If there is a spectrum – from those who treat communion as the reward for good behaviour to those who see it as one of God’s gifts to fix our human sinfulness – then I’m firmly at the latter end of that spectrum. So I pray the rumours are correct, and may Pope Francis work
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I want to think a bit more about processions. Too often they appear to degenerate to little more than a church catwalk where people show off their liturgical wearable art. Don’t they? If that’s what they are – I certainly don’t want to play. Let’s start at the end. Let’s start at the procession leaving
In a city that appears to be being transformed from green and gothic to grey tilt-slab, rectangles and glass, last week’s unveiling of a “living cathedral” concept (image above) for Christchurch’s Cathedral Square I hope will raise the level of architectural discussion in this one-chance-to-get-it-right city’s rebuild. I was recently in Napier, destroyed by 1931
The Lavabo refers to the washing of hands normally prior to leading the Eucharistic Prayer. This is the first post in a short series looking at this practice. I decided to write this post after a priest told me of criticism from some people when the priest had taken up the practice after reading my
Pastor Keith Anderson recently blogged about his church’s new practice of putting up a slide on his church’s screen encouraging people to post on different social networking platforms that they are at church. What this is encouraging is making church, our Christian disciplines, an ordinary part of our regular lives just like you update on
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As I indicated, the Creed at Nicaea concluded “We believe in the Holy Spirit”. Full stop. So what we recite in church (if you do recite), although we call it the “Nicene Creed” – it isn’t. Tradition has that at the Second Ecumenical Council, held in Constantinople in 381, the Nicene Creed was expanded: “And
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What has the world come to if the Vatican cannot spell the name of the Saviour! [No, check the date, this is not one of my annual April Fools’ Day posts]. 6000 bronze, silver, and gold medallion coins have been minted with Jesus’ name as “Lesus”. No – I could not have made this up!
