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
Bruno of Cologne (Cologne, c. 1030 – Serra San Bruno, 6 October 1101), founder of the Carthusian Order. God, you called Bruno to serve you in a life of solitude, inspired by his example, may our hearts be fixed on you amidst the swift and varied changes of the world, through Jesus, the Christ, who
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The Readings Textweek Resources Last Sunday Episcopalians (Anglicans) and Roman Catholics prayed the same collect (opening prayer). It happens again this Sunday (October 10)! This Sunday Roman Catholics pray: Lord, our help and guide, make your love the foundation of our lives. May our love for you express itself in our eagerness to do good
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The Grand DesignStephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow Sorry. This book did not live up to the hype. With the headlines screaming that Stephen Hawking had disproved God: “God did not create the universe, says Hawking”. And the High Priest of antitheism, Richard Dawkins, declaring, “Darwinism kicked God out of biology but physics remained more uncertain.
From time to time there is discussion about how much people ought to understand the Eucharist before being allowed to receive it. [Reminder: I’m at the end of the spectrum of the early church and the uninterrupted practice of the Orthodox Church – which is the same as my opinion about how much people ought
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The New Zealand Anglican Lectionary is well known for providing a mind-numbing number of options, but is this Sunday a record? For a morning service it provides 10 (count them!) TEN psalm options – and if you don’t like any of them, you can use Lam 3:19-26 “for the Psalm”! It also provides ten readings
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I have written about his previously: Animal Blessing – St Francis Rather than my creating a new post, I suggest you read that one and add your comments and suggestions there. Thank you. Source of the above image
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