This Sunday, October 17, is the canonisation of Mary MacKillop. The Roman Catholic bishops in New Zealand, as I understand it, are allowing parishes to use the propers for her feast (readings and prayers set) instead of the Sunday readings set. I am intrigued that the propers for a memorial (I presume that is the
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The above video shows the rescue of the first Chilean miner. All 33 miners are safe – there were 17 days when there was no knowledge if they had survived and searching for them was nearly abandoned. In that time they lived on some spoons of tuna, a little milk and a biscuit every 48
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I was recently sent a complimentary copy of the New Testament in the Common English Bible translation. A quick check on my personal library shelf: I think I have 30 or so contemporary English translations of the Bible or significant parts of the Bible. If you want to make money, it seems, produce a new
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The Readings Textweek Resources collect/opening prayer reflection October 17 and week following [BCP TEC] Please add your own ideas, resources, hymns, prayers, etc. in the comments section.
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Many people who pray the Daily Office, the Prayer of the Church, alongside reading the scriptures read, particularly in the “Office of Readings”, a non-biblical passage as well. “Let the inspired books of both the Old and the New Testaments be read at Vigils, as also commentaries on them by the most eminent orthodox and
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Youtube video of Fr Zoltan Lendavi skateboarding has gone viral. The above video has been watched over 800,000 times. Other re-uploads of the same video by other users make this well over a million views. Fr Zoltan is seen outside his church in Gaborjanhaza, a small village on Hungary’s border with Slovenia. Anybody understand what
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This starts with a bit that some people will take for granted, and for others this may be new: when Roman Catholic clergy hear or use the word, “missal”, they think of the book with the regularly used, fixed parts of the Mass, and the varying prayers etc. for specific days. They do not think
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For discussion – I certainly have no clear ideas about all this. The Telegraph presented interesting statistics at the time of the pope’s visit to the UK. You can click on the map, diocese by diocese, comparing current statistics with 1982 when Pope John Paul II visited. I guess I was surprised at the stability
