God of wisdom and insight,
you enlighten the eyes of our heart,
help us to see what is eternally good and true,
and, having glimpsed them,
may we always strive to grow in them
until we come to the joys of heaven;
we ask this through Jesus the Light of the World,
who is alive with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God now and for ever.
Amen.
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NZ Prayer Book Case Study
The history and various different developments of a collect for Sunday. And the discovery that the 2020 NZ Prayer Book was retyped.
Love NZ Prayer Book Case Study
In a church that desperately needs renewal in common worship and spirituality, the perception of the irrelevant aridity of liturgy is reinforced by debating removing “the” from “The Season of Easter”.
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A braided river does not have a clearly-defined channel. There are approximate banks to the river, and between these sides, the streams are always moving across the wide river’s bed. If the edges, the banks, become too ill defined, the danger is, of course, that the river simply becomes a swamp. This is a very good image for worship in New Zealand’s Anglicanism.
Worship Is Like A Braided River Read More »
A PDF version of A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa – that you can search, that you can have on your phone and use offline.
New Zealand Prayer Book PDF
He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa Read More »
Are the majority of us forbidden from using some of the services in the 2020 book with the title A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa? TEC has shown one way forward to solving some of our issues. No Church has needed to deal with the others we’ve uniquely created.
Episcopal Church Shows NZ A Way Forward Read More »
For Anglicans, the collect was once a much-loved, well-polished prayer that Anglicans and others knew by heart. New Zealand’s collects have degenerated into a vast collection that blurs into non-memorable mediocrity and confusion.
Creator of the vast expanding universe,we your insignificant creaturespraise you and give you thanksfor the individual loving care, for the guardian angel each one of us receives;for even the hairs on our head are counted. Our binding formulary, A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa (1989), has us celebrate, on October 2,
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