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One of the most common tasks undertaken by all clergy is ministry
to the sick and to the bereaved. Containing the essentials for
pastoral ministry in the community, Common Worship: A Pastoral
Ministry Companion brings together services, prayers and readings
for the most frequently encountered pastoral occasions in a
portable, easy-reference volume. It includes liturgies, prayers and
readings for: Emergency baptism Prayers for the sick and their
families Holy Communion at home or in hospital Reconciliation
services (not present in previous Pastoral Services or Ministry to
the Sick volumes) Prayers with the dying and at the time of a death
Prayers for use at home before and after a funeral Passages of
Scripture and Psalms in both modern and Prayer Book versions This
elegant and discreet volume - bound in soft-touch imitation leather
with two ribbons - is the ideal size for keeping to hand in your
pocket, bag or car glove compartment.
All of life is liturgy. People encounter God as they live, work,
and play in human communities and as they work to sustain the
health of communities and the ground on which communities are
built. Liturgy is distilled from everyday life when we peer through
the mist and see the sacramental and spiritual dimensions of daily
actions, objects, conversations, and events. In When I in Awesome
Wonder, Jill Y. Crainshaw explores this dimension of spirituality
and celebrates the ways God's sacramental gifts and presence arise
from and return to everyday human experiences.
Ours is a time of unprecedented pessimism regarding the possibility
of achieving consensus around moral issues. Christian liturgical
practices, which are grounded in a communicative economy of love
and mercy, contain wisdom that might be of significant help. What
difference might it make if we confessed sin (learned epistemic
humility, worked at overcoming self-deception), interceded for
others (learned to go beyond empathy to compassion and advocacy for
the well-being of all persons, became willing to look beyond the
possible for solutions, etc.), and learned from the best
homiletical practices how to justify and apply moral positions
within an ethic of hospitality and care? Speaking Together focuses
on the roles that liturgical practices play in promoting genuinely
communicative (understanding-oriented) forms of action and explores
how liturgical practices contribute to sincere, multi-perspectival,
empathetic, and truth-seeking conversations regarding moral norms
in an increasingly pluralistic world. What this means is that our
liturgical practices are a way of speaking together and this shapes
how we organize and inhabit a shared social life.
Grasping the Heel of Heaven honours the immense legacy to the
church of Michael Perham. A skilled and imaginative liturgist, a
passionate advocate of women's ministry, an inspirational dean and
bishop, a wise and patient administrator, he was above all a
faithful priest who loved the Church as the body of Christ. In all
his ministry he sought to nourish that body by encouraging its
worship and prayer and shaping its governance in the light of
gospel ideals. In this volume, friends and colleagues bring their
own expertise to reflect on some of the topics and themes that were
most important to him, including: * Being transported and
transformed by liturgy * The making of Common Worship * The full
inclusion of the ministry of women * How structures and
decision-making express an understanding of God * Unity despite
differences in and through God * The gospel as good news for all
Together, the contributors reflect the numerous ways that Michael
Perham saw heaven touching earth and earth glimpsing heaven.
How language works in the worship of the church has been vigorously
debated during the period of liturgical revision in the twentieth
century coming at the end of what is known as the Liturgical
Movement. Focussing upon the Church of England and the Anglican
tradition, this book traces the history of `liturgical language' as
it begins in the Early Church, but with particular emphasis upon
the English Reformation liturgies, their background in the Medieval
Church and literature and their long and varied life in the Church
of England after 1662. Inter-disciplinary in scope, yet rooted in a
literary approach, the volume provides a rigorous study of the
effect of liturgy upon the theological and devotional life of the
Church.
Dreamers and Stargazers is an imaginative and engaging collection
of liturgical worship material for the seasons of Advent,
Christmas, Epiphany and Candlemas, offering a wealth of new words
and inspiration. Especially designed for a time of year when
churches welcome visitors not familiar with traditional rituals and
language, these creative liturgies focus on God's presence among us
and in the world, reflecting the grounded reality of the
incarnation itself. Complete outlines are provided for reimagined
seasonal services for the entire period of Advent to Candlemas,
including the lighting of the Advent candle, crib and carol
services, and events for the new calendar year. Each one will
enable churches to explore the full promise of these seasons as
they resonate in the world's joys and sorrows.
For every major feast, saint's day and commemoration in the
calendars of the Anglican churches of the UK, this liturgical
resource and spiritual companion offers a feast of readings that
reflects the richness, depth and variety of the Christian tradition
from the earliest years of the church to the present day. Writings
from across the centuries represent the Eastern, Western, Roman and
Celtic traditions and constitute a vibrant history of Christianity
manifested in the lives of hundreds of holy men and women as
diverse as first century martyrs, or twentieth century social
reformers. A complementary volume to Exciting Holiness which
provides scripture readings and prayers for the calendar, this is
now updated to include the additional commemorations in the Church
of England's calendar of saints.
