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This site regularly connects spirituality and technology. For those struggling with their computer technology, here is a helpful flow-diagram, courtesy of xkcd
This site regularly connects spirituality and technology. For those struggling with their computer technology, here is a helpful flow-diagram, courtesy of xkcd
This coming Sunday (August 30) and the week following, Roman Catholics and Episcopalians (Anglicans) once again will be praying the same prayer at the Eucharist and at their Daily Offices. This is the Roman Catholic version of the prayer: Almighty God, every good thing comes from you. Fill our hearts with love for you, increase
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Yesterday the founder of Facebook’s Praying People Page posted Rev. Mark Brown indicated that he was interested that 71% of the over 5,500 members are female. This is made even more interesting because this almost 3 to 1 imbalance is not the case on my Facebook Liturgy Page where the ratio is 54% male, 46%
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Having described my visits to Taize, I dug out my own photo of Br. Roger from 1983 (above). For me it speaks volumes of who he was (for me and for others) – and how I encountered him.
In the Old City of Jerusalem for centuries people of the Jewish faith have been writing prayers on pieces of paper and placing them between the massive stones of the Western Wall (Hebrew: הכותל המערבי, translit.: HaKotel HaMa’aravi – hence often referred to simply as the Kotel = wall. Arabic: حائط البراق, translit.: Ḥā’iṭ Al-Burāq)
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It can regularly spoil a joke to need to explain it. In this case the Monsignor [Failblog FAILS! in calling him a “cardinal” – this is clearly NOT a cardinal] confuses the microphone that he has just been speaking into with the aspergillum (seen 0:20), a similarly shaped object used for sprinkling with Holy Water.
If social media is here to stay – how is the church responding? How is your parish or Christian community participating? The seven last words of a Christian community are, “we never did it like that before.” There are now a number of different ways that people can be present in web 2.0. It appears
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Brother Roger was born in Provence in Switzerland in 1915 the ninth and youngest child of a Protestant minister’s family. He studied theology at Strasbourg and Lausanne. In 1940 he left Switzerland for his mother’s native France. In 1940, he biked from Geneva to Taizé, a small village in Burgundy near Cluny. Taizé was at
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