Christmas and Holiday services 2023
…Eucharist with Carols 6pm Christmas Recital Music: The Cathedral Choir 10am Festival Eucharist Music: The Cathedral Choir 10.15pm Carol Singing by candlelight 5pm Festal Evensong Music: The Lay Clerks &…
Beards and Stiff Collars: Clergy & Laity at the 1875, 1888 and 1907 Synods
…all photographs but also due to poor fixing in the original chemical process. The result, is that individuals and parishes no longer have to imagine what their Clergy and Synod…
Newsletter from the Archdeacon for Regeneration and Mission!
…carrots! Now everyone knows that carrots need deep, excellent soil otherwise they fork and don’t turn out so well. So, we made the decision to put the entire vegetable garden…
St Andrew’s Church, Oxford—Oxford-Cust Parish
Eucharistic Services at St Andrew’s Church in Oxford are every Sunday at 9.30 am. Additionally, there is a mid-week Eucharistic Service once a month on the first Wednesday of the…
A Bench of Bishops
…Archives to make sure the names on the back of the photograph matched other visual images. They did. Then I checked the scanned copies of the Proceedings of General Synod…
Weekly Message from the Bishop including a Christmas video message—18 December 2019
…Dean Lawrence and I hosted an event at the Transitional Cathedral for board members, staff and consultants working on the Cathedral Reinstatement Project. Our simple message to those gathered was,…
Message from the Bishop—2 February 2022
…Consumer NZ, is at https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/buying-a-mask#article-surgical*]}*-masks- ). What the Government is asking of us re the kind of masks we wear (e.g. at https://covid19.govt.nz/prepare-and-stay-safe/keep-up-healthy-habits/wear-a-face-mask/ ) is the following: A face covering…
The New Zealand Church News and William Sidney Lovell-Smith
…Wesleyan Minister in 1875 and was drowned when the SS Tararua foundered off Waipapa point on its journey between Lyttelton and Bluff. John B Richardson, another Wesleyan Minister also drowned….
Mask-wearing encouraged over Christmas
…encouraged to resume masking when gathering for worship During communion, presiders and assistants must be masked whilst preparing, presenting and delivering the bread and wine Church members can choose just…
Message from the Bishop—20 December 2023
…the Transitional Cathedral. On Sunday night, the annual Cathedral Christmas Carol service on Sunday, 17 December at 7pm once again demonstrated that in our Cathedral Choir, we have some of…