As Anglicans in NZ begin to prepare for this coming Sunday service, the NZ Lectionary for January 1, 2012 reads: THE NAMING OF JESUS This is a principal feast and should not be displaced by any other celebration. They are then provided with the readings for The Naming of Jesus, and the 1st Sunday after… Continue Reading
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Tag Archives: common prayer
Sydney’s Common Prayer
Sydney Anglicanism would describe itself as conservative evangelical. It is often a place that points where others who so describe themselves are looking. Sydney’s diocesan synod recently opposed adoption of the “Anglican Covenant”. Liturgically it continues fighting nineteenth-century style battles putting energy where most have even forgotten that there was once controversy. Priests “ministers” are… Continue Reading
Br Colin Wilfred RIP
Brother Colin Wilfred SSF died August 2nd, in Canterbury, England. He had been suffering for some time of pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive lung disease. Brother Colin was in his early 70s. Brother Colin was a member of the Society of St Francis, the Anglican Franciscans. [UK site; NZ site] Br Colin will be well known… Continue Reading
Anglican worship chaos
Anglican worship in NZ is chaotic, anarchic. I have written previously about how in NZ Anglicanism there are so many options for worship there is little to no sense of there being “Common Prayer” here. But allowed flexibility isn’t the subject of this post. The focus of this post is that, even with this enormous… Continue Reading
Earthquake meanderings
The pope prayed for the victims of the Christchurch earthquake. Many were pleased that after this quake the Archbishop of Canterbury sent a message to Bishop Victoria Matthews: We are all thinking of you constantly in the wake of (the) terrible news, and our prayers are with you. The devastation of the Cathedral is dreadful,… Continue Reading
Open letter to TPLWG
The Common Life Liturgical Commission (CLLC) is the provincial liturgical body of the three-tikanga (cultural streams) church, The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The Tikanga Pakeha Liturgical Working Group (TPLWG) is the pakeha liturgical committee, with at least a representative from each diocese, that feeds in to the CLLC. TPLWG meets three… Continue Reading
what is common prayer?
Like the word “Christian”, we use “common prayer” often enough, but maybe when we try to define it we end up with a spectrum with different people and groups having varying edges beyond which their definition stops. So – what is common prayer? For the purpose of this post, not a rhetorical question but a… Continue Reading