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 am looking forward to seeing the movie Of Gods and Men. It is receiving wonderful reviews (92% at Rottentomatoes). This film is a dramatisation of the well-known story of the Cistercian monastery at Tibhirine, Algeria. There nine monks lived in harmony with the largely Muslim population. In 1996 during the Algerian Civil War seven… Continue Reading
Our local newspaper, usually not interested in religion, last week printed an article by Aleks Krotoski about the effect of the internet on religion. This included (with my emphasis): Online, contrary to Nietzsche’s allegation, God is most certainly not dead. The web is littered with sacred spaces and, if anything, He (or She or It)… Continue Reading
“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
I think I know in my heart what I want to say in this and a future related post – but I also have an intuition that what I write may be misheard. But hey! Like that’s never happened before so here goes: Many of us will have been to a service with so many… Continue Reading
I regularly, sadly, find myself in situations where people appear to think that liturgy is essentially singing and reciting lovely poetry to one another. My trying to shift towards some balance by stressing action, gesture, environment, structure, etc. in those contexts is usually met with bemused confusion. Let’s think about silence in liturgy. Claude Debussy… Continue Reading
The post on balancing East and West in our Christian devotion was received with much enthusiasm. Here is a beautiful example of chanting by nuns in a Monastery of northern Greek Mainland (Hsuxastirio Timiou Prodromou Akritoxoriou Sidirokastrou Serron). The Hymn is an extract from a book called “Theotokario” and it is dedicated to the Theotokos,… Continue Reading
I first read about the Australian Fr Lazarus, living in the cave of St Anthony, in the book Desert Father: In the Desert with Saint Anthony. I wasn’t sure if Fr Lazarus actually was a useful literary construct rather than an actual person until I watched the BBC series of Fr Peter Owen-Jones Extreme Pilgrim… Continue Reading
