Liturgy

“Orthodox”?

Bosco Peters — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:04:13 +0000

I was urged recently by several people to watch a videoed debate between two ministers who both would use the word “Evangelical” of themselves (and others would use it of them). The topic of their heated disagreement is unimportant for this particular post. Suffice to say that the word “orthodox” was bandied about a lot [...]

This is water

Bosco Peters — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:00:42 +0000

On May 21, 2005, David Foster Wallace gave the a commencement speech at Kenyon College. He was an award-winning American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California. This month the above video was produced with the core of that speech, and it has now gone viral on the internet. [...]

2,000 years from now?

Bosco Peters — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:13:55 +0000

I’ve asked people what the advertisement (left) means.[Firstly: everyone who sees this in a newspaper or magazine realises it's an advertisement]. They all realise that Adrienne Winkelmann is a brand of clothing; that this brand is available in Shop 26, The Chancery Auckland; that this brand will be available in store now for winter 2013; [...]

just a symbol?

Bosco Peters — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:54:43 +0000

Pope Francis puts on a medallion with an icon of the Virgin Mary and child given to him by Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt’s Pope Tawadros II when they exchanged gifts during their private audience in the pontiff’s library, at the Vatican, Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Andreas Solaro, pool) It is never just a [...]

What unites us?

Bosco Peters — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:08:20 +0000

I want to share an email I received with you. But first some reflections around the 2013 NZ Lectionary publication. Let’s not get too hassled that it incorrectly put Daylight Saving on Easter Day. There was no real problem with having people turn up an hour early at church and having their own personal Easter [...]

Contemporvant worship

Bosco Peters — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:30:08 +0000

For all those who use the word “liturgy” and “liturgical” to mean planned, shared, structured common worship – as if all community worship doesn’t generally follow a structure…Similar Posts: Introducing “liturgy” WORSHIP FIRST liturgy and law 4 liturgy and law 3 Missional Church… simple

Christian Unity

Bosco Peters — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:10:47 +0000

In the Southern Hemisphere this is the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Christians cannot even get united enough to have a single agreed week when they pray for Christian unity! The Northern Hemisphere has a different week. The Western experiment in confessional Christianity has obviously failed. For every belief there are people in favour [...]

Pentecost in 2 Minutes

Bosco Peters — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:08:15 +0000

The Day of Pentecost concludes the Easter Season – it is the culmination of the Great Fifty Days of the Easter season. The first Sunday after Easter is Trinity Sunday! Monday May 20 is the Monday in the 7th Week in Ordinary Time. We left off counting the weeks in Ordinary Time at the 5th [...]

liturgy and law 4

Bosco Peters — Mon, 13 May 2013 18:58:28 +0000

This is the fourth in a series on liturgy and law. The first is here. The second is here. The third is here. I am part of a church which has a culture of breaking our liturgical agreements (one exception: beware if you follow this culture in relation to gays – but that’s another story). [...]

Gregorian Chants & Buddistic Shómyó

Bosco Peters — Sun, 12 May 2013 18:41:39 +0000

A dialogue of two spiritual cultures based on the musical repertoire of the Buddhist and the Christian tradition - Schola Gregoriana Pragensis & Gjosan-rjú Tendai Sómjó(Buddhist Monks from Japan). Meaningful dialogue between religions is no doubt one of the most pressing challenges of the modern world. Developments over the past few years clearly confirm what [...]

“Little Priest”

Bosco Peters — Fri, 10 May 2013 20:13:15 +0000

It’s been (unusually) a relatively heavy week on this site this week. Let’s end the week with what I hope will be seen as a lighter moment. 3-year-old Samuel Jaramillo is becoming an internet sensation with his Eucharist. He neither reads nor writes, and is an ordinary lad who enjoys his computer games. He is [...]

copyright

Bosco Peters — Thu, 09 May 2013 19:22:04 +0000

Can you change things that are copyright? There has been a lot of discussion here and here recently about whether a line in a hymn is understood to express Christian teaching well, or whether it is preferably altered to better express orthodox Christian teaching, and help those singing it and hearing it, to get the [...]

Ascension

Bosco Peters — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:00:43 +0000

Some people snuff out the Easter Candle today, Ascension Day, concluding the Easter Season today. Don’t!!! The Easter Candle is lit through the Day of Pentecost. It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty to react to such silliness with wrath, rage, and all the other responses that have been part of discussions on [...]

full, conscious, and active participation

Bosco Peters — Tue, 07 May 2013 18:58:07 +0000

On 4 December 1963, Pope Paul VI promulgated Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, one of the constitutions of the Second Vatican Council. This year marks the 50th anniversary of that watershed event. Central to that constitution is Mother Church earnestly desires that all the faithful should be led to that fully conscious [...]

God’s wrath – satisfied?

Bosco Peters — Mon, 06 May 2013 17:51:05 +0000

I would like you to answer a question. In Stuart Townend and Keith Getty’s song In Christ alone there are the words: “Till on that cross as Jesus died, The wrath of God was satisfied” What do those words in that song mean? What is the plain sense of those words? I’m not asking you [...]