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Resources Day of Pentecost

Published on May 18, 2010 in liturgy. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

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The Day of Pentecost ends the Easter Season – it is the culmination of the Great Fifty Days of the Easter season.

Here is a reflection on the collect/opening prayer for the Day of Pentecost.

Here are suggestions that may be incorporated into a Day of Pentecost service.

Although the next time some Christians will hear reference to Ordinary Time may very well be June 13 which begins the 11th week in Ordinary (ie. “counting” – from “ordinal”) Time, Monday May 24 in fact is Monday in the 8th Ordinary Week. The 6th Ordinary Week began February 14, and the 7th Ordinary Week is not used this year (some years skip a week – why? is another blog post). IMO suggestions to use the collect for the Day of Pentecost on the days following should be ignored as it completely undermines the renewal of the Easter Season as fifty days concluding with the feast of the Day of Pentecost.

If you need a collect during this week, use the one appointed for the 8th Ordinary Week.

If you appreciate the badges I have produced for your blogsite or website, you can find HTML for three different options here.

The image above is by Duccio di Buoninsegna (b. ca. 1255, Siena, d. 1319, Siena). That website states

In the Pentecost Duccio goes back to traditional iconographic schemes and includes the Virgin, of whom no mention is made in the Acts of the Apostles, the source of the episode.

I think this goes too far. Acts 1:13-14 has, ” When they had entered the city, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying, Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. All these were constantly devoting themselves to prayer, together with certain women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, as well as his brothers.” (my emphasis). Acts 2:1 then continues, “When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

In with the comments, please also remember to feel free to add links and suggestions for hymns, prayers, etc. for the Day of Pentecost.

Resources for Holy Week & Easter

Published on March 30, 2010 in liturgy. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

What hymns, prayers, ideas, resources, for Holy Week and Easter do you want to share in the comments?

Holy Week collect/opening prayer reflection
Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) collect/opening prayer reflection
Easter collect/opening prayer reflection
Easter Season reflection
Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) service outline
Good Friday service outline
The Great Vigil of Easter service outline
Easter Season service outline

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The HTML for adding this badge to your blog or website is:


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The HTML for adding this badge to your blog or website is:


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Please do let me know if this is, or is not working – one little letter wrong in the coding and all falls apart :-(

Shrove Tuesday & start of Lent

Published on February 16, 2010 in liturgy. 7 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

“Shrove” is the past tense of the verb “shrive” – “to obtain absolution for oneself by confessing and doing penance”:

God of infinite mercy,
grant that we who know your compassion
may rejoice in your forgiveness
and gladly forgive others
for the sake of Jesus Christ our Saviour
who is alive with with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God now and for ever.
Amen

In French this is Mardi Gras – “fat Tuesday” – the feasting before Lenten fasting. A time of “carnival” [The derivation of the word "carnival" is uncertain. Possibly it originates in the Latin carne vale, meaning "to farewell meat" or even "to say goodbye to the flesh". Others posit that its origin lies in the Italian carne levare, meaning "to remove meat". The Oxford English Dictionary has that "Carnival" is derived from Latin carnem levare (removal of the meat) or carnem laxare (leaving the meat).]

In Northern Springtime, I presume that, in order to have chicks etc. one must leave the eggs with the hen to hatch. One stops eating the eggs during this time – Lent. And can start eating them at Easter time – the origin of Easter eggs. In the quaint manner of liturgical developments, not eating eggs during Lent means one gets rid of all the eggs before Lent! Hence, the development of Pancake Tuesday – of using up all our eggs by eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday.

This is the last day of the “Alleluias” until Easter. This day may even involve the burying of the Alleluia.

A Shrove Tuesday Hymn.

You can put a badge for Lent on your blog or website – the HTML is provided here.

