Everliving God,
increase within us your gifts of faith, hope, and love,
and make us cherish what you command,
so that we may obtain what you promise;
through Jesus Christ,
who is alive with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
26 October 2025 Ordinary 30 Read More »
There are priests who have never been deacons. The nesting-clergy-doll theory faces another challenge.
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Everliving God,
conform our wills freely to yours,
and direct our hearts
to share your glory by our undivided service;
through Jesus Christ,
who is alive with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
19 October 2025 Ordinary 29 Read More »
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O God,
we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us,
that we may continually be given to good works;
through Jesus Christ,
who is alive with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
12 October 2025 Ordinary 28 Read More »
A digital copy of the Lectionary for 2026 – and a review of it.
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Everliving God,
you are always more ready to hear than we to pray,
and to give more than we desire or deserve;
pour upon us the abundance of your mercy,
forgiving us those things
of which our conscience is afraid,
and giving us those things
for which our prayer dares not ask;
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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My experience as a priest serving in the Anglican Church and formally associated with a Roman Catholic Cistercian monastery – and how that might speak of ecumenism and synodality.
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