“Our Saviour, dearly-beloved, is born today: let us be glad… Let us, therefore, dearly beloved, give thanks to God the Father, through His Son, in the Holy Spirit; Who “for His great mercy, wherewith He has loved us,” has had pity on us: and “when we were dead in our sins, He has quickened us
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For his eightieth birthday the Wizard of New Zealand reflected in the Press (the Christchurch newspaper) on the disenchantment of our contemporary culture. Drawing on the formative work of Max Weber, the Wizard described his own 38-year contribution to the culture of Christchurch (the city where I live) as a non-fictional, non-commercial, wizard. Weber saw
British philosopher and writer Alan Watts (1915-1973) asks the seemingly simple question of what you would do if money were no object. If you say that money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time: You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that
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Much of the convent of the Community of the Sacred Name was destroyed in the Canterbury earthquakes. The large brick building is gone. Some of the sisters returned to the convent recently. They have moved into the newer retreat house. I visited them recently. All around the convent grounds are empty building sites where the
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There are generally more than one and a half thousand people visiting this site daily. Many of you are regulars – and we form a community here. Thank you. Some of us pray for each other, and this place. Others go to a few pages and miss some of what is offered here. In the
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Yesterday I spent a majority of the day at events with the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was visiting Christchurch (in NZ’s province of Canterbury) in a break during the meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council. The day began with a cathedral service at which he presided and preached. The cathedral community are guests at Christ’s
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I was in the congregation at a parish Eucharist recently – not a huge congregation, maybe around a hundred. There was a good age range. Young people were having fun leading music with a ukulele group. A sister from the Community of the Sacred name was towards the back. A Franciscan brother was preaching. There
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A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. The professor
