Month: January 2010

Remembering Mom’s Epiphany

I remember well the day that I first hit the highest notes of the “Ave Maria.” My mother, standing next to me, singing away, turned to me and gave me the biggest smile. We finished the hymn singing together, and that day, for at least that moment, I felt all grown up.

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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me

Now it was necessary that Jesus should manifest himself to the Israelites and that the mystery of his incarnation should now shine forth to those who did not know him. Now that God the Father had anointed him to save the world, he very wisely orders this also [that his fame should now spread widely].

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Outpouring of support for Haiti continues

Sometimes, reading the papers, you get the impression that the church exists to provide a forum for arguing about sexual mores. Then disaster strikes, and you get a glimpse of what the church has been up to all along.

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Local boy makes good

Café news blogger, the Very Rev. Nicholas Knisely, dean of Trinity Cathedral in Phoenix, Ariz., is one of four candidates chosen by the search committee to stand for election as Bishop of Kentucky.

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Tolerance and conviction

In studying first, then, the nature of tolerance, that much-belauded and much-represented grace of our own time, we want to start with this assertion,—which is, indeed the key-assertion of all I have to say,—that it is composed of two elements, both of which are necessary to its true existence,

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Haiti update

Ten days after the earthquake that struck Haiti, here is a roundup of news from Haiti or about the response.

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A woman bishop for Cuba

The Rev. Griselda Delgado Del Carpio has been appointed as bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Church of Cuba by the Metropolitan Council of Cuba.

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