Creating Missional Worship explores how contemporary context and
Anglican liturgical tradition can be fused together to create
engaging and transformative worship. It addresses a key issue that
has arisen in the wake of Fresh Expressions: to what extent should
worship be shaped by the culture of the day, and how far can it
stray from core patterns of worship and still be recognisably
Anglican? Tim Lomax offers imaginative ideas and resources for
finding freedom within a framework. Using the basic patterns of
Common Worship, he outlines a contextual approach to creating
worship that is incarnational, sacramental, Trinitarian and
revelatory in today's language and cultural forms. He offers many
examples and illustrations of how liturgy and contemporary culture
can meet in fresh and challenging ways.
The seasonal liturgies at the heart of the Christian year have the
ability to touch individuals and whole church communities in a way
that changes lives. This companion and commentary to Lent, Holy
Week and Easter offers advice on creatively using the church's most
dramatic and transformative liturgies. It explores how
commemorating Jesus' passion and resurrection enables us to enter
the familiar stories and discover their power to make us more
Christlike, even in the painful events of life. Written principally
for those who celebrate the liturgy - clergy, readers, local
ministry teams, ordinands and others, it stretches from the
beginning of Lent to the end of the Great Fifty Days, with a
particular focus on Holy Week. For each event in this season, it: o
Traces how it has been observed in Christian tradition o Explores
how the authorized liturgies can be used creatively in different
pastoral contexts o Reflects on the narratives theologically and in
terms of their power to transform.
In The Heart of Our Music, master practitioners of the art of
liturgical music come together to offer enriching insights, a
stirring vision, and practical new ideas that will change the way
you think about liturgy and liturgical ministry. These reflections
are written with the needs of parish liturgists and liturgical
musicians in mind. This volume includes reflections on how the
music we sing and play comes across to the people, processes for
bringing different cultures together, the way we think about
liturgy, and the way we think about ourselves in liturgy.
Contributors and their articles include: "How Music in the Liturgy
Is Perceived and Received: An Anthropological/Semiological
Perspective" by Paul Inwood; "Collecting Harmony: Three Approaches
to Cultural Diversity for Worship Music Today" by Ricky Manalo,
CSP; "The Mothering Wing: Catholic Imagination and Liturgy" by John
Foley, SJ; and "To Be Known as We Are Known: A Possible Future for
Liturgical Engagement" by Roc O'Connor, SJ.
This book explores one of the great paradoxes of our era. Western
culture has almost imperceptibly come to secularize the sacred,
while at the same time sacralizing the secular. The authors
endeavor to show the debilitating effects that this paradox has had
on the foundations of Christian worship with special reference to
the history of worship and in particular the Presbyterian Church in
Australia. The authors show how the theological predilection for
'minimization' has become inextricably woven into the fabric of
what we call 'the theory of transformative subjugation' which
drives the rationale for religious secularization. The book argues
that it is necessary to consider a serious reconstruction of
theological education in which its framework is located in a
specific Christian theory of knowledge which engenders the Lordship
of Christ and encourages a spirit of transformative love and
connectedness. It is only in this context that the theology of
worship and the beauty and usefulness of liturgical forms can be
appreciated.
This book calls attention to the importance of scholarly reflection
on the writing of liturgical history. The essays not only probe the
impact of important shifts in historiography but also present new
scholarship that promises to reconfigure some of the established
images of liturgy's past. Based on papers presented at the 2014
Yale Institute of Sacred Music Liturgy Conference, Liturgy's
Imagined Past/s seeks to invigorate discussion of methodologies and
materials in contemporary writings on liturgy's pasts and to
resource such writing at a point in time when formidable questions
are being posed about the way in which historians construct the
object of their inquiry.
The seasons of the soul are the seasons of the liturgical calendar.
The liturgy is about a relationship, and Sr. Carla Mae's gorgeous
images, poetry and prose describe how the liturgy is a means of
deepening our relationship with God communally. The material comes
highly recommended by RCIA coordinators as a perfect introduction
to how the liturgy is the place where a loving God invites us -
individually and as a body - into an ever more intimate experience
of the Trinitarian relationship. This series of nourishing
meditations on the liturgical seasons is written by an excellent
theologian. In addition to the Introduction, which is simply
flabbergasting, readers will be taken by the bodily, indeed the
womanly character of her spirituality, her associating the whole
cosmos with the Incarnation, and her adroit, poetic play with
symbols. A profound, short book, which deserves to be read more
than once.
