The Rev. Canon Dr. Kendall Harmon (yes Anglicans love their titles ;-)) has posted a video on his site which he calls “Archbishop Rowan Williams’s video message to mark the beginning of Lent 2010”. When I clicked to watch it I straight away recalled I had seen it before. It is in fact last year’s
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I have created this chart to help clarify how the Lent and Easter Seasons fit into the year. This period forms a quarter of the year. The forty days of Lent is an approximate tenth or tithe of the year. The fifty days of the Easter Season is approximately a seventh of the year –
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading Luke 5:27-32 27 After this [Jesus] went out and saw a tax-collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ 28And he got up, left everything, and followed him. 29 Then Levi gave
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I have already given instructions on how to make a simple, free website quickly using WordPress. That is the system I recommend as it satisfies simple, free, quick – and it is also very powerful. But there are a number of other free, simple, quick systems that you might like to try and play around
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading Luke 9:22-25 22 Jesus said, “The Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.” 23 Then he said to them
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Let us pray in silence for grace to keep Lent faithfully. pause Almighty and merciful God, you hate nothing that you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent; create in us new and contrite hearts, so that when we turn to you and confess our sins we may receive your full
“Shrove” is the past tense of the verb “shrive” – “to obtain absolution for oneself by confessing and doing penance”: God of infinite mercy, grant that we who know your compassion may rejoice in your forgiveness and gladly forgive others for the sake of Jesus Christ our Saviour who is alive with with you and
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Archbishop Jabez Bryce, the longest-serving bishop in the Anglican Communion, has died aged 75 in Suva, Fiji. Archbishop Jabez was the first Pacific Islander to become an Anglican bishop. Jabez was born in Vavaʻu, in Tonga, he grew up in Samoa and trained for the priesthood at St John’s College in Auckland, New Zealand. His
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