For the image for this post, I started photoshopping my image as a selfie with Pope Francis. I have seen other popes, but not (yet) Pope Francis. It was going to be a bit of fun, and selfies are a bit of fun, just a bit of fun – aren’t they? My post, as often,
Incense is used by Christians in many traditions. [It is used by other world faiths as well]. In Anglican history, incense is one of the “six points” of Ritualists, one of the streams that flowed into the catholic renewal of Anglicanism in the nineteenth century: altar candles, vestments, presiding facing East, wafer bread, adding water
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In the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, there are statutes doing the rounds of Te Runanganui, the Diocese of Polynesia, and the diocesan synods. I think all these statutes need further work and should not be passed. They need assent by the first two, and by a majority of diocesan synods. Even
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This coming Sunday (September 27) many are celebrating Creation Season. This site is committed to the three year lectionary (RC) and its derivative, the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL). Creation and redemption form the warp and weft of the Bible. Abandoning the agreed lectionary in order to focus on creation is an admission that you do
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This coming Sunday (27 September), Roman Catholics and Anglicans/Episcopalians again share a common collect. I am working on producing a full set of shared collects for the church year. My work so far can be found here: Book of Prayers in Common. My rendering for this coming Sunday and the week following is: Let us
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Much in the news and in the blogosphere is the invitation of Anglican Primates by the Archbishop of Canterbury to meet in Canterbury 11-16 January 2016. Our thoughts and prayers are with this meeting and its preparation. Much of the response to this announcement is around “What is the Anglican Communion?” and “What is the
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They are called pelegrinos, the people walking the Camino, the Way, to Santiago de Compostela – pelegrinos, the Spanish word for pilgrims. Why are they walking? The motivations are many. For many, the motivations are mixed, confused. To get the Compostela in Santiago (the certificate that you have participated in this pilgrimage), you have to
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I don’t wear one, but someone came and asked me what the knots of the cincture (cord around the waist over the alb) mean. I’m afraid that my response, “they mean that you don’t end up tripping up over the cord,” didn’t satisfy this person. Something completely made up, like: “one knot represents the divinity
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