The Lord’s Supper 1 Corinthians 11:20 κυριακὸν δεῖπνον There are many titles for the Christian service with bread and wine. “The Lord’s Supper” is a common one. It is used only once in the New Testament. There was the long tradition of not celebrating the Lord’s Supper at supper time, in the evening. This was
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This blog-post will look at what a collect is. The collect is under threat in New Zealand Anglicanism. If the Bill before General Synod Te Hinota Whanui passes, the collect will become indistinguishable from just a nice little prayer. Those who visit this site will realise my passion for the collect. Each week I provide
I recently received an Honours Award from the Independent Schools of New Zealand. It was presented to me in Wellington by the Minister of Education, the Hon. Hekia Parata (photo left). I am honoured to receive this award; I think it significant that the spiritual dimension of Christ’s College, where I am chaplain, features so
We are celebrating 350 years of the Book of Common Prayer 1662. Many of its principles and rationales are deeply sound. There is much we can learn from it, embodying its principles into our different time and context. Let us pause a moment and pick up Concerning the Service of the Church at the start
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Currently, for each celebration, the NZ Prayer Book provides a number of options for the collect. Communities that wish to use a collect in the great tradition of praying to God, the First Person of the Trinity, through Christ, in the Spirit can always find one like that. I have been informed that a Bill
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I have meters of Bibles on my shelf. I do not think that is a good thing. I would be all in favour of a couple of formal-equivalent translations and a couple of dynamic equivalent versions and then helping people to use the originals. But… there’s money to be made in Bible translations… And people
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When the NZ RC Missal came out it was immediately obvious that the page turns would make for an irreverent Eucharistic Prayer on the part of the presider. Fr John Murphy, who works in New Zealand’s Marist Internet Ministry wrote that people needed to move on from the poor quality of the English Missal’s translation
What an absolutely brilliant idea! An artist who realised that moving clockwise or anti-clockwise on the Circle Line in the Tube (underground) in London, that there is one tube stop for each station (of the cross), ending up at king’s Cross. The artist has found train trips an amazingly fruitful time for prayer and contemplation.
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