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SUMMARY:A Week of Prayer for the 2024 Election
DESCRIPTION:The Community of Deacons in the Diocese of Virginia invites its congregations and members to A Week of Prayer for the 2024 Election Season\, from October 30\, 2024 to November 5\, 2024. Individuals and congregations can sign up to participate in this vigil by praying individually or in community. We invite you to sign up for a 30 minute time period to be in prayer. You may select as many time slots as you wish. Please invite friends\, family\, and others to join in this time of prayer as well. Congregations may wish to include prayers for the election in their Prayers of the People for Sunday\, November 3\, 2024. \nRegister for 30 Minute Prayer Times \nElection Night Prayer Booklet
URL:https://episcopalvirginia.org/event/a-week-of-prayer-for-the-2024-election/
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SUMMARY:GEMN Mission Formation Program
DESCRIPTION:The Global Episcopal Mission Network\, an independent organization promoting global mission in the Episcopal Church\, is offering a Mission Formation Program  Wednesday-Friday\, Oct. 16-18\, 2024\, from 12 noon to 3pm EDT online each day.  People across the church interested to grow more deeply into their world mission ministry are invited and encouraged to enroll. \nParticipants explore biblical foundations of mission\, mission history and theology\, mission discernment and standards\, partnership and companionship in mission\, legacies of colonialism\, congregational and diocesan support groups\, mission team and project development\, leadership styles and group process. \nIn addition to program attendance\, participants complete reading\, carry out a project during the year between Part 1 and Part 2\, and prepare mission reports. Upon completing the program\, participants receive certification as Global Mission Agents. \nFor more information\, please contact gemn@gemn.org. \nRegister and Learn More
URL:https://episcopalvirginia.org/event/gemn-mission-formation-program/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General
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SUMMARY:General Convention Briefing & Question & Answer Session
DESCRIPTION:The Virginia Deputation to General Convention will make brief presentations about the upcoming General Convention (June 22-28) and then take questions from people in our Diocese. \nConnect Via Zoom
URL:https://episcopalvirginia.org/event/general-convention-q-a/
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SUMMARY:Thomas Merton: Finding the Gate to Paradise Everywhere
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Merton was a mystic giant. He wrote 50 books and 2\,000 poems in 27 years. The first printing of his autobiography\, The Seven Story Mountain\, in 1948 was planned for 7\,500 copies. It sold over 600\,000. By 1984\, more than 3\,000\,000 additional copies had sold. \nMerton invites God seekers to go deeper and wider as we discover the difference between our “True Self” and our “False Self.” As we let go of defining our self by power\, prestige\, and possessions and discover that we are more than what we do\, what people say about us\, and what we own\, we are then able to remember that we are made in God’s image–and with us God is well pleased. \nAs we discover the holy in us\, we become equipped to be a vehicle of the Good News by what we do\, by what we say\, and mostly by who we are. Merton wrote\, “At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusions\, a point of truth\, a point or spark which belongs to God.” Therefore\, “to be a saint is to be myself.” \nAs we go deeper in our faith and remember who we are in God’s eyes\, we are able to discover that we can connect with the core of other religions. In his final talk before his death\, Merton said\, “This new language of prayer has to come out of something which transcends all our traditions and comes out of the immediacy of love.” Merton himself had one of his deepest mystical experiences gazing at the rock statue of the Buddha in Polonnaruwa\, Sri Lanka. \nThis half-day retreat will include a presentation\, time for silent meditation\, and a plenary. Our focus will be Merton’s invitation to live a cruciform life: one that is vertically connected to God and horizontally connected to our fellow souls and to “this fragile earth our island home.” \nThis event is hosted by Contemplative Outreach of Maryland and Washington. Bishop Porter Taylor will lead this half-day retreat. Bishop Taylor is the retired bishop of Western North Carolina and recently served two years as assisting bishop in the Diocese of Virginia.
URL:https://episcopalvirginia.org/event/thomas-merton-paradise/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240320
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SUMMARY:Global Episcopal Mission Network Conference
DESCRIPTION:“Joining God’s Mission in Tension Times” will be the theme of this year’s Global Episcopal Mission Network (GEMN) Conference. GEMN is an independent mission network dedicated to promoting mission work throughout the Episcopal Church. \nLearn More and Register
URL:https://episcopalvirginia.org/event/global-episcopal-mission-network-conference/
LOCATION:Online
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