Charles de Foucauld Canonised
Yesterday, I was delighted to start the day with the news that the Covid-delayed canonisation of Charles de Foucauld is going ahead on 15 May 2022.
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Yesterday, I was delighted to start the day with the news that the Covid-delayed canonisation of Charles de Foucauld is going ahead on 15 May 2022.
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Martinmas, the origin of the word “Chapel”, and Martin of Tours
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On the [day after] the anniversary of his death, it is worth reflecting how Richard Hooker (25 March 1554 – 2 November 1600) is regularly credited with Anglican theology sitting on a three-legged stool of Scripture, Tradition, and Reason. In his writings, the closest we can actually find to this is: I do not know
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The Anglican Church of Melanesia’s commemoration of Charles Fox is appropriately today, and challenges NZ Anglicans to rethink who and when we celebrate in our Calendar.
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Almighty God,
who built your Church upon the foundation
of the apostles and prophets,
with Jesus Christ himself as the chief cornerstone:
so join us together in unity of spirit by their doctrine,
that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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On 23 October, it is the feast of St James of Jerusalem, Brother of the Lord. Can you list off the 12 Apostles, and the brothers and sisters of Jesus?
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Today, 7 October, is yet another enigma in the Calendar of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. Everyone else who commemorates William Tyndale follows John Foxe in assigning that celebration to 6 October.
Everlasting God,
you have ordained and constituted in a wonderful order
the ministries of angels and mortals:
Mercifully grant that,
as your holy angels always serve and worship you in heaven,
so by your appointment
they may help and defend us here on earth;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
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