In my opinion, one of the great treasures of Western Christianity is the collect. We have a treasury of collects that goes back fifteen centuries and further. A collect, like a haiku or a sonnet, has a particular, tight literary structure. It is memorable, general, and regularly expresses a profound Christian truth in a short
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time September 6 from the collect/opening prayer (NZPB) Creation Season Many communities celebrate a Season of Creation during September. Some communities do this by abandoning the three year lectionary that it has taken us so long to grow into agreement internationally and ecumenically. This site encourages a greater consciousness of our
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A friend of mine sent me information that a house-that-was-a-church is for sale in Hobart, Tasmania. It is only $Aus1,450,000! It seems to me the ideal retirement home for a liturgist! I’ve even worked out a way to finance it. Simple. If each of my appreciative followers on twitter and facebook donates only $Aus60 each
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The Book of Mark has 678 verses. The Book of “Mark” in the NIV (New International Version) has 666 verses! The NIV’s book of “Mark” contains the “mark” of the Beast 666! This proves who is behind these modern, phoney, satanic perversions of the Bible. ps. LOL pps. This is exactly the way I preach.
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The US Roman Catholic Bishop Conference has just launched a website to prepare English-speaking Roman Catholics for the dramatic changes to the Roman Catholic Mass. Currently Roman Catholics know their responses by heart. They don’t hand out sheets with responses when you arrive. They don’t use power point or overhead projectors to put responses up
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Prof. Barber introduces the readings for Sunday August 2 Sunday, August 30, 2009: Liturgy Reflection from JP Catholic University on Vimeo.
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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 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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