• collect/opening prayer reflection for August 14 and the week following (NZPB) • collect/opening prayer reflection for August 14 and the week following (BCP USA TEC) Common Worship (CofE) – The Eighth Sunday after Trinity Almighty Lord and everlasting God, we beseech you to direct, sanctify and govern both our hearts and bodies in the
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Although, unfortunately, the title of the website suffers from clericalism (as if only clergy would find use in a quality lectionary resource), the Biblia Clerus website is clearly a wonderful resource. You can search a Biblical text and its commentary to locate specific references to Sacred Scripture made by Doctors of the Church and church
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The Episcopal Church of the Philippines has decided against the so called “Anglican Covenant”. The Prime Bishop, The Rt. Rev. Edward Malecdan, addressed the General Synod: The Anglican Covenant which is supposedly a proposed document to help diffuse the tension in the Communion. The document is intended to be the final arbiter in the resolution
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Online you can rate your teacher, restaurant, or any list of other things. Now, on a German website, http://hirtenbarometer.de, you can rate your pastor. Here is the English translation of the site. There are five areas you rank the pastor on: worship – how good is the service you lead; and is there room for
Last weekend the media featured the announcement of the possibility of a temporary, cardboard replacement for the earthquake-damaged Christ Church Cathedral designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. The Anglican cathedral would be built with locally produced cardboard tubes erected in an A-shape, with shipping containers used as foundations. The hope is to have it up
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Brother Colin Wilfred SSF died August 2nd, in Canterbury, England. He had been suffering for some time of pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive lung disease. Brother Colin was in his early 70s. Brother Colin was a member of the Society of St Francis, the Anglican Franciscans. [UK site; NZ site] Br Colin will be well known
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scripture readings textweek resources • collect/opening prayer reflection for August 7 and the week following (NZPB) • collect/opening prayer reflection for August 7 and the week following (Common Worship CofE) Regulars will know that each week commentaries are provided on collects (as above). This last week maintaining the collect tradition has been significant here. BCP
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As Google+ gets underway there’s plenty of joking about Google being ordained (Google+), Google automatically ordaining people as bishops (+Bosco), Google using a religious symbol… Fr David Cloake has written a witty Liturgy for the Creation and Propagation of a Google+ Account. The complete rite is here, here are some parts to whet your appetite:
