Last year, we together, internationally and ecumenically, read and prayed our way through the letter to the Hebrews Chapters 1-10. Over the next four weeks, together we read and pray our way through Chapters 11-13. What resources do you find useful? What ideas do you have for working our way through this text? What ideas
As I travel I stop and visit church buildings. Recently, on my holiday, I stopped at four Anglican church buildings in different townships. The names have been changed to protect the guilty. First stop. St. well-actually-I-cannot-tell: This had a big notice board facing the street. No service times. Next to the word “contact”, a small
Dr Denis McNamara, of the Liturgical Institute, Chicago, is an architectural historian and theologian. Dr. Denis McNamara is assistant director and faculty member at the Liturgical Institute of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake, a graduate programme in Liturgical Studies. He is in Christchurch at the invitation of the Catholic Bishop of Christchurch,
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This is what happens when you attempt to take video of police in Sweden: If you appreciate that last video, you may enjoy and source of this latter material
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary This is the next post in my series on the Creed. For the previous discussion click on “Conceived by the Holy Spirit“. We have looked at the Holy Spirit side of this line; today we look at the Mary side. Humans seem to
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I am not attempting any sort of summary, reporting, or full analysis of World Youth Day in Rio. There are plenty of other places where you can find this. I don’t think numbers are by any means everything, but they are not nothing. So I do want to start by underlining that about a million
The Social Media Gospel: Sharing the Good News in New Ways by Meredith Gould (Liturgical Press) 134 pages. Meredith has been my e-friend for many years. I know she knows what she is talking about. She regularly participates on this site, and I’ve reviewed at least one other book of hers. This is how she
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My post discussing the value of not using the Nicene Creed at ordinary Sunday Eucharist received good discussion. Thank you. Some of that discussion was picked up on other sites as well (eg. here, here, and here). Some people just went off on their own passion about clergy who do not believe in the faith
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