Simon helps Jesus carry his cross Jesus is condemned to die Jesus carries his cross Jesus falls for the first time On the Liturgy facebook page, a member of our ecommunity shared a collection of electronic vignettes reflecting on the stations.
Jesus meets his mother Read More »
Let us pray (in silence) [that through this week we may share in Christ’s dying and rising] pause Almighty everliving God, [or God of transcendence] as an example of humility for the human race, you sent our saviour to become incarnate and to submit to the cross, grant us the grace to learn from this
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The text of the Mass (including translation into English) is here (PDF) The full text in English of the Pope’s sermon is here.
Pope Francis inauguration Mass Read More »
Today, Monday 18 March (Gregorian Calendar), is the beginning of Great Lent in Orthodoxy. In the early church, Easter was celebrated on different days by different communities: on the day of Passover (whatever the day of the week), on the Sunday following Passover. Inevitably Christians would come to calculate Easter without needing to be dependent
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Jesus is condemned to die Read More »
Habemus Papam! Sede Occupata! Yesterday morning just after 7am I was having my breakfast when the noise from my computer, from the live Vatican feed I had embedded on this site (I had tweeted about this), alerted me. White smoke. My impression, when Jorge Bergoglio, Pope Francis, came out onto the balcony was a moment
We had a wonderful Buskers’ Festival here just a while ago. I have recently been encouraging people to rethink liturgy (worship) and leading liturgy (worship). Busking, I have spoken about, presents some helpful models to think this through in a lateral way. Here’s some points I have previously made: 1) A crowd gathers a crowd
