The carol, with its origins in folk dances and pagan festivities is an exuberant creation than the hymn. From the fifteenth-century 'boar's head' carol to modern expressions of faith which refer to space travel, form African-American spirituals and a Caribbean calypso carol to old favourites like, this work includes songs to read and sing along.
In the late 1920s, the Church of England was stunned when its new prayer book since 1662 - a book that had received overwhelming support from bishops, clergy and laity - was rejected by the House of Commons. The need for a new prayer book had arisen in the wake of the growth of Anglo-Catholicism in the 19th century with its emphasis on ritual.
Useful for both couples and their families and friends, whether inside or outside the churches, this book praises marriage, and sets out what marriage means in modern times. It aims to answer questions, such as: what actually happens at the exchange of vows? Can divorcees be remarried in church? What does the priest actually do? And more.
Asks whether the widespread falling away of the appeal of religious worship is connected with the simplification of liturgical practice over recent decades? Has a well-meant policy of making the language and style of worship more accessible resulted in a loss of the sense of mystery - and has this accelerated the decline?
The guide to using the breadth of resources provided by Common Worship, aimed at everyone leading worship in the Church of England.The material is tried and roadtested with students and others and reflects the questions ordinands, clergy and readers are actually asking.FAQs and Quick Tips help to maximize the use of Common Worship.
Features the themes that contain a wealth of creative worship ideas, designed to encourage the church family to listen to each other's stories. Through listening and worshipping together in a less formal setting, this title promotes creative thinking and enables people to learn together in worship and grow in faith as part of God's family.
Brings together biblical, historical, and theological scholars on both sides of the Atlantic to assess the work of Professor Bryan Spinks, and to discuss the theme of continuity and change in worship. Covering the early church and the Reformation, this title discusses issues facing contemporary liturgical reform.
This work is a course containing photocopiable material, for deanery, diocesan and parish groups, as well as for individual study. It looks at the origin of all aspects of liturgy: baptism, confirmatiom, marriage, the Eucharist, non-eucharist worship and the range of understanding about it.
A resource with prayers, readings, liturgies and ideas for creating rituals that have helped others through grief. It focuses on the occasions when many non-churchgoers visit a church: for christenings, weddings, funerals, and memorials. It will enable the creation of rites (based on the authorized liturgical texts) that are beautiful.
Provides outlines for intercessory prayer for daily prayer. Arranged season by season, this work features a set of intercessions, with appropriate responses, for each day of the week during: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Passiontide, Easter, Ascension-Pentecost, Ordinary Time (two sets) and All Saints.
Mapping uncharted territory in the study of liturgy's past, this book offers a history to contemporary questions around gender and liturgical life. It looks at liturgy's past through the lens of gender history, understood as attending not only to the historically prominent binary of 'men' and 'women' but to all gender identities.
A collection of prayers for the principal feasts and festivals. There are prayers for each principal feast and festival, with sets to cover each of the 'headings' for the lesser festivals and commemorations. This collection is a natural companion to "Exciting Holiness", the compendium of readings to accompany the calendar.
Combines knowledge of the history of the development of the Roman Rite with a concern for the experience of the rite itself. This text is based around the idea of the liturgical sense of the Roman Rite, meaning a respect for its integrity as an historical tradition that found multiform expression across Europe and also across at least 1600 years.
Jane William's widely read and much enjoyed Church Times columns brought together in one volume for the first time. The book aims to help us engage with the Sunday readings in the Revised Common Lectionary for Years A, B & C. Each section gives the lectionary references and provides a thought-provoking starting point for exploring the readings.
Contains reflections on the Common Worship readings for each Sunday. Each passage provides a starting point for thinking about the lectionary readings and drawing connections between them. The focus of the writing is spirituality, drawing out different perspectives on the texts from Tom Wright with his biblical criticism slant.
A new approach to daily prayer which brings together the psalm and songs of the Bible taken from Common Worship and prayer with beads.Readers will deepen their knowledge and experience of different kinds of prayer: adoration, thanksgiving, intercession, self-offering, and discover.
Churches like museums and static worship where a passive audience sits in pews is about as far removed as you can get from the biblical concept of the church as the pilgrim people of God, forever journeying and 'seeking a country that is to come'. This volume suggests various practical ways of creating elements of worship.
A collection of purpose-written reflections on Common Worship and the ways it has been used over the ten years of its existence. Contributors include Michael Perham, Angela Tilby, Anders Bergquist, Jeremy Fletcher, Simon Reynolds, Richard Giles, Jeremy Davies, Peter Moger, Gilly Myers. Foreword by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.
