The New Zealand Anglican Lectionary gives one of the titles for today to be “Proper 2”. There is no explanation, nor introduction. Reader further: Improper Sundays Unfortunately and inexplicably the NZ Anglican Church’s website has (a sixth of the way through the Church Year) still not placed the current PDF of its published Lectionary online
This year’s New Zealand Anglican Lectionary has added a new, extra title to today’s three titles in English. There are now four different English-language titles for today in the Anglican Church of Or! The fourth is “Proper 1”. This new title was launched, as usual in our province’s liturgical landscape, without explanation or introduction. We
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This is the second full calendar year that this site has been running. During this year there have been 264,797 unique visitors. Compare that to 130,540 for 2007. Currently, this increasing trend means there are often 10,000 visitors a week to this site. Thank you, to the regular visitors to this site, for your encouragement.
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This is a reflection on the online poll related to my blogpost on Liturgical Colour (November 26) for the last Sunday of the Church’s Year. The liturgical colour used for that Sunday, according to the poll was: White: 53% Green: 27% Red: 8% Violet: 2% Other: 10% (a lot of “gold”, “gold and white”; a
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Please can you scroll down the sidebar and answer what colour you/and or your community used last Sunday, November 23. (update 18 December: that poll has now been removed and has been written about here). The liturgical colour suggested in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, like so much else here, is
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Recently I provided resources for Blessing the Advent Wreath, including a new Advent Wreath hymn/song. Common Worship provides prayers at the Advent Wreath related to the lectionary: Advent 1 The Patriarchs Advent 2 The Prophets Advent 3 John the Baptist Advent 4 The Virgin Mary Christmas Day The Christ The prayers reproduced below reflect these
Has New Zealand Anglicanism gone too far in the direction of “creativity” in worship at the expense of liturgy being the work of the (whole) church?
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