Ash Wednesday – A Service for the Beginning of Lent
A few simple suggestion during Lent
What is Lent – especially translating it to the Southern Hemisphere
First Sunday in Lent February 21 reflection from the collect/opening prayer

For communities that follow a catechumenal process in which Lent is central:
Lenten preparation (catechumenate) receiving the Lord’s Prayer (catechumenate) receiving the creed (catechumenate) enrolment for baptism (catechumenate)

You can also join the facebook Easter event for which, in Lent, we are preparing. As the first comment there says so well: “The Great Feast after the Great Fast. What a difference an e makes!”

Please add any suggestions for Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, or the start of Lent in the comments.

Liturgy of the Hours on Twitter

Published on December 29, 2009 in liturgy, liturgy of the hours and spirituality. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .

The “Virtual Abbey” has been around for a bit, but with a different name. Now with a clearer name, and a website, this group prays some of the Daily Offices on twitter daily. For the rest of the planet things are a bit out of sync – it is USA based, and remember they celebrate the liturgy last on the planet.

Those who make New Year resolutions: have you thought about praying at least one Office daily? As well as the Virtual Abbey, there are lots of resources in the Virtual Chapel of this site. If you pray the office you might encourage others by placing a badge on your site or blog.

If you know any other quality resources like these, or have positive suggestions for New Year’s resolutions, you are welcome to share them below.

Resources for Christmas

Published on December 21, 2009 in liturgy. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

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If you would like to put a Christmas badge on your website, you can find the HTML on the liturgy home page.

There is the Online Chapel with lots of resources of prayers and readings and reflections – many changing daily.

If you are on Facebook, you can send these badges to your friends there using church stuff

Please also add quality Christmas resources and ideas in the comments.

Reflections

Christmas Midnight Christmas Eve December 24 reflection from the collect/opening prayer

Christmas Day December 25 reflection from the collect/opening prayer

Christmas prayers and reflections

1st Sunday after Christmas December 27 reflection from the collect/opening prayer

Epiphany January 3 or 6 reflection from the collect/opening prayer

Resources for Advent 4

Published on December 18, 2009 in lectionary and liturgy. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

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Advent 4 reflection from the collect/opening prayer.

The O antiphons have begun.

Don’t forget the Online Chapel with lots of resources of prayers and readings and reflections – many changing daily.

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The HTML for adding this badge to your blog or website is:


Please do let me know if this is, or is not working – one little letter wrong in the coding and all falls apart :-(

If you are on Facebook, you can send these badges to your friends there using church stuff

Please also continue adding quality Advent resources and ideas in the comments.

Resources for Advent 3

Published on December 8, 2009 in lectionary and liturgy. 1 Comment Tags: , , , .

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Advent 3 December 13 reflection from the collect/opening prayer (used by BCP TEC and others)
Advent 3 December 13 reflection from the collect/opening prayer (used by CofE Common Worship and others)

Don’t forget the Online Chapel with lots of resources of prayers and readings and reflections – many changing daily.

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The HTML for adding this badge to your blog or website is:


Please do let me know if this is, or is not working – one little letter wrong in the coding and all falls apart :-(

If you are on Facebook, you can send these badges to your friends there using church stuff

In the comments below, please continue adding quality Advent resources and ideas.

Resources for Advent 2

Published on December 2, 2009 in liturgy. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , .

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Advent 2 December 6 reflection from the collect/opening prayer (used by BCP TEC and others)
Advent 2 December 6 reflection from the collect/opening prayer (used by CofE Common Worship and others)

Don’t forget the Online Chapel with lots of resources of prayers and readings and reflections – many changing daily.

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The HTML for adding this badge to your blog or website is:


Please do let me know if this is, or is not working – one little letter wrong in the coding and all falls apart :-(

If you are on Facebook, you can send these badges to your friends there using church stuff

In the comments below, please continue adding quality Advent resources and ideas.

Advent resources

Published on November 24, 2009 in liturgy. 13 Comments Tags: , , , .

Please add good quality Advent resources, and especially links to online resources in the comments section.

