We are celebrating a quarter century of A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa. But what exactly are we celebrating?! Naively, perhaps, I previously would have responded that we are celebrating a particular bound book first published in 1989. After that, there is a 1997, a 2002, and a 2005 edition. But…
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And if you did not work out who was who: A Viewer’s Guide A challenge for New Zealand where one of the three official languages is New Zealand Sign Language:
I’ve been writing about the place of agreements (“rules”) in our common prayer. This is the third post in that series, and if you haven’t read the previous two, I suggest you read here and here first. Whose is the liturgy, our common prayer? To whom does it belong? It does not belong to the
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The rules for the Sign of Peace in the post-Vatican II Roman Catholic Eucharistic rite were left to the individual “conference of bishops to decide in accord with the customs and mentality of the people.” In that rite, it occurs after the Eucharistic Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer and before the Fraction (the breaking of
Peace Sunday is held on the Sunday closest to Hiroshima Day, 6 August. It is fascinating, isn’t it, that the NZ Lectionary Booklet has “Disability Awareness Sunday” on Trinity Sunday, Refugee Sunday, Sea Sunday, Bible Sunday, Social Services Sunday, Arrival of Anglican Missionaries in Papua New Guinea Sunday, etc. – but fails to mention “Peace
