I have meters of Bibles on my shelf. I do not think that is a good thing. I would be all in favour of a couple of formal-equivalent translations and a couple of dynamic equivalent versions and then helping people to use the originals. But… there’s money to be made in Bible translations… And people
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When the NZ RC Missal came out it was immediately obvious that the page turns would make for an irreverent Eucharistic Prayer on the part of the presider. Fr John Murphy, who works in New Zealand’s Marist Internet Ministry wrote that people needed to move on from the poor quality of the English Missal’s translation
What an absolutely brilliant idea! An artist who realised that moving clockwise or anti-clockwise on the Circle Line in the Tube (underground) in London, that there is one tube stop for each station (of the cross), ending up at king’s Cross. The artist has found train trips an amazingly fruitful time for prayer and contemplation.
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It is always interesting to see how we-teach-all-and-only-what-the-Bible-teaches Christians deal with certain biblical texts. A common reaction is not to read all the Bible. Another is not to mention the awkward bits. The synagogue, however, reads through the Torah systematically, and this Sabbath reads Parashat Naso, Numbers 4:21-7:89, which includes the awkward piece quoted below.
Many people like, from time to time, to add a badge to their website or blog. The HTML for adding the above badge to your blog or website is: Please do let me know if this is, or is not working – one little letter wrong in the coding and all falls apart. Ordinary (“counting”)
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The great liturgical tradition is to pray to God, the First Person of the Trinity, through Christ, in the Spirit. We see this in the history of the Eucharistic Prayers, in the great collect tradition, in the prayers for ordination, over the water at baptism, and so on. This tradition goes right back into the
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This year we celebrate 350 years of the Book of Common Prayer 1662. I am no strong advocate of its use. I think that some of its changes from previous books of common prayer were unwise. Nonetheless, many of its principles and rationales are deeply sound. There is much we can learn from it, embodying
Surprisingly and sadly, nothing whatsoever is said in the Christchurch diocesan Architectural Design Guidelines (PDF) about the size and shape of the altar. Nor about whether it be movable or normally left in a central position. These Design Guidelines are to design new church buildings after the extensive damage through the Canterbury earthquakes. The Guidelines
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