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26 April 2012
No. 6 UVa and Penn Square Off in Showdown at the Mile High Classic ~ #UVa #Lacrosse #Lax #Penn #MileHighClassic
25 April 2012
We are not converted only once
Sarah Coakley: Living prayer and leadership
Q: How does presiding at the Eucharist inform how you imagine leadership?
23 April 2012
Luther Ziegler
22 April 2012
21 April 2012
Diocese of Virginia elects Susan Goff as bishop suffragan
- The Rev. Randy Alexander, 45, rector, Christ Church, Pelham, New York (Diocese of New York)
- The Very Rev. David May, 52, rector, Grace Church, Kilmarnock, Virginia (Diocese of Virginia)
- The Very Rev. Dr. Hilary Smith, 43, rector, St. Paul’s on-the-Hill, Winchester, Virginia (Diocese of Virginia)
- The Very Rev. Shirley Smith Graham, 43, rector, St. Martin’s, Williamsburg, Virginia (Diocese of Southern Virginia)
- The Rev. Canon Sue Sommer, 55, subdean and canon pastor, Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral, Kansas City, Missouri (Diocese of West Missouri).
20 April 2012
You control what you can control
Episcopal Cafe is 5 years old!
Episcopal Café: Today we celebrate our fifth anniversary
We are missing a few months worth of Google’s analytical data, but it is safe to say we have had about 4.2 million visits from 1.2 million “unique visitors.” In the last year, we have had not quite 947,00 visits from almost 273,000 visitors. We’ve got 5,700 friends on Facebook and 4,700 followers on Twitter.
This seems like a good time to thank all of those folks for dropping by, especially those who stuck around, read what was on offer and contributed comments via a system that we know some of you find unwieldy at times.
The Café began as a ministry of the Diocese of Washington, which provided $20,000 in start-up funding from its communications budget, and space on its server. It has been independent since December 2009 when Jim Naughton, the Café’s founder and editor, left the diocese to form Canticle Communications. During that time it has been sustained by a dedicated team of volunteer newsbloggers, essay writers, authors of spiritual reflections, artists, and art curators.
The newsbloggers are the heart of the Café’s operation. The current team comprises Jim, the Rev. Ann Fontaine, the Rev. Torey Lightcap, the Rev. Kurt C. Wiesner, the Rev. Andrew Gerns and the Very Rev. Nick Knisely. Ann, Nick and Andrew have been involved in the Café from the outset, and deserve special thanks. Newsblogger-on leave-John Chilton, was also among the first people Jim recruited to work on the Café.
Former newsbloggers include Charles Blanchard, who left to take a lesser position: General Counsel to the United States Air Force, Helen Mosher, who is still active with in the Café’s social media and the Rev. Peter Carey.
The Rev. Deacon Vicki Black sustained our Speaking to the Soul blog for years, and even published a book of reflections culled from the blog. The Rev. Lowell Grisham does most of the heavy lifting on the Soul blog these days with help from the Rev. Bill Carroll, Maria Evans and Linda Ryan.
Mel Ahlborn was first editor of our Art Blog, which gives the Café its distinctive look. Mel provided us with the one thing to which none of the rest of us had access: beautiful images. C. Robin Janning succeeded Mel and continues to keep our homepage and Art Blog looking both bright and soulful.
Ann Fontaine took over the chores of maintaining the Daily Episcopalian blog from Jim Naughton about a year ago. We’ve had too many significant contributions from too many people to name, but we invite you to mention your favorite DE writers in the comments.
The Café had two forebears, The Blog of Daniel, which Jim created in January 2006 to follow the fortunes of the short-lived NBC series, The Book of Daniel, whose main character was an Episcopal priest, and Daily Episcopalian, Jim’s running commentary on the issues facing The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion, which he launched when The Book of Daniel died.
While maintaining this second blog, Jim realized that you couldn’t convince people that Episcopalians did more than argue about sexual morality by maintaining a blog devoted to arguments about human sexuality. On that blindingly obvious premise, the Café was founded.
