Tonight at the Saturday evening Vigil Masses for Advent 1, 2010, the people’s parts of the new English translation of the Roman Catholic Mass are instigated in New Zealand. So Catholics at Saturday and Sunday Masses are the first in the world to be using them. Some of the altered priest’s parts will also be
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This is the fifth 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 There’s also been a related post, “the pope says…” Translation What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual What
A Prayer from the NZ Prayer Book In darkness and in light, in trouble and in joy, help us, heavenly Father, to trust your love, to serve your purpose, and to praise your name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. It has been announced that no one could have survived the second explosion, at 2:37pm
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There was an article in the newspaper here about the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco last week. The article featured “blekko.com, a web search engine that allows users to limit searches to high-quality, trusted websites”. Call me vain, or obsessed with one discipline, but I put “liturgy” into blekko.com and… YAY!!! this site comes
New Zealand Roman Catholics are this Advent Sunday moving to the people’s responses of the new English Mass translation. Some resources are here. The priests will continue to use mostly the current English Mass translation. I do not think anyone else is doing this? So this makes Kiwi liturgical history. On Saturday I will put
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Yesterday (today still in some places) was the Feast of Christ the King. Even with a future king in recent positive news, and a current king in recent negative news – we don’t really think much in terms of kings and kingdoms. So the politically correct title often becomes, “The Reign of Christ” – but,
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Update November 23 A Prayer from the NZ Prayer Book In darkness and in light, in trouble and in joy, help us, heavenly Father, to trust your love, to serve your purpose, and to praise your name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The original post: There is still no knowledge of, information about, the
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Researchers have asked people to give one word for what they think of when they think of Christians. The most common word: judgemental. Christianity appears obsessed with sex. In a bad way. From Roman Catholic priests to mega church pastors. Homosexuality, women priests, contraception, divorce, pre-marital sex – these are the issues that appear to
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