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.
Pentecost Vigil Pentecost (Whitsunday) reflection on the collect for the Day of Pentecost The Day of Pentecost ends the Easter Season – it is the culmination of the Great Fifty Days of the Easter season. Monday May 28 in fact is Monday in the 8th Ordinary Week. The 7th Ordinary Week began February 19. Then… Continue Reading
On the second day of Passover an omer of barley was cut down and brought to the Temple as an offering. Every night, from the second night of Passover to the night before Shavu’ot (Pentecost), there is a blessing Baruch atah A-donai E-loheinu Melekh Ha-olam asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu al S’firat Ha-omer. (“Blessed are You,… Continue Reading
Regulars here will know that the NZ Lectionary publication is an easy target for a blog post about liturgical confusion. It has been three weeks since my last post about this – I have successfully been resisting the temptation to point out issues in the NZ Lectionary. But regulars will also know that when it… Continue Reading
OK – so there’s a few obsessions that Bosco has: collects, unfussy worship, allowing symbols to speak for themselves,… and… that Easter is fifty days. Great Christian festivals begin in the evening after sunset, are celebrated through the day and on into the next evening. But Bosco thinks Easter begins in the evening with the… Continue Reading
This site is firmly committed to the Easter Season being 50 days. Hence I invite you to the annual facebook “event” Easter is 50 days. Please “attend” and invite others. I created the chart, above, to illustrate how the seasons of Lent and Easter fit together. This period forms a quarter of the year. The… Continue Reading
Our bishop recently wrote to the diocese, “The season of Epiphany extends to Ash Wednesday”. Well, in Canada, yes. And in The Episcopal Church. But not in New Zealand Anglicanism. Not this year anyway (yep, two years ago it was true here). In this year’s NZ Anglican Lectionary(PDF download), this coming Sunday (29 January) is… Continue Reading
If Ashes to Fire is “authorised” will all other possibilities from Ash Wednesday until the Day of Pentecost be illegal? Currently everything in Ashes to Fire (a resource for the Lent and Easter Seasons) is allowed to be used. But currently you can also use resources from the Canadian Book of Alternative Services, from the… Continue Reading
