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.
This blog post complements Architectural Design Guidelines 1 by providing some notes around the Christian tradition of orientating church buildings to face East. In some sense, then, you can regard this post as Architectural Design Guidelines 1a – footnotes on church building orientation. I hope this post interests many even though it is driven by… Continue Reading
The new music video from OK Go, made in partnership with Chevrolet. OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument… Continue Reading
Ron Rolheiser writes: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once suggested that peace and justice will come to us when we reach a high enough psychic temperature so as to burn away the things that still hold us apart. … Advent is about getting in touch with our longing. It’s about letting our yearnings raise our psychic… Continue Reading
The latest Taonga magazine is out. There’s an article of mine in it on acedia. Especially for those who cannot get hold of the Taonga magazine, this is what I wrote: The sun beats down unremittingly from a cloudless sky bleached ashen. The monk, alone in the desert, finds every minute of the day excruciating…. Continue Reading
Prayers, lighting a virtual candle, etc. can always be found at the virtual chapel on this site. Prayers written for the Haiti earthquake (author unknown) can be adapted Lord, at times such as this, When we realize that the ground beneath our feet is not as solid as we had imagined, We plead for your… Continue Reading
I was visiting Akaroa recently and saw this notice of their Covenant outside the Presbyterian Church: Our Covenant Banks Peninsula Presbyterian Parish We covenant to respect the diversity of belief among ourselves as together we grow in understanding of God and of our own lives. Respect means that we will surround the other person with… Continue Reading
The above video shows the rescue of the first Chilean miner. All 33 miners are safe – there were 17 days when there was no knowledge if they had survived and searching for them was nearly abandoned. In that time they lived on some spoons of tuna, a little milk and a biscuit every 48… Continue Reading
