Having criticised the pope for his choice of Newman’s feast day, and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s clear inability to find a spine and say to the pope that Anglicans are aggrieved, I keep waiting for the knock at the door for the Anglican equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition:
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The great Christian tradition is that for the church’s calendar you celebrate a person on the day of their death. John Henry Newman died August 11, 1890. The Church of England, hence, appropriately, has Newman on the calendar August 11. Today the pope, Benedict XVI, beatifies Newman and announces that for Roman Catholics, Newman’s feast
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Pope Benedict XVI is visiting the UK from 16 to 19 September. This is the first papal visit there since that of John Paul II in 1982. His tour is not without controversy. I understand more Latin will be used in the liturgy than previously. You can download the service planned in Westminster Abbey from
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Make Preparation: Liturgy Planning Notes By Paul Gibson (free download). Thank you so much to David who, in a comment on this site, alerted me to this wonderful new (free) online resource. The Canadian Anglican Book of Alternative Services (BAS) came out in 1985. It was a significant new Anglican prayer book. Contemporary, renewed liturgy
This information is for Catholics only. It must not be divulged to non-Catholics. The less they know about Catholic rituals and code words, the better off they are. AMEN: The only part of a prayer that everyone knows. BULLETIN: Your receipt for attending Mass. CHOIR: A group of people whose singing allows the rest of
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The Readings Textweek Resources collect/opening prayer reflection September 19 and week following [NZPB] BCP (TEC) Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure; through Jesus Christ our
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Holy Cross Day, September 14, is called in Greek Ὕψωσις τοῦ Τιμίου Σταυροῦ (literally, “Raising Aloft of the Precious Cross”). In Latin it is called Exaltatio Sanctae Crucis (literally, “Raising Aloft/Exaltation/Triumph of the Holy Cross”. The True Cross is said to have been discovered in 326 by Helena, mother of Constantine. The Church of the
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Do you have an earthquake story? Moving, funny, scary,… A friend of mine, who lives with his parents, in the dark, after the quake, rang his parents in England to ask where the torch was… Sam Johnson set up a Facebook Page “Student Volunteer base for Earthquake clean up”. This has a pool of 3,622
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