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As part of our Season of Creation liturgies, we have been using the Benedicite Aotearoa each Sunday during September. This is a uniquely New Zealand song of praise written by Reverend Bruce Keeley who is here with the wonderfully quirky story behind its journey into our Prayer Book. At Holy Trinity Cathedral during the recent Season of Creation (the Sundays of September), with four excellent preachers and creation-centred liturgies, the ‘Benedicite Aotearoa’ was used each week, as the psalm...

Holy Trinity Cathedral Young Adults Pilgrimage to Piako/Waikato. From Holy Trinity Cathedral to Waharoa, Matamata and Peria — a road trip that became a journey through faith, history and whakapapa. by Ben & Gardenia Taule’ale’ausumai Members of the Cathedral Community Six young adults, four mature chaperones, one van, and a journey into rural Piako/Waikato led to a day of discovering remarkable stories of faith, courage, forgiveness, and reconciliation in the early Anglican Church in...

This post is taken from a meditaiton by Father Richard Rohr for the Centre for Action and Contemplation. Father Rohr considers how Jesus’s choice to go to the cross reveals God’s solidarity with suffering:   When we try to live in solidarity with the pain of the world—and don’t spend our lives running from necessary suffering—we will encounter various “crucifixions.” Many say pain is physical discomfort, but suffering comes from our resistance, denial, and sense of injustice or wrongness...