When the Church of England in their General Synod passed that women could be ordained bishops , Kiwi priest Brian Dawson tweeted, “Welcome to the 20th century Church of England.” It was funny. I retweeted it. But people could watch that Church of England debate and the vote live. Meanwhile, however, our Kiwi Anglican Church
Today, July 11, is the feast of St Benedict (480 – 547). Benedict describes a “middle way”, via media, bringing together positive ends – not either/or, but both/and. Community and solitude. Prayer and work. And so forth. He has a stress on the daily office, and on reading the scriptures in such a way as
The Preface of A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa (ANZPBHKMA), by Archbishop Brian Davis, is dated Feast of St Barnabas 11 June 1989; twenty-five years ago today. This might be an invitation to write some posts reflecting on the Prayer Book. In this post it is worth noting positive changes that
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Friday was the feast of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945. The Melanesian Brotherhood is an Anglican religious order with about 600 members based at Tabalia on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. (H/T The Daily Office) “Jisas yu holem hand blom mi” means “Jesus hold my hand”: Jesus hold my hand Hear my
One day, when I have (make?) more time, I will sort the links to this site, and the sites I recommend. Currently these are: Worship and Lectionary Links Diocese, cathedrals, parishes, churches Spirituality sites Blog links General links The usual applies: just because this site link to a site doesn’t mean I agree with everything
Habit 1 – Focus on God Church is for God. For spirituality. For meditation. For prayer. For liturgy. This should be self evident. Κύριον τὸν Θεόν σου προσκυνήσεις, καὶ αὐτῷ μόνῳ λατρεύσεις Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him. Matthew 4:10 προσκυνέω proskyneō worship God If people want the experience of a café,
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Some discussions, on this site and elsewhere, are different variants of reflecting on what the Bible is for Christians. In the midst of some people’s tub-thumping of the term sola scriptura (belief in the Bible alone) some people can give the impression that those who do not use the term sola scriptura somehow do not
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The Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) all have a tradition of ritual handwashing before prayer. Jews Christians In the third century there are traces of a custom of washing the hands as a preparation for prayer on the part of all Christians; and from the fourth century onwards it appears to have been usual for
What has the world come to if the Vatican cannot spell the name of the Saviour! [No, check the date, this is not one of my annual April Fools’ Day posts]. 6000 bronze, silver, and gold medallion coins have been minted with Jesus’ name as “Lesus”. No – I could not have made this up!
One of the sadder moments for me at the recent diocesan synod was communion time at the synod Eucharist. While I and others were going to receive communion, clusters of people, particularly clergy, were sitting around and chatting. We regularly see complaints about the Sign of Peace interrupting worship and degenerating to a catch-up time.
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