Liturgy

Southern Hemisphere Lent 2

Bosco Peters — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:42:34 +0000

A Southern Hemisphere Lent photographic reflection in my garden (part 2) Click here for part 1 Related posts Tuesday in the First Week of Lent (1) Southern Hemisphere Lent (1) Saturday in the Second Week of Lent (1) Resources for Sunday and Lent (0) Resources for Sunday and Lent (0)

Taonga website upgrade

Bosco Peters — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:05:02 +0000

The New Zealand Anglican news website, Taonga, has, without much fanfare, rolled out a significant upgrade. In a country clearly on the cutting edge of technology, Anglicans have tended to look like technophobes totally out-of-step with the surrounding culture. Taonga now provides a more user-friendly experience, and, more significantly, has entered the world of web [...]

Resources for Lent 4

Bosco Peters — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:36:48 +0000

Some celebrate this Sunday as Mothering Sunday Reflections based on collect/opening prayer: Fourth Sunday in Lent March 14 from the collect/opening prayer Fourth Sunday in Lent March 14 from the collect/opening prayer (BCP TEC) What hymns, prayers, ideas, resources, for Sunday or Lent generally do you want to share in the comments? Related posts Resources for Lent [...]

My God’s Facebook

Bosco Peters — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:10:51 +0000

A new site called My God’s Facebook is growing rapidly with a membership of over 25,000 already after increasing publicity from February this year. It follows a Facebook-style format and possibilities as a “meeting place for those who believe, and those who do not, and the curious.” I am enthusiastic about all the new ventures [...]

Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic

Bosco Peters — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:54:52 +0000

Thanks to one of my followers on twitter Related posts Silent Matrix (2) good worship is both/and (7) GoD and DoG (7) Worship witness work (3) Where is God in the Haitian Earthquake? (16)

Nick Vujicic – Life Without Limbs

Bosco Peters — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:28:40 +0000

Nick Vujicic was born 4 December 1982 in Melbourne, Australia, to a devout Serbian Orthodox family. He lacks both arms and legs, and has two small feet, one of which has two toes. Victoria state law forbade him from attending a mainstream school because of his physical disability. But he overcame this and then was [...]

Southern Hemisphere Lent

Bosco Peters — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:35:30 +0000

A Southern Hemisphere Lent photographic reflection in my garden (part 1) click here for part 2 Related posts Tuesday in the First Week of Lent (1) Southern Hemisphere Lent 2 (0) Saturday in the Second Week of Lent (1) Resources for Sunday and Lent (0) Resources for Sunday and Lent (0)

Saturday in the Second Week of Lent

Bosco Peters — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:47:01 +0000

Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading Virtual Chapel with daily updates Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 15:1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to [Jesus]. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.” 3 So he [...]

Friday in the Second Week of Lent

Bosco Peters — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:11:30 +0000

Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading Virtual Chapel with daily updates Matthew 21:33-43 33 [Jesus said] “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants [...]

Thursday in the Second Week of Lent

Bosco Peters — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:09:47 +0000

Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading Virtual Chapel with daily updates Luke 16:19-31 19 [Jesus said] “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21 who [...]

Greek Orthodox Music

Bosco Peters — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:18:13 +0000

The post on balancing East and West in our Christian devotion was received with much enthusiasm. Here is a beautiful example of chanting by nuns in a Monastery of northern Greek Mainland (Hsuxastirio Timiou Prodromou Akritoxoriou Sidirokastrou Serron). The Hymn is an extract from a book called “Theotokario” and it is dedicated to the Theotokos, [...]

Michael Ruse v Richard Dawkins

Bosco Peters — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:38:50 +0000

One of my followers on twitter, a university professor, in response to my recent post about Richard Dawkins pointed me to an article by Michael Ruse. Michael Ruse is an atheist. He is a philosopher of biology. Ruse is well known for his arguments against “Intelligent Design”. But Ruse holds that it is possible to [...]

Resources for Lent 3

Bosco Peters — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:06:02 +0000

Third Sunday in Lent March 7- a reflection based on the collect/opening prayer What hymns, prayers, ideas, resources, for Sunday or Lent generally do you want to share in the comments? Related posts Resources for Lent 4 (0) Resources for Lent 2 (2) Week starting January 31 (0) Week starting January 17 (0) Week starting February 7 (3)

We have a blogging bishop!

Bosco Peters — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:19:59 +0000

On Saturday Kelvin Wright was ordained bishop in St Paul’s cathedral, Dunedin. The number of bishops in our province is now 31. He is the first to run a blog. I hope it will continue. I also hope, from time to time, he might pop in to this site. And I hope he will consider [...]

Richard Dawkins

Bosco Peters — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:19:13 +0000

As Richard Dawkins (the famous antitheist) tours down under to evangelise the masses he seems to have been taken completely by surprise by the uprising of many of his own disciples who are refering to him and people central to his Foundation as [language alert] “utter twat” a “suppurating rectum. A suppurating rat’s rectum. A suppurating [...]