http://liturgy.co.nz Worship that works - spirituality that connects Wed, 23 May 2012 19:10:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://liturgy.co.nz/daily-devotion/8663 http://liturgy.co.nz/daily-devotion/8663#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:11:14 +0000 Bosco Peters http://liturgy.co.nz/?p=8663 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 [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/daily-devotion/8663/feed 13 http://liturgy.co.nz/is-the-lectionary-obligatory/7433 http://liturgy.co.nz/is-the-lectionary-obligatory/7433#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:55:15 +0000 Bosco Peters http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/?p=7433 http://liturgy.co.nz/is-the-lectionary-obligatory/7433/feed 32 http://liturgy.co.nz/online-lectionary-resources/6252 http://liturgy.co.nz/online-lectionary-resources/6252#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:13:05 +0000 Bosco Peters http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/?p=6252 http://liturgy.co.nz/online-lectionary-resources/6252/feed 0 http://liturgy.co.nz/new-sunday-preaching-resource/5206 http://liturgy.co.nz/new-sunday-preaching-resource/5206#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:19:58 +0000 Bosco Peters http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/?p=5206 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 [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/new-sunday-preaching-resource/5206/feed 2 http://liturgy.co.nz/transfiguration-%e2%80%93-hiroshima-%e2%80%93-peace/3715 http://liturgy.co.nz/transfiguration-%e2%80%93-hiroshima-%e2%80%93-peace/3715#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:17:13 +0000 Bosco Peters http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/?p=3715 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 [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/transfiguration-%e2%80%93-hiroshima-%e2%80%93-peace/3715/feed 0 http://liturgy.co.nz/nz-lectionary-online/2655 http://liturgy.co.nz/nz-lectionary-online/2655#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:26:18 +0000 Bosco Peters http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/?p=2655 http://liturgy.co.nz/nz-lectionary-online/2655/feed 1 http://liturgy.co.nz/mary-mackillops-canonisation/2536 http://liturgy.co.nz/mary-mackillops-canonisation/2536#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:48:00 +0000 Bosco Peters http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/?p=2536 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 [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/mary-mackillops-canonisation/2536/feed 8 http://liturgy.co.nz/week-starting-february-14/2416 http://liturgy.co.nz/week-starting-february-14/2416#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:12:04 +0000 Bosco Peters http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/?p=2416 Reflections based on the collect 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time February 14 reflection from the collect/opening prayer 6th Sunday after the Epiphany February 14 reflection from the collect/opening prayer (TEC BCP USA) Most using the Revised Common Lectionary will be celebrating Transfiguration Sunday this Sunday (the Sunday before Lent), with the Gospel reading as Luke [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/week-starting-february-14/2416/feed 0 http://liturgy.co.nz/week-starting-january-24/2249 http://liturgy.co.nz/week-starting-january-24/2249#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:15:41 +0000 Bosco Peters http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/?p=2249 Click on the link for a reflections for Sunday January 24 from the collect/opening prayer for that Sunday and the week following: 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (3rd Sunday of Epiphany) Please add below any resources, ideas, or comments for the readings, prayers etc. for Sunday.Similar Posts: Week starting January 31 Week starting February 7 [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/week-starting-january-24/2249/feed 0 http://liturgy.co.nz/word-flesh/2201 http://liturgy.co.nz/word-flesh/2201#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:45:07 +0000 Bosco Peters http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/?p=2201 All things came into being through the Word now made flesh John 1:1-18 This is the Christmas Day gospel reading. The earliest occurrence I can spot is in the Würzburg Evangeliary of the mid-seventh century. Maybe you know an earlier Christmas liturgy mention? 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/word-flesh/2201/feed 0 http://liturgy.co.nz/mary-mackillop-canonised/2159 http://liturgy.co.nz/mary-mackillop-canonised/2159#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:44:25 +0000 Bosco Peters http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/?p=2159 Yesterday Pope Benedict XVI issued a papal decree setting Mary MacKillop well on the way to being the first Australian to be canonised as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. The decree also recognised the ”heroic virtues” of Popes John Paul II and Pious XII, along with seven others. Early next year a commission [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/mary-mackillop-canonised/2159/feed 1 http://liturgy.co.nz/resources-for-advent-4/2151 http://liturgy.co.nz/resources-for-advent-4/2151#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:35:14 +0000 Bosco Peters http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/?p=2151 Advent 4 reflection from the collect/opening prayer. The O antiphons have begun. Don’t forget the Online Chapel with lots of resources of prayers and readings and reflections – many changing daily. The HTML for adding this badge to your blog or website is: <a href=”http://www.liturgy.co.nz” mce_href=”http://www.liturgy.co.nz” title=”Advent 4″><img src=”http://www.liturgy.co.nz/images/advent4.jpg” mce_src=”http://www.liturgy.co.nz/images/advent4.jpg” alt=”liturgy” border=0 width=150 height=150></a> Please [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/resources-for-advent-4/2151/feed 4 http://liturgy.co.nz/o-antiphons/2148 http://liturgy.co.nz/o-antiphons/2148#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:03:51 +0000 Bosco Peters http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/?p=2148 http://liturgy.co.nz/o-antiphons/2148/feed 3 http://liturgy.co.nz/resources-advent-3/2122 http://liturgy.co.nz/resources-advent-3/2122#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:34:15 +0000 Bosco Peters http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/?p=2122 Advent 3 December 13 reflection from the collect/opening prayer (used by BCP TEC and others) Advent 3 December 13 reflection from the collect/opening prayer (used by CofE Common Worship and others) Don’t forget the Online Chapel with lots of resources of prayers and readings and reflections – many changing daily. The HTML for adding this [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/resources-advent-3/2122/feed 1 http://liturgy.co.nz/reign-christ/1957 http://liturgy.co.nz/reign-christ/1957#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:19:46 +0000 Bosco Peters http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/?p=1957 Episcopalians (Anglicans) and Roman Catholics are again praying a similar prayer on the Feast of Christ the King – The Reign of Christ, the last Sunday of the Western Church’s year, November 22. Episcopalians will pray: Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/reign-christ/1957/feed 2