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Presiding Bishop calls for Day of Prayer for Lambeth Conference, June 22
Conference convenes July 16
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[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has called the Episcopal Church to a Day of Prayer on June 22 for this summer's Lambeth Conference of Anglican Communion bishops.
The July 16–August 3 conference "represents one important way of building connections and relationships between churches in vastly different contexts, and reminding us of the varied nature of the Body of Christ," Jefferts Schori said in a June 4 letter addressed to the people of the Episcopal Church. "I would bid your prayers for openness of spirit, vulnerability of heart, and eagerness of mind, that we might all learn to see the Spirit at work in the other. I bid your prayers for a peaceful spirit, a lessening of tension, and a real willingness to work together for the good of God’s whole creation."
More than 650 bishops are expected to attend the decennial gathering at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England.
The Presiding Bishop suggested the prayer for the Church from page 515 of the Book of Common Prayer: O God of unchangeable power and eternal light: Look favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the effectual working of your providence, carry out in tranquility the plan of salvation; let the whole world see and know that things which were cast down are being raised up, and things which had grown old are being made new, and that all things are being brought to their perfection by him through whom all things were made, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
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The Rev. Dr. Ian Douglas, Angus Dun professor of world Christianity at
Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, joined the Presiding
Bishop at the briefing, which was Web cast live and is available for on-demand viewing
at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/.
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