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.
I was asked how to add an avatar, a small photo of yourself, to your comment on this site. If you glance at comments on this site you will notice some people have a photo of themselves with their comment. I do. Others do not. The culture of this site is to be yourself here.… Continue Reading
It is still Easter. Yes, the Sunday after Easter Day is … the Second Sunday of Easter, Low Sunday; Station at St. Pancras; Thomas Sunday, Dominica in Albis [Depositis/Deponendis], Quasimodo, Divine Mercy, Octave Day of Easter,… but NOT the Sunday after Easter. The Sunday after Easter is… [OK - you read the answer above]. It… Continue Reading
Great Christian festivals begin in the evening after sunset, are celebrated through the day and on into the next evening. Easter begins in the evening with the Easter Vigil and is celebrated for fifty days as one long festival. It is not one day. It is not 40 days. Easter is a seventh of the… Continue Reading
The shocked reaction, by some, to the above photo, is to assure people that it is photoshopped. You can, they tell us, notice by a crease on the pope’s leg, and by the shiny triangle… etc. etc. Yes, Pope Francis’ style is a bit different. The photo isn’t photoshopped. Here are two images for people… Continue Reading
Habemus Papam! Sede Occupata! Yesterday morning just after 7am I was having my breakfast when the noise from my computer, from the live Vatican feed I had embedded on this site (I had tweeted about this), alerted me. White smoke. My impression, when Jorge Bergoglio, Pope Francis, came out onto the balcony was a moment… Continue Reading
If you agree that Easter is a season not just a day or a week, and that the season lasts fifty days (as is clear at the Council of Nicaea), then please click that you are “going” to Easter is Fifty Days. Easter is a seventh of the year, the Great Sunday of the year,… Continue Reading
I have been trying to encourage Christian individuals and communities to mission and ministry on and through the technological revolution we are in. “Church website” and “rate the church website” are a couple of recent posts of mine, for example. I am not the only one. Kelvin Holdsworth, Provost of St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow, is… Continue Reading
