Let us pray (in silence) (that we may put God at the heart of our lives). Silence. O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy; enfold us in your gracious care and mercy, that with you to govern and to guide us we may so
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Tomorrow, in the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, is the Feast of “Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary“. The Calendar is a binding formulary of our church. We promise and sign that we believe and will teach what our formularies present. If I were to cast doubts on Mary’s mother being
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The breaking of the bread appears to be essentially a Lukan title for the service that followers of Jesus have with bread and wine. It occurs in slightly different forms, as far as I can see, four times in the New Testament Luke 24:35 Then they told what had happened on the road, and how
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It is, for me, beyond comprehension how the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia (ACANZP), a church noted for its commitment to Te Reo Maori and Polynesian languages, has just passed a Bill that, unless there is an appeal during the following year, will make Ashes to Fire (a collection of liturgies for
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
