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Prayer Book Revision


By Kirk Petersen
The Church has launched EpiscopalCommonPrayer.org, a website designed to facilitate discussions about possible revisions to the Book of Common Prayer. A task force developed the website after the General Convention defeated a comprehensive revision.
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Former Connecticut Bishop Dies at 102

The Rt. Rev. Morgan Porteus, the XI Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, died peacefully on Sunday, December 15 at his home in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, surrounded by his family.
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Episcopal University Campus for S. Sudan

By Mark Michael
The Episcopal University of South Sudan has broken ground on a planned sixth campus in Rokon, a small town that was heavily damaged in decades of civil war.
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A TLC Christmas Message from 1944

By Clifford P. Morehouse
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In a very special way, Christmas symbolizes all that we are fighting for. It is the festival of home and family. It is a time for giving, not only of tangible gifts, but of something of our very selves, as Christ gave Himself for us. "
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Reciting John's Gospel from Memory
By Retta Blaney
“I memorized it as a prayer, not a performance. I thought, ‘I’m going to do this as a prayer, even now.’ John himself wasn’t an actor. He was a witness, so he’s not telling to entertain as an actor would." 
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Mystery of Mysteries

By Eugene R. Schlesinger
In the babe whose birth is celebrated at Christmas, "the infinite God of the universe became small for us and for our salvation: mystery of mysteries. Like us in all things but sin, he was born, he lived, he died. By the incarnation, the course of human life, from conception, to birth, to death has become God’s life. 

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Walking in a Foreign Land We Call Home

By Mark Clavier
"I hope you have been preparing yourself to undertake once again a familiar journey. With the advent of Christmastide, we have now re-entered a different landscape. ... Try not to let that landscape pass you by this year. 
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