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Halloween, All Saints, & All Souls forms 3days of liturgical observance. This triduum can be a celebration of past, present, and future Eternal Life in Christ.
liturgy.co.nz/halloween-all-…
God as the Bible's muse: liturgy.co.nz/god-as-the-mus…
When one says that God inspired the Bible, do we imagine God dictating the words (that certainly is the understanding of many – technically this is called “verbal plenary inspiration)? Or is it actually something more like a muse inspiring a writer? liturgy.co.nz/god-as-the-mus…
Those of us following the world's most-used systematic reading of the Bible are in Ephesians. 5:23 - "the husband is the κεφαλή of the wife". This is not ἄρχων, ἡγεμών, δεσπότης (in charge). Don't make from the English what isn't there - it is closer to "HEADwaters".
Commemorating St Simon and St Jude, Apostles
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Resources for Sunday: liturgy.co.nz/halloween-all-…
3 in every 10 young people are not enrolled to vote in NZ. This government has changed the rules: if you are NOT ENROLLED BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO VOTE vote.nz/enrolling
Reflecting on Sunday's collect (Opening Prayer):
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~1/3 of eligible young people in NZ are not enrolled to vote & under this government’s unnecessary new law have only 2 more days to do so. Roughly half of all countries worldwide use some form of government-initiated automatic voter registration. Why not NZ?🙃 Yesterday’s Press:
The Vatican removed this verse from the daily & Sunday Mass lectionary in 1970
Fixed it for you:
The verse the Vatican doesn't want you to hear at Mass: For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves. (1 Corinthians 11:29)
Can you escape a high-control spiritual group without carrying its patterns into your next belief system? When someone fiercely attacks the religion they left, are we seeing unresolved grief, legitimate criticism, or... ? What is healthy spirituality? liturgy.co.nz/cults-2
resources: liturgy.co.nz/resources-30th…
Resources & Reflections for Sunday: liturgy.co.nz/resources-30th…
Everliving God,
increase within us your gifts of faith, hope, and love,
and make us cherish what you command,
so that we may obtain what you promise;
through Jesus Christ,
who is alive with you,
in the unity of the...
A zacharia is half a scaramucci - USA has just announced its latest unit of time. This will sit alongside other USA ways of measuring: mile; fahrenheit; gallon; pound...
Who gets to claim they are THE Church? And who gets to decide who has left it? Read more: liturgy.co.nz/when-i-say-chu…
God's glory may not be what you expected - reflecting on Sunday's collect (Opening Prayer):
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