<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;">21 septembre 2011 04:10:19 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:bishop@tec-europe.org">bishop@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>CORRECTION - House of Bishops issues a pastoral teaching </b><br></span></div><br>
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<div class="Section1"><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 <st1:personname w:st="on">Church</st1: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:18.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:bold">Episcopal Church House of Bishops <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:18.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:bold">Issues A Pastoral Teaching<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></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"><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" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">[September 20, 2011] The Episcopal Church House of Bishops, meeting in
Province IX, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Quito</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Ecuador</st1:country-region></st1:place>, issued the following
Pastoral Teaching: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">A Pastoral Teaching
from the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Quito</span></font></st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Ecuador</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">September 2011<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">We, your bishops, believe these words of Jeremiah describe these times
and call us to repentance as we face the unfolding environmental crisis of the
earth:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic">How long will the land mourn, and
the grass of every field wither? For the wickedness of those who live in it the
animals and the birds are swept away, and because people said, “He is
blind to our ways.” (Jeremiah 12:4)<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The mounting urgency of our environmental crisis challenges us at this
time to confess “our self-indulgent appetites and ways,” “our
waste and pollution of God’s creation,” and “our lack of
concern for those who come after us” (Ash Wednesday Liturgy, <i><span style="font-style:italic">Book of Common Prayer</span></i>, p. 268). It also
challenges us to amend our lives and to work for environmental justice and for
more environmentally sustainable practices.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Christians cannot be indifferent to global warming, pollution, natural
resource depletion, species extinctions, and habitat destruction, all of which
threaten life on our planet. Because so many of these threats are driven by
greed, we must also actively seek to create more compassionate and sustainable
economies that support the well-being of all God’s creation. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">We are especially called to pay heed to the suffering of the earth. The
Anglican Communion Environmental Network calls to mind the dire consequences
our environment faces: “We know that . . . we are now demanding more than
[the earth] is able to provide. Science confirms what we already know: our
human footprint is changing the face of the earth and because we come from the
earth, it is changing us too. We are engaged in the process of destroying our
very being. If we cannot live in harmony with the earth, we will not live in
harmony with one another.”<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn1" href="x-msg://236/#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><sup><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><sup><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">[i]</span></font></sup></span></sup></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">This is the appointed time for all God’s children to work for the
common goal of renewing the earth as a hospitable abode for the flourishing of
all life. We are called to speak and act on behalf of God’s good
creation. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Looking back to the creation accounts in Genesis, we see God’s
creation was “very good,” providing all that humans would need for
abundant, peaceful life. In creating the world God’s loving concern
extended to the whole of it, not just to humans. And the scope of God’s
redemptive love in Christ is equally broad: the Word became incarnate in Christ
not just for our sake, but for the salvation of the whole world. In the Book of
Revelation we read that God will restore the goodness and completeness of
creation in the “new Jerusalem.” Within this <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">new city</st1:city></st1:place>, God renews and redeems the natural
world rather than obliterating it. We now live in that time between God’s
creation of this good world and its final redemption: “The whole creation
has been groaning in labor pains until now; and not only the creation, but we
ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we
wait for . . . the redemption of our bodies” (Romans 8:22-3).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><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">Affirming the biblical witness to
God’s abiding and all-encompassing love for creation, we recognize that we
cannot separate ourselves as humans from the rest of the created order. The
creation story itself presents the interdependence of all God’s creatures
</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:black">in their </span></font>wonderful
diversity and fragility, and in their need of protection from dangers of many
kinds. This is why the Church prays regularly for the peace of the whole world,
for seasonable weather and an abundance of the fruits of the earth, for a just
sharing of resources, and for the safety of all who suffer. This includes our
partner creatures: animals, birds, and fish who are being killed or made sick
by the long-term effects of deforestation, oil spills, and a host of other ways
in which we intentionally and unintentionally destroy or poison their habitat. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">One of the most dangerous and daunting challenges we face is global
climate change. This is, at least in part, a direct result of our burning of
fossil fuels. Such human activities could raise worldwide average temperatures
by three to eleven degrees Fahrenheit in this century. Rising average
temperatures are already wreaking environmental havoc, and, if unchecked,
portend devastating consequences for every aspect of life on earth.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The Church has always had as one of its priorities a concern for the
poor and the suffering. Therefore, we need not agree on the fundamental causes
of human devastation of the environment, or on what standard of living will
allow sustainable development, or on the roots of poverty in any particular
culture, in order to work to minimize the impact of climate change. It is the
poor and the disadvantaged who suffer most from callous environmental irresponsibility.
Poverty is both a local and a global reality. A healthy economy depends
absolutely on a healthy environment.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The wealthier nations whose industries have exploited the environment,
and who are now calling for developing nations to reduce their impact on the
environment, seem to have forgotten that those who consume most of the
world’s resources also have contributed the most pollution to the
world’s rivers and oceans, have stripped the world’s forests of
healing trees, have destroyed both numerous species and their habitats, and
have added the most poison to the earth’s atmosphere. We cannot avoid the
conclusion that our irresponsible industrial production and consumption-driven
economy lie at the heart of the current environmental crisis. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Privileged Christians in our present global context need to move from a
culture of consumerism to a culture of conservation and sharing.</span> The challenge
is to<i><span style="font-style:italic"> </span></i></font>examine one’s
own participation in ecologically destructive habits. Our churches must become
places where we have honest debates about, and are encouraged to live into,
more sustainable ways of living. God calls us to die to old ways of thinking
and living and be raised to new life with renewed hearts and minds. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Although many issues divide us as people of faith, unprecedented
ecumenical and interfaith cooperation is engaging the concern to protect our
planet. And yet, efforts to stop environmental degradation must not be simply
imposed from above. Those most affected must have a hand in shaping decisions.
