Today is the feast of Corpus Christi From the New Zealand Prayer Book page 541: Praise and glory to you creator Spirit of God; you make our bread Christ’s body to heal and reconcile and to make us the body of Christ. You make our wine Christ’s living sacrificial blood to redeem the world. You
On Sunday June 14 for those celebrating Corpus Christi there is a reflection on a Corpus Christi collect For those celebrating the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time there is a reflection on the collect (opening prayer) For those celebrating the First Sunday after Trinity (Common Worship CofE) there is a reflection on the collect
Traditionally the Thursday after Trinity Sunday (this year June 11) is celebrated as Corpus Christi. Some translate this celebration to next Sunday. In the Anglican Church in New Zealand the coming Sunday is designated as Te Pouhere Sunday to “celebrate our life as a three Tikanga Church”. This site is firmly committed to the ecumenical,
As well as the reflection on the Trinity Sunday Collect, on this site there are two wonderful reflections on Rublev’s icon of the Trinity: Reflection 1 Reflection 2
In the midst of the media frenzy over “Oprah-famous”, telegenic Father Alberto Cutié moving from the Roman Catholic Church to The (Anglican) Episcopal Church (TEC), there has been an interesting sub-story in the confusion of long-time (20 years?) Religion Correspondent of The Times Ruth Gledhill. In essence Ruth very surprisingly does not seem to understand
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There is a helpful discussion on beliefnet.com about the Revised Common Lectionary. This includes a comment from Taylor Burton-Edwards, the secretary of The Consultation on Common Texts which did the work on this lectionary. Two points are worth highlighting: 1) A lectionary “is a selection of readings intended to be read, sung, heard, and proclaimed
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Yesterday I wrote a post on evangelism, working towards a new model from contemporary marketing. I commend that post and its helpful comments to you. But today one of my twitter followers @JayOatway sent me a video clip for fun. Yes, it is fun, but it also can be seen as another model for evangelism
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Marketers and entrepreneurs might help expanding and clarify this post, along with others as these are thoughts in the making… I am coining the terms “permission evangelism” and “participation evangelism“. So from now on – if you use those terms – please credit me 🙂 Old style marketing has been called “interruption marketing” or “interruptive
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