Anglican Down Under: Sacred and Spiritual Links - Monday 22 December 2014 including Oihi commemorations

Monday, December 22, 2014

Sacred and Spiritual Links - Monday 22 December 2014 including Oihi commemorations

The very big news of sacred and spiritual activity in Aotearoa New Zealand this week is the culmination of celebrations of the preaching of the gospel for the first time in our islands on Christmas Day 1814.

One major events was yesterday and a further event takes place on Christmas Day itself.

Taonga has articles here and here.

Bishop Kelvin Wright's Available Light blog has a series of posts on his pilgrimage from Dunedin to Oihi here.

The following links are supplied by a UK colleague:

Advent links remain available here for this fourth Sunday of Advent:

http://anglicanmainstream.org/advent-resources-2/

There will be a round up of Christmas services in the next few days.

Meanwhile I hope some of this may be of interest:

#1 Archbishop Glenn Davies preaching powerfully at the Sydney memorial service; #2 Raphael Samuel, recently made Bishop of Bolivia on God and his purpose; #3 Archie Coates on the presence of God with us; and #4 All Souls Langham Place have a series on Christmas Begins with Christ.

Prayers for you this coming week.

SERMONS AND TALKS

1. Sermon from a Service of Hope and Prayer - Archbishop Glenn Davies - St Andrew's Sydney Audio

http://tinyurl.com/jvovzrg

2. How God Restores His Purpose - Bishop Raphael Samuel of Bolivia - Holy Comforter, Sumpter, SC Audio

http://tinyurl.com/pr9egvc

3. Message of Christmas:God with us - Archie Coates - St Peter's Brighton Audio

http://tinyurl.com/nth2f88

4. Christmas Starts with Christ - talks from All Souls Langham Place

http://tinyurl.com/q7rrm2n

Commentary for Sunday 21st December

5. Preaching Ideas and Commentary - Rev Peter Carrell

http://tinyurl.com/mepevk8

6. The Sunday Readings - Rev Stephen Trott

http://tinyurl.com/q3ckgk5

WORSHIP

7. The bells of St Peter's Congleton in Cheshire - BBC Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vd68x

8. Choral Evensong from Manchester Cathedral - BBC Radio 3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v25tb

9. Sunday Holy Communion livestreamed from St Helena's Church, Beaufort, South Carolina at 10:15 am Eastern Time, 3:15 pm London Time

http://www.sthelenas1712.org/

10. Sunday Worship from Methodist College, Belfast - BBC Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vd697

11. Advent Carol Service still available from St John's College, Cambridge - BBC Radio 3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04svfqf

12. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04ttnm4

13. Archived Choral services during the holidays from the chapels of King's College Cambridge

http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/choir/webcasts.html

and Trinity College, Cambridge

http://trinitycollegechoir.com//webcasts/listen-again/

and St John's College, Cambridge

http://www.sjcchoir.co.uk/webcasts

and New College, Oxford

http://www.newcollegechoir.com/webcasts.html

PRAYER

Please pray for the Ebola Crisis and for those working for a cure; for Christians and all facing persecution and crime in Iraq; for the persecuted church and in particular in Nigeria, Egypt, India and Iran; for peace in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza; and for the Diocese of South Carolina.

14. Topical Prayers - Church of England

http://tinyurl.com/6wnk2pk

Nigeria: Archbishop Kwashi 'Poor Nigerians need protection' - BBC News

http://tinyurl.com/l7xuckc

Nigeria government 'outraged' by kidnap - BBC News

http://tinyurl.com/mane87z

Egypt: Christian convert facing maltreatment in prison – CSW

http://tinyurl.com/kpbtm6l

India: Christmas 2014 ‘evokes not joy but fears’ for India’s Christians – WWM

http://tinyurl.com/laenvx3

Iran: Charges dropped against Church of Iran clergy – CSW

http://tinyurl.com/qhyyvl5

South Carolina: Prayers from Lent and Beyond

http://tinyurl.com/kssn33y

CURRENT AFFAIRS

15. Sunday Programme - with Edward Stourton - BBC Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vd693

Food for thought

16. Happy Christmas from the Middle East - Canon Andrew White - Huffington Post

http://tinyurl.com/jwxbp69

No, we love Yeshua - Fr Dale Matson

http://tinyurl.com/n7uselb

Richard Hooker and Magna Carta - Bishop Graham Kings

http://tinyurl.com/ljne9lr

Miracle on Clifton Rd: God is in Charge - Robert Lundy

http://tinyurl.com/m3vsy6b

Six Clay Seals Discovered In Israel Linked To Era Of Kings David And Solomon - Huffington Post

http://tinyurl.com/pjcarho

FINALLY

17. Advent 2014 Week 3 - Andrew Evans - UCCF Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H7C2GOIHQ8

18. Christmas Message from Bear Grylls - Alpha Carols Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS15EsrhdY0

19. O Come Immanuel - Sheyi Martins - Alpha Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMqfwaBQOIg

20. O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen - New College Oxford Choir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb2Go-AqHKM

God bless you

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Show us anything clearly set forth in Holy Scripture that we do not teach and we will teach it. Show us anything in our teaching or practice is clearly contrary to Holy Scripture, and we will abandon it.

Stephen Neill

For the glory of God is a human being fully alive, and the glory of humanity is the vision of God.

St Irenaeus

Fundamentally the Gospel is obsessed with the idea of the unity of human society.

Masure

We have returned to the Apostles and the old Catholic Fathers. We have planted no new religion, but only preserved the old that was undoubtedly founded and used by the Apostles of Christ and other holy Fathers of the Primitive Church.

Bishop Jewel

Preachers shall behave themselves modestly and soberly in every department of their life. But especially shall they see to it that they teach nothing in the way of a sermon, which they would have religiously held and believed by the people, save what is agreeable to the teaching of the Old or New Testament, and what the Catholic fathers and ancient bishops have collected from this selfsame doctrine.

Canon 6 from the 1571 Bishop’s Convocation

Kent: "See better, Lear, and let me still remain."

William Shakespeare

For the clarity that we are aiming at is indeed complete clarity. But this simply means that the philosophical problems should completely disappear.

Wittgenstein

Justice is eternal, and doesn't depend at all on human conventions.

Montesquieu

The real challenge of Islam to Western intellectual discourse is for us to ask ourselves whether our unprecedented modern experiment of conducting political life with no transcendent values is really working out as well as we once hoped.

Harvey Cox

The long-term happiness of a society depends on how individuals behave towards each other, how families hold together, and how leaders keep the trust of people.

William Hague

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

John Neuhaus

To be an evangelical is not, first and foremost, about doctrinal correctness, but about a passion for the gospel of salvation from sin through Christ for eternity.

John Richardson

Neither may we ... lightly esteem what hath been allowed as fit in the judgement of antiquity, and by the long continued practice of the whole church; from which unnecessarily to swerve, experience hath never as yet found it safe.

Richard Hooker (Lawes, V.7.1)

The function of the Christian canon was to separate the apostolic witness from the ongoing tradition of the church, whose truth was continually in need of being tested by the apostolic faith.

Brevard S. Childs

Every word of God proves true. (Proverbs 30:5)

If the people of this religion are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question. They forbid rational speculation, and strive to kill their adversaries. This is why truth became thoroughly silenced and concealed.

Muhammad ibn Zakariya Razi

Change comes through ordinary working people organising themselves to struggle for a better world day in, day out.

Morning Star newspaper editorial Tuesday 5 May 2015

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Monday, December 22, 2014

Sacred and Spiritual Links - Monday 22 December 2014 including Oihi commemorations

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