My Christmas Message Blessings to you and yours for the Christmas Season and for the Year of Our Lord 2016. Thank you for being part of this virtual community. Linus Drops His Security Blanket Here is a short video clip from A Charlie Brown Christmas! NB: at 0:35 seconds, Linus says: “Fear not!” At that
Tomorrow is 200 years since the Gospel was first preached in Aotearoa New Zealand. it being Christmas Day, I preached from the Second Chapter of St. Luke’s Gospel, and tenth verse: “Behold! I bring you glad tidings of great joy.” The Natives told Duaterra [Ruatara] that they could not understand what I meant. He replied
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On Christmas Day this year we celebrate the bicentennial of the first Christian service in Aotearoa New Zealand. I have written about this here: Samuel Marsden Christmas Day 1814. And quoted from Samuel Marsden’s journal. I was asked to write a proper preface for the celebration, and have done so here: Marsden Ruatara Proper Preface.
This year is the bicentennial celebration of the first Christian service in Aotearoa New Zealand. It was led by Rev. Samuel Marsden in partnership with Ruatara. In my thesis (Chapter I, page 4) I write about this being the first recorded celebration of Holy Communion in this land. Here is the account from Samuel Marsden’s
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Blessings to you and yours for the Christmas Season and for the Year of Our Lord 2014. Thank you for being part of this virtual community. Whether you regard the Christmas Season as concluding on Christmas Day, Epiphany, the Baptism of the Lord, Candlemas, the Sunday following Candlemas, or are Orthodox, or Armenian, and celebrate
REFRAIN Gaudete, Gaudete, Christus est natus Ex Maria Virgine, Gaudete! Rejoice, Rejoice, Christ is born of the Virgin Mary, Rejoice! VERSE 1. Tempus adest gratiae Hoc quod optabamus, Carmina laetitiae Devote reddamus. The hour of grace which we seek is here. We offer with devotion our songs of gladness. VERSE 2. Deus homo factus est,
Let us pray (in silence) [that through celebrating the Incarnation we will deepen our relationship with Christ] pause God, year by year you make us glad with the hope of our redemption, grant that we who joyfully receive your only begotten Son as our Redeemer may with sure confidence behold him when he comes as
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This is a short video clip from A Charlie Brown Christmas! NB: at 0:35 seconds, Linus says: “Fear not!” At that moment, Linus drops his blanket. May this story, often repeated, and those words in particular, repeated beyond this story, be comfort enough for each of us… Blessings to you and yours for the Christmas
