Today is the fourth birthday of twitter. On March 4 the 10 billionth tweet was sent – but we don’t know what the tweet was, because the tweeter has their tweets set on private. See number 6 on this video: A researcher just contacted me and asked: 1) If medium is the message, what do
liturgical & church passwords
Are you looking for a new password for your church website? I recently cracked the pope’s login for the Vatican website, it is EtCumSpiri220 (for security reasons I won’t reveal his username). One online password-strength checker suggests it is “strong” which must be why it took me quite a while to crack it. Below there
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When is Easter Day?
Easter Day can occur anywhere between March 22 and April 25. Often Easter Day for the Eastern half of the church is on a different date than for the Western half of the church. This year Eastern and Western Easter falls on the same date: Sunday April 4. Passover this year (5769) commences at sunset
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Passion Sunday?
A recent comment asked why Lent 5 (this coming Sunday), the Sunday before Palm Sunday, was previously called “Passion Sunday”. Was there at some stage of Christian history a reading of the Passion on this day? The Church of England continues to call this “Passion Sunday”. The NZ Lectionary also calls this “Passion Sunday” and
Southern Hemisphere Lent 4
A Southern Hemisphere Lent photographic reflection in my garden (part 4) Click here for part 1 Click here for part 2 Click here for part 3 The caterpillar has stopped eating and found somewhere safe (as a pupa it is incredibly vulnerable). It has become very still and secreted a much thicker and stronger pupal
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Lay presidency
I see, from time to time, discussions about “lay presidency” of the Eucharist. In favour of this, regularly the eucharistic rite is dismembered and the discussion quickly degenerates to, “why can a lay person do this bit and not that bit?” This functionalism and legalism is often emotionally undergirded with an anti-catholic attitude {Sydney Anglicans
Resources for Lent 5
Reflections based on collect/opening prayer: Fifth Sunday in Lent March 21 from the collect/opening prayer Fifth Sunday in Lent March 21 from the collect/opening prayer (BCP TEC) Looking forward: Palm Sunday/ Passion Sunday Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) Good Friday Some people call Lent 5 “Passion Sunday” – I prefer to follow contemporary liturgical calendar renewal
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baptism distracts from Easter?
Whenever I am part of the Easter Vigil I am always delighted if there are baptisms. Recently I was part of conversations where some people were seeing “baptism at the Easter Vigil as distracting from Easter” and, also, seeing immersion as “un-Anglican”. 1) Behind the “baptism at the Easter Vigil is distracting from Easter” idea,
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