Textweek resources Scripture readings • collect/opening prayer reflection Advent 3 December 12 and week following [NZPB & Common Worship CofE] • collect/opening prayer reflection Advent 3 December 12 and week following [BCP TEC USA] Collect/opening prayer from the RC “Received Text”: O God, who see how your people faithfully await the feast of the Lord’s
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Symmetry in the sanctuary I have tended to take care not to focus excessively on the Anglican Communion Crisis. It has clearly become important, however, that this pre-eminent liturgy blog outlines the issues and informs readers about what has been highlighted by Fr. Montgomery as being what is primarily wrong with the Anglican Communion today:
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Hanukkah (Chanukah) this year is celebrated December 1 – 9. Hanukkah marks the rededication of the Second Temple after its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes, King of Syria. When the Maccabees won in the battle against the Seleucid Empire there was only enough consecrated olive oil to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for
The Bible Through the Seasons: A Three-Year Journey with the Bible by Nicholas Connolly 472 pages (iUniverse, Inc. March 20, 2007) How do you read the whole Bible systematically and prayerfully? How do you not loose energy for your reading when you hit page after page of Iron Age health regulations and butchering instructions? How
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From stuff.co.nz: A table for each of the 29 Pike River miners, topped with their helmets, will form the centre of [today’s] memorial for them. The service will be held at Greymouth’s Omoto Racecourse on Thursday at 2pm, almost two weeks after the first explosion. Archdeacon Robin Kingston said 29 specially-made tables would be stretched
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At noon on November 13, 2010 unsuspecting shoppers got a surprise while enjoying their lunch. A flash mob singing the Hallelujah Chorus! Random acts of church Dance – a model for evangelism 2 Dance – a model for evangelism 1 Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
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Textweek resources Readings • collect/opening prayer reflection Advent 2 December 5 and week following [NZPB & BCP TEC USA] • collect/opening prayer reflection Advent 2 December 5 and week following [Common Worship CofE] Collect/opening prayer from the RC “Received Text”: Almighty and merciful God, may no earthly undertaking hinder those who set out in haste
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The full texts of the new English Mass translation are now available online as pdf documents. They vary between 1Mb and 4Mb each. What follows is normally referred to as the “Received Text”, the English translation of the Roman Missal approved on March 25, 2010 by the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the
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