Imogen de la Bere wrote in the magazine Anglican Taonga: The other night I saw a post on Facebook from Bosco Peters. His website www.liturgy.co.nz/blog was about to receive its millionth hit, and he wanted his friends to make it happen so that he would be awake to witness it. There are two things about
Latest hopes are that the new English translation of the Roman Missal will be officially launched on the First Sunday of Advent, 28 November 2010. As soon as the text becomes available it will be online at www.nlo.org.nz An interactive resource to introduce this English translation will be available at http://becomeonebodyonespiritinchrist.org That beautifully-constructed website is
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Fr. Paolo Padrini has developed an application that will let Roman Catholic priests preside at the Eucharist using an iPad instead of a missal book on the altar . The application will be launched in July in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Latin, and will be free. Two years ago, Fr Padrini produced the iBreviary,
collect/opening prayer reflection June 27 and week following [NZPB] collect/opening prayer reflection June 27 and week following [Common Worship CofE] BCP (TEC): Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit
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On Sunday all of us gather from far and near. We read from the scriptures and from the writings of the apostles for as long as possible. Then the one presiding at the service speaks to us, urging everyone to live up to what we have heard in the readings. Then we all stand up
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Southern Hemisphere Winter Solstice is June 21, 2010 11:28 UT (Universal Time). In the Northern Hemisphere the winter is sprinkled with holidays and celebrations: St Nicholas, Christmas, New Year, Epiphany, etc. In New Zealand, from “Queen’s Birthday” (7 June – actually her birthday is April 21!) until the next long weekend (Labour Day) is about
Occasionally the revisions in the RCL depart from the Gospel chosen by the Vatican in the original three year lectionary. This Sunday is one of those Sundays. Everyone is reading essentially the same passage from Galatians, but the other readings set for this Sunday will not match between Roman Catholic and RCL communities. It is
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