The Episcopal Church’s Executive Council has been looking at statistics of declining attendance. Peter Carrell and Episcopal Cafe are two places drawing attention to the report. My first degree is in Mathematics – my first comment is take the greatest of care in interpreting statistics, it is not for nothing that we speak of “Lies,
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading Matthew 6:7-15 7 [Jesus said] “When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for
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Pope Benedict XVI announced on Friday that Mother Mary MacKillop would be one of six canonised at a Vatican ceremony on October 17. Together with Father Julian Tenison Woods, Mary MacKillop founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. She was for a while excommunicated, but now there are more than a thousand
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading Matthew 25:31-46 31 [Jesus said] “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him,
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The Rev. Canon Dr. Kendall Harmon (yes Anglicans love their titles ;-)) has posted a video on his site which he calls “Archbishop Rowan Williams’s video message to mark the beginning of Lent 2010”. When I clicked to watch it I straight away recalled I had seen it before. It is in fact last year’s
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I have created this chart to help clarify how the Lent and Easter Seasons fit into the year. This period forms a quarter of the year. The forty days of Lent is an approximate tenth or tithe of the year. The fifty days of the Easter Season is approximately a seventh of the year –
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading Luke 5:27-32 27 After this [Jesus] went out and saw a tax-collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ 28And he got up, left everything, and followed him. 29 Then Levi gave
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I have already given instructions on how to make a simple, free website quickly using WordPress. That is the system I recommend as it satisfies simple, free, quick – and it is also very powerful. But there are a number of other free, simple, quick systems that you might like to try and play around
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