The world is made up of many countries, but the many countries make up one whole world. So it is with our Antipodean neighbours. Some of us are Kiwis, some are Aussies, some original inhabitants, and some immigrants. But we have all been joined into one body, Australasia, and we all share the same trans-Tasman spirit.
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Love and Sharing
When we love we want to share. The Collect for today reads ‘… give us the happiness to share, with full measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, all that you give us.’
This prayer encourages us to show Love in practical ways, by sharing … [To read more, click on title]
We Remember Them
The Mark reading is the story of Jesus’s death. Usually a Good Friday reading, it relates Jesus’s last moments before he died. We know that this was not the final chapter in his life though. He had told his disciples several times that he was going to die, but that he would be raised on the third day, and it was so. We have just recently celebrated Easter and his resurrection.
Today we commemorate the landing of Australian and New Zealand troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey.
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