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  • Lockdown Liturgy Lessons
  • Divinisation - Deification - Theosis
  • After the Day of Pentecost
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In our Covid-19 world, churches are all suddenly discovering that digital mission and ministry is not as difficult as they had previously been protesting it was. Most carry the resource they need in their pocket. I have long tried to encourage churches to move into the Third Millennium where people live online. 

In this different world, I thought the Liturgy site would sink as new, quality options often leaped over the top of this older resource. But, at the request of many, the site produced a series of positive reflections and resources to help us draw closer together in a world united in physical distancing. 

In April, the Liturgy site was the most-visited blog site based in New Zealand. Thank you to all of you who visit, share ideas, experiences, and encouragement.

For very, very many, Covid-19 is a tragedy. Let us pray for them, and for each other. To simply attempt to go back to how things were before this pandemic misses lessons we need to learn and bed in. Christians, also, cannot simply abandon the lessons we have been learning. 

The Liturgy site seeks to continue to help you move positively forward. There are over 3,000 posts - easily searchable; 22,000 comments, from a wide variety of contexts, expand these positive ideas; 27,000 people follow the Liturgy facebook page;  71,000 follow the Liturgy twitter profile. These are places to reflect on, discuss, and share your own spiritual journey, and that of your community as we move forward into a new future together.
Rev. Bosco Peters

4 minutes: praying in Jesus' Name

Lockdown Liturgy Lessons














Here are some of the positive resources for these times:
Exsultet
Holy Saturday in a Covid19 World
Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter in a Covid19 World
Coronavirus solitude self-isolation and spirituality
Streaming services, online spiritual resources in coronavirus times
New Zealand Prayer Book Daily Prayer
NZ in lockdown
Covid 19 moves churches into the Third Millennium
Spiritual Communion
Carthusians Covid-19 and Communion
Learning from Hermits in a Covid19 World
Teilhard de Chardin's Mass without bread and wine
An Agape Meal

Remote Consecration

Here are four reflections on the possibility or not of remote consecration: 1, 2, 3, 4

Where do we go from here?
Maintaining our digital presence
Appointing a Director of Digital Mission and Ministry

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3 minutes: Divinisation - 
God calls us and enables us to become participants in the divine nature.

Pentecost concludes Easter

The Day of Pentecost ends a season, the Great Season of Easter. We left off on Ordinary (Counting) Week 7 before the start of Lent, and this is a year with 52 weeks (as the Church Year makes provision for a possible 53 weeks, we skip a week), so Monday after the Day of Pentecost is in Ordinary Week 9. The Paschal/Easter candle is now given a place of honour by the font and brought to be placed lit by the coffin at funerals. Trinity Sunday replaces the Sunday in Ordinary Week 10.

We have been praying the collect for the Day of Pentecost for at least 13 centuries. On Monday, we use the collect for Week 9.
Celebrating Eucharist is a free online guidebook to contemporary worship with resources you can use or adapt. It can also be used in discussion groups as well as individual reflection.

The Online Chapel is also a place to go for prayer and reflection.

Please pray for all who are part of the community around this website. And know there are people committed to praying for you.

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