The Collect • collect/opening prayer reflection for September 11 and the week following (NZPB) • collect/opening prayer reflection for September 11 and the week following (BCP TEC USA) • collect/opening prayer reflection for September 11 and the week following (Common Worship CofE) Momentum is growing for appreciation of our inherited Trinitarian collect tradition The Readings
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I have already written about Rugby being the established State Religion of a deeply-religious New Zealand. Our whole education system this year has shifted school holidays not to benefit educational aims, but to fit in with the Rugby World Cup. [As with many minority sects, those living within it do not realise how small the
Framed by moving, excellent, regular worship, and with a healthy, positive, central focus on our response to the earthquake, the Christchurch Anglican diocesan synod debated some important liturgical issues. I spoke against our diocese giving assent to “authorise” (scare quotes essential) Ashes to Fire, a confused and confusing statute coming to us from General Synod
Breaking News The Anglican Diocese of Auckland meeting in their diocesan synod, yesterday passed the following motion: That this Synod, • noting that the General Synod/te Hinota Whanui has approved in principle Sections 1-3 of the proposed Anglican Covenant, and asked Episcopal Units to respond to its 2012 Session, resolves as follows: (a) Sections 1
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International award-winning vocal octet, Voces8 perform Oralndo Gibbons’ masterpiece, ‘O Clap Your Hands’. The group provide entertainment in Autun Cathedral in France as part of the ‘Musique en Morvan’ Festival.
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I have previously provided some resources and reflections on the new English translation of the missal. A reader of this site pointed me to a helpful collection of links on Language Log, a site devoted to language. For the full post go here. These are the links I particularly appreciated: For a chronological overview, see
There are many ways to have a discipline for prayer and devotions, including for families and for children. Check this one out: Nick Connolly came up with a very interesting way to read through the Bible in three years. Each day one reads from a different part of the scriptures. I bought his e-book, then
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The Collect • collect/opening prayer reflection for September 4 and the week following (NZPB following suggestion in the Prayer Book) • collect/opening prayer reflection for September 4 and the week following (NZPB following suggestion in the lectionary) • collect/opening prayer reflection for September 4 and the week following (Common Worship CofE) BCP (TEC USA): Grant
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