New Zealand Prayer Book Daily Prayer
Instructions on how to pray the daily office, called “Daily Services”, using A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa
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Streaming Services, Online Spiritual Resources In Coronavirus Times
Places that are streaming services. Add yours and add others as you discover them.
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Coronavirus Solitude Self-Isolation and Spirituality
This time with coronavirus in the world may be an invitation to you to explore and deepen the individual spiritual disciplines and practices that are a rich (and often neglected) part of the Christian heritage.
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Monasteries without walls: secret monasticism in the Soviet Union
Monasticism helped keep Christian faith alive and vibrant through the anti-theist communism of the Soviet Union.
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Goodbye Daily Office?
On some recent occasions when I was present, clergy were leading the Daily Office from A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa. In each of these cases, when they got to the appointed psalm, however, rather than using it as a prayer that we, the gathered community, prayed together, the psalm in
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Worship Rules?
I recently attended a workshop to improve photography. The presenter worked through a list of photography rules: the rule of thirds hotspots the effect of lines … I regularly make a parallel between worship (or liturgy) and grammar – trying to stress that liturgy “rules” are more descriptive than prescriptive (sure, there’s a prescriptive component
Praying The Bible (Part 2)
Last week, I blogged about one way to pray the Bible: the Daily Office – the using of the inspired Word of God, especially the Psalms and Canticles, as words for prayer. This has a strong element of keep moving along… This week complements the Daily Office by a go-slow way of praying the Bible:
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