The Christchurch Anglican Diocese met in synod today to do planning in response to our earthquakes and to debate the “Anglican Covenant”. Framed by regular worship, there were 45 speeches, with breaks, across several hours, and another break prior to voting by secret ballot in houses, and then about three and a half hours until
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This video comes with a “warning” – don’t stop before getting to the second part at 1:50! This is an animated version of the weekly Torah reading in the synagogue (in this case today’s) I’m particularly interested, with Passover (Pesach) being “in sync” with Western Easter this year, whether it is easier to see any
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I am the guest preacher at the Patronal Festival of Saint Mark. I want to know what the readings will be. Should be straightforward enough. Would be straightforward in other Anglican Churches. But not in the Anglican Church of Or… Anyone with parish leadership experience will know the networking around the readings: they get printed
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OK – some might say, this might have been put up before Easter… … but still pretty cool during the Easter Season. Easter is 50 days
Recently all clergy received instructions from our diocesan office to read a letter aloud in every church building. This is a very rare event in our diocesan life. In this case the letter was doubly unusual. It is a letter from The Revd Canon Dr Kenneth Kearon, Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, asking for
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Today is Day 10 of the Easter Season, the tenth day of Easter. On Sunday was Easter Day for many Christians who calculate Easter slightly differently. Please consider “attending” Easter is 50 days – by inviting friends to that “event” you are spreading the word that this is still Easter. Christ is risen!
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This week Jesus’ liturgical facepalm is awarded to those who refuse to bless children at communion time. E-popular Roman Catholics Fr. John Zuhlsdorf and Deacon Greg Kandra helped viralise Father Cory Sticha’s blog post, Why I refuse to bless children at Communion. The key, according to them, is Sacrosanctum Concilium (paragraph 22): “Therefore no other
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