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Category Archives: lectionary

daily devotion

Daily Devotion

My good e-friend John van de Laar has recently added Daily Worship to his wonderful website Sacredise. His reflections are based around the reading system in the 2005 resource from the Consultation on Common Texts (CCT). That organisation, in 1992, produced the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL), a revision of the 1983 (Common Lectionary) which was… Continue Reading

is the lectionary obligatory?

I was recently at a gathering with a wide spectrum of clergy and laity from throughout New Zealand and a discussion developed whether or not the Lectionary is obligatory.

online lectionary resources

Although, unfortunately, the title of the website suffers from clericalism (as if only clergy would find use in a quality lectionary resource), the Biblia Clerus website is clearly a wonderful resource. You can search a Biblical text and its commentary to locate specific references to Sacred Scripture made by Doctors of the Church and church… Continue Reading

New Sunday preaching resource

I want to enthusiastically recommend a relatively new preaching resource to you: WaiapuAcademy.org. This has a wonderful collection of podcasts that is being updated each week. Click here for the podcast for this coming Sunday (February 13). The Rev. Dr. Howard Pilgrim is a colleague and friend. He has had a lifelong passion for biblical… Continue Reading

Transfiguration – Hiroshima – Peace

transfiguration

On this day in 1945, someone climbed not a holy mountain, but into the cockpit of a plane – a machine of war. There had been a lull of a week in the fighting between America and Japan. The Americans had a new secret weapon and they wanted to use it with the maximum psychological… Continue Reading

NZ Lectionary online

I have not previously put a link from this site to this year’s online lectionary from the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. Click here to download a PDF of this year’s lectionary (4 MB)

Mary MacKillop’s canonisation

Mary MacKillop

Pope Benedict XVI announced on Friday that Mother Mary MacKillop would be one of six canonised at a Vatican ceremony on October 17. Together with Father Julian Tenison Woods, Mary MacKillop founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. She was for a while excommunicated, but now there are more than a thousand… Continue Reading