textweek resources
scripture readings
• collect/opening prayer reflection for February 6 and week following (NZPB)
• collect/opening prayer reflection for February 6 and week following (Common Worship CofE)
BCP (TEC)
Set us free, O God, from the bondage of our sins,
and give us the liberty of that abundant life
which you have made known to us in your Son our Savior Jesus Christ;
who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Salt in Jesus’ day was used as a disinfectant and as a preservative. Salt enhanced the good and limited the bad. That seems to me to be a wonderful description of our vocation: to enhance the good and limit the bad…
The Church of England begins counting backwards to Lent: 5th Sunday before Lent. The ever-flexible Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia calls this Sunday by the CofE name, by “5th Sunday in Ordinary Time”. Last Sunday was the 4th Sunday after Epiphany – but this Sunday doesn’t seem to carry on that counting. Here it is also Waitangi Day, and the Sunday focusing on the Anglican Association of Women…
Please add your suggestions for hymns, sermons, prayers, etc…
For this weekend or any other…suggestion: How about the growing problem world-wide of Human Trafficking? Several examples in the Bibles itself and plenty of research material (for example on YouTube).
Thank you! Blessings! =)