I received an email from our diocesan office yesterday: “Back to Church Sunday in New Zealand CANCELLED for this year” I thought it was a joke, and clicked on the link provided: here Note for my overseas readers: back to church has been cancelled nationally, not just in Christchurch, where, as you know, some of
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scripture readings textweek resources • collect/opening prayer reflection for July 3 and the week following (NZPB) • collect/opening prayer reflection for July 3 and the week following (Common Worship CofE) You can share any comments as well as any resources, ideas, sermon-starters, children’s activities, hymns, prayers, etc. in the comments section below. BCP USA (TEC):
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Our local newspaper, usually not interested in religion, last week printed an article by Aleks Krotoski about the effect of the internet on religion. This included (with my emphasis): Online, contrary to Nietzsche’s allegation, God is most certainly not dead. The web is littered with sacred spaces and, if anything, He (or She or It)
Short version: Coincidentally, in my last couple of sermons, I have been including reflections about “belief”. Please, pretty please (with a cherry on top!) do not use “belief” to mean merely “I accept this to be correct”. Do not use “belief” as in “I believe that the planet Pluto exists” – say: “I accept that
I recently received the Prayers of the Mass, the RC NZ mini-sacramentary from Pentecost to Advent this year. Regular readers here will know that the NZ RC church has kept putting off introducing the full new English Mass translation. Last it was going to have been introduced by now. Currently it has been pushed further
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So the Dalai Lama walks into a pizza shop and says, ‘Can you make me one with everything?’ My favourite bits are the Dalai Lama saying, “theoretically possible”, and the presenter at the end who still doesn’t get the joke: “you should have said make me one with the lot”! I recently sat in a
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Today is the feast of Corpus Christi. Some Sundayise this feast day. textweek resources From the New Zealand Prayer Book page 541: Praise and glory to you creator Spirit of God; you make our bread Christ’s body to heal and reconcile and to make us the body of Christ. You make our wine Christ’s living
scripture readings textweek resources • collect/opening prayer reflection for June 26 and the week following In NZ, as well as the normal RCL readings, Anglicans have the option of celebrating “Te Pouhere Sunday” celebrating our life as a Three Tikanga Church. This has its own set of readings, etc. Generally, our liturgical celebrations share in
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