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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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
We are commanded not to eat of the accursed fig. Mark 11:12-14,20 On the following day, when they came from Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see whether perhaps he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves,
New Zealand has just undertaken our national census. This includes information about what spiritual tradition people identify with – that information does not question if or how they practise that identification. There is also, now, the announcement that MissionKoru is undertaking a New Zealand church census. The government census was able to be completed either
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The conclave begins tomorrow to elect a new pope. In the past 100 years, no conclave has lasted longer than five days: Pius X: 4 days; 7 Ballots; elected Aug 4 1903 Benedict XV: 3 days 10 Ballots; elected Sep 3 1914 Pius XI: 5 days; 14 Ballots; elected Feb 6 1922 Pius XII: 2
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Father Lazarus is a Coptic hermit living in one of the places where Saint Anthony lived in Egypt (Anthony is significant in Christian monastic history). Fr Lazarus has had a fascinating story; an Australian who is now living the most radical consequence of the realisation that God is our end. Rev. Peter Owen-Jones, an Anglican
