The Collect • collect/opening prayer reflection for September 18 and the week following (NZPB) • collect/opening prayer reflection for September 18 and the week following (BCP TEC USA) Almighty God, who called your Church to bear witness that you were in Christ reconciling the world to yourself: help us to proclaim the good news of
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This is the one-thousandth post on this blog. That’s not counting the hundreds and hundreds of pages and photos that are static pages on this website. Thank you to all of you who visit here; who comment here; who add your thoughts to mine to make this site a worthwhile resource; this place an online
This ambigram of bread and wine looks the same when rotated 180 degrees (stand on your head, view it from the other hemisphere,…) Source
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Light a candle here resources for this Sunday Textweek resources for the Anniversary of 9-11-01
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THE COMMUNITY is often a forgotten symbol in discussions about church buildings. The community is not an audience. The community is not passive. Hence, the way the community gathers is extremely important. The entrance procession of the community begins from our home, with cars and walking, and other means. How are we welcomed into the
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On Sunday we read Romans 13:9 that The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet”; and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” This echoes Jesus in Matthew 22:35-40; Mark 12:28-31; and Luke 10:25-28. Jesus teaches that
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If Ashes to Fire is “authorised” will all other possibilities from Ash Wednesday until the Day of Pentecost be illegal? Currently everything in Ashes to Fire (a resource for the Lent and Easter Seasons) is allowed to be used. But currently you can also use resources from the Canadian Book of Alternative Services, from the
In the latest Anglican Taonga magazine (the wonderful quarterly magazine of NZ Anglicanism) my friend and colleague, Peter Carrell, writes an article in which he argues for simplification and clarification of our NZ liturgical resources. I am arguing for the same in the motion passed by our synod. I didn’t know he was writing the
