On Thursday June 3 is the feast of Corpus Christi. Many transfer this feast to Sunday June 6. Here is a reflection on the collect/opening prayer for Corpus Christi Corpus Christi is, of course, a feast day – a single day, hence it is not appropriate to use its collect for the days following, just
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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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Book review of Prayers for an Inclusive Church The prayer at the heart of the Liturgy of the Eucharist is the Great Thanksgiving/Eucharistic Prayer. The prayer at the heart of the Liturgy of the Word is the collect/opening prayer. Both of these prayers plunge us deeper into the life of God the Holy Trinity. They
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This week is the eighth week in Ordinary Time (Counting Time). Sunday, May 30, Trinity Sunday takes precedence and hence replaces the Sunday in the ninth week in Ordinary Time. Here is a reflection on the collect/opening prayer for Trinity Sunday. On the top of this page is Rublev’s icon of the Trinity reflection 1
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The Day of Pentecost ends the Easter Season – it is the culmination of the Great Fifty Days of the Easter season. Here is a reflection on the collect/opening prayer for the Day of Pentecost. Here are suggestions that may be incorporated into a Day of Pentecost service. Although the next time some Christians will
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Ascension Day in the Southern Hemisphere commences the week of prayer for Christian unity. There is also a temptation to stop celebrating Easter now, and extinguish the Easter Candle. Resist it. You can do it. Sunday is the seventh Sunday in the Great 50 days of the Easter Season. Ascension Day collect/opening prayer reflection Seventh
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I have been able to find out a bit more about debates relating to liturgy at the meeting of General Synod of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia meeting in Gisborne from today. Motion 5 (below) is the one that confuses and concerns me most, followed by the bill on Ashes to
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Here’s a commentary for a collect/opening prayer for Easter 6. Here’s a commentary for the BCP (TEC USA) collect/opening prayer for Easter 6. Here’s a commentary for a collect/opening prayer for Ascension. Add your prayers, ideas, hymns, and other suggestions for this coming Sunday, week, and Ascension.
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