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Posts from October 2024

Newsletter correction

If you have received a newsletter this week – there is a mistake in it. The date for the Parish Zoom Prayer Meeting is Wednesday, October 16th, at 7pm. This is because the printed date in the newsletter has passed. The link for the Zoom Prayer Meeting is: Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us05web.zoom.us/j/83257220597?pwd=SjXv1ommkkYIm3hCvoIRVTZEnLUivq.1 Meeting ID: 832 5722…

St Paul’s Papanui Land

In 1859 Rev John James of Reading, England, granted ten acres of land adjacent to Papanui Road to the Church Property Trustees for Ecclesiastical purposes in the Province of Canterbury. He had purchased 100 acres in the Province of Canterbury, but it seems that he never actually made it to New Zealand. He did however…

A good heretic?

Earlier in the year Gareth Bezett, the Director of Theology House, led a study series on church history and heresies. We talked about why some teachings have been rejected by the Church as heresy, as false teachings that are harmful to the true faith and led people astray. Many of the heretics were people that…