This time last week I was sitting in historic Trinity College in balmy Melbourne (not!) at the 2009 meeting of ACOL, the Australian Consultation on Liturgy ACOL was inaugurated in 1976 and exists to help member churches to deepen their understanding of their own and other churches’ worship. Among other things, it also monitors the [...]
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Australian Consultation on Liturgy 2009
Posted in Ecumenical, Liturgy, Personal, Working Group on Worship, tagged ACOL, ELLC on Thursday, 18 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New ordination services for the Uniting Church in Australia
Posted in Liturgy, Uniting Church in Australia, Working Group on Worship, ministry, tagged Induction, Ordination, Uniting Church in Australia on Friday, 28 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On 17 November I posted that I was back from Sydney, where one of the things I did (on behalf of the Working Group on Worship) was to present the Assembly Standing Committee with new services of ordination and induction for ministers of the Word—presbyters in many other churches—and deacons.
They take effect from 1 January, [...]
Ordination and Bungeeing (and Broken Symbols…)
Posted in Working Group on Worship, family & friends, reflection, sermon, tagged bungee jumping, Ordination on Wednesday, 8 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was in Melbourne a few days ago for a long-awaited and long-desired occasion: the ordination of Dr Avril Hannah-Jones, who blogs here.
The occasion was held at The Church of All Nations, a Uniting Church mission in inner-city Carlton.
I had a lovely time. Avril met me at the airport, and once her alb was safely [...]
A Short Guide for Daily Prayer (2)
Posted in Prayer, Uniting Church in Australia, Working Group on Worship on Thursday, 26 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I thought it might help to include part of the Introduction to A Short Guide, to help people to ‘get’ the approach we’ve taken (shamelessly borrowed from Celebrating Common Prayer):
When an individual prays, they are never alone. They are surrounded by the ‘cloud of witnesses’ (Hebrews 12:1), and accompanied by the communion of saints. We [...]
A Short Guide for Daily Prayer
Posted in Prayer, Uniting Church in Australia, Working Group on Worship, tagged A Short Guide for Daily Prayer on Wednesday, 25 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Uniting Church Working Group on Worship has been aware for some time that our Church lacks a daily prayer resource. Rev Jenny Tymms and I have produced a draft, which we are offering for use and comment. If you’d like to download a pdf file, which is easily printed into a booklet, go here.
And [...]
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My name is Paul Walton, and I serve as minister of the Centenary Uniting Church, Brisbane, Australia.My email address is minister(at)centenaryuca
(dot)org(dot)au
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