What has the world come to if the Vatican cannot spell the name of the Saviour! [No, check the date, this is not one of my annual April Fools’ Day posts]. 6000 bronze, silver, and gold medallion coins have been minted with Jesus’ name as “Lesus”. No – I could not have made this up!
Since last month there is a wonderful new site: The Low Churchman’s guide to Solemn High Mass “Keeping loyal Anglicans safe from supersticion since 2013”. Here is a sample of what it offers: THE SARUM USE If two Ritualists happen to meet in the street, before long their conversation will turn to something called the
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Let me tell you a parable. I was at an Anglican conference recently. There was a coffee machine. After some experience with this machine, I pointed out it was a parable of the Anglican Church (for you, it might be a parable of yours or another church): It looks big, and flash, and fancy; and
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I appreciate the Myers-Briggs personality typing and what we can learn from it. I enjoyed the following prayers for different personality types: ISTJ: Lord help me to relax about insignificant details beginning tomorrow at 11:41.23 am e.s.t. ISTP: God help me to consider people’s feelings, even if most of them ARE hypersensitive. ESTP: God help
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I have as much of a sense of humour as the next person. And God does too. I have no problem laughing about religion, with religion, at religion… And God is the same. God is bigger than most people’s pride, dignity, and egotism. But I do get concerned when God is trivialised; when, with great
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We are commanded not to eat of the accursed fig. Mark 11:12-14,20 On the following day, when they came from Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see whether perhaps he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves,
These thoughts are the result of a conversation with a (wishing-to-remain-anonymous-for-this-but-very-happy-to-let-me-publish-the-essence-of-the-conversation) person. We all know that the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42. We also know that God has a tendency to hide the meaning of life from us – it is certainly not so straight forward that all people easily agree
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The NZ Lectionary that we were assured was put together by people who are “skilled and knowledgeable about things liturgical” who deliberately opted “for variety rather than uniformity”; this Lectionary that assigns Green, Red, White, or Violet to one Sunday, and assigns the new liturgical colour “A” to another (Amber, Amethyst, Aqua, Arsenic, Amaranth, Alizarin,
