Reflections for this coming Sunday and week following: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time November 15 from the collect/opening prayer (NZPB) 2nd Sunday before Advent November 15 from the collect/opening prayer (CofE Common Worship)
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How to really annoy Anglican clergy You can offer whiskey instead of Gin – some Anglican clergy find that slightly irksome. You can deny the validity of Anglican sacraments – Anglican clergy without a sense of humour can find that irritating. But if you really want to annoy Anglican clergy … get their titles wrong!
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[Update – this post was written prior to the apostolic constitution’s publication. After reading this post, you can go to the post written after its publication] I have been promising a third post on Pope Benedict XVI’s Anglican Ordinariates. First post Second post Anglican Ordinariates Those who have been putting a positive spin on the
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h/t Interrupting the Silence arr. Bishop Basil words and music
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If you are hesitant about getting online, starting a blog, organising a parish or group website, setting up a twitter profile – let me encourage you not to hesitate. Any of these are now so simple to set up, free, and easy to run. They need not be time-consuming. You may not know the positive
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32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time November 8 from the collect/opening prayer (NZPB) Proper 27 November 8 from the collect/opening prayer (TEC BCP USA) 3rd Sunday before Advent November 8 from the collect/opening prayer (CofE Common Worship) As I have so often pointed out on this site, the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
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Maybe we have our weighting wrong. Last weekend I was at an ordination. In our grand, full cathedral, with one of the world’s excellent choirs, with grand processions of robed clergy, coped archdeacons, billowing incense, and five splendidly attired bishops, with prostrations and much ceremony, the two hour service ordained four priests. The bishop, visiting
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Today is the feast of Richard Hooker – a good day to reflect on the concept that the Bible alone is sufficient to determine what ought to be believed – sola scriptura. As far as I can ascertain the term goes back to Martin Luther, a sixteenth century human construct, philosophically in the early modern
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