Day: April 29, 2009

Communion Partner bishops challenge TEC polity

… an expert on Episcopal Church polity labeled as “bizarre” the idea that individual bishops or dioceses could take that step (signing the Covenant diocese by diocese), and questioned what meaning it would have in the wider Episcopal Church or Anglican Communion.

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What to do about the flu?

Updated at 4:25 p. m. with advisory from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops: the need for the introduction of widespread liturgical adaptations for the

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Blessings in hard times

Counting your blessings can be an opportunity to develop a greater sense of compassion. Knowing the abundance in your own life can encourage liberality toward others, born out of the fundamental reason for all acts of stewardship – gratitude for the abundance we have been given. ~~Katharine Jefferts Schori

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Bound tight through blood

They pushed fluids … gave round after round of epinephran and took turns doing chest compressions for over two hours. They would get a pulse for a moment or two, just long enough to decide to keep going, before her heart would slow to a stop again. It was the longest I ever saw the medical team in the pediatric intensive care unit attempt resuscitation.

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This sweet sacrament

We have seen that we must seek the kingdom of Heaven prudently: now I answer you about the attitude we should hold toward the Holy Communion, and how it befits us to take it. We should not use a foolish humility, as do secular men of the world.

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