Our Father, who are in the heavens, may your name be sanctified, may your kingdom come, may your will be done, just as in heaven, so also in earth. Our daily bread give to us today, and let us off our debts, just as we also let off our debtors. And lead us not into
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Click here for further Christchurch earthquake updates. It appears that WordPress only allows a post to go to a certain length – so this post has been misbehaving recently. Sorry. Christchurch and Canterbury suffered a devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on Saturday September 5 at 4:35am. This has been followed by hundreds of aftershocks, many
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Father’s Day in New Zealand and Australia 2010 is Sunday, September 5. The gospel reading read by most Christians this Sunday is Luke 14:25-33 Jesus said …Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple…. More on special
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From New Zealand’s Roman Catholic National Liturgy Office: On 30 April 2010 the major English-speaking countries were informed that Rome had granted the recognitio (approval) for the new Mass texts of the universal edition of the Roman Missal (Third Edition). The Conferences of Bishops in those countries have been awaiting delivery of these texts, so
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Put up your hand if you believe that children should not be fed until they can at least articulate the five food groups. Put up your hand if you fully understand the Eucharist. Put up your hand if you understand x% of all there is to be understood about the Eucharist, and at the current
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Mary Margaret Douglas tells the story of Noah
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Commentary on the collect for today and the week following, from NZPB Textweek resources It is Fathers Day in Australia and New Zealand, but not in Canada, USA, or UK,… This is the start of the Creation Season for some. This site is against abandoning the RCL, or RC three year lectionary. In my opinion,
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