The Christmas Story (2010 version) – as told by the children of St Paul’s Anglican Church, Auckland, NZ. NB. at the end: “based on a true story” ps. have you thought of producing something like this in your community or parish? If you think it is difficult, ask some teenagers to do it for you.
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This is the fourth post in a series that I started by saying that I know in my heart what I mean, but I may express it so poorly that I will be misunderstood. I have been trying to write about communities that focus more on prayer than on programmes, more on God than on
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Textweek resources Scripture readings • collect/opening prayer reflection Advent 4 December 19 and week following [NZPB] Common Worship CofE: God our redeemer, who prepared the Blessed Virgin Mary to be the mother of your Son: grant that, as she looked for his coming as our saviour, so we may be ready to greet him when
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Click here for an online art exhibition from the Episcopal Church Visual Arts. Consider the art in this exhibit as a meditative way to challenge yourself during Advent to not only worship Christ within the walls of the church, or the walls of your heart, but also to seek him and serve him in all
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One of the most controversial points of the new English Mass translation is the Nicene Creed. Not just the “consubstantial” but more especially the “For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven.” The translation acts as if it is a formal equivalent translation – where the same word in Latin is
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Above: Fr. Matthew Kelty, a monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani in which Thomas Merton was a monk, reads the prayer of Thomas Merton found in Thoughts In Solitude THE ROAD AHEAD My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know
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This is the sixth in a series attempting to nuance the statement, “The Bible says…” I encourage you to read the story so far: Textual Criticism The Septuagint (LXX) Hebrew vowel pointing The canon Translation There’s also been a related post, “the pope says…” Continuity problems If a person says, “The Bible says David killed
I opened the most recent Anglican Taonga, the official magazine of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The first article was dominated by a photo of what looked to me to be a priest with the stole crooked. The photo was large and clear (13x18cm; 5x7inch). My first thought was, couldn’t someone
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