Easter is Coming
OK – some might say, this might have been put up before Easter… … but still pretty cool during the Easter Season. Easter is 50 days
2012
The Archbishop of Canterbury hath no jurisdiction in this realm
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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Resurrection: Rob Bell
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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do not suffer the children
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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The Shroud IS the resurrection?
The Sign: The Shroud of Turin and the Secret of the Resurrection Yes, it’s that time of year again when the gullible hand over their money [me included] and their brains to the latest theory to attempt to undermine Christianity. I am a shroudie. I do not “believe” in the shroud. Just as I do
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he descended to the dead
…crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus, descendit ad inferos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis… he descended to the dead… the Harrowing of Hell… Acts 2:27; Acts 2:31; 1 Peter 3:19-20; 1 Peter 4:6; 2 Corinthians 2:14; Ephesians 4:8-10; Zechariah 9:11; Psalm 68:17-18; Isaiah 24:21-22 …to save all of those who died in sin … starting with Adam
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Easter is fifty days
OK – so there’s a few obsessions that Bosco has: collects, unfussy worship, allowing symbols to speak for themselves,… and… that Easter is fifty days. Great Christian festivals begin in the evening after sunset, are celebrated through the day and on into the next evening. But Bosco thinks Easter begins in the evening with the
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