Reflections based on collect/opening prayer: Palm Sunday March 28 collect/opening prayer reflection Holy Week collect/opening prayer reflection Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) collect/opening prayer reflection Easter collect/opening prayer reflection A few simple suggestion during Lent What is Lent – especially translating it to the Southern Hemisphere Easter Season reflection Palm Sunday/Passion Sunday service outline Maundy Thursday
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Every March and September our local newspaper, the Press, publishes a liftout Wedding Directory (called “I do“) along with the daily newspaper. Twenty A3 pages very attractively present hints, lists, articles, venues, jewellery, dresses, cakes, flowers, etc. In every previous liftout there has been a church presence, an article, and/or parish or diocesan advertisements. As
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Today is the fourth birthday of twitter. On March 4 the 10 billionth tweet was sent – but we don’t know what the tweet was, because the tweeter has their tweets set on private. See number 6 on this video: A researcher just contacted me and asked: 1) If medium is the message, what do
Are you looking for a new password for your church website? I recently cracked the pope’s login for the Vatican website, it is EtCumSpiri220 (for security reasons I won’t reveal his username). One online password-strength checker suggests it is “strong” which must be why it took me quite a while to crack it. Below there
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Easter Day can occur anywhere between March 22 and April 25. Often Easter Day for the Eastern half of the church is on a different date than for the Western half of the church. This year Eastern and Western Easter falls on the same date: Sunday April 4. Passover this year (5769) commences at sunset
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A recent comment asked why Lent 5 (this coming Sunday), the Sunday before Palm Sunday, was previously called “Passion Sunday”. Was there at some stage of Christian history a reading of the Passion on this day? The Church of England continues to call this “Passion Sunday”. The NZ Lectionary also calls this “Passion Sunday” and
A Southern Hemisphere Lent photographic reflection in my garden (part 4) Click here for part 1 Click here for part 2 Click here for part 3 The caterpillar has stopped eating and found somewhere safe (as a pupa it is incredibly vulnerable). It has become very still and secreted a much thicker and stronger pupal
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I see, from time to time, discussions about “lay presidency” of the Eucharist. In favour of this, regularly the eucharistic rite is dismembered and the discussion quickly degenerates to, “why can a lay person do this bit and not that bit?” This functionalism and legalism is often emotionally undergirded with an anti-catholic attitude {Sydney Anglicans
