Archive for June, 2008
Pew Sheet 29th June 2008
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Posted in Weekly Pew Sheets |Pew Sheet 22nd June 2008
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Posted in Weekly Pew Sheets |Belmont Pilgrimage
Over 100 Anglicans from the Hutt Valley walked the Hutt River trail on Saturday 14 June to mark the 150th anniversary of the Diocese of Wellington. The walk began at the memorial cross on Petone beach and ended at St John’s Church in Trentham (23kms!). Along the way we passed by golf courses and city streets, markets and sports grounds, and the oldest church in the region - Christ Church Taita.
Pew Sheet 15th June 2008
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Posted in Weekly Pew Sheets |The tui calls us on
One of the first church services held in Wellington was at Petone. It was 1840. The ships carrying the early settlers had anchored near Somes Island and the people had begun to come ashore. Under the shade of a karaka tree, forty or so gathered, and there the Reverend John Macfarlane led them in worship.
‘It was a beautiful calm day,’ one person was to write, ‘not a cloud to be seen in the sky, and the sun shone forth in its meridian splendour… Read more
Pew Sheet 8 June 2008
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Posted in Weekly Pew Sheets |Acts of Grace
Some of you will remember the 70’s TV satire The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. In it, the late Leonard Rossiter played the role of a man in the midst of a mid-life crisis, desperate to escape his dull and dreary life. It was full of dark humour and memorable one-liners, like those of, Reggie’s boss, C.J.
‘I didn’t get where I am today’, he would say repeatedly.
Outlook Patronal Editon 2008
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Posted in Outlook Magazine |Pew Sheet 1st June 2008
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Posted in Weekly Pew Sheets |Consumption and Happiness
Now that it is winter, each morning by 7:30 there are a dozen or so sparrows outside the kitchen window, sitting on bare rose branches peering into the kitchen watching our every move. They are very sweet the way they cock their heads and eye us. The other day there was an albino sparrow, and always some white-eyes. Of course they are waiting for something. For better or worse, we usually toss out a crust of bread for them on these hard mornings.
It occurred to me last week that they are a bit like the crowds who gathered round Jesus as he roamed the Galilean countryside. Read more
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