Advent collect November 29 reflection from the collect/opening prayer

Advent badges to put on your blog or website

Original, Southern Hemisphere Advent collects
An outline example and resources for an Advent Eucharist
Advent in the Southern Hemisphere

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Advent wreath blessing

Advent penitence

O Antiphons chants

Website and blog badges for Advent

Advent blog & site badge

Published on November 22, 2009 in liturgy. 7 Comments Tags: , , , , .

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Today the messages have started arriving asking for Advent badges to put on your website or blog. So I promised that I would work on that this afternoon. Many people like, from time to time, to add a badge to their website or blog. If you like the idea – send your friends the URL of this blog post.

The HTML for adding this badge to your blog or website is:


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The HTML for adding this badge to your blog or website is:


Please do let me know if this is, or is not working – one little letter wrong in the coding and all falls apart :-(

If you are on Facebook, you can send these badges to your friends there using church stuff

Blog action day 2009

Published on September 24, 2009 in liturgy and spirituality. 0 Comments Tags: .


October 15 is Blog Action Day on Climate Change. This site will be taking part. Click on the badge to register your site if you want to take part also.

Ordinary Time Badge

Published on May 31, 2009 in liturgy. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

I have been requested to produce badges through the liturgical seasons. You will find badges for Ordinary Time, and the HTML to add to your website or blog on the home page. OK – you’ve twisted my arm and I’ve made “After Pentecost” and “After Trinity” badges for you as well…

Lent prepares for Easter – yeah right!

Published on April 24, 2009 in liturgy. 11 Comments Tags: , , , .
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We say, piously, that the season of Lent prepares us for the season of Easter. Yeah – right! (wry smile – sarcastic tone)

Parishes and Christian communities and groups gathered religiously during Lent for deep reflection, extra services, study groups,… Individuals gave up things, gave more away, took up extra disciplines, read more,… And all for what? Well: “to prepare for the Season of Easter” would be the practiced reply.

Well here we are only in the second week of the Season of Easter – in fact only the 13th day of Easter and I’m willing to bet an Easter egg or two that for most the enthusiasm for this season is already waning. It was much easier being penitential and reflective and all-round “preparing” than it is celebrating what we have been preparing for!

I bet (more Easter eggs) that you will be hard pressed to find services this coming Sunday (only the 15th day of Easter) still booming as their opening greeting:

Alleluia! Christ is risen!

And if your church does – how resounding is the congregational response? Those with daily services often find such enthusiasm even harder to maintain. I notice it in visits to this site. During Lent there were regularly two to three thousand or more individuals visiting this site daily. During Easter that drops to about a thousand a day. As humans, as Christians, are we better at preparing for something than actually celebrating what we prepare for?

There is a celebration connected to Lent that maintains huge energy over days – it is carnival – it is the party preparing for Lent! Preparing for the preparation for Easter! Preparing to give things up appears to have some energy in it. But maybe we could harness that energy into the Easter Season? Let’s move our carnival-type parties into Easter.

If you are a member of Facebook you may like to join the “event” (and encourage your Facebook friends to join) Easter is 50 days, you can also send people using “Church stuff” an Easter is 50 days badge. If you run a website or blog you can use the Easter is 50 days badge from the liturgy home page.

Easter Season badge

Published on April 14, 2009 in liturgy. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

I have been requested to produce badges through the liturgical seasons. I have again been requested for an Easter season badge. You will find it, and the HTML to add to your website or blog on the home page.

If you are a member of facebook you can join those encouraging the concept of a 50-day Easter. Facebook people can also send the 50-day Easter badge to their friends.

More about the 50-day Easter Season here.

Lent badge

Published on February 25, 2009 in liturgy. 2 Comments Tags: , , , .

lentbadgeI have been requested to produce badges through the liturgical seasons. I have again been requested for a Lent badge.

Many people like, from time to time, to add a badge to their website or blog. For ease, you can pick up the HTML on the home page (I’m struggling to get it correct here – too late – too tired). If you like this idea – please forward this URL to your friends. Let me know if there are any problems.