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(thus it will be safer for you to turn up on Sunday mornings)

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Friday, July 16, 2010

Our Father

Dai Lute said...

Just Wonder if folks would like to comment on the following: " It is a betrayal of the 'Our Father' to pray 'My Father,' for the prayer is not only a declaration of a heavenlt parent, but it is a commitment to a new vision of family rooted in the providence and authority of our heavenly parent. We cannot have God as our father if we deny the sisterhood and brotherhood we share with the rest of God's children" This from "Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers - prayer for ordinary radicals" by Shane Claibourne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove" refer www.ivpress.com/title/exc/3622-1.pdf

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Monday, June 28, 2010

Instructions for use

Well done with this innovation! It will be interesting to see if anyone actually starts to use the blog facility. I think your instructions need to ne much clearer of how to post a comment. John Mason
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Why do we do what we do?

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Anonymous said...

Why we do what we do. I thought that this would be a great way to collect all the questions we have to ask our Vicar and his wife to enlighten us on the traditions and inscrutable ways of the Anglican Church. For instance...

  • Why do our priests dress in a garb that was common amongst the Roman Empire over 2000 years ago?
  • Wny do we have a liturgical service?
  • How is the Holy Spirit free to act and speak within a prescribed service?
  • Why do we burn incense and light candles?
  • Why do we spend vast somes of oney on church buildings and stained glass?
  • Why does the priest drink and eat the remains of the sacramental bread and wine?

heaps more please! Thanks for the enlightenment!

June 8, 2010 11:27 AM
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Friday, June 4, 2010

We Magnify Thee (Serbian Chant)

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Monday, May 17, 2010

Hi Folks ! If you wish to start a new discussion please put click on "comment" and head it up as a "new discussion" along with a title that you wish to use and start typing. I will take it from there... Until I learn how to work this blogger correctly it seems to be the easiest way.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Hello and Welcome. Ladies and gentlemen of cyberspace and beyond; herewith the long anticipated Whangarei Anglican Blog-site! I invite you all - parishioners, cyber-parishioners and guests to converse with one another. Share ideas, experiences of the Divine, recipes, (Angel Cake and Devilled Eggs) social commentary. This blog site is dedicated to serious and even witty conversation but I will try to weed out the offensive. Having said that if there is serious comment expressed offensively I may just censor rather than totally erase. Pictures and video clips are welcome - if you just e-mail me your pictures and videos or, if they are youtube videos etc. just send me the URL for them. Let us then explore the mystery of the God-with-us and all that it means to be Christ-friends and thus friends of one another. Here is a question... If God who "while we were yet sinners" loved us, would He send sinners to be tormented forever in Hell?
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