The Prayer Book is a girl’s best friend
Stolen from the Rev. Suzanne Guthrie’s At the Edge of the Enclosure Canterbury cap tip to @pmelfi
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Stolen from the Rev. Suzanne Guthrie’s At the Edge of the Enclosure Canterbury cap tip to @pmelfi
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Today is the feast of Corpus Christi From the New Zealand Prayer Book page 541: Praise and glory to you creator Spirit of God; you make our bread Christ’s body to heal and reconcile and to make us the body of Christ. You make our wine Christ’s living sacrificial blood to redeem the world. You
“New Zealand’s [Roman Catholic] bishops are no longer seeking approval that kneeling be the posture for the faithful during the Eucharistic Prayer at Masses, reversing an earlier decision,” Michael Otto reports on front-page news of the fortnightly NZ Catholic (#317). Last November the bishops had voted, not unanimously, to kneel from the end of the
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I know that this Sunday, the Day of Pentecost, some communities will celebrate using the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. They are doing this to commemorate the anniversary of its introduction. It was a very catholic prayer book. In 1552 a more reformed prayer book ensued, but this did not come into use because, on
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Here is a link to is a reflection on the collect/opening prayer for the seventh Sunday of Easter, May 24. Here is a link to is a reflection on the collect/opening prayer from BCP (TEC) Common Worship etc. for the seventh Sunday of Easter, May 24.
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Here is a link to is a reflection on the collect/opening prayer for the sixth Sunday of Easter, May 17. [Whilst the formulary, the NZPrayer Book p704 surprisingly has the “Stir up…” collect we usually associate with the Sunday before Advent, the 2009 lectionary points to the above collect instead] Here is a link to
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The latest edition of the newspaper The New Zealand Catholic has the following story: CHRISTCHURCH – Blessed Mary MacKillop and Blessed Teresa of Calcutta could soon feature in Anglican liturgies in New Zealand. In 2006, the Rev. Bosco Peters, Christ’s College chaplain and webmaster of the ecumenical liturgy site www.liturgy.co.nz, proposed a motion to that
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I have been asked to provide suggestions towards revising our church calendar. The Common Life Liturgical Commission of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia received my motion to review the calendar. They set in motion adding five names to the calendar: August 8 Mary MacKillop, Teacher, 1909 August 16 Brother Roger of
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