This coming Sunday, in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia of Or, the lectionary indicates (above) the liturgical colour is Green, or Red, or White, or Violet. This “reflects common practice in most parishes” (Lectionary page 4). First prize goes to the first person who can calculate the number of reading options
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On Sunday in the Anglican Church of Or the suggested liturgical colour (Lectionary PDF) is Green or Red or White or Violet. If you are celebrating Eucharist in the Anglican Church of Or the suggested Gospel readings are Mark 12:38-44 or Matt 5:1-12 or John 14:23-29 or John 15:9-17 or John 16:23a-end. Each is provided
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In Aotearoa New Zealand, the Anglican Missions Board has just sent out its annual wall planner (Draft – you can enlarge this by clicking on this link and on the image that opens.). Some observations: It celebrates the Annunciation in Holy Week. That is very unusual in Western practice. And forbidden by our church (Liturgical
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Last year on the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, in the Lectionary of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia The Anglican Church of Or the suggested liturgical colour was colours were Green, or… ummm… Red, or…. White, or… ummm… Violet. My mentioning this on this blog apparently was taken very seriously by
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The New Zealand Anglican Lectionary is well known for providing a mind-numbing number of options, but is this Sunday a record? For a morning service it provides 10 (count them!) TEN psalm options – and if you don’t like any of them, you can use Lam 3:19-26 “for the Psalm”! It also provides ten readings
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I have just purchased the Lectionary for the 2010 Church Year of The Anglican Church in Aotearoa (comma) New Zealand (no “Oxford/Harvard comma“) and Polynesia, better known as “The Anglican Church of Or”. (With a carefully thought-through official title one would think similar great care would be taken in the common prayer that holds it
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A ‘perfect storm’ results from a combination of adverse factors. I keep tripping over such factors: I read of the relentless decline of The US Episcopal Church continuing. It is regularly contrasted with a (yet-to-be-verified-and-I-suspect-oversimplified) meme that “conservative churches are growing” (in fact cathedral worship is bucking the trend). The fragmenting tendency of Bible-alone protestantism
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Doing the social-media rounds is the recent Guardian editorial on disappearing Christianity: suppose it’s gone for ever? It reflects on the British Social Attitudes data and says, The study also shows that Christianity is extremely bad at either making converts or retaining cradle believers. The two big denominations, the Catholics and the Church of England,
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I have a Maths degree and I’m not afraid to use it. NZ’s Anglican Church does not collect statistics nationally. I will come back to a recent international study, but first want to pull from my shelves the diocesan statistics that I have for the 25 years being a member of synod as an ordained
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The Christchurch Anglican Diocese met in synod today to do planning in response to our earthquakes and to debate the “Anglican Covenant”. Framed by regular worship, there were 45 speeches, with breaks, across several hours, and another break prior to voting by secret ballot in houses, and then about three and a half hours until
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