It’s throwback-Thursday because in my city is the 26th year of the World Buskers Festival, now titled Bread & Circus. Busking provides helpful reflection for worship – especially for worship leaders. I have reflected on busking becoming more “established”. If that interests you, look back to that post. Last night, I attended the amazing production
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Sometimes you can patch together one great thing and another wonderful thing and make of the patched thing something appealing that works. At other times, when you patch two things together, you end up with a dog’s breakfast. When it comes to the calendar and lectionary for January and February, NZ Anglicanism has done the
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Let us pray (in silence) [that God direct our lives in the way of peace] Pause Almighty and everliving God, [or God of revelation] you govern all things in heaven and earth; mercifully hear the prayers of your people, and guide the course of our days in your peace, through Jesus Christ, our Saviour who
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It is still a good time to make (and keep) a resolution. There are two ways that spring to my mind to pray the Bible, to use the Bible as prayer, to use the Word of God to relate to God: the first is the Daily Office. The Daily Office is the praying of the
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It is still a good time to make (and keep) a resolution. A twitter discussion recently about strategies for reading through the scriptures, routines involved when reading, and particular structures to reading, led me back to an approach I promoted 8 years ago. My own focus is through the Daily Eucharistic Readings (also available through
Thanks for your support and encouragement during 2018. Let’s have a fruitful and blessed year together in 2019. Looking back to 2018: about half of people look at this site on a desktop and half use a mobile or tablet. There were about 224,000 people who visited – many, of course, repeatedly. Nearly half are
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The following collect may draw from shared traditions (see commentary). It is my reworking of a collect by Cranmer for Christmas, and I am suggest it for the First Sunday in Ordinary Time (January 13), celebrating Christ’s baptism for my Book of Prayers in Common. Let us pray (in silence) [that we will be faithful
On Epiphany (or New Year) you can bless your house. You can make this as simple or as intricate as you like; include (liturgical) greeting (eg. “The Lord be with you…”), song or carol, holy water (sprinkling door, each room), reading (eg. Epiphany Gospel, start of John’s Gospel), more prayers, Lord’s Prayer, incense, assigning parts
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