Are the majority of us forbidden from using some of the services in the 2020 book with the title A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa? TEC has shown one way forward to solving some of our issues. No Church has needed to deal with the others we’ve uniquely created.
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What are some things we can learn from the latest census results?
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For the first time, this year Matariki will be a public holiday. Here are some resources and reflections on how we might celebrate this.
For Anglicans, the collect was once a much-loved, well-polished prayer that Anglicans and others knew by heart. New Zealand’s collects have degenerated into a vast collection that blurs into non-memorable mediocrity and confusion.
In a world where gender is understood more as a spectrum and fluid, the Church can make itself irrelevant by, Sunday by Sunday, proclaiming that male and female God created us.
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In the Anglican Church of Or, it is possible to celebrate the Transfiguration once, twice, or three times a year. Or never!
Transfiguration 2022? Read More »
I was in a cafe and in a corner with the other local resources and brochures was a box with “Please Take One” on it. In the box were prayers on cards – taken from A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Miginare o Aotearoa’. Nothing pushy – there was the Anglican Cross; a sort
Gracious God,
you called your monk Thomas Merton to proclaim your justice out of silence,
and moved him in his contemplative writings
to perceive and value Christ at work in the faiths of others:
Keep us, like him, steadfast in the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ;
who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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