Those of us who work at the Café know it is in need of technological and aesthetic refreshment. We haven’t had a fiscal agent since Jim left the Diocese of Washington, so we have been unable to make the changes know are necessary. Still, we like to think we provide a service by aggregating news about the Episcopal Church, the Anglican Communion and those places where Christian faith intersects with our politics, culture and society; featuring the essays and reflections of some of the more insightful and graceful writers in our church; displaying some gorgeous religious artwork that you won’t find in many other places; and giving people a place to talk over what is going on.
And every now and then it seems to fall to us to say things that other people won’t say, but that sure need saying.
We hope, at some point in the near future, to figure out a way to allow you to support us while receiving a tax deduction. But this has been a difficult problem to solve. In the meantime, thanks to everyone who visits the Café and makes doing this work worthwhile. We especially appreciate the 24 percent of our audience that our analytics tell us have visited the Café more than 200 times! We would love to hear your suggestions as we consider the Café’s future, so chime in in the comments.
Cheers,
From all of us at the Café.
19 April 2012
I can't believe...
I can't believe that we were lying in our graves dreaming things that we might have been, coulda been, maybe! ~ Dave Matthews
18 April 2012
From Lacrosse Magazine: Lambrecht: Nobody is safe in MD1 Landscape ~ #Lacrosse #UVA #Duke #Virginia #NCAAs #Hopkins #Bucknell #Marist
Lambrecht: Nobody is Safe in MD1 Landscape
by Gary Lambrecht | LaxMagazine.com
Try to make sense of this year's Division I men's season, where upsets abound and there's little consistency. "It's happening everywhere," Johns Hopkins coach Dave Pietramala said. "We look terrible against North Carolina, but Carolina loses to [2-8] Penn. Duke needed a last-second goal against Marist, then they come back and embarrass Virginia." © Matt Riley |
If you thought you had figured out the Division I men's lacrosse landscape with a hint of clarity about a week ago, it didn't take long for a couple of head-turning events to make you feel clueless. In the space of 24 hours last weekend, two tremors on the campuses of Virginia and Johns Hopkins illustrated what has become the new normal in the sport.
On Friday, there were the top-ranked Virginia Cavaliers, on Senior Night, laying a rotten egg on national television against their Atlantic Coast Conference nemesis.
The Duke Blue Devils, who had just come from behind to earn an 11-10 victory against visiting Marist – the second-place team in the mighty Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference – swooped into Charlottesville and humiliated UVA, 13-5.
One night later, there was No. 3 Hopkins, sporting a 9-1 record and playing for the 108th time against Maryland, leading the Terrapins by three goals early in the second half in front of a sellout crowd at Homewood Field. And there went the Blue Jays into shutdown mode, as Maryland – which, by the way, lost earlier in the season to UMBC – outscored Hopkins, 6-0, over the game's final 29 minutes to grab a 9-6 victory.
On the surface, these developments were not total shocks. No. 7 Duke, which has won eight in a row after a 3-3 start, has now beaten Virginia in 12 of the past 13 meetings between the two schools, a streak that rates as one of the strangest in the game. No. 8 Maryland beat the Blue Jays for the 39th time overall and fourth time since 1996. The Terps had lost five, one-goal decisions to Hopkins, dating to 2002.
But it was the way the two games went down that drew double-takes.
Virginia, which at 10-1 was one goal away from being undefeated before Duke showed up, turned in an absolute stinker from the opening faceoff. Hopkins, which had been 102-5 under 12th-year coach Dave Pietramala when leading at halftime, froze like deer under the Homewood lights in crunch time with a core of third-year starters. Both losing teams were held to season-lows in scoring.
One would think that, by mid-April, these types of issues would be alleviated somewhat by the game's top-tier programs. But look again, and you see that, in 2012, the Division I field, with its ever-advancing parity, appears as unsettled as ever.
"It's happening everywhere," Pietramala said. "We look terrible against North Carolina, but Carolina loses to [2-8] Penn. Duke needed a last-second goal against Marist, then they come back and embarrass Virginia. Everybody is beating everybody's brains out.
