Day: September 9, 2010

Father Hubbard on the run, again

I have always been impressed by the fact that when the reformer Martin Luther and the saintly Mother Teresa had an even busier schedule for a given day, they spent even more time in prayer

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ABC: “threat to desecrate scriptures is deplorable”

Demonstrations in many of our cities are intended to provoke; and in other parts of the world the threat to desecrate scriptures is deeply deplorable and to be strongly condemned by all people. These are challenges that we must respond to with a consistent message: that we oppose collectively all such provocations and insist that there is no place in our traditions for violent response.

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Of the life and work of Bishop Bennison

If no visitation has occurred in a congregation for three years, the Bishop Diocesan or the Member of the Clergy in charge and Vestry or comparable body may apply to the Presiding Bishop to appoint five Bishops Diocesan who live nearest to the Diocese in which such Congregation is situated as a Council of Conciliation. The Council shall determine all matters of difference between the parties, and each party shall conform to the decision of the Council.

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Last rites for NZ chapel

Bishop Victoria Matthews had almost no warning that the chapel had to be substantially demolished by nightfall. So instead of wearing her episcopal robes as she pronounced the final, formal, poignant prayer of deconsecration, she was wearing a yellow hard hat and a raincoat. The chapel has been a locus for faith and worship for more than 100 years.

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We must be at our post

Even the lime could not cover the smell of death as Constance stepped off the train platform on August 20, 1878. The wind carried the odor for three miles outside of the city. Sister Constance and Sister Thecla returned from a vacation on the Hudson as soon as they heard the news of the fever; the sisters were the only ones traveling into Memphis. As they made their way through the town, signs of plague were everywhere.

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