“So this is where our movement came along and finally got the Bible right” “Jesus is so lucky to have us”
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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.
Tag Archives: ecumenism
online library
The World Council of Churches on 23 September launched the first online digital library covering theology and ecumenism, called GlobeTheoLib. “The time has come to launch a new model of ecumenical sharing of theological resources in order to prepare world Christianity for the 21st century,” said WCC general secretary the Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit. Registration… Continue Reading
Anglicans and Roman Catholics celebrate Pentecost together
Anglicans from the diocese of Qu’Appelle and Roman Catholics from the archdiocese of Regina celebrated the Day of Pentecost together at Holy Rosary Cathedral in Regina, Canada. The Anglican bishop and the Roman Catholic bishop led the ecumenical service. The joint service was the result of the covenant between the two dioceses, signed in January… Continue Reading
Christian unity?
“Those that say it can’t be done should get out of the way of those doing it.” Chinese Proverb I have not been to the monastery of Bose, but, reading about it, I can see some similarities with the ecumenical monastery of Taizé (I have had a fascination with Taizé since my teenage years, have… Continue Reading
Newman’s feast day rubs Anglican noses in it
The great Christian tradition is that for the church’s calendar you celebrate a person on the day of their death. John Henry Newman died August 11, 1890. The Church of England, hence, appropriately, has Newman on the calendar August 11. Today the pope, Benedict XVI, beatifies Newman and announces that for Roman Catholics, Newman’s feast… Continue Reading
Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed
June 28 2008 Benedict XVI, Patriarch of the West, and Bartholemew I, Ecumencial Patriarch of Constantinople recited together the “Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed”. Πιστεύω είς ενα Θεόν, Πατέρα, παντοκράτορα, ποιητήν ουρανού καί γής, ορατών τε πάντων καί αοράτων. Καί είς ενα Κύριον, Ίησούν Χριστόν, τόν Υιόν του Θεού τόν μονογενή, τόν εκ του Πατρός γεννηθέντα πρό πάντων… Continue Reading
Ascension Day
There is much to enrich us in monastic spirituality. Benedictine spirituality in many ways is the undergirding spirituality of Anglicanism. The monastic tradition of “fuga mundi” (“flee the world”), however, is too easily misinterpreted as an anti-creation, other-worldly, so-heavenly-minded-as-to-be-of-no-earthly-use spirituality. This has little validity in a world in ecological crisis, or in a religion that… Continue Reading