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liturgy at General Synod

I have been able to find out a bit more about debates relating to liturgy at the meeting of General Synod of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia meeting in Gisborne from today. Motion 5 (below) is the one that confuses and concerns me most, followed by the bill on Ashes to… Continue Reading

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Br Roger photo

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Having described my visits to Taize, I dug out my own photo of Br. Roger from 1983 (above). For me it speaks volumes of who he was (for me and for others) – and how I encountered him.

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Brother Roger of Taizé

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Brother Roger was born in Provence in Switzerland in 1915 the ninth and youngest child of a Protestant minister’s family. He studied theology at Strasbourg and Lausanne. In 1940 he left Switzerland for his mother’s native France. In 1940, he biked from Geneva to Taizé, a small village in Burgundy near Cluny. Taizé was at… Continue Reading

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Taizé

Taizé

Taizé

Thanks to Liz, a reader of this site, for recommending the above video of Taizé.

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Calendar confusion

The New Zealand Anglican Church is adding five names to its calendar of saints – but my motion that started this process had a much bigger vision.

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