The St Albans Psalter is one of the great monuments of English Romanesque painting. This book examines every aspect of the psalter, tying it in closely to the lives of Christina of Markyate and Abbot Geoffrey. It demonstrates the significance of the St Albans Psalter crystallising the artistic and spiritual integration of Anglo-Saxons and Normans.
By looking in detail at the Lord's Prayer and its background, Tom Wright offers a really fresh and helpful way of looking at Jesus. Phrase by phrase, he demonstrates how understanding the prayer in its original setting can be the starting point for a rekindling of Christian spirituality and the life of prayer.
Aimed at those planning and leading worship and those working with children and adults in groups, this title offers material designed to bring to life the seasonal liturgy of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. It us accompanied by a CD-ROM that includes: the illustrations and templates in downloadable format; the texts of services; and more.
A practical travelling companion suitable for the journey through the Church's year. Aimed at all those planning and leading worship and those working with children and adults in groups, it offers an array of creative material designed to bring to life the seasonal liturgy of Lent, Holy Week and Easter, including Pentecost.
Offers alternative services and prayers for many occasions. This book includes: prayers before worship; early morning prayer; morning prayer; evening prayer; night prayer; a service of marriage; in praise of creation; a funeral service; a service of healing; prayers of intercession; and, a Celtic calendar of the Lives of the saints.
This is a book to accompany the readings in year B of the Lectionary. It aims to help individuals and groups to understand and use Mark's Gospel. It asks readers to visualize themselves in the scenes that Mark describes in order see Mark's Gospel in a fresh and exciting way.
An assessment of the liturgical reform after the second Vatican Council that seeks the origins of failure in pre-conciliar developments. It integrates biblical, patristic, historical, dogmatic and philosophical questions with liturgical study in ways faithful and sympathetic to classical liturgical enquiry.
An assessment of the liturgical reform after the second Vatican Council that seeks the origins of failure in pre-conciliar developments. It integrates biblical, patristic, historical, dogmatic and philosophical questions with liturgical study in ways faithful and sympathetic to classical liturgical enquiry.
The authorised service book of the Baptist Church in England and Wales contains complete service outlines for holy communion, weddings, funerals, presentation of infants, adult baptism and much more. Introductions to the origins and significance of the rites are included. A CD version is to follow for use with Powerpoint and other media.
This title is the third in a three-volume collection of prayers and other resources in support of the new Common Worship Lectionary being introduced in the Church of England. The prayers included here should be suitable for intercessions and for other more formal parts of a service.
A daily prayer book for the Ordinariate with material from the Anglican tradition, adapted according to the Roman rite. It includes an order for morning, evening and night prayer throughout the year, an interim order of the Mass, spiritual readings, minor offices, calendar and lectionary tables, for use throughout the English speaking world.
Considers the practicalities of celebrating the liturgical year from the point of view of the liturgical president and other liturgical ministers (eg the deacon at the Easter Vigil), and with particular reference to "Common Worship Times and Seasons" material. This book also considers material from the wider Western tradition where appropriate.
The demand for allowing lay ministers to preside at the Eucharist has become a pressing issue in many churches, not only in Anglicanism. This book offers an Anglican theological approach to the controversial questions surrounding the demand for allowing lay ministers to preside at the Eucharist.
As the English speaking world prepares to receive and implement the English translation of the "Missale Romanum", this book is offered as an instrument of catechesis in helping clergy and laity alike to better grasp the rationale for the new translations by considering the wider context of the Rite itself.
Compares and contrasts the different Gospel narratives of Christ's coming. This book is intended for those wanting daily Bible readings for Advent - especially from churches which follow the lectionary Regular BRF Advent book readers. It draws together all four Gospel accounts of Christ's coming.
According to Dom Gregory Dix, the basic shape of the Christian liturgy has remained the same "ever since thirteen men met for supper in an upper room at Jerusalem" some two thousand years ago. This book aims to recover the theology and spirituality of the Christian year, incorporating numerous selections of contemporary poetry.
According to Dom Gregory Dix, the basic shape of the Christian liturgy has remained the same "ever since thirteen men met for supper in an upper room at Jerusalem" some two thousand years ago. This book aims to recover the theology and spirituality of the Christian year, incorporating numerous selections of contemporary poetry.
How should the church and its leaders deal with the origin and meaning of HIV/AIDS, and with the stigma it engenders? How should they address the needs of those affected, and minister to the infected? This book is designed for those who have to handle situations created by this epidemic - church leaders, Sunday school teachers, and youth leaders.