Aelred, abbot of the Yorkshire Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from
1147 to 1167, wrote six spiritual treatises, seven historical
treatises, and 182 liturgical sermons, most of which he delivered
as chapter talks to his monks. Translations of the first
twenty-eight of these sermons appeared in The First Clairvaux
Collection, Advent-All Saints, published in 2001. The current
volume contains eighteen sermons given on feasts beginning with the
Nativity and concluding with a sermon for All Saints.
'Because the Sacred Liturgy is truly the font from which all the
Church's power flows...we must do everything we can to put the
Sacred Liturgy back at the very heart of the relationship between
God and man... I ask you to continue to work towards achieving the
liturgical aims of the Second Vatican Council...and to work to
continue the liturgical renewal promoted by Pope Benedict XVI,
especially through the post-synodal apostolic exhortation
Sacramentum Caritatis...and the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum...
I ask you to be wise, like the householder...who knows when to
bring out of his treasure things both new and old (see: Mtt 13:52),
so that the Sacred Liturgy as it is celebrated and lived today may
lose nothing of the estimable riches of the Church's liturgical
tradition, whilst always being open to legitimate development.'
These words of Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation
for Divine Worship, underline the liturgy's fundamental role in
every aspect of the life and mission of the Church. Liturgy in the
Twenty-First Century makes available the different perspectives on
this from leading figures such as Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke,
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Abbot Philip Anderson, Father
Thomas Kocik, Dom Alcuin Reid, and Dr Lauren Pristas. Considering
questions of liturgical catechetics, music, preaching, how young
people relate to the liturgy, matters of formation and reform,
etc., Liturgy in the Twenty-First Century is an essential resource
for all clergy and religious and laity involved in liturgical
ministry and formation. Bringing forth 'new treasures as well as
old,' its contributors identify and address contemporary challenges
and issues facing the task of realising the vision of Cardinal
Sarah, Cardinal Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and the Second Vatican
Council.
'Because the Sacred Liturgy is truly the font from which all the
Church's power flows...we must do everything we can to put the
Sacred Liturgy back at the very heart of the relationship between
God and man... I ask you to continue to work towards achieving the
liturgical aims of the Second Vatican Council...and to work to
continue the liturgical renewal promoted by Pope Benedict XVI,
especially through the post-synodal apostolic exhortation
Sacramentum Caritatis...and the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum...
I ask you to be wise, like the householder...who knows when to
bring out of his treasure things both new and old (see: Mtt 13:52),
so that the Sacred Liturgy as it is celebrated and lived today may
lose nothing of the estimable riches of the Church's liturgical
tradition, whilst always being open to legitimate development.'
These words of Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation
for Divine Worship, underline the liturgy's fundamental role in
every aspect of the life and mission of the Church. Liturgy in the
Twenty-First Century makes available the different perspectives on
this from leading figures such as Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke,
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Abbot Philip Anderson, Father
Thomas Kocik, Dom Alcuin Reid, and Dr Lauren Pristas. Considering
questions of liturgical catechetics, music, preaching, how young
people relate to the liturgy, matters of formation and reform,
etc., Liturgy in the Twenty-First Century is an essential resource
for all clergy and religious and laity involved in liturgical
ministry and formation. Bringing forth 'new treasures as well as
old,' its contributors identify and address contemporary challenges
and issues facing the task of realising the vision of Cardinal
Sarah, Cardinal Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and the Second Vatican
Council.
When changes happen to the Catholic Mass, opinions are strong and
diverse. Everyone feels in some way that the Mass is theirs. It is.
Or is it? Whose Mass is it? And what should people do to claim it?
Whether or not adult Catholics attend Mass regularly, they strongly
bond with it. Within a single generation, English-speaking
Catholics experienced the Second Vatican Council's authorization
for the first overhaul of the liturgy in four hundred years, and
then, in 2011, they prepared for and implemented a revised
vernacular translation. Each of these two events awakened strong
feelings as people gradually became aware that someone else's
decision was going to affect the cornerstone of their spiritual
life. In Whose Mass Is It? Paul Turner examines the impact of the
Mass, the connections it makes, and its purpose in the lives of
believers.
There are many books written for liturgical experts, but not many
for laypeople. This book bridges that gap. In clear, everyday
language, Waschevski and Stevens describe why Protestants worship
and help to equip worship planners and leaders for excellence in
their tasks. The authors explore the different elements of the
worship service and how each expresses our Christ-centered faith.
They also describe the feasts and festivals of the liturgical year,
helping the reader understand and appreciate these special times
and seasons in worship. An additional chapter considers music and
arts in worship. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter
invite discussion in local congregations. This book will be a
valuable resource for pastors, worship committees, members, and all
others who engage in worship planning and leadership.
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