Is the Pope serious?! Or has the Vatican PR machine merely given up being concerned about even attempting to prevent publicity gaffes in the current administration? Are the half a billion women Roman Catholics mostly silently compliant? How are the world’s three-quarters of a million nuns and religious sisters reacting? Benedict XVI is, apparently, the
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The Readings for the Ordinary Sunday Textweek resources Assumption and Dormition of Mary Textweek resources collect/opening prayer reflection August 15 and week following [NZPB] collect/opening prayer reflection August 15 and week following [BCP TEC] St Mary, the mother of Jesus/Dormition/Assumption Collect from Common Worship O God, you declare your almighty power most chiefly in showing
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“We are all atheists about most gods. Some of us just go one god further.” This is possibly one of the most interesting/intriguing of the three billboards that are currently up around New Zealand. Mathematically, the quote seems to argue for theism. In fact for polytheism! I could express it algebraically – but, for the
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On this day in 1945, someone climbed not a holy mountain, but into the cockpit of a plane – a machine of war. There had been a lull of a week in the fighting between America and Japan. The Americans had a new secret weapon and they wanted to use it with the maximum psychological
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The Readings Textweek resources collect/opening prayer reflection August 8 and week following [NZPB] BCP (TEC) Grant to us, Lord, we pray, the spirit to think and do always those things that are right, that we, who cannot exist without you, may by you be enabled to live according to your will; through Jesus Christ our
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Running church as congregations of the similar (eg. ages and stages…) makes church something we grow out of – not deeper into… “Relationships formed over a lifetime with people who are just like you is, honestly, a form of self-worship.” Josh Loveless in Relevant Magazine Discuss…
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I have published a couple of reflections on the sign of the cross on this site. This one by Fr Matthew Moretz is a good addition to that series: sign of the cross part 1 sign of the cross part 2
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Fr Paul Turner has been touring New Zealand to help clergy and laity prepare for the new Mass translation. The intention is that this commence Advent Sunday this year in New Zealand. I am not sure that this timeline will be realised. As I understand it currently, only the Mass text has received the Vatican’s
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