How social media, web and mobile tell the story of the Nativity. Christmas story told through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, GMail, Foursquare, Amazon… Times change, the reality remains the same. Another cool Christmas video
O Lord of Lords, and ruler of the House of Israel, you appeared to Moses in the fire of the burning bush, and gave him the law on Sinai: come with your outstretched arm and ransom us. Amen. Come Lord Jesus. O Adonai, et dux domus Israël, qui Moyse in igne flammae rubi apparuisti, et
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From at least the eighth century the antiphon before and after the Magnificat at Vespers (Evening Prayer), for the seven days leading up to Christmas Eve, has greeted Christ with a title starting with “O”. These became the basis of the popular carol “O come, O come, Emmanuel”. The initials, when read backwards, form the
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Last month I wrote an open letter to the pakeha liturgical committee of our church (Tikanga Pakeha Liturgical Working Group – TPLWG) pleading with them not to continue down the direction of abandoning the Trinitarian collects of our Western Christian heritage. The collect is the central prayer of the Liturgy of the Word. Just as
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The Christmas Story (2010 version) – as told by the children of St Paul’s Anglican Church, Auckland, NZ. NB. at the end: “based on a true story” ps. have you thought of producing something like this in your community or parish? If you think it is difficult, ask some teenagers to do it for you.
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This is the fourth post in a series that I started by saying that I know in my heart what I mean, but I may express it so poorly that I will be misunderstood. I have been trying to write about communities that focus more on prayer than on programmes, more on God than on
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Textweek resources Scripture readings • collect/opening prayer reflection Advent 4 December 19 and week following [NZPB] Common Worship CofE: God our redeemer, who prepared the Blessed Virgin Mary to be the mother of your Son: grant that, as she looked for his coming as our saviour, so we may be ready to greet him when
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Click here for an online art exhibition from the Episcopal Church Visual Arts. Consider the art in this exhibit as a meditative way to challenge yourself during Advent to not only worship Christ within the walls of the church, or the walls of your heart, but also to seek him and serve him in all
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