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Reme~bering the faith of Abraham Lincoln on his 200th birthda y, .c -- ' ~,~ ~ ·, ~ / .i~t: THE IIVING CHURCH Spring Parish Administration Issue March 22, 2009 AD CLOSE: 2/20 FINAL AD DUE: 2/24 DOUBLE CIRCULATION. Reach more than 18,000 readers in print & online. Planning to exhibit at General Convention in Anaheim, CA? Let the TLC readership know you are going to be there! liv1r--..c--., --CHURCH, ·-, Top1cs . I nc Iu d e d : p arts. h f.1nanc1a . I p Ianmng . an d managemen. t ....... - Special frequency packages offered. Color advertising available. Contact: Tom Parker, Ad Manager P.O Box 514036, Milwaukee, WI 53203 (414) 276-5420 ext. 16 [email protected] www.livingchurch.org THE LIVINGCHURCH magazine is published by the Living Church Foundation, LIVINGCHURCH Inc. The historic mission of the Living Church Foundation is to promote and An independent weekly serving support Catholic Anglicanism within the Episcopal Church. 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TOURS 2009 Worship and Travel with Sewanee SneakPreviews School of Theology, University of the South May 29 - June 9, 2009 'He healed many who were skk with various Cathedrals, abbeys, holy places including stays in Cant erbury, Worcester, Bath and Winchester. Coach travel takes us through great countryside . diseases' (Mark 1:32) Pubs and fellowship fill in the gap. $2699.00 w/o air The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, Feb. 8, 2009 BCP: 2 Kings4: (8-17)18-21 (22-31)32-37; Psalm 142; 1 Cor.9:16-23; Mark 1:29-39 Christian History in England RCL: Isaiah 40:21-31; Psalm 147:1-12, 21c; 1 Cor. 9:16-23; Mark 1:29-39 June 8 - 18, 2009 Visiting holy places in Canterbury, Cambridge, It's winter, and this means that sick Once again, we're tempted to be envi Yorkshire and London. Guide included and coach ness is all around us. We all get sick, travel throughout. Breakfast daily and 4 dinners. ous toward those who could grasp the $2399.00 w/o air and we all know and love people who hem of his gannent. But, even if we get sick. It has ever been thus. And it could somehow magically transport Northern France was even more so the experience of ourselves to that time and place, we October 4 - 15, 2009 people among whom Jesus lived and would soon be disappointed . Mark tells Visit the great cathedrals and abbeys in Rouen, Caen, Jurnieges, the tapestry in Bayeux, Chartres, walked and exercised his ministry. us how Peter's mother-in-law lay sick Vezelay, Autun, Rheims and Paris. St. Mark's gospel tells us that Jesus' with a fever, and Jesus "took her by the $2399.00 w/o air. fame was constantly spreading, practi hand and lifted her up, and the fever left Forfurther infonnationon the above tours or to cally from the moment of his baptism. inquireabout a custom lour for your group, contact: her." But Peter's mother-in-law eventu The Rev. Anne B. 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From this Development ness such miraculous events. perspective , we can look "back" and Miracles like that still happe n. see all extraordinary heatings not siin Institute Through prayer and laying-on-of-hands ply for what they are in themselves , and anointing with oil, people are being but as anticipatory glimpses of the per Seattle healed of back pain and cancer, manent healings secured for us on the 2008 June 16 - 27 headaches and heart disease, and we cross. Miraculous healing cannot be 2009 June 15 - 26 give thanks for these wonderful signs of conjured up "on demand. " But God has God's victory over the forces of sin and bound himself to the sacraments as www.CDITrainers.org death. The prob lem is, not everybody is "sure and certain" means of grace. In healed . So we're confused. It seems like the sacraments, we leap ahead to that For more informat ion: God is playing with our emotions for his tune when our redemption is com Robert A. 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