Anglican worship in NZ is chaotic, anarchic. I have written previously about how in NZ Anglicanism there are so many options for worship there is little to no sense of there being “Common Prayer” here. But allowed flexibility isn’t the subject of this post. The focus of this post is that, even with this enormous
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scripture readings textweek resources This is the Fifth Sunday of Easter (not the fourth Sunday after Easter). • collect/opening prayer reflection for Easter 4 May 15 and week following Please add hymns, prayers, ideas, resources in the comments. Encourage consciousness of Easter being a season, not just a day – “attend” Easter is 50 days
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Stay with the start of this recording, it starts very quietly… part 2 Jesus’ blood never failed me yet never failed me yet Jesus’ blood never failed me yet this one thing I know that He loves me so… This is a 1971 composition by Gavin Bryars. An unknown homeless man sings. It was recorded
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I have argued that the “Anglican Covenant” is not fit for the purpose and won’t do what its proponents intend it to do. I have argued that the actual issue is homosexuality and the Anglican-Covenant-as-solution does not address the issue. Now, as provinces begin to sign the Covenant, my points are being underscored. The Province
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The Torah reading today, Iyyar 10, 5771 (May 14 2011) in the synagogue is called Behar Leviticus 25:1-26:2 It is the shemittah year when the Jewish year is exactly divisible by 7. The last shemittah year was 5768, the next one is 5775. Some bypass this requirement by selling their land to non-Jews for the
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This is not some sort of trick question where I actually know the answer or have strong opinions but I’m hiding them… How can we celebrate the Easter Season better? Let’s work out together some creative ways that we can celebrate the 50 days of the Easter Season at home, in a flat, with a
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There was a facebook conversation which began by Rachel Marszalek saying: It takes 15 Anglicans to change a light bulb: one to do the work and the other 14 to stand around saying how much they preferred the old bulb! To which Alasdair Kay responded: actually what would happen is the standing committee would bat
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scripture readings textweek resources This is the Fourth Sunday of Easter (not the third Sunday after Easter). • collect/opening prayer reflection for Easter 4 May 15 and week following Please add hymns, prayers, ideas, resources in the comments. Encourage consciousness of Easter being a season, not just a day – “attend” Easter is 50 days
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