Sadly, the eighth day of Easter (and I may blog about the significance of 8), is often referred to as “Low” Sunday – even in the New Zealand Lectionary! Commentary on the collect/opening prayer for Sunday April 11. I am firmly in favour of calling this the “Second Sunday of Easter” and opposed to it
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Yesterday was “Monday in Easter Week” in the official Anglican Prayer Book, A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa (NZPB page 593). Today is “Tuesday in Easter Week” (page 594). Tomorrow is… ummm… well not mentioned actually! This “tradition” goes all the way back to the First Prayer Book of Edward VI.
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A Southern Hemisphere Easter photographic reflection in my garden (part 6) Click here for part 1 Click here for part 2 Click here for part 3 Click here for part 4 Click here for part 5 If you did not know that a butterfly emerges from the chrysalis cocoon, having watched the process thus far,
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Χριστός ανέστη εκ νεκρών, θανάτω θάνατον πατήσας, και τοις εν τοις μνήμασι ζωήν χαρισάμενος. Christos Anesti ek nekron, thanato thanaton patisas, kai tis en tis mnimasi zoin harisamenos. Christ is risen from the dead, by death is death down-trod, and to those in the tombs, life is bestowed.
Note: Today is NOT “Easter Saturday”. Easter Saturday is next Saturday, April 10 2010. Easter Monday is April 5 (not last Monday), Easter Tuesday is April 6, etc. Christ descended to the dead A reading from an ancient homily for Holy Saturday What is happening? Today there is a great silence over the earth, a
A Southern Hemisphere Good Friday photographic reflection in my garden (part 5) Click here for part 1 Click here for part 2 Click here for part 3 Click here for part 4
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In the icon the cross is the axis of the world. It is the Tree of Life. Golgotha is presented as the site of Adam’s burial. The skull represents that. The blood of Christ flows onto humanity represented by Adam and Eve. The cross echoes the tree from which Adam and Eve ate. You are
In a move that has caught all commentators by great surprise, the pope announced at his general audience in The Paul VI Audience Hall (April 1) that during his forthcoming visit to England he has accepted the invitation to “be Archbishop of Canterbury for a day”. In the tradition of “President/CEO/Prime Minister for a day”
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