Of Ceremonies, Why some be abolished, and some retained. We are celebrating 350 years of the Book of Common Prayer 1662. Many of its principles and rationales are deeply sound. There is much we can learn from it, embodying its principles into our different time and context. Let us pause a moment and pick up
I was recently asked to write an article for the independent Catholic magazine, Tui Motu, on the question: Where do you see the Spirit moving in the place where you minister? This is what I wrote: The Spirit (ruach) of God was hovering. (Genesis 1:2) We can count nearly four hundred times that the feminine
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I am delighted to find echoes of my own input in the Christchurch diocesan Architectural Design Guidelines (PDF). My concern about the font can be found in the document. These Design Guidelines are to design new church buildings after the extensive damage through the Canterbury earthquakes. The Guidelines can also be used for repairing and
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The Lord’s Supper 1 Corinthians 11:20 κυριακὸν δεῖπνον There are many titles for the Christian service with bread and wine. “The Lord’s Supper” is a common one. It is used only once in the New Testament. There was the long tradition of not celebrating the Lord’s Supper at supper time, in the evening. This was
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This blog-post will look at what a collect is. The collect is under threat in New Zealand Anglicanism. If the Bill before General Synod Te Hinota Whanui passes, the collect will become indistinguishable from just a nice little prayer. Those who visit this site will realise my passion for the collect. Each week I provide
I recently received an Honours Award from the Independent Schools of New Zealand. It was presented to me in Wellington by the Minister of Education, the Hon. Hekia Parata (photo left). I am honoured to receive this award; I think it significant that the spiritual dimension of Christ’s College, where I am chaplain, features so
We are celebrating 350 years of the Book of Common Prayer 1662. Many of its principles and rationales are deeply sound. There is much we can learn from it, embodying its principles into our different time and context. Let us pause a moment and pick up Concerning the Service of the Church at the start
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Currently, for each celebration, the NZ Prayer Book provides a number of options for the collect. Communities that wish to use a collect in the great tradition of praying to God, the First Person of the Trinity, through Christ, in the Spirit can always find one like that. I have been informed that a Bill
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