<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">HOB <<a href="mailto:hob-owner@epicom.org">hob-owner@epicom.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">30 août 2011 15:56:39 HAEC<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Subscribers <<a href="mailto:office@tec-europe.org">office@tec-europe.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Episcopal Church offers six-week reflections on stewardship: "Feasting On Gratitude"</b><br></span></div><br>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="5" color="black" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;font-weight:bold">The
Episcopal <u1:personname u2:st="on">Church</u1:personname></span></font></b><font color="black"><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="4" color="black" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;font-style:italic">Office
of Public Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="4" color="black" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;font-style:italic"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><font size="5" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:bold">Episcopal Church offers six-week reflections <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><font size="5" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:bold">on stewardship: “Feasting On Gratitude”<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">[August 26, 2011] The Episcopal Church
Office of Stewardship has developed a six-week series of readings, reflections
and questions called “Feasting on Gratitude” to assist in
discerning the practice of intentional and proportional giving to one’s
faith community. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">“Feasting on Gratitude”
invites individuals and congregations to reflect and discuss stewardship
principles and practices, based on the Sunday gospel readings from Matthew for
October 2 through November 6, which is All Saints Sunday. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">“The month of October is when most
congregations across the country embark on their annual giving campaign,”
noted the Rev. <st1:personname w:st="on">Laurel Johnston</st1:personname>,
Episcopal Church Officer for Stewardship. “The purpose of an annual
giving campaign is not only to raise support for the life-giving ministries of
the congregation, but to also help members of the faith community explore
intentional and proportional giving as a spiritual practice that reflects
gratitude and generosity for all that has been given.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Prepared by six Episcopalians from across
the country, “Feasting on Gratitude” is designed to complement and
support a congregation’s annual giving campaign. The contributing
writers explore stewardship, giving, gratitude and generosity in connection
with the Gospel lection for each Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">For example, the reading for October 2,
Matthew 21:33-46, relates the parable of the landowner who plants a vineyard.
In his reflection, Bishop Gregory Rickel of the Diocese of Olympia writes,
“All we have been given in this life is on loan at best. It is not ours,
we will never truly own it. We have it, for whatever reason, in order to care
for it as best we can.” Among the reflection questions for that week are:
How can you live into the claim that we are not “owners” of
anything, we are simply called to steward what has been entrusted to us? How
does the practice of giving bear fruit in your life and in your community?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Of the series, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><u1:place u2:st="on"><u1:city u2:st="on">Johnston</u1:city></u1:place></st1:place></st1:city>
explained, “We know it is not always easy to be grateful. Work and life
pressures abound and anxious worry often wins over trustful surrender.
Gratitude is not always the obvious choice, it needs to be cultivated, nurtured
and tended to with inner attentiveness. Cultivating gratitude turns what we
have into enough and more, turning a meal into a feast, a house into home, a
stranger into a friend.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">“Feasting for Gratitude” is
ideal for personal use as well as clergy, lay leaders and those leading
congregational stewardship efforts. Resources in English and Spanish are
available at </span></font><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="http://www.episcopalchurch.org/feastingongratitude" title="http://www.episcopalchurch.org/feastingongratitude"><font color="purple"><span style="color:purple">http://www.episcopalchurch.org/feastingongratitude</span></font></a>
</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">In addition to Rickel, contributing
writers are: the Rev. Richard Aguilar, Diocese of Southeast Florida; the Rev.
Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Diocese of Central New York; Gary A Chubb,
Diocese of Kansas; Bowie Snodgrass of the Diocese of New York; and Bishop
Eugene Sutton, Diocese of Maryland. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold">Episcopal Church Weekly
Bulletin inserts here: <a href="http://www.episcopalchurch.org/126259_ENG_HTM.htm"><font color="purple"><span style="color:purple">http://www.episcopalchurch.org/126259_ENG_HTM.htm</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold">(August 28 features the
Stewardship Reflection Series)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold">Episcopal Church Office
of Stewardship: <a href="http://www.episcopalchurch.org/stewardship">www.episcopalchurch.org/stewardship</a>
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font-style:italic">On the web<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="2" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;font-style:italic">Episcopal Church offers
six-week reflections on stewardship: “Feasting On Gratitude”<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="2" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;font-style:italic"><a href="http://www.episcopalchurch.org/newsline_129582_ENG_HTM.htm">http://www.episcopalchurch.org/newsline_129582_ENG_HTM.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="2" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-style:italic">The Episcopal Church: <a href="http://www.episcopalchurch.org/"><font color="purple"><span style="color:purple">www.episcopalchurch.org</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="2" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-style:italic">Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/episcopalian"><font color="purple"><span style="color:purple">www.facebook.com/episcopalian</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="2" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-style:italic">Twitter: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fiamepiscopalian&h=61363ece26486364538f948b8d6a6688" target="_blank">twitter.com/iamepiscopalian</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="2" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-style:italic">YouTube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/TECtube">www.youtube.com/TECtube</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"># # # #<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-style:italic">For
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