I don’t wear one, but someone came and asked me what the knots of the cincture (cord around the waist over the alb) mean. I’m afraid that my response, “they mean that you don’t end up tripping up over the cord,” didn’t satisfy this person. Something completely made up, like: “one knot represents the divinity
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Before I went to Spain to walk the Camino de Santiago, I knew about the saying, “Ultreia!” and the response, “et Suseia!”. “Ultreia!” was what one pilgrim said to another, and “et Suseia!” is the reply. This Latin/French/Spanish means something like, “Go further!” and “And go higher!” The words appear in the 11th century hymn,
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I have mentioned the CS Lewis poem previously. I think it is worth highlighting in its own post: He whom I bow to only knows to whom I bow When I attempt the ineffable Name, murmuring Thou, And dream of Pheidian fancies and embrace in heart Symbols (I know) which cannot be the thing Thou
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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
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I consider the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) as a gift from the Holy Spirit to the church. Although at the grass-roots level relationships between people of different denominations are healthy, at the power levels of institutional Christianity ecumenism has pretty much, in spite of innumerable meetings and reports, come to …. nought. Yet, Sunday by
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In preparing for a blog post I was re-reading some of CS Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters in which a senior devil called Screwtape is writing to his nephew, a junior devil named Wormwood, giving him advice on how to entrap a human called “the Patient.” In my reading I noticed again this passage (from letter
I gave an address on the Prince Caspian movie on Monday. With it still running in several cinemas there is opportunity for some to still catch it on the big screen.
