It is our fault that people misunderstand prayer. It is our fault, as Christians, that people are not aware of the deep Christian spiritual tradition, and turn, for example, to Buddhism if they want to go on the inner journey. It is our fault that people’s image of the Christian God is of Super-Santa Claus,
The Incarnation is into the real world – not into a sanitised, perfected world. We do not cleanse our lives in order to have a purified heart to welcome God in Christ. God in Christ comes into the mess of our sinful, ordinary hearts and lives to begin the work of transformation, transfiguration. I am
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My Christmas Message Blessings to you and yours for the Christmas Season and for the Year of Our Lord 2016. Thank you for being part of this virtual community. Linus Drops His Security Blanket Here is a short video clip from A Charlie Brown Christmas! NB: at 0:35 seconds, Linus says: “Fear not!” At that
Today, at 4:30pm, many were expecting to hear the final decision about what would happen to the Christchurch Anglican cathedral in the Square, damaged in the earthquakes that destroyed so much of Christchurch. The Great Christchurch Building Trust have sought to see the building brought back essentially to as it was pre-quakes. The owners, the
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Let us pray (in silence) [that through celebrating the Incarnation we will deepen our relationship with Christ] pause God, year by year you make us glad with the hope of our redemption, grant that we who joyfully receive your only begotten Son as our Redeemer may with sure confidence behold him when he comes as
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My life is but a weaving between my God and me,I do not choose the colours, He worketh steadily.Ofttimes He weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride,Forget He sees the upper, and I the underside. Not till the loom is silent, and shuttles cease to fly,Will God unroll the canvas and explain the reason why.The
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I think the majority of people who sing the popular “O come, o come, Emmanuel” have no real idea of the background to this carol. Do you? In the daily office, the regular invariability of singing/chanting/praying of psalms and biblical canticles (songs) is “softened” by an antiphon, a line usually said/sung before, and then repeated
I changed the tagline of this site to “spirituality that works for people”. It is a conscious wordplay. The origin of the word “liturgy” (λειτουργία or λῃτουργία) derives from the Greek, “λαός” (Laos – people) and ἔργο (ergo – work). People usually have liturgy as “work of the people” – but I have argued previously
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