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 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 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
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
Last month I wrote an open letter to the pakeha liturgical committee of our church (Tikanga Pakeha Liturgical Working Group – TPLWG) pleading with them not to continue down the direction of abandoning the Trinitarian collects of our Western Christian heritage. The collect is the central prayer of the Liturgy of the Word. Just as… Continue Reading
Like the word “Christian”, we use “common prayer” often enough, but maybe when we try to define it we end up with a spectrum with different people and groups having varying edges beyond which their definition stops. So – what is common prayer? For the purpose of this post, not a rhetorical question but a… Continue Reading
O give thanks to our God who is good: whose love endures forever. You sun and moon, you stars of the southern sky: give to our God your thanks and praise. Sunrise and sunset, night and day: give to our God your thanks and praise. All mountains and valleys, grassland and scree, glacier, avalanche, mist… Continue Reading
Occasionally, I acknowledge, it is difficult to help people with a service solely by instructions in the Prayer Book’s rubrics. Sometimes it is better to provide a video of the rite, especially in this technological age. I hope, hence, you all find the following video very helpful in implementing this in your worship community. Especially… Continue Reading