Contains information on public worship, private devotion, and connecting us with our spiritual heritage. This work offers a resource for Eucharistic worship on all festivals and feast days. It provides prayers and Scripture readings for each day of the calendars of four national Anglican provinces.
Includes liturgies for a Christmas Eve vigil, Maundy Thursday foot washing and watch, a Good Friday devotional service, an Easter Eve vigil, and a dawn celebration of the Resurrection. This book also includes a set of meditations on the Stations of the Cross and the Seven Words from the Cross, and seven Good Friday addresses by WH Vanstone.
Presents a translation which deals with the nature of the Church and the liturgy, which is seminally influenced by the Liturgical Movement. This book opens an initial exploration of the Church as made by the Eucharist and gives expression to that mystery in which the Church is believed to consist.
Paul Bradshaw presents a different picture of the origins of the Eucharist from the traditionally received one. The text covers topics including: the last supper and New Testament narratives; the Didache and early Christian ritual meals; Justin Martyr; Irenaus; Cyprian and the emergence of the eucharistic prayers.
Part of the "Radical Traditions" series, which invites Jewish, Christian and Islamic theologians back to the word, recovering modes of scriptural reasoning that underlie modernist reasoning. This volume is divided into five parts - Liturgical Acts, Liturgical Time, Liturgical Scrolling, Liturgical Improvisation, and Liturgical Silence.
A ceremonial manual for the celebration of the traditional liturgy according to the liturgical books in use in 1962. It covers ceremonies such as pontifical, solemn and low Mass, Vespers, Holy Week and the liturgical years, the sacraments, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, funerals, episcopal visitation and more.
Offers a commentary that introduces Poverello's gospel-based message. This book presents a spiritual itinerary: the grandeur and misery of the human condition; the love of neighbor, especially the poor and the marginalized; poverty, the path to perfect joy; and, praising the mystery of the Trinity, the center of every Christian life.
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) had her first vision of Christ at the age of six and dedicated her life to his service as a Dominican. She is also the author of the Dialogue and a Doctor of the Church. This work teaches you to focus on Christ and be transformed by him, sharing the knowledge and joy of his love with others.
Communion and otherness: how can these be reconciled? This work seeks to answer the question. It probes the Christian tradition and highlights the existential concerns that already underlay the writings of the Greek fathers and the definitions of the early ecumenical councils.
Offering practical guidance for an increasingly busy world, this book of prayers for the third Christian millennium is useful to young people and the parents and teachers who want to help them learn to pray in the living tradition of the Church. Helpful introductions and a pattern of daily prayers make it a course in Christian spirituality.
Communion and otherness: how can these be reconciled? This work seeks to answer the question. It probes the Christian tradition and highlights the existential concerns that already underlay the writings of the Greek fathers and the definitions of the early ecumenical councils.
Daily readings from a wide range of sources from the first to the twenty-first centuries reflect a spirituality that is distincively Anglican in its breadth and depth. The writers are from across the centuries - St Ephrem of Syria, Benedict, Anslem, Margery Kempe, George Herbert, R S Thomas, and Rowan Williams
A new general introduction to the Psalms. Seybold guides the reader through the most important aspects of the history and literary form of the Psalm texts and the major questions of critical scholarship, and discusses all leading writers on the subject.
A collection of responsive pastoral prayers. These prayers cover local and world-wide events, individual and congregational concerns. They are lectionary-based and responsive and can be easily adapted to particular circumstances and used in a variety of settings. They are divided into four sections: world, suffering, church, and ourselves.
This revised and updated edition offers a commentary on 20th-century life, firmly based on knowledge and practical experience. It puts a case for seeing healing not as a fringe activity within the Church, but as something central to its raison d'etre.
Taken from the Church of England Common Worship text, this large-prinbt booklet presents the Holy Communion Order One Service, all eight eucharistic prayers and supplementary texts including the Form of Preparation, penitential material, and the Apostles Creed.
The most enduring monuments surviving from the long history of mankind are those erected under the religious compulsion for the worship of God and the well being of the dead in some future existence. This book describes a theology of sacred space - not just in relation to buildings but symbolically in terms the body the mind and the soul.
A collection of liturgies, prayers, readings, reflections, recipes and programme ideas on the theme of hospitality that is very reminiscent of Wild Goose resources from Iona. This work is a ready-to-use resource especially suited to churches in mission, exploring cafe outreach and other Fresh Expression initiatives.
