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Diocesan Life.July/August

I've uploaded the July/August edition of Diocesan Life here. It probably won't be arriving in snail mail boxes until about July 10. So you need download only those pages you may be interested in, I'm attaching some pages separately, some in two-page files.

The cover page is the heaviest download. It includes a photo of our deputies

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Pages 2-3: Bishop Paul was consecrated eighth bishop of the Diocese of Bethlehem on July 29, 1996. These pages include a story outlining his leadership over the past ten years in world and local mission, children and youth and his awareness of the crucial importance of communicating beyond the walls of one's church.

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Page 4: Morehouse publishes Cathedral parishioner's book for teens. A story about prison ministry at St. Paul's, Montrose. A kitchen shower for a Katrina church. Peace Commission update. The ordination of two deacons. Trula Hollywood to be ordained a priest. Henry Acres receives award from Lehigh County Conference of Churches.

Page 5: Commentary on General Convention by Andy Gerns (I Was Surprised for the Good) and Barbara Crafton (The Lasagna Method of Gardening). Barbara's may not sound at first like it's about GC, but I think it is.

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Page 6: Commentary on General Convention by Scott Allen (We Knew it was an Unjust Resolution) and Barbara Crafton (Whipping Boy). Once again, Barbara's may not sound at first like it's about GC, but I think it is.

Page 7: Commentary on General Convention by Cathy Bailey (The Top Mission Priority of Our Church), Nick Knisely (My Top-Five List) and Hillary Dowling Raining (Impressions).

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Page 8: Commentary on General Convention by Jane Teter (Your Deputies Worked Hard), Jan Charney (This is What I Love Most) and Dan Charney (A Volunteer's Perspective).

Page 9: Bishop Paul's pastoral letter on General Convention. News from Kajo Keji by Randall Fegley.

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Page 10: Many brief news notes:

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Page 11: Calendar and Cycles of Prayer for July and August

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Page 12: Jesus invites us to cross with him to the other side, a sermon preached by Bill Lewellis at St. Stephen's, Whitehall, on the Sunday after General Convention.

Download 060712a.pdf

Cycles of Prayer for July and August

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Jubilate

Hymnody for Pentecost 2 (Proper 6B) to Pentecost 20 (Proper 24B), published by the Diocese of Bethlehem for our diocesan community and for free distribution to the world, may be downloaded below as an Acrobat or MSWord file, whichever works best for you. Jubilate is a serice of our Liturgy and Music Commission, specifically Canon Cliff Carr who has been doing this for some 20 years.

Download jubilate.Post Pentecost.2006.pdf

Download jubilate.Post Pentecost.2006.doc

Clergy Bible Studies, Retreat, Clergy Days and Dinner

This is the 2006-07 schedule for Clergy Bible Studies, the Clergy Retreat, Clergy Days and the annual dinner.

Download ClergyBibleStudies.Retreat.ClergyDays.Dinner.pdf

Bishop's Visits, 2006-07

This is the schedule for Bishop Paul's visits, from September 2006 to July 2007.

Download bishops_visits_200607.pdf

Diocese celebrates Children's Sabbath by Cruising to Equity

This story by diocesan children's missioner and child advocate Debra Kissinger appears, with photos, across two pages of the summer edition of Episcopal Teacher. It's about our Cruising to Equity campaign and Safe Harbor Celebration.

See it at Download diocese_celebrates_childrens_sabbath_by_cruising_to_equity.pdf

Wrapped in the baptismal embrace of Christ

Bishop Paul Marshall preached this sermon for the Funeral of Canon Bryan Williams at Christ Church, Carlottesville, Virginia, May 27, 2006. Father Williams was a canon in the Diocese of Bethlehem for ten years. He served as the bishop's confessor.

An excerpt:

Saint Paul’s way of talking about baptism included the expression that we put on Christ, and for centuries Christians donned white robes at their baptism into Jesus’ death and resurrection. They wore them for a week to feel themselves wrapped in that experience of Christ.

In the middle ages only babies were being baptized, and those white robes shrank to christening dresses such as we still use. In some places people saved those baptismal dresses until they died, and the garments were sewn into their shrouds – they were buried wrapped up in the baptismal embrace of Christ.

Baptism trumps burial. There is no moment when we are not wrapped in Christ’s love and victory.

Read it all at Download 0605.Sermon.Funeral of Canon Bryan Williams.pdf

The Postulant's Other Guide

Increasingly our clergy are being formed outside the environment of this Church’s seminaries. The bishop is thus confronted with the problem of the tradition of the lore, the passing on of the unwritten traditions and practices that every profession possesses. The specimen given below is an abbreviated version of what I normally distribute, the full text of which includes an element of play not readily understood outside the personal relationship between bishop and postulants. It intentionally focuses on the topics that fascinate seminarians, at least as observed in my time of seminary teaching, so rather a lot of ink is given to apparel and terms of address, but the real theme is collegiality. [Bishop Paul Marshall]

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Customaries

Customary for Confirmation/Reception/Reaffirmation in the Diocese of Bethlehem Download customaryi.Confirmation.pdf

Customary for the Institution of Ministers in the Diocese of Bethlehem Download customaryiiinstitution.pdf