Christmas Day
Fear not!
christmas season
The Incarnation Changes Everything
Whether you regard the Christmas Season as concluding on Christmas Day, Epiphany, the Baptism of the Lord, Candlemas, the Sunday following Candlemas, or are Orthodox, or Armenian, and celebrate the Incarnation on another day and see the season differently… this is a reposting of an important reflection. We tend to speak about “secular” as if
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1st Sunday of Christmas resources
textweek resources scripture readings • collect/opening prayer reflection 1st Sunday after Christmas [Common Worship CofE] BCP TEC: Almighty God, you have poured upon us the new light of your incarnate Word: Grant that this light, enkindled in our hearts, may shine forth in our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with
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Christmas 2018
My Christmas Message Blessings to you and yours for the Christmas Season and for the Year of Our Lord 2019. Thank you for being part of this virtual community. Linus Drops His Security Blanket Here is a short video clip from A Charlie Brown Christmas! NB: at 0:35 seconds, Linus says: “Fear not!” At that
A Resource for Advent
A Handful of Change Journeying Through Advent By Craufurd Murray 88 pages With the support of the St Luke’s Spirituality Centre $NZ10 plus p&p It can be obtained from craufurd@xtra.co.nz or Ecclesia Books This is not quite a book review, because this book is a collection for daily reflection from the Sunday before Advent through
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6 Common Misconceptions About Christmas
The Gospels of Matthew and Luke have stories of the infancy of Jesus which function as different overtures to way each of them present the stories they will go on to paint. In our Christmas cards, crib scenes, children’s books, and nativity plays we tend to conflate these two overtures, thereby losing some of the
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Beginning 2017 in The Anglican Church of Or
So, formally, it is called “The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia”. That’s a mouthful even some of the leadership cannot get correct. Because of its many options (including, if you like, variants to its formal name), here it’s often known as “The Anglican Church of Or“. If you don’t want to read
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The Incarnation Changes Everything
We tend to speak about “secular” as if it is the human foundational operating system, and that, somehow, religion is superimposed as an application, a program, on top of that (choose from some popular programs, all doing similar things); as if atheists declutter the unnecessary program, getting back to the foundational operating system – secularism.
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