improper 3
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
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improper 2
The New Zealand Anglican Lectionary gives one of the titles for today to be “Proper 2”. There is no explanation, nor introduction. Reader further: Improper Sundays Unfortunately and inexplicably the NZ Anglican Church’s website has (a sixth of the way through the Church Year) still not placed the current PDF of its published Lectionary online
improper lectionary celebrations
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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A Christmas Message from the Co-presiding Bishops
December 20, 2008 To the people and communities of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia Te Hahi Mihinare ki Aotearoa ki Niu Tireni, Ki Nga Moutere o te Moana Nui a Kiwa Dear Friends, Tena koutou katoa, Ni sa bula vinaka, Malo elelei, Namas’te, Talofa lava, Warm greetings. The three of us
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Liturgical colour poll reflection
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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Archbishop of Canterbury’s Christmas Message to the Anglican Communion
Human beings, left to themselves, have imagined God in all sorts of shapes; but – although there were one or two instances, in Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt, of gods being pictured as boys – it took Christianity to introduce the world to the idea of God in the form of a baby: in the
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New or True Anglican Communion – BREAKING NEWS
Bishop Phineas Angus Rody will not recognise the new “Anglican” North American Province. He thinks the founders of this province are bigoted and clearly prejudiced against homosexuals. “They regularly quote Leviticus 18:22 against homosexual activity, but they just pick and choose a verse out of context. Three verses earlier is a whole teaching for heterosexuals
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Calendar confusion
The New Zealand Anglican Church is adding five names to its calendar of saints – but my motion that started this process had a much bigger vision.
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