This week is the eighth week in Ordinary Time (Counting Time). Sunday, May 30, Trinity Sunday takes precedence and hence replaces the Sunday in the ninth week in Ordinary Time. Here is a reflection on the collect/opening prayer for Trinity Sunday. On the top of this page is Rublev’s icon of the Trinity reflection 1
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I have written before about the concerns I have when every service, or the majority of services, follow the model of being a “seeker service” – with a primary focus on seeking to convert people, and even have them drawn into the life of the Christian community. The primary focus and goal of worship, IMO,
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The Anglican Church of Canada joins the Church of England, the Scottish Episcopal Church, The Episcopal Church (USA), and others in placing their liturgical texts online. The goals are to assist liturgy planners and to encourage future web-based work of liturgical text development. Every week many worship planners spend hours on their computers, researching and
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Here is a reflection on the collect/opening prayer for the Day of Pentecost. Here are suggestions that may be incorporated into a Day of Pentecost service. Thought-provoking Easter video
Having watched nasty, ad hominem, caustic comments become seriously destructive on websites and in some cases result in the site closing down, I was very wary about opening this site up for comments. But I was constantly urged to do so. And finally gave in, setting up a quite strong comment policy. In the event,
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H/t Bob Chapman posted on the Liturgy page It is still Easter. I encourage you to “attend” this event, especially at a time when many are forgetting this.
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The Day of Pentecost ends the Easter Season – it is the culmination of the Great Fifty Days of the Easter season. Here is a reflection on the collect/opening prayer for the Day of Pentecost. Here are suggestions that may be incorporated into a Day of Pentecost service. Although the next time some Christians will
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As is not unusual, I have again had email questions about the NZ Anglican lectionary choice of the colour Red as the liturgical colour from after Ascension Day up to and including the Day of Pentecost, and hence including what the lectionary terms the “7th Sunday of Easter”. Firstly let me reinforce what the lectionary