"Our problem with Maryland wasn't physical. It was mental," he added. "But I think you're seeing the mental part of the game everywhere and how challenging it is, week in and week out, day in and day out, to answer the emotional bell. There are a lot of good lacrosse players out there."
"There's just not a whole lot of margin for error in the game right now," added Bucknell coach Frank Fedorjaka. "Whoever you are, if you show up and play just OK, there's a good chance you're going to get beat."
The examples abound. Bucknell, one of the younger teams in the Patriot League, overcame three straight close losses by reeling off eight wins in a row, only to lose one-goal heartbreakers to Army and upstart Lehigh (11-2) in the past 11 days to fall to 8-5. The Bison must win the Patriot League tournament to make it back to the NCAAs.
Same goes for No. 16 Penn State, which at 7-5 has risen from the brink of disaster – a skid that included a 9-8 overtime loss to No. 2 UMass – with a three-game winning streak and serious momentum entering the stretch. The Nittany Lions, led by superb sophomore goalie Austin Kaut, believe they can win the Colonial Athletic Association and slip into the NCAAs, even if they must beat unbeaten UMass in the CAA tournament to get there. They might be right.
No. 5 Notre Dame (9-1) lives by the close, low-scoring victory and is lucky to shoot 25 percent on a good day. That is a dangerous recipe in the playoffs. UMass is obviously strong at 11-0, but the Minutemen grind through a lot of one- and two-goal games. Even new no. 1 Loyola (11-0), which overwhelmed opponents for the first month of the season, struggled against Ohio State and pesky, 17th-ranked Fairfield (10-2) before running by Denver in the second half on Saturday.
We'll see how Loyola copes with that No. 1 sign hanging around its necks. We'll see who emerges in May among a top 20 that currently features 13 teams with three or fewer losses.
Duke and Maryland stepped up to center stage last week and simplified the moral of the story in 2012.
No one is safe.
Don't go back to sleep....
17 April 2012
Vocation ~ Buechner on vocation
“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”
“Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which, fleeting as those glimpses are apt to be, give us hope both for this life and for whatever life may await us later on.”
Virginia to Face UNC as the No. 2 Seed in the ACC Championship ~ #UVa #Lacrosse #Virginia #Lax #ACC
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Pairings for the 2012 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Lacrosse Championship have been determined, as announced by the league office on Friday. Duke is the regular season champion and earns the No. 1 seed in the upcoming two-day championship, which will take place April 20 and 22 on the Grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
General admission tickets for the ACC Championship are $20, which includes both semifinal games on Friday, April 20 and the championship game on Sunday, April 22. Individual day tickets are $10 per session. One ticket is good for both semifinal games on Friday.
Tickets can be purchased at any time online at Virginiasports.com, in person at the main Virginia Athletics Ticket Office located in Bryant Hall (Scott Stadium) between 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday - Friday, or by phone by calling 800-542-8821 between 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday.Duke, which defeated Virginia on Friday night to clinch the top seed, concluded the regular season with a 2-1 record in conference play and is 11-3 overall. The Blue Devils will face fourth-seeded Maryland (1-2 ACC) on April 20 at 5 p.m. on ESPNU in the first semifinal matchup.No. 2 Virginia (2-1 ACC), the championship host, will face third-seeded North Carolina (1-2 ACC) at 7:30 p.m. on ESPNU in the second semifinal.2012 ACC Men's Lacrosse Championship
Friday, April 20No. 4 Maryland vs. No. 1 Duke - 5 p.m. (ESPNU)
No. 3 North Carolina vs. No. 2 Virginia - 7:30 p.m. (ESPNU)Sunday, April 22
Championship Game - 3 p.m. (ESPNU)
10 April 2012
09 April 2012
08 April 2012
St. John Chrysostom's Easter Sermon
Let them enjoy this beautiful bright festival!
Are there any who are grateful servants?
Let them rejoice and enter into the joy of their Lord!
Let them now receive their due!
let them receive their reward.
let them with gratitude join in the feast!
let them not doubt; for they shall lose nothing.
let them not hesitate; but let them come too.
let them not be afraid by reason of their delay.
even as to those who toiled from the beginning.
