There is a special place in my heart and personal spirituality for Camaldoli (my photo above), St Romuald, and the Camaldolese. This year the Camaldolese Benedictines are commemorating the 1,000th anniversary of the foundation of their motherhouse in Camaldoli, Italy, where St. Romuald encouraged the vocation of some monks to live in solitude as hermits.
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Late last week the new New Zealand Roman Missal (with its new translation from the Latin) arrived. It had previously been delayed because the first ones printed couldn’t be ensured to lie open, and so could affect a priest’s gestures. The irony was that New Zealand was the first to begin introducing the new translation
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This is like an advertisement 🙂 I have a passion for people producing good, simple, and even free websites. That includes especially communication from the church and around spirituality. I am advocating that if you are running a website based on WordPress, that you have a serious look at Headway Themes. [If you are not
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OK – I’ve joined pinterest. I have no real idea what I’m doing – some of you will have a lot more experience and ideas about how to use pinterest… Or maybe this will just be a waste of time… In the comments you can put ideas how liturgy, spirituality, and worship can be represented
Regulars here will know how enamoured I am with Sydney Anglican liturgy. Thanks to Rev. Joshua Bovis for his recent comment for drawing attention to the wonderful new resource by Sydney Anglican Bishop Robert Forsyth. The good bishop writes: Here’s a Contemporary Sunday liturgy that has not been included in Common Prayer: Resources for gospel-shaped
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This site is firmly committed to the Easter Season being 50 days. Hence I invite you to the annual facebook “event” Easter is 50 days. Please “attend” and invite others. I created the chart, above, to illustrate how the seasons of Lent and Easter fit together. This period forms a quarter of the year. The
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There’s a new Dutch book by Bert Dicou and Sigrid Coenradie about ordinary sanctity now, “Heilig. Gewoon nu”. It includes a list of ten tips towards sanctity – some possibilities for reflection this Lent: 1. Be open to the possibility of the extraordinary. 2. Dare to let go of certainties. 3. Do not be too
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