I created the above chart to illustrate, simply, the counting of Lent and Easter. All days in my table are inclusive. The forty days of Lent is an approximate tenth or tithe of the year. The fifty days of the Easter Season is approximately a seventh of the year – it forms the great Sunday
Pope Francis’ visit to the Holy Land (24-26 May) – Jordan; Palestine; Israel. It has the motto “So that they may be one”. The centre of his pilgrimage is the meeting with Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and the heads of the Churches in Jerusalem. The logo for the pilgrimage (image above) expresses this
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As most of you will know, there is a Liturgy Facebook Page associated with this website. But you do not “join” such a page, you “like” the page; you can also “follow” the page. Church has, in the past, tended to talk of a believe-belong-behave approach to being a Christian. But, in a world where
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Earlier this year I promised a post on the selective biblical literalism that eschews addressing clergy as “Father”. Jesus says: “And call no one your father on earth, for you have one Father—the one in heaven.” (Matthew 23:9) Firstly, is Jesus forbidding calling our biological, adopting, or earthly father, “father”? For the God-as-rock metaphor to
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A bill was passed at General Synod Te Hinota Whanui 2014 (GSTHW14) that we only refer to Sundays ‘of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, and Easter’ and ‘in Lent and Ordinary Time’. There was “detailed consideration” of the Bill at GSTHW14. Having now passed this first hurdle, this Bill now goes for further careful debate and voting
Celebrating the Eucharist by Patrick Malloy begins with a number of “Principles for Making Liturgical Decisions”. I will be reflecting on these in a series. His first is “The entire assembly celebrates the liturgy”. I involuntarily wince whenever I see the word “celebrant” as a term referring to the one leading a service. A New
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I still hear people (all the way to bishops) use the word “vocation” as shorthand for a call to priesthood (or possibly “Religious Life”). Marriage is a vocation. [For some, singleness is a vocation; for some celibacy; for many, I hope that their job is a vocation…] How much energy does the church put into
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Once again Ben Myers hits the nail on the head. The liturgy, when celebrated well, is the matrix in which all are welcome – including all ages and stages. He talks about how we too-often encounter churches approaching children and church; and then how it might be done, and in many places is: …The best-loved
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