Updated 27 June: About 160 people turned up to this event. Thanks for your encouragement. You can read posts here on this site about this with tag “Camino“. If you are in Christchurch on Thursday, 23 June, do come and listen to Helen and me talk about the Camino and ask questions in the Chapman
There’s plenty of description of and reflection on the Camino, online and offline. Tim Anderson is one of the first people I spoke to about my hopes to walk the Camino. His blog, on his walking of the Camino Del Norte, was one of my first, more-careful exploration of what this might mean for me.
You can turn what follows, as with all about the Camino, into a metaphor for life as a pilgrimage. I also want to provide concrete assistance to those intending to undertake the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Prepare Language I think it is of real value to get as good as possible at Spanish –
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One sabbath he was going through the cornfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, ‘Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?’
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World-renowned liturgist Rev. Dr David Holeton has died, aged 75, in Prague.
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Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
All that I am and all that I possess You have given me:
I surrender it all to You to be disposed of according to Your will.
Give me only Your love and Your grace; with these I will be rich enough, and will desire nothing more.
An other New Zealand Prayer Book has just been published. It is a great resource, but it holds a different status to the original book with the same name.
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The commemoration invites us to reflect on following Jesus, being his close companion (in glory and in suffering), choosing who or what what we are prepared to die for and thereby knowing who or what we are really prepared to live for.
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A book can be printed next year containing rearranged formularies and translations of formularies – but it will not be A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa.
Not A New Zealand Prayer Book? Read More »
Wandergesellen (“Journeymen”) practise their craft and wander. Normally, they travel for at least three years and a day – not returning home in that time. All they own, they carry with them, wrapped up.
