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Resources & Reflections for Sunday: liturgy.co.nz/resources-32nd…
Compassionate God,
through your inexhaustible goodness,
keep us from all that may hurt us,
so that, ready in both mind and body,
we may, with free hearts, pursue your purpose;
through Jesus Christ,
who is alive with...
The NZ Electoral Commission is placing misleading ads: this one should read, “SOME OF THE voting places near you” - the list in their ad is a small % of actual voting places near you
Funnest fact I learnt today: the joint heads of state of the independent sovereign state Andorra, from events going back to C13, are the President of France and the a Roman Catholic bishop in Spain 🙃
I think this may be wider historically than my quoted tweet: I can’t think of any example in history of a head of state voting in another country's election as a citizen of that country, can you? [For the sake of clarity:my fascination is not about the right or wrongness of this]
NEW: Pope Leo XIV is set to become the first sitting pontiff in the Catholic Church’s two-thousand-year history to vote in a secular election.
Leo requested an Illinois mail ballot on Oct. 3, and it was sent to his brother John’s home in New Lenox, Ill.
John Prevost visited the pope at the Vatican on Wednesday and may now be carrying the ballot back to the Will County clerk by hand. thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope…
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-…
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.
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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...