Charles de Foucauld Canonised
Yesterday, I was delighted to start the day with the news that the Covid-delayed canonisation of Charles de Foucauld is going ahead on 15 May 2022.
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liturgy
Chapel – Martin of Tours
Martinmas, the origin of the word “Chapel”, and Martin of Tours
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Resources for Week Starting 14 November
God of inspiration,
you caused all holy scriptures to be written for our instruction,
grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,
that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of your holy Word,
we may embrace and ever hold fast to the blessed hope of everlasting life,
which you have given us in our Saviour 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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Mark in Slow Motion 15
Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and people came and said to him, ‘Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?’
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Guy Fawkes Parihaka Pacifism
Inexplicably, Anglicans in Aotearoa New Zealand celebrate Te Whiti on November 6. November 5 is blank in the Calendar. And there is no mention of Parihaka. It is time to change these things.
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Scripture, Tradition, Reason, and Richard Hooker
On the [day after] the anniversary of his death, it is worth reflecting how Richard Hooker (25 March 1554 – 2 November 1600) is regularly credited with Anglican theology sitting on a three-legged stool of Scripture, Tradition, and Reason. In his writings, the closest we can actually find to this is: I do not know
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Resources for Week Starting 7 November
Compassionate God,
through your inexhaustible goodness,
keep us from all that may hurt us,
so that, ready in both mind and body,
we may, with free hearts, pursue your purpose;
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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Changing Calendar Charles Fox
The Anglican Church of Melanesia’s commemoration of Charles Fox is appropriately today, and challenges NZ Anglicans to rethink who and when we celebrate in our Calendar.
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