Highlighting liturgical confusion could become a weekly post… 🙁 The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia has “formularies”. These are agreements of, say, shared worship practice – this is what unites our church. A Bill is brought to General Synod and receives the approval of the three houses (bishops, clergy, laity) and the
This year is the 350th anniversary year of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. The Secretary-General of the Anglican Communion, Canon Kenneth Kearon, preaching earlier this month in Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral, on this topic, made some good points: “Central to these reforms [the Church seeking to preserve much of its ancient order, while also
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As Anglicans in NZ begin to prepare for this coming Sunday service, the NZ Lectionary for January 1, 2012 reads: THE NAMING OF JESUS This is a principal feast and should not be displaced by any other celebration. They are then provided with the readings for The Naming of Jesus, and the 1st Sunday after
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I recently received the Lectionary for 2012 for the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia (PDF here). There is much improved from recent versions, but with one inaccuracy. It assumes that A New Zealand Prayer Book/ He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa (ANZPB/HKMOA) has been revised! Regulars here will know that there was an
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Recently I was in the Nelson diocese. I spotted a lot of simple, attractive leaflets (see image above) explaining about weddings in the different Anglican churches of the diocese. I have often written about my sadness that churches have been poor at indicating what we offer (weddings, funerals,…). So 5 points to the Nelson Diocese.
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Textweek resources: Christmas 2; Epiphany Readings: Christmas 2; Epiphany • collect/opening prayer reflection 2nd Sunday after Christmas For Epiphany, once again Episcopalians (Anglicans) and Roman Catholics will pray the same prayer. Deus, qui hodierna die Unigenitum tuum gentibus stella duce revelasti: concede propitius; ut, qui jam te ex fide cognovimus, usque ad contemplandam speciem tuae
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I am receiving a lot of questions: why is this the 8th week in Ordinary Time? Why is my church using Proper 3 for the office? (from someone in TEC USA). The answer is not simple. There are 52 or 53 Sundays in a year, depending on the year. 4 are for Advent, 1 or
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This year’s New Zealand Anglican Lectionary has added a new, extra title to today’s three titles in English. There are now four different English-language titles for today in the Anglican Church of Or! The fourth is “Proper 1”. This new title was launched, as usual in our province’s liturgical landscape, without explanation or introduction. We
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This is a reflection on the online poll related to my blogpost on Liturgical Colour (November 26) for the last Sunday of the Church’s Year. The liturgical colour used for that Sunday, according to the poll was: White: 53% Green: 27% Red: 8% Violet: 2% Other: 10% (a lot of “gold”, “gold and white”; a
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Please can you scroll down the sidebar and answer what colour you/and or your community used last Sunday, November 23. (update 18 December: that poll has now been removed and has been written about here). The liturgical colour suggested in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, like so much else here, is
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