoming meeting of the House of Bishops latter this month.
Encountering Akinola, Part one
September 12, 2007
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Archbishop Peter periodically barked out commands from a large, multi-stepped marble throne to red, purple, or black-clad acolytes who went flying. Every ethnic dress of Nigeria was represented, flowing blue northern robes, elaborately folded Yoruba headpieces, floppy colorful Cross River pajama-like outfits, and ladies in resplendent tailored robes and matching wide-brimmed English hats.
John Henry Hobart
September 12, 2007
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In uniting us to a visible society, for the purpose of redeeming us from the corruptions of our evil nature and of the world, and for training us for the purity and bliss of a celestial and eternal existence, the Divine Author of our being has not only exercised that sovereign power which makes us in all things dependent on his will, but has mercifully accommodated himself to the social principle which so strongly characterizes us.
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