The Lord accepts the offering of every work.
rejoice, this day, for the table is bountifully spread!
Let no one go away hungry.
Enjoy the riches of the Lord’s goodness!
for the universal kingdom has been revealed.
for forgiveness has risen from the grave.
for the death of our Savior has set us free.
“You, O Hell, have been troubled by encountering him below.”
Hell is in turmoil because it is mocked.
Hell is in turmoil, for it is destroyed.
Hell is in turmoil, for it is annihilated.
Hell is in turmoil, for it is now made captive.
Hell grasped a corpse, and discovered God.
Hell seized earth, and encountered heaven.
Hell took what it saw, and was overcome by what it did not see.
O hell, where is thy victory?
Christ is risen, and the evil ones are cast down!
Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice!
Christ is risen, and life is set free!
Christ is risen, and the tomb is emptied of its dead.
of those who have fallen asleep.
Vicar of Dibley - Easter Bunny Episode...
The Easter Bunny:
As Easter comes to Dibley, the council members all give up things for lent; Geraldine gives up chocolate, David tries to be nicer while Hugo has to stop lustful thoughts. Later, sadness comes to Dibley as Letitia Cropley dies and Geraldine has to take over as the Dibley Easter Bunny which involves dressing up in a bunny costume.
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Tweets from #UVALaxFan .@UVALaxFan from today's #UVA vs. #UNC #Lacrosse game
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Men's Lacrosse: Virginia Runs Past North Carolina, 15-10http://post.ly/6avLf
Pat Harbeson turns the corner and gets one just inside the pipe. 15-10 Virginia with 7 seconds to go
Whoa!! RT @Duke_MLAX Duke trails Marist 2-0 in the early going.#laxgameday #goduke
Carolina isn't giving up yet with a highlight-reel goal at 2:21. 14-9 Wahoos
Carolina on a run here while we sit a couple people the Heels have injured on dirty hits.
The Carolina offense has come to life here in the 4th, scoring their 3rd straight at 7:06. 12-8 Virginia
Bocklet gets another one today, assisted by Stanwick. 11-5 at 12:37. Almost automatic between those 2
Good luck RT @rxonrxonrx #Carolina Lacrosse on @espn. Go Heels!
Ha RT @RedHeadRacing Loving the black helmet #unclax its time to finally beat uva #carolina
Stanwick and OVA plays the 2-man game behind the goal and Owen nets another low riser today. The Hoos are rolling at 1:49, 10-4
Tucker throws down to Stanwick down late for another goal before a very late hit. 9-4 Hoos at 4:01, UVA man up and automatic possesion
No. 1 Virginia leads North Carolina, 6-4 at halftime. Live update and analysis here from Fetzer Field:http://laxmagazine.com/college_men/DI/2011-12/news/040712_live_blog_1_virginia_at_9_north_carolina
"@alecko11: OK UVA Lax! UNC coach sounded like a ---- while he was mic'd up @Brett_Hughes. he's 0-6 vs UVA.." 2nd half surge.#letsgohoos
3 most intriguing games this weekend: Lehigh at Colgate, Princeton at Syracuse, VA at North Carolina (Sat. 1pm ESPN).
ACC lacrosse is like SEC football = best athletes in their sport. #1 Virginia v North Carolina today 1pm ESPN. @DavePasch@chris_spielman
@QKessenich agree? RT @uvalaxfan Hint...goalie stay in goal when Stanwick has ball ... #uva #hoos #virginia #lacrosse
The Hoos bang it around and Van Arsdale throws across to Emery for another goal. 6-4 Virginia at 2:22
Ummmm, thats a very tough play and he made it look very easy...
The Carolina goalie comes out to double Steele and he pops it right over the defenders and inside the left pipe. 5-4 Virginia at 5:51
Lacrosse Mag: It took North Carolina 16 years to knock off a No. 1-ranked opponent. Can the Tar Heels do it twic... http://bit.ly/IlkIkV
two favorite teams playing but gotta stick with #UVA #letsgoo
atta boy van arsdale #UVA