The above made me laugh. OK, I’ve got about 75,000 people following me on Twitter, and I appear to be the second most followed person in my country – but, let’s not take it too, too seriously 🙂 Then, after a little poking around I found: But, having seen the above two clips, I found
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A week ago Rev. Jeffrey MacDonald, a minister in the United Church of Christ (author of “Thieves in the Temple: The Christian Church and the Selling of the American Soul”) sent a IMO very timely warning in the New York Times. He writes about the increasing demand for church services to be entertaining. Particularly, he
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I cannot remember how I recently fell over this video. Sorry if I didn’t credit you. It is part of a 1964 vocations movie for the Dominicans. I think there is much that is fascinating here – let alone how much has changed in four and a half decades. People often think that the vows
Father, I abandon myself into your hands; do with me what you will. Whatever you may do, I thank you: I am ready for all, I accept all. Let only your will be done in me, and in all your creatures – I wish no more than this, O Lord. Into your hands I commend
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Is the Pope serious?! Or has the Vatican PR machine merely given up being concerned about even attempting to prevent publicity gaffes in the current administration? Are the half a billion women Roman Catholics mostly silently compliant? How are the world’s three-quarters of a million nuns and religious sisters reacting? Benedict XVI is, apparently, the
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The Readings for the Ordinary Sunday Textweek resources Assumption and Dormition of Mary Textweek resources collect/opening prayer reflection August 15 and week following [NZPB] collect/opening prayer reflection August 15 and week following [BCP TEC] St Mary, the mother of Jesus/Dormition/Assumption Collect from Common Worship O God, you declare your almighty power most chiefly in showing
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“We are all atheists about most gods. Some of us just go one god further.” This is possibly one of the most interesting/intriguing of the three billboards that are currently up around New Zealand. Mathematically, the quote seems to argue for theism. In fact for polytheism! I could express it algebraically – but, for the
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On this day in 1945, someone climbed not a holy mountain, but into the cockpit of a plane – a machine of war. There had been a lull of a week in the fighting between America and Japan. The Americans had a new secret weapon and they wanted to use it with the maximum psychological
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