I am not making this up. I regularly get emails to this site in the style of, “we tried using ashes for Ash Wednesday last year. Do you have a suggestion for something different we could try on Ash Wednesday this year?” Liturgy, IMO, functions by repetition. By moving into Depth. We don’t call it
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A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa is online (click the link to go to the site). It appears this site has been running since 14 March 2012. There is an iPad/iPod/iPhone version of the Prayer Book available here. Both of these digital versions have some issues with them – but it
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A little help. Please. The main part of this site is the content. Creating it. Discussing it. Another part of this site which should, pretty much, be invisible – is the actual technical digital parts (the “invisibility” of this technical stuff is a good parable for how liturgy should work!). Well recently it’s not been
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Nope. I checked. This is not an April 1 joke. Complete with Bible software and web-browsing filters, the inexpensive edifi is the Christian iPad. The NZ RC bishops have forbidden their priests from using the iPad for Mass because you never know what they might use the iPad for in their spare time! Now will
This is the first in a series of posts reflecting on General Synod Te Hinota Whanui 2012 (GSTHW) of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. It is written from the perspective of one not present at that meeting. The second post in this series is here. This post is about the attempted
The Jewish “Mourners’ Kaddish” is said at all prayer services and certain other occasions. It takes the form of Kaddish Yehe Shelama Rabba, and is traditionally recited several times, most prominently at or towards the end of the service, after the Aleinu and/or closing Psalms and/or (on the Sabbath) Ani’im Zemirot. Following the death of
The Torah reading in the synagogue this Sabbath is Numbers 25:10-30:1 We continue in the “Three Weeks of Sorrow”. The video reflection concludes with the words “baby steps” – this is an excellent Biblical example illustrating the “third way”, the Bible setting a direction rather than our being required to follow every last Bronze Age
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The words “Holy Communion” never occur in the New Testament! Like the title “Lord’s Supper“, “communion” (κοινωνία), is not regularly connected to the Christian service with bread and wine in the New Testament. The connection appears only once. Communion, κοινωνία, is normally translated “fellowship”. NRSV, in 1 Cor 10:16-17, translates it as “sharing”: 16 The
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