This is an ecumenical website of resources and reflections on liturgy, spirituality, and worship for individuals and communities. It is run by Rev. Bosco Peters.
The Guidebook: The NRSV Student Bible If you are looking for a study-type Bible for teenagers this may be the one to buy. There is no perfect translation of the Bible into English. But, all things considered, the NRSV is the best. This edition of the Bible assumes intelligent contemporary scholarship. It also assumes that… Continue Reading
First Initiation into Carthusian Life If you have been a regular here for a while, or poked around this site a bit, you will know of my love for Carthusians. We have started discussion on this site about the issue of sourcing Christian spirituality from the monastic more than the domestic. I think that is… Continue Reading
I am absolutely delighted to launch the first edition of my Book of Prayers in Common. If you are a regular at this Liturgy website you will have seen this being developed step by step. If you are one of the people who has helped with that preparation of this book – thank you. You… Continue Reading
I said recently that film might be one of the last places where real enchantment is still experienced. And mainstream cinema, to reinforce my point, has been giving us a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, into our lap. The Hobbit, Life of Pi, and now Les Misérables. The movie is the first… Continue Reading
And she said unto them, “One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the… Continue Reading
“Our Saviour, dearly-beloved, is born today: let us be glad… Let us, therefore, dearly beloved, give thanks to God the Father, through His Son, in the Holy Spirit; Who “for His great mercy, wherewith He has loved us,” has had pity on us: and “when we were dead in our sins, He has quickened us… Continue Reading
For his eightieth birthday the Wizard of New Zealand reflected in the Press (the Christchurch newspaper) on the disenchantment of our contemporary culture. Drawing on the formative work of Max Weber, the Wizard described his own 38-year contribution to the culture of Christchurch (the city where I live) as a non-fictional, non-commercial, wizard. Weber saw… Continue Reading
