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The
Bishop's Notebook, 18 December 2003
“ We
were able to send some Christmas packages to deployed chaplains
recently. Batches of Christmas cards for the troops, boxes
of school supplies and warm clothes for the children at an
Iraqi elementary school, and some surprises from St. George's
Church at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii are making their way through
APO channels to Afghanistan and Iraq. The gift giving is powerful
in its simple humility; one accompanying note said, "We
are a small church with a very small Church School, please
know that we pray for our troops every Sunday." (St.
Barnabas, Havana, Illinois.) There are many like that; dear
gestures as guidance and light to the manger.”
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The Bishop's Notebook, 24 December 2002, Eve of the Nativity
of Our Lord
“I
heard this quote from St. Bonaventure over the weekend, "God's
center is everywhere but God's circumference is nowhere."
Chaplaincy gives expression to that. Often the exceptional
environs of our chaplaincies are in contrast to a local congregation
so concerned about the perimeter of familiarity.”
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