During this next month two dioceses in New Zealand are meeting to nominate diocesan bishops. Let us keep their electoral colleges in our prayers.

During this next month two dioceses in New Zealand are meeting to nominate diocesan bishops. Let us keep their electoral colleges in our prayers.
Appropriately on the feast day of St Benedict (for a blog interested in monasticism and liturgy)
The Anglican bishops meeting for the Lambeth Conference are following a consultative process called Indaba. This is reminiscent of Benedictine and other styles of meeting.
This Sunday, 27 July, Roman Catholics and Episcopalians and others will essentially pray the same prayer.
July 25 1968 Pope Paul VI published his Encyclical letter Humanae Vitae. His commissions, set up in response to the development of oral contraceptives in…
Lambeth Bible Study with Joanna Clegg A famous poet representing the other party (Alexander Pope), once said ‘know thyself, presume not God to scan; the…
“So shocking to see the old Church of E looking down on you and me.” — John Cale (lyric from the song “Graham Greene”).
I remember this from when I was a teenager; no less funny!