http://liturgy.co.nz Worship that works - spirituality that connects Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:40:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://liturgy.co.nz/incongruity/8718 http://liturgy.co.nz/incongruity/8718#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:40:23 +0000 Bosco Peters http://liturgy.co.nz/?p=8718 An armed vested deacon at a Good Friday service 2011, Iraq. image sourceSimilar Posts: Holy Week/Easter resources Holy Week notes Preparing for Lent Resources for Holy Week & Easter the end of the dalmatic?]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/incongruity/8718/feed 5 http://liturgy.co.nz/official-worship-signals/8703 http://liturgy.co.nz/official-worship-signals/8703#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:41:27 +0000 Bosco Peters http://liturgy.co.nz/?p=8703 Similar Posts: Rugby café worship “I’ll be gone” visual rubrics Straight Outta Compline How Jewish is your Jesus? putting worship together just right]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/official-worship-signals/8703/feed 5 http://liturgy.co.nz/end-world-again/8699 http://liturgy.co.nz/end-world-again/8699#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:18:48 +0000 Bosco Peters http://liturgy.co.nz/?p=8699 Move over Harold Camping – you got the month and approximate date right, you were just out by a year. The end of the world is May 27, this year, 2012. Nothing to do with the Mayan calendar (yes I wondered too if the world was going to end in 2011 when I found that [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/end-world-again/8699/feed 17 http://liturgy.co.nz/liturgy-bible/8626 http://liturgy.co.nz/liturgy-bible/8626#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:04:15 +0000 Bosco Peters http://liturgy.co.nz/?p=8626 Recently I’ve been involved in several discussions, including around the viral video “Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus” both here and at other parts of the internet (as well as in first life). There is a tendency amongst many to think that first there is the Bible. An individual reads or hears words from [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/liturgy-bible/8626/feed 13 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/ok-go-needinggetting/8672 http://liturgy.co.nz/ok-go-needinggetting/8672#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:37:15 +0000 Bosco Peters http://liturgy.co.nz/?p=8672 The new music video from OK Go, made in partnership with Chevrolet. OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/ok-go-needinggetting/8672/feed 2 http://liturgy.co.nz/presbyterians-cant-say-shit/8623 http://liturgy.co.nz/presbyterians-cant-say-shit/8623#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:07:17 +0000 Bosco Peters http://liturgy.co.nz/?p=8623 You know the meme: “shit ______ say”. Shit my dad says (3million followers; following 1 – complete with best-seller book and television series), leading to “Shit girls say” (1million followers) and YouTube channel (23million views). And now many, many others “shit ______ say”. Derivatives: Shit people say to ministers and the very healthy discussion that [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/presbyterians-cant-say-shit/8623/feed 11 http://liturgy.co.nz/lent-wristband/8651 http://liturgy.co.nz/lent-wristband/8651#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:45:30 +0000 Bosco Peters http://liturgy.co.nz/?p=8651 Our Social Justice Commission is producing liturgical wristbands (purple, white, red and green).[Updated 5 Feb] It is not difficult to see Lent through the eyes of justice (it might be difficult to live it). Each week the readings can be read through the lens of justice. To begin that focusing, in this post I point [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/lent-wristband/8651/feed 3 http://liturgy.co.nz/snoopy-theology/8645 http://liturgy.co.nz/snoopy-theology/8645#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:56:39 +0000 Bosco Peters http://liturgy.co.nz/?p=8645 Similar Posts: Earth Hour – dominion theology]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/snoopy-theology/8645/feed 8 http://liturgy.co.nz/book-of-common-prayer-350-years-2-2/8630 http://liturgy.co.nz/book-of-common-prayer-350-years-2-2/8630#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:21:29 +0000 Bosco Peters http://liturgy.co.nz/?p=8630 This year is the 350th anniversary year of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. The Secretary-General of the Anglican Communion, Canon Kenneth Kearon, preaching earlier this month in Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral, on this topic, made some good points: “Central to these reforms [the Church seeking to preserve much of its ancient order, while also [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/book-of-common-prayer-350-years-2-2/8630/feed 8 http://liturgy.co.nz/faux-bishop/8585 http://liturgy.co.nz/faux-bishop/8585#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:55:03 +0000 Bosco Peters http://liturgy.co.nz/?p=8585 This is not a photo of a bishop. This is a photo of a Roman Catholic priest in a Roman Catholic church. Although not a bishop, he is dressed like a bishop. Roman Catholics call that the “Anglican Ordinariate”. This man, Keith Newton, has been playing dress-up. He has been dressing up like a bishop [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/faux-bishop/8585/feed 42 http://liturgy.co.nz/lent-madness/8581 http://liturgy.co.nz/lent-madness/8581#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:24:25 +0000 Bosco Peters http://liturgy.co.nz/?p=8581 Lent Madness is coming! This Lent 32 saints will battle it out for the golden halo. Seven celebrity bloggers and I (as a token Southern Hemisphere blogger) are going to be the panel while you do the voting! It’s a bit of fun with your fasting. There’s a facebook page to like. There’s even widgets [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/lent-madness/8581/feed 0 http://liturgy.co.nz/silence-and-word-path-of-evangelization/8500 http://liturgy.co.nz/silence-and-word-path-of-evangelization/8500#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:29:58 +0000 Bosco Peters http://liturgy.co.nz/?p=8500 It appears that the pope has been looking around my website. Yes, I’m as surprised as you are. At his recent message preparing for the 46th World Communications Day he highlighted the importance on websites of providing a chapel as here for prayer and reflection. Each week there is at least a focus and reflection [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/silence-and-word-path-of-evangelization/8500/feed 6 http://liturgy.co.nz/sex-act-morality-flow-chart/8494 http://liturgy.co.nz/sex-act-morality-flow-chart/8494#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:24:20 +0000 Bosco Peters http://liturgy.co.nz/?p=8494 This sex-act morality flow chart was recently shared with me. By a bishop. In these turbulent times it is helpful imperative that ethical teaching, especially in the area of sexual activity, be unambiguously presented.Similar Posts: computer issues? Elizabeth I & Mary I Humanae Vitae forty years on launching the US Ordinariate covenant confusion]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/sex-act-morality-flow-chart/8494/feed 9 http://liturgy.co.nz/when-does-epiphany-end/8490 http://liturgy.co.nz/when-does-epiphany-end/8490#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:07:54 +0000 Bosco Peters http://liturgy.co.nz/?p=8490 Our bishop recently wrote to the diocese, “The season of Epiphany extends to Ash Wednesday”. Well, in Canada, yes. And in The Episcopal Church. But not in New Zealand Anglicanism. Not this year anyway (yep, two years ago it was true here). In this year’s NZ Anglican Lectionary(PDF download), this coming Sunday (29 January) is [...]]]> http://liturgy.co.nz/when-does-epiphany-end/8490/feed 18