The Readings Textweek Resources collect/opening prayer reflection October 24 and week following [CofE Common Worship] collect/opening prayer reflection October 24 and week following [NZPB/HKMA] Once again Catholics and Episcopalians pray a translation of the same prayer this Sunday. Catholics will pray: Almighty and ever-living God, strengthen our faith, hope, and love. May we do with
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An acquaintance is working on a PhD and is looking for people to take part in an online survey who: are over the age of 16, have some form of spiritual or religious belief, and have seen a mental health practitioner at some point in their lives (e.g., counsellor, psychologist, psychiatrist). It’s important that people
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October 18 is the feast of Saint Luke Almighty God, you called Luke the physician, whose praise is in the gospel, to be an evangelist and physician of the soul: by the grace of the Spirit and through the wholesome medicine of the gospel, give your Church the same love and power to heal; through
Someone stands up and and addresses a group: “The Bible says,…” and proceeds to quote. Recent comments on this site encourage me to write a series of blog posts to help nuance such a declaration. We do not have a single original biblical manuscript. We have copies. And, careful as we know that those who
This Sunday, October 17, is the canonisation of Mary MacKillop. The Roman Catholic bishops in New Zealand, as I understand it, are allowing parishes to use the propers for her feast (readings and prayers set) instead of the Sunday readings set. I am intrigued that the propers for a memorial (I presume that is the
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The above video shows the rescue of the first Chilean miner. All 33 miners are safe – there were 17 days when there was no knowledge if they had survived and searching for them was nearly abandoned. In that time they lived on some spoons of tuna, a little milk and a biscuit every 48
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I was recently sent a complimentary copy of the New Testament in the Common English Bible translation. A quick check on my personal library shelf: I think I have 30 or so contemporary English translations of the Bible or significant parts of the Bible. If you want to make money, it seems, produce a new
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The Readings Textweek Resources collect/opening prayer reflection October 17 and week following [BCP TEC] Please add your own ideas, resources, hymns, prayers, etc. in the comments section.
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