20th Sunday in Ordinary Time August 16 from the collect/opening prayer (NZPB) 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time August 16 from the collect/opening prayer (Roman Catholic) Proper 15 August 16 from the collect/opening prayer (BCP TEC) Image: Mosaic panel on the left (north) wall of the apse of the Church of St. Vitale, Ravenna, depicting Emperor
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This Sunday Roman Catholics and Episcopalians (Anglicans) are once again praying essentially the same prayer. The source is from at least the eighth century: Protector in te sperantium, Deus, sine quo nihil est validum, nihil sanctum: multiplica super nos misericordiam tuam; ut, te rectore, te duce, sic transeamus per bona temporalia, ut non amittamus aeterna.
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A reflection for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time June 28 from the collect/opening prayer (NZPB) A reflection for the 3rd Sunday after Trinity June 28 from the collect/opening prayer – Common Worship (CofE) A reflection for today, the feast of St John the Baptist
A reflection for the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time June 21 from the collect/opening prayer from a New Zealand Prayer Book A reflection for Proper 7 June 21 from the collect/opening prayer BCP (TEC) A reflection for 2nd Sunday after Trinity June 21 from the collect/opening prayer – Common Worship (CofE)
On Sunday June 14 for those celebrating Corpus Christi there is a reflection on a Corpus Christi collect For those celebrating the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time there is a reflection on the collect (opening prayer) For those celebrating the First Sunday after Trinity (Common Worship CofE) there is a reflection on the collect
Traditionally the Thursday after Trinity Sunday (this year June 11) is celebrated as Corpus Christi. Some translate this celebration to next Sunday. In the Anglican Church in New Zealand the coming Sunday is designated as Te Pouhere Sunday to “celebrate our life as a three Tikanga Church”. This site is firmly committed to the ecumenical,
May your Ordinary Time be extraordinary! There are normally fifty-two weeks in a year. These are made up of the Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter Seasons. Normally that leaves thirty-four weeks of “Ordinary Time”. Those weeks start from The Baptism of the Lord up to Lent, and start again at the Day of Pentecost. There
Whilst February 22 Roman Catholics, New Zealand Anglicans and others will be reading Mark 2:1-12 etc., those following the Revised Common Lectionary will generally be celebrating the Transfiguration with the following readings. Mark 9:2-9 This describes an altered state of consciousness understood and experienced in 90% of cultures studied by anthropologists, but blocked in the
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