Contains a range of services developed by three key agencies working together that cover: a remembrance ceremony; a formal ceremony at a war memorial; a service for Remembrance Sunday; a veterans' service; a Remembrance service with a Eucharist; a funeral service for a member of the armed forces; a parade service; and other related occasions.
Taken from the Church of England Common Worship text, this booklet presents the Marriage Service, the structure for a marriage within a Celebration of Holy Communion and a selection of supplementary texts, including Bible readings, alternative vows and additional prayers.
Keith Pecklers aims to give theologians, liturgists, priests and laity of all denominations a new sense of the theology of liturgy. Grounded in the theology of the Mystical Body of Christ, the author calls for full and active liturgical participation necessarily including social responsibility.
Includes a series of services, suitable to be used with adults who have recently found faith - perhaps through Christian nurture courses like Alpha or Emmaus. This title enables nurturing communities to support and encourage those young people and adults who are formally exploring the Christian faith and preparing for baptism.
The original Times and Seasons was designed as a resource book, this volume groups all the material Sunday by Sunday complete with Holy Communion Order One.Everything for seasonal celebration of the Eucharist is contained in this one volume with a clear and easily navigable structure and large, readable type.
A study of theological reflection and the nature of worship, from a Free Church tradition. Provides extensive extracts from historical writings in Free Church spirituality. Offers an original contribution to the history of Christian worship, the history of Free Church and Evangelical spirituality.
A resource for use wherever weekday celebrations of the Eucharist take place. It includes scripture readings from the NRSV and psalms from the Common Worship Psalter, and provides all the readings for the two year cycle of the weekday lectionary in one place.
Helps clergy and readers plan and prepare worship that embraces the richness of the Christian year. This book focuses on the major liturgical cycles of the Christian year, especially from Advent to Candlemas and from Lent to Easter. It includes a collection of resources for the festivals and seasons of the agricultural year, and more.
A liturgical resource which includes forms of intercession for numerous extra occasions: Principal Feasts - for example: the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, Annunciation, the Transfiguration, other Holy Days - for example: the Birth of John the Baptist, Holy Cross Day, Holy Innocents, Red Letter Saints' Days, Evangelists, and others.
Features essays that are worked examples of the importance of interpretation and liturgy, particularly in the light of the growing impact of reception-history, and how this interacts not only with biblical scholarship but with worship and doctrine as well.
Christian initiation takes varying forms in different denominations and for many non-churchgoing new parents, a christening or some other kind of ceremony is important at this landmark time in their lives. This title offers imaginative ideas and liturgies for these and other occasions in the life of a local church.
The Collect is a form of prayer which is a core part of the liturgical worship of most Christian traditions, certainly in the Christian West. This title draws together a range of scholars who reflect on the history and the development of this form of prayer common to different churches of the western tradition.
An unintimidating guide to understanding the Catholic Mass Throughout the centuries, the liturgy of the Church has taken a variety of regional and historical forms, but one thing has remained constant: the Mass has always been the central form of Catholic worship.
Examines the struggle for Protestant consensus and unity through the work of John a Lasco (1499-1560). This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the "Forma ac ratio", a work that recorded the rites and practices of the London Strangers' Church and to provide a model for uniting the disparate Protestant communities on the continent.
Part of the "Emmaus: the Way of Faith" course. This title contains five short courses to encourage believers towards maturity in key areas of the Christian life: growing in prayer (4 sessions); growing in the Scriptures (5 sessions); being Church (4 sessions); growing in worship (5 sessions); and, life, death and Christian hope (3 sessions).
A commentary on selected psalms, seeking to resolve the problems by placing Latin within its historical linguistic context. It demonstrates how Early Christian exegetes, especially Augustine, confronted unidiomatic peculiarities in a fundamentalist way; how they resorted to an exegetical resolution of what they perceived as a theological mystery.
Personal readings and the music you love, represent you best in the collective memory left behind. The funeral should be a personal affair organised by the deceased who can strike the appropriate tone.Planning for yourself is such a great help and comfort
We ourselves are God's art, and we might view the place where Christians gather as God's studio. This is a work of liturgical theology - showing the meaning of worship as the making of Christians, it explores the theological resources for this understanding, and mirrors the structure of the liturgy.
This reference comprises 200 entries on important topics in liturgy, from vestments and offertories to ordination and divine unction. Systematically organized and alphabetically arranged, it also includes bibliographies and reading lists to encourage further reading and research.