October 18 is the feast of Saint Luke Almighty God, you called Luke the physician, whose praise is in the gospel, to be an evangelist and physician of the soul: by the grace of the Spirit and through the wholesome medicine of the gospel, give your Church the same love and power to heal; through
Someone stands up and and addresses a group: “The Bible says,…” and proceeds to quote. Recent comments on this site encourage me to write a series of blog posts to help nuance such a declaration. We do not have a single original biblical manuscript. We have copies. And, careful as we know that those who
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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