There is discussion about the lack of participation of liturgists in the design of recent church buildings. There is a call for architects to be more concerned about making buildings that are appropriate spaces for people to worship in – individually and together; and less concerned about winning architectural awards. “The lack of integration between
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The Saturday Press (Christchurch’s newspaper) had a full-page article about the Christ the Light Roman Catholic cathedral in Oakland, California, and its influence on the exterior look of the contemporary option (called “Option 3”) for an Anglican cathedral in the centre of Christchurch. Oakland’s cathedral was one visited by the Christchurch study tour. I agree
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I have been reading Damian Thompson’s book The Fix (“How addiction is taking over your world”). Thompson includes addictions to iphones, painkillers, cupcakes, alcohol, computer games, and sex. He is arguing what I suspect many of us intuitively know – a lot of contemporary products, and the way we encounter them, are specifically designed to
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I am delighted to have uncovered another shared collect. Let us pray (in silence) [that our hope in God may influence us daily] Pause Keep the household of your church, O God, [or Keep the whānau of…] safe in your tender compassion, so that we who entrust ourselves totally to your heavenly grace may always
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New Zealand’s Archbishop David Moxon has accepted the position of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative to the Vatican, and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome. David Moxon has been a friend of mine for decades. He is a warm person with true depth of spirituality, a deep bicultural and multicultural understanding, and a catholic
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Let us pray (in silence) [that we long for the advent of Christ] pause Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and to put on the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in the which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility;
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UPDATE: CofE’s General Synod vote on women bishops was lost. Votes for the measure were: House of Bishops: 44 in favour; 3 against; 2 abstain House of Clergy: 148 in favour; 45 against; 0 abstain House of Laity: 132 in favour; 74 against; 0 abstain It needs 2/3 majority in all houses. The Church of
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Fifty years ago over two thousand bishops, experts, and ecumenical observers were at the start of the Second Vatican Council. They would meet during periods over four years, and produce remarkable decisions that have changed Christian history. They produced transforming documents such as Lumen Gentium (on ecclesiology), Sacrosanctum Concilium (on liturgy), and Dei Verbum (on
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