I’m sure we can all get into an unquestioned way of doing things. For confirmation I’m used to seeing people kneel, facing liturgical East (in the same direction as the congregation, so those being confirmed have their back to the congregation), with the bishop laying on hands facing liturgical West. Within the safety of this
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Regulars here realise I initiated a call to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Consultative Council, beginning their meeting in Auckland this weekend, to revise the statement of the Marks of Mission. This included providing people the opportunity of signing their name to this. The best first draft so far of a possible revised
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Let us pray (in silence) [that God’s love strengthen us to do God’s will] pause Almighty everliving God, increase within us your gifts of faith, hope, and love, and make us cherish what you command, so that we may obtain what you promise; through Jesus Christ who is alive with you in the unity of
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The Archbishop of Canterbury addressed the Synod of Bishops in Rome, fifty years after the opening of the Second Vatican Council. He connected contemplation and evangelisation. This comes synchronously as we, here, urge worship, liturgy, the contemplative life to be seen more explicitly centrally to our life and mission as church (also see here). …To
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With much fanfare the New Zealand Herald announced Christian faiths losing out to other religions: “In the battle for believers, Christianity is losing out to religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. A Massey University study, Changing Patterns of Auckland Religion, has found that with the exception of Catholicism, membership of all mainstream Christian denominations
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Fifty years ago over two thousand bishops, experts, and ecumenical observers were at the start of the Second Vatican Council. They would meet during periods over four years, and produce remarkable decisions that have changed Christian history. They produced transforming documents such as Lumen Gentium (on ecclesiology), Sacrosanctum Concilium (on liturgy), and Dei Verbum (on
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[Update 20 October 2012: As well as commenting below, you can add your name to the hope that worship/liturgy is included in a revised mission statement here. I have now established that the two representatives to ACC from this province are Archdeacon Turi Hollis and Dr Tony Fitchett. Both have been sent the open letter
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Our national Anglican seminary in Auckland (Aotearoa New Zealand) is advertising for the position of Principal/Manukura. It is extremely noticeable that neither in the seminary’s mission statement (below), nor in the particulars of the position, is there any mention of training and forming people for ordination. Astonishing! [That in spite of St John’s College Trust
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