The printed NZ Anglican lectionary for 2009 has been adding the term “Proper” Sundays, confusing the Canadian numbering (identical to the Roman Catholic “Ordinary Sunday” numbering) and the USA numbering (which only starts after Pentecost). This results in Propers 6 and 7 being celebrated twice! So today in the NZ printed version is called Proper
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Today in the Church of England, the calendar has the commemoration of John Bosco, founder of the Salesian teaching order. You can read more about him here and here: John Bosco educated the whole person—body and soul united. He believed that Christ’s love and our faith in that love should pervade everything we do—work, study,
Two months into the liturgical year, the PDF of the lectionary for the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia is now available. Thanks to Anglican Taonga online. You can download the 1.32MB PDF here.
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I was walking through Christchurch (NZ) and saw the following: More on the 2009 World Buskers Festival in Christchurch to follow.
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Time online provides this wonderful photo reflection of the enclosed Dominican Sisters at the Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary, Summit, New Jersey.
Cloistered nuns – photo reflection Read More »
Google has just promoted the PageRank of this website www.liturgy.co.nz from PageRank 5 to PageRank 6. PageRank is Google’s view of the importance of a page. In a search in Google for “liturgy” there are only four sites of PageRank 6 and that is the highest PageRank for that search term. There are a great
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The New Zealand Anglican Lectionary gives one of the four English-language titles for today to be “Proper 3”. There is no explanation, nor introduction. Reader further: Improper Sundays
