scripture readings textweek resources • collect/opening prayer reflection for July 10 and the week following (Common Worship CofE) Collect from BCP (TEC) O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and
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A Eucharistic flash mob in the centre of Preston, UK, organised by the Capuchin Franciscans on Ascension Day 2011. Jesus Christ is in every book of the Bible. In Genesis, Jesus is the Seed of the Woman. In Exodus, He is the Passover Lamb. In Leviticus, He is the Priest, the Altar, and the Lamb
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I think there is an error in the name of our church. I am a strong supporter of the “Oxford comma” (also known as the “serial comma”) – the comma that comes before the “and” in a list. Tweeter @ktheory says it all: “For teaching me that the Oxford comma resolves ambiguity, I’d like to
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My church is abysmal at keeping statistics. The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia appears almost frightened of them. We have no real idea of national church-attendance, baptisms, weddings; we do not know our clergy age-distribution, their qualifications, or where or if they trained; etc. This means we cannot observe trends or do
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There has been discussion around the place about the upgraded Vatican website. I like Eric Stoltz‘s analysis (above). It’s an invitation for all of us to look at our community’s website from the point of view of a visitor… Meanwhile the pope is shown where to click on an iPad to launch the much better
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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)
