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
On Monday I will talk to over 650 young people about priesthood and how I got to be a priest. Last Monday about 130 of these young men aged about 16 years old went to a careers expo. In the past the Anglican Diocese has had a stall there with an attractive brochure about priesthood
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Occasionally, I acknowledge, it is difficult to help people with a service solely by instructions in the Prayer Book’s rubrics. Sometimes it is better to provide a video of the rite, especially in this technological age. I hope, hence, you all find the following video very helpful in implementing this in your worship community. Especially
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There is much to enrich us in monastic spirituality. Benedictine spirituality in many ways is the undergirding spirituality of Anglicanism. The monastic tradition of “fuga mundi” (“flee the world”), however, is too easily misinterpreted as an anti-creation, other-worldly, so-heavenly-minded-as-to-be-of-no-earthly-use spirituality. This has little validity in a world in ecological crisis, or in a religion that
