The Good Worship Guide
Leading Liturgy Well
1st Edition
Published on 19. June 2013
192 pages
978-1-84825-488-6 (ISBN)
Description
Sunday worship, baptisms, weddings and funerals are the shop window of the church and there is nothing more important for mission than getting them right. How do we help congregations and occasional visitors encounter God through them? This practical guide draws upon the treasury of the church's tradition and experience to establish good practice
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Content
- Intro
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- About this Book
- Part 1
- 1. WORSHIP MATTERS
- Worship Today
- Caffè latte religion
- Patterns of church-going
- The changing liturgical landscape
- Reading the culture
- Notes
- Mission-Shaped Worship
- Believing and belonging
- Conversion as process rather than event
- Doing apologetics today
- Listening to be heard
- Notes
- Reclaiming Spirituality for God
- Spiritual alchemy
- Self-knowledge and the knowledge of God
- Reconnecting spirituality and worship
- Notes
- Part 2
- 2. THE CONTEXT WE SET
- Coming to Worship
- Communication
- Timing
- Getting the welcome right
- Children
- Older people
- Aftercare
- Creating space
- Worship Audit
- Aims
- Process
- Part 3
- 3. BRINGING TEXTS TO LIFE
- INTRODUCTION
- Basic principles
- Before the service
- Leading worship
- Guidelines
- Holy Communion according to the Book of Common Prayer
- Holy Communion (Order One) according to Common Worship
- THE GATHERING
- THE LITURGY OF THE WORD
- THE LITURGY OF THE SACRAMENT
- All-Age Services
- A Service of the Word
- All-Age Eucharist
- Evensong
- Baptisms
- Confirmation
- Weddings
- Funerals
- Observations and perceptions
- Improving the quality of our Funeral services
- Music
- What our buildings can offer
- Communication
- Leading Public Worship: A beginner's guide for lay people
- Leading Public Worship: Processions and protocols
- Entrance procession
- Civic processions
- When the bishop comes
- Part 4
- 4. ENRICHING THE CHRISTIAN YEAR
- INTRODUCTION
- Note
- Advent Wreath
- Posada
- On the way to Bethlehem
- Christingle
- Making a Christingle
- Christmas
- Blessing of the crib
- Candlemas
- Ash Wednesday
- Notes
- Palm Sunday
- Maundy Thursday
- Easter Vigil
- MARKING THE EASTER CANDLE
- Rogationtide
- Lammastide
- Offering of grain and bread
- All Saints and All Souls
- Part 5
- 5. BEHIND THE SCENES
- INTRODUCTION
- The Sacristan or Verger
- Communion Vessels
- Bread and Wine
- Altar Linen and Frontals
- Corporals
- Credence cloth
- Purificators
- Pall
- Towels
- Lenten veils
- Liturgical Colours
- Candles
- Easter (Paschal) Candle
- Baptism candles
- Votive candles
- Sanctuary lamps
- Bier lights
- Incense
- Sanctuary Bells
- Holy Oils
- Statues and Icons
- 6. GLOSSARY
- Resources
- Advertisement
- Visual Liturgy Live
- Acknowledgements
