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
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Tag Archives: prayer book
synod news
Framed by moving, excellent, regular worship, and with a healthy, positive, central focus on our response to the earthquake, the Christchurch Anglican diocesan synod debated some important liturgical issues. I spoke against our diocese giving assent to “authorise” (scare quotes essential) Ashes to Fire, a confused and confusing statute coming to us from General Synod… Continue Reading
Sir Paul Reeves RIP
Bishop Sir Paul Reeves died in Auckland Sunday morning, 14 August. He was aged 78. The Reeves whanau (family) wish to acknowledge the immense support they have received since Sir Paul announced he was stepping back from most aspects of his public life after the recent diagnosis of cancer. The immediate whanau will spend some… Continue Reading
cardboard cathedral
Last weekend the media featured the announcement of the possibility of a temporary, cardboard replacement for the earthquake-damaged Christ Church Cathedral designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. The Anglican cathedral would be built with locally produced cardboard tubes erected in an A-shape, with shipping containers used as foundations. The hope is to have it up… Continue Reading
NZ illicit Prayer Book printing?
I would like what I write in this post to be wrong. I would like someone in a comment to write: this blog-post is completely mistaken because of A, B, C… A printing of a revised New Zealand Prayer Book is being planned which has not followed the required process of revision. A New Zealand… Continue Reading
Anglican worship chaos
Anglican worship in NZ is chaotic, anarchic. I have written previously about how in NZ Anglicanism there are so many options for worship there is little to no sense of there being “Common Prayer” here. But allowed flexibility isn’t the subject of this post. The focus of this post is that, even with this enormous… Continue Reading
digital New Zealand Prayer Book
I regularly get asked if A New Zealand Prayer Book (NZPB) is available on a website, like Common Worship, or TEC’s BCP. Here is the reason why it is not online: Status update on NZ Anglican Church’s relationship with the copyright of its own Prayer Book: it’s complicated But a new, currently-free, computer program (WePray… Continue Reading