Here is a link to is a reflection on the collect/opening prayer for the seventh Sunday of Easter, May 24. Here is a link to is a reflection on the collect/opening prayer from BCP (TEC) Common Worship etc. for the seventh Sunday of Easter, May 24.
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This is the week when the 40-day Easter Seasoners part company from the 50-day Easter Seasoners. Many of us, I’m sure, know of communities still adding Alleluias to responses and still using Easter greetings. Enthusiasm may be waning. On Thursday is Ascension Day, when the temptation for many is to snuff out the Easter Candle
Let us play I have written previously about (children’s) play as a model for liturgy. “As children we play at what may one day become a reality.” (Celebrating Eucharist Chapter 1). These videos bring in another dimension of “play” – playing music together. In this case a mobile recording studio recorded the same song in
I am only sorry I did not discover this illustration for you for the fourth Sunday of Easter – but you can always store it away for next year! Meanwhile enjoy 🙂
Twitter is a fast-growing “micro-blogging” site. A person places a post, a “tweet”, of up to 140 characters in length. This is displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers). This very simple idea has developed with a plethora of online tools and applications.
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We all, from time to time, encounter individuals (even online or elsewhere) who claim to follow the Bible literally in every detail – but a little pressing shows them to be selective in what they actually adhere to and what they ignore or sidestep. Bart Ehrman was such a person. Raised in the Episcopal Church
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Here is a link to is a reflection on the collect/opening prayer for the sixth Sunday of Easter, May 17. [Whilst the formulary, the NZPrayer Book p704 surprisingly has the “Stir up…” collect we usually associate with the Sunday before Advent, the 2009 lectionary points to the above collect instead] Here is a link to
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Sinéad and Noirin Ni Riain sing the Regina Caeli [recorded at Glenstal Abbey late one evening in one take]. This is one of the Marian antiphons, with versicles and prayers, traditionally said or sung after Compline (Night Prayer). It is prayed throughout the Easter Season. It can also be prayed in place of the Angelus
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