The Preface of A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa (ANZPBHKMA), by Archbishop Brian Davis, is dated Feast of St Barnabas 11 June 1989; twenty-five years ago today. This might be an invitation to write some posts reflecting on the Prayer Book. In this post it is worth noting positive changes that
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I am an Associate of Kopua Cistercian Monastery, Southern Star Abbey. I am delighted to see these new YouTube clips: The date of foundation is 9 June 1954. This week is the 60th anniversary of their founding.
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Friday was the feast of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945. The Melanesian Brotherhood is an Anglican religious order with about 600 members based at Tabalia on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. (H/T The Daily Office) “Jisas yu holem hand blom mi” means “Jesus hold my hand”: Jesus hold my hand Hear my
This week Sister Cristina Scuccia won The Voice Italy. This is how it began when she first met the judges at the start of the competition: (You can get English subtitles by clicking on the fourth little icon from the right underneath the YouTube video.) The 25-year-old sister is a member of the Ursuline Sisters
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Principle 2: Liturgical acts are not things to be done during prayer, but are themselves prayer We all instinctively know when a hug is genuine, when a kiss is perfunctory, when someone is just “going through the motions”… The second principle, above, comes from Celebrating the Eucharist by Patrick Malloy (The first principle is here).
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The NZ Lectionary booklet has the instruction for the Day of Pentecost, “The reading from Acts must be used as either the 1st or 2nd reading”. This is a newish instruction in the NZ lectionary booklet – it was not present previous to 2012. In the version of the The Revised Common Lectionary: The Consultation
I keep stumbling over articles that are concerned that Christian congregational singing is at a low ebb (eg. here, here, and here). Elements that keep coming up: Concertisation of services. The congregation as spectators. Sanctuary has become a stage. Professionalisation of the band. The band is less a music group with a ministry of encouraging
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Of the various prayer exercises and styles that Saint Ignatius Loyola collated, “The Examen” was one that he did not want people to omit. This was to be a daily practice, a discipline to help find God in our ordinary daily lives. Here is another way that it has been expressed: This is a prayer
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