Good and gracious God,
the light of the faithful and shepherd of souls,
you set your servant John XIII to be a bishop in your Church
to feed your sheep with your word
and to guide them by his example;
give us grace to keep the faith he taught
and to follow in his footsteps.
Monasticism helped keep Christian faith alive and vibrant through the anti-theist communism of the Soviet Union.
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Like New Zealand’s devastating leaky building fiasco, NZ Anglicanism in the last three decades has (similarly) had a combination of weak rules and poorly trained-and-formed clergy.
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Lifegiving God,
we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us,
that we may continually be given to good works;
through Jesus Christ
who is alive with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
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Saint Francis of Assisi’s feast day is October 4. Giovanni Francesco Bernardone was born in 1181 or 1182 and died October 3, 1226. He founded the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans.
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Kim Rusden is carrying a cross through New Zealand.
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In a world of alternative facts, and an education system with meagre agreed content, it is little wonder that NZ leads the world in the proportion of no religion.
Compassionate God,
you are always more ready to hear than we to pray,
and to give more than we desire or deserve;
pour upon us the abundance of your mercy,
forgiving us those things
of which our conscience is afraid,
and giving us those things
for which our prayer dares not ask;
through Jesus Christ
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