Prayer resources
The Lectionary | Te Maramataka
Year B - 2024
Lectionary.co.nz
Lectionary.co.nz is a cut-down digital-friendly version of The Lectionary Te Maramataka. It’s a simple tool that give you the days morning and evening readings from our lectionary that allows you to both read the readings and listen to them too.
A New Zealand Prayer Book/He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa
A New Zealand Prayer Book/He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa with Eucharists in six languages (Māori, English, Tongan, Fijian, Samoan and Hindi) as well as Sentences and Collects in Māori is now available.
Order your copies through the General Synod Office for $30 plus P&P. Email gensec@anglicanchurch.org.nz or phone 09 521 4439.
Tuia - prayer app
Tuia gathers people in prayer. Though we may be distant physically, we are one in prayer. Tui, tui, tuituia mātou.
When the disciples asked Jesus to “teach us to pray” (Luke 11:1), they were seeking to model their lives on the intimacy Jesus experienced with God in prayer. Here’s some suggestions below for ways that we can spend time in prayer, aligning our hearts with God’s will for us.
Try an examen
An examen is a prayer practice from the Ignatian tradition. It’s a way to recognise the work of God active in your day to day life.
Praying scripture
Lectio Divina, or ‘divine reading’, is an ancient practice of reading, reflecting and responding in prayer on a passage of scripture.
Centering prayer
Centering prayer takes a holy word, or a phrase from scripture, and uses it as a meditative prayer exercise for drawing near to God in silence.
Here is a range of common spiritual disciplines.
(Disclaimer: some of these links are independent and the organisations that created them do not necessarily reflect the views of the Anglican Diocese of Wellington).
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Live simply
Sometimes we are invited to review what’s important, or to live simply for a while in order to focus more on God. Here are some practices that help us do this.
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Get creative
All of us are testimony to God’s creativity, and are given creative gifts and expressions of our own. Here’s some ways to encounter God through art, music, the written word and more.
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Pray
Prayer: aligning our hearts with God’s heart. Here are some ways to spend time in God’s presence.
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Go deeper in community
We are in relationship with others as well as God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Learn more about practices that involve sharing life with others.
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Dig into God's Word
Opening the Bible and spending time in scripture is a key way to grow in relationship with God. Take a look at some of these scripture-based resources.
