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Suburban churches offer ashes to go to rail commuters
People are receptive to off-site Ash Wednesday rite
The Episcopal Church had higher than normal visibility on Ash Wednesday thanks to the creativity of several suburban clergy who stationed themselves at Metra commuter rail stations to dispense ashes and prayers.
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Active Date: 02/27/2010 Archive Date: 03/27/2010
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Bishop Lee raises awareness of gun violence prevention
Bishop asks congregations to support meaningful gun policy reform
Bishop Jeffrey Lee is asking the leaders of the congregations of the Diocese of Chicago to raise awareness among their members of the need for sensible policies on the prevention of gun violence. In a February 25 letter to diocesan clergy and congregations, Bishop Lee cited the sobering statistics of deaths of Chicago area children to violence—36 Chicago Public School students killed in 2008-2009 school year—and called on congregations to work for passage of meaningful gun policy reform.
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Active Date: 02/27/2010 Archive Date: 06/27/2010
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Episcopal Church prays for Haiti
God is present in suffering, says Presiding Bishop
From Port-au-Prince's cathedral to Washington National Cathedral to the Haitian Congregation of the Good Samaritan Episcopal Church in the Bronx to nearly every congregation across the church Jan. 17, Episcopalians prayed for the victims and survivors of the earthquake that devastated Haiti five days earlier.
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Active Date: 01/17/2010 Archive Date: 04/17/2010
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Board approves merger of St. Gregory's Episcopal School
Partnership formed with Holy Family Lutheran School
The board of St. Gregory’s Episcopal School has voted to merge the K-8th grade school in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood with Holy Family Lutheran School located a mile and half north of St. Gregory’s in the Homan Square district of North Lawndale.
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Active Date: 02/12/2010 Archive Date: 04/12/2010
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