Why is Easter so important to the Church? Simply put, if Jesus had not risen on the third day, he would have just become another…
Posted: 21 April 2019
Categories: music, New Zealand
Posted: 21 April 2019
Categories: Lectionary, New Zealand
It’s Sunday: the end of holy week. The day we recall that Christ rose from the dead. So we went to a local church where…
Posted: 20 April 2019
Categories: Lectionary
Further on yesterday. The work of Christ is complete in and of itself, and as Hebrews writes, if we believe Christ rose from the dead…
Posted: 19 April 2019
Categories: Lectionary
What to put up on one of the high and holy days of the church calendar? The betrayal, trial, condemnation and Crucifixion of Christ, and…
Posted: 18 April 2019
Categories: music
After Easter, indeed within days, there is ANZAC. Some music, for what is it worth, from Australia and New Zealand This was written by an…
Posted: 18 April 2019
Categories: New Zealand, Social Change, The Decline
I was waiting for my querolous papist brother to comment on the fire at Notre Dame. Mundabor is trenchant, and he does not disappoint. The…
Posted: 18 April 2019
Categories: Lectionary
Today is the last day for work in NZ, as both Good Friday and Easter Sunday are public holidays. The secular state has not removed…
Posted: 17 April 2019
Categories: Lectionary
It looks like the wormtounges are being found out, while those who are of faith are standing taller. The buildings older generations worshiped in may…
Posted: 16 April 2019
Categories: Poetry, Social Change
Notre Dame, April 2019 Life holds out a blackened branch Notre Dame is burning. Where is my heart? Dying in an upstairs room JUlian O’Dea,…
Posted: 16 April 2019
Categories: Lectionary, The Decline, Uncategorised
Today one of the French national treasures and the Cathedral of Paris, Notre Dame, has burned out of control. There are promises to rebuild. The…