For example, we welcome efforts in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place> to involve Native
American tribal leaders and to empower local community organizations to address
environmental issues. Similar strategies need to be employed in myriad
communities in various locales.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Our current environmental challenges call us to ongoing forms of
repentance: we must turn ourselves around, and come to think, feel, and act in
new ways. Ancient wisdom and spiritual disciplines from our faith offer deep
resources to help address this environmental crisis. Time-honored practices of
fasting, Sabbath-keeping, and Christ-centered mindfulness bear particular
promise for our time.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Fasting disciplines and heals our wayward desires and appetites,
calling us to balance our individual needs with God’s will for the whole
world. In fasting we recognize that human hungers require more than filling the
belly. In God alone are our desires finally fulfilled. Commended in the <i><span style="font-style:italic">Book of Common Prayer</span></i>, fasting is grounded
in the practices of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
taught by Jesus, and sustained in Christian<i><span style="font-style:italic"> </span></i>tradition.
The ecological crisis extends and deepens the significance of such fasting as a
form of self-denial: those who consume more than their fair share must learn to
exercise self-restraint so that the whole community of creation might be
sustained. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Sabbath-keeping is rooted in the Book of Genesis, where the seventh day
is the day in which God, humans, and the rest of creation are in right
relationship. In our broken world, keeping the Sabbath is a way of remembering
and anticipating that world for which God created us. Sabbath requires rest,
that we might remember our rightful place as God’s creatures in
relationship with every other creature of God. Such rest implicitly requires
humans to live lightly on the face of the earth, neither to expend energy nor
to consume it, not to work for gain alone, but to savor the grace and givenness
of creation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The practice of Christ-centered mindfulness, that is, the habitual
recollection of Christ, calls believers to a deepened awareness of the presence
of God in their own lives, in other people, and in every aspect of the world
around us. Such spiritual perception should make faithful people alert to the
harmful effects of our lifestyles, attentive to our carbon footprint<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn2" href="x-msg://236/#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><sup><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><sup><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">[ii]</span></font></sup></span></sup></span></a>
and to the dangers of overconsumption. It should make us profoundly aware of
the gift of life and less prone to be ecologically irresponsible in our consumption
and acquisition. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">In assuming with new vigor our teaching office, we, your bishops,
commit ourselves to a renewal of these spiritual practices in our own lives,
and invite you to join us in this commitment for the good of our souls and the
life of the world. Moreover, in order to honor the goodness and sacredness of
God’s creation, we, as brothers and sisters in Christ, commit ourselves
and urge every Episcopalian:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="ListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><font size="3" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">n<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></font></span></span></font><!--[endif]-->To
acknowledge the urgency of the planetary crisis in which we find ourselves, and
to repent of any and all acts of greed, overconsumption, and waste that have
contributed to it;<o:p></o:p></p><p class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><font size="3" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">n<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></font></span></span></font><!--[endif]-->To
lift up prayers in personal and public worship for environmental justice, for
sustainable development, and for help in restoring right relations both among
humankind and between humankind and the rest of creation;<o:p></o:p></p><p class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><font size="3" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">n<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></font></span></span></font><!--[endif]-->To
take steps in our individual lives, and in community, public policy, business,
and other forms of corporate decision-making, to practice environmental
stewardship and justice, including (1) a commitment to energy conservation and
the use of clean, renewable sources of energy; and (2) efforts to reduce,
reuse, and recycle, and whenever possible to buy products made from recycled
materials; <o:p></o:p></p><p class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><font size="3" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">n<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></font></span></span></font><!--[endif]-->To
seek to understand and uproot the political, social, and economic causes of
environmental destruction and abuse;<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn3" href="x-msg://236/#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><sup><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><sup><font size="3" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">[iii]</span></font></sup></span></sup></span></a>
<o:p></o:p></p><p class="ListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><font size="3" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">n<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></font></span></span></font><!--[endif]-->To
advocate for a “fair, ambitious, and binding” climate treaty, and
to work toward climate justice through reducing our own carbon footprint and
advocating for those most negatively affected by climate change.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">May God give us the grace to heed the warnings of Jeremiah and to
accept the gracious invitation of the incarnate Word to live, in, with, and
through him, a life of grace for the whole world, that thereby all the earth
may be restored and humanity filled with hope. Rejoicing in your works, O Lord,
send us forth with your Spirit to renew the face of the earth, that the world
may once again be filled with your good things: the trees watered abundantly,
springs rushing between the hills in verdant valleys, all the earth made
fruitful, your manifold creatures, birds, beasts, and humans, all quenching
their thirst and receiving their nourishment from you once again in due season
(Psalm 104).</span><o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center;
text-autospace:none"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a style="mso-endnote-id:edn1" href="x-msg://236/#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><sup><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><sup><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">[i]</span></font></sup></span></span></font></sup></span></a>
>From “The Hope We Share: A Vision for Copenhagen,” a statement from
the Anglican Communion Environmental Network in preparation for the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), December 2009. </p><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn2"><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a style="mso-endnote-id:edn2" href="x-msg://236/#_ednref2" name="_edn2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><sup><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><sup><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">[ii]</span></font></sup></span></span></font></sup></span></a>
Carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse gases we individually
produce in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity,
heating, transportation, etc. </p><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn3"><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a style="mso-endnote-id:edn3" href="x-msg://236/#_ednref3" name="_edn3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><sup><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><sup><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">[iii]</span></font></sup></span></span></font></sup></span></a>
We are indebted to the Episcopal Bishops of New England for their earlier 2003
Pastoral Letter, “To Serve Christ in All Creation.” Several of
these “commitments” and other phrases herein are quotations or
adaptations of their work.</p>
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