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 would like you to answer a question. In Stuart Townend and Keith Getty’s song In Christ alone there are the words: “Till on that cross as Jesus died, The wrath of God was satisfied” What do those words in that song mean? What is the plain sense of those words? I’m not asking you… Continue Reading
Our Orthodox brothers and sisters are in the Great and Holy Week leading up to Eastern Easter on Sunday. This video is from the vibrant Holy Cross Orthodox Church, which serves the Piedmont Triad (Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem). Services are entirely in English. The Palm Sunday procession is inside because it is raining. We join… Continue Reading
Today, Monday 18 March (Gregorian Calendar), is the beginning of Great Lent in Orthodoxy. In the early church, Easter was celebrated on different days by different communities: on the day of Passover (whatever the day of the week), on the Sunday following Passover. Inevitably Christians would come to calculate Easter without needing to be dependent… Continue Reading
So you say: “I believe everything in the Bible”. Which one? Which Bible? Does that include everything in 2 Esdras? What about Judith? Ummmm… Tobit? What about that book so popular in the early church: Ecclesiasticus (even called by a churchy name)? “Ummm…”, says Average Christian, “just a minute, let me look them up…” “Hey,… Continue Reading
Tomorrow, in the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, is the Feast of “Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary“. The Calendar is a binding formulary of our church. We promise and sign that we believe and will teach what our formularies present. If I were to cast doubts on Mary’s mother being… Continue Reading
This video is a rockin trip through the Ten Commandments. The video honours the feast of Shavuot (Pentecost), the holiday when the Jewish people commemorate receiving the Torah (Law) at Mount Sinai. People very quickly talk about the “Ten Commandments” as if we all agree on what that refers to. There are two versions in… Continue Reading
This is the recent lecture by Fr John Behr at Augustine College. Fr John is Dean of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (New York, USA), where he teaches Patristics. The lecture is an hour long – but/and worth it. Fr John challenges the pulp and popular positions that early catholicity was monolithic, autocratic, homogeneous; despoiling… Continue Reading
