collect/opening prayer reflection July 25 and week following [NZPB] collect/opening prayer reflection July 25 and week following [BCP TEC] Common Worship (CofE) – The Eighth Sunday after Trinity Almighty Lord and everlasting God, we beseech you to direct, sanctify and govern both our hearts and bodies in the ways of your laws and the works
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Having a website, say for your parish or community, is no longer as difficult as it might look, or as you might think. Rev. Andrew Hedge took the ideas I presented on how to make a free website simply and has produced a most admirable, attractive, and useful website, easy to keep up to date,
OK I’ve got to have some excuse to embed this video. I know: it is part of our mission “to strive to safeguard the integrity of creation, sustaining and renewing the earth.”
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‘Unauthorised version’ by U.A. Fanthorpe Of course he meant it kindly. I know that. I know Josh—as well as anyone can know The Son of God. All the same, he slipped up Over this one. After all, a Son is only a son When you come to think about it. And this Was between sisters.
Previously I had a fund-raising appeal amongst followers of this site so that I might purchase the ideal home for a liturgist. Now I’ve seen the ideal thing to wear around that house! So I’m on a fund-raising appeal yet again – I promise you this piece of vesture, is, as those into this sort
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…When people tell me that they find Mass boring, I want to say to them: it’s supposed to be boring, or at least seriously underwhelming. It’s a long-term education in becoming un-excited, since only that will enable us to dwell in a quiet bliss which doesn’t abstract from our present or our surroundings or our
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collect/opening prayer reflection July 18 and week following [NZPB] collect/opening prayer reflection July 18 and week following [Common Worship CofE] Collect from BCP (TEC): Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which
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I regularly, sadly, find myself in situations where people appear to think that liturgy is essentially singing and reciting lovely poetry to one another. My trying to shift towards some balance by stressing action, gesture, environment, structure, etc. in those contexts is usually met with bemused confusion. Let’s think about silence in liturgy. Claude Debussy
