Today is brought to you … by the numbers fifty and twenty-five A couple of posts ago I wrote about the number 8. 8 = 7+1, so it is about abundance, fresh start, resurrection. 50 has similarities, it is 7×7 +1 49 is a sabbath of sabbaths – 50 is the start of a new
See here for a commentary on the collect/opening prayer for this Sunday. The forty days of Lent are to prepare for the fifty days of Easter. Is that continuing to be your experience? How was your experience of Easter 4? Where I worshiped I was again delighted that the Easter Greeting was used (Alleluia! Christ
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Today is brought to you… by the number eight In Greek 8= η (Eta) In Hebrew 8= ח (Het) 8 = 7+1 ie. 8 is beginning again (as in the musical scale) a new beginning the eighth day is the beginning of a new week The ark has 8 people saved through the water (2
Place the above story alongside the banning of a nurse in the UK from wearing a cross around her neck (as she has been for the last 30 years). I understand that in the same context Muslim workers are exempt from hygiene rules which stipulate their forearms must not be covered. And we all know
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The Quenya translation is by J.R.R. Tolkien (published in Vinyar Tengwar #43). Átaremma i ëa han ëa, na aire esselya, aranielya na tuluva, na care indómelya cemende tambe Erumande. Ámen anta síra ilaurëa massamma, ar ámen apsene úcaremmar sív’ emme apsenet tien i úcarer emmen. Álame tulya úsahtienna mal áme etelehta ulcullo. Násie. The Lord’s
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The last NZ Catholic reports the Advertising Standards Complaints Board not upholding complaints about the offensiveness of the Christmas billboard of St Matthew’s in the City. I do not want to discuss the billboard here – there are plenty of other sites to do that. Nor the Easter billboard, which some regard as even more
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A moving story appeared in our local newspaper recently about former Cistercian monk who has spent the last 50 years building a cathedral by himself near Madrid. The article was a reprint from the Times. There it appeared April 1 and there had to be assurances that this was not an April Fool joke. There
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I was in a gift shop with a cafe, having a coffee, when I spotted the above Maria & Jesus salt & pepper grinders for sale. I went over to the counter with “Maria” and asked the young woman working there: “Who is this?” She paused, hesitated, looked at the box (“Maria”, it says). “Mary
