Human Rites
Worship Resources for an Age of Change
1st Edition
Published on 16. November 1995
192 pages
978-0-8264-9912-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is a worship anthology for the present day. The subjects covered are wide-ranging: blessings for relationships, including same-sex relationships; prayers for occasions like miscarriage or still birth; divorce and separation; blessings for babies and adoptions; healing services; and many more.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-9912-7 (9780826499127)
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Persons
Hannah Ward is a professional writer and editor and former Anglican Franciscan nun.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 In whom we live ...: Changing images and experience of God
- 1. A celebration of faith development
- 2. 'Treasure'
- 3. Where is God in all this?
- 4. A ritual of confession and absolution
- 5. Waiting for God-O
- 6. Cairn-building
- 7. On entering a retreat
- 8. O boundless God
- 9. The word awaited
- 10. Prayer in six directions
- 11. God, our Companion
- 12. God our mother
- 13. Trawling the depths
- Hymns:
- 14. Beautiful Movement, ceaselessly forming
- 15. Great soaring Spirit
- 16. May the Sending One sing in you
- 17. Eternal God, your love's tremendous glory
- 18. Messenger of marvels, challenger of sleep
- 19. Deep inside creation's myst'ry
- 20. Put peace into each other's hands
- 21. Your supporting presence guides us through the night
- 22. Praise to God, the world's creator
- 23. Lord, your power has called to being
- 24. Blessing
- 2 The holy child to be born shall be called ...: Beginnings and namings
- 25. The enlightening Light (a service for Advent)
- 26. A liturgy for Advent Sunday
- 27. Celebrating birth
- 28. From a naming ceremony and thanksgiving
- 29. A welcoming and naming ceremony for a new baby
- 30. Thanksgiving for the birth of a child
- 31. A Celtic baptism
- 32. A welcome for Tristan
- 33. Ritual to affirm the passage from girlhood to young woman
- 34. For my daughters, a liturgy for the celebration of your menarche
- 35. A ritual for a sixty-year-old woman
- 36. A retirement service
- 37. A children's ritual
- 38. Bidding prayers for Suzanna's baptism
- 39. Blessing for a child welcoming
- Hymn:
- 40. Come, cradle all
- 3 Jesus came from Nazareth ...: A celebration of homes for all who live in them
- 41. A house-warming celebration
- 42. House blessing
- 43. Celebrating the new family
- 44. A rite of blessing at adoption
- 45. Becoming a new family
- 46. Mothers' Day ceremony
- 47. On Homelessness Sunday
- 48. Prayer for dedication of a house
- 49. Blessing on a new home
- 50. Blessing prayer for the Advent wreath
- 51. New Year prayer for families
- 52. Parent's remarriage
- Hymns:
- 53. A father stoops to lift a weary toddler
- 54. How great the debt we owe
- 55. God of Eve and God of Mary
- 56. Yours the city, yours the city
- 4 This, the first of his miracles ...: A celebration of relationships
- 57. An experimental liturgy for the blessing of a relationship
- 58. A service of blessing
- 59. Order of the blessing of a civil marriage
- 60. A liturgy for the blessing of a couple
- 61. Blessing prayers for renewing commitment between two persons
- 62. A liturgy of friendship
- 63. A Jewish-Christian marriage
- 64. A celebration for a Jewish-Christian wedding
- 65. Partnership promises
- 66. Partnership declarations
- 67. On the occasion of a second marriage
- 68. Proper Preface for a marriage eucharist
- Hymns:
- 69. Great God, your love has called us here
- 70. As man and woman we were made
- 5 Who touched me? ...: Healing our wounds
- 71. Service of healing
- 72. Service of healing
- 73. A service of healing for a hurting world
- 74. Healing liturgy
- 75. Liturgy at the time of ... abortion
- 76. Rituals for abortion
- 77. A litany of healing
- 78. Like drops of water
- 79. The shadow of the dove
- 80. Litany for AIDS Sunday
- 81. Collect for the disunity of men and women
- Hymns:
- 82. Christ our health and Christ our healing
- 83. Deep in creation 's heart an energy
- 84. Peace flowing outward and peace flowing in
- 85. The busy crowd was thronging round
- 86. Christ's is the world in which we move
- 87. Word made flesh! We see Christ Jesus
- 88. A blessing
- 6 Unless I go away ...: Separations and goodbyes
- 89. Service of thanksgiving for the Holbeck Hall Hotel
- 90. A service for a family who are emigrating
- 91. A service signifying the end of a close relationship
- 92. Praying our farewells
- 93. A liturgy for the leave-taking of a house after separation or divorce
- 94. Coming out of the Baptist ministry
- 95. A liturgy for release from marriage vows
- 96. Service of new start
- 97. Liturgy for divorce
- 98. At the time of divorce: a children's liturgy
- 99. Separation
- 100. Agape on letting go and entering the darkness
- 101. Space is a kind of time
- 102. Prayer for the Sunday after Easter
- Hymn:
- 103. God! When human bonds are broken
- 7 Into your hands ...: Dying, death and bereavement
- 104. Preparing for death
- 105. At the time of death
- 106. As death nears
- 107. Prayers at death
- 108. The blessing of a dead baby
- 109. On the death of a child
- 110. Order of service for the funeral of a two-day-old baby
- 111. Dedication and funeral of a stillborn baby
- 112. A service of commemoration and healing after abortion
- 113. Service for a stillborn child
- 114. Service of healing after a miscarriage (1)
- 115. Service of healing after a miscarriage (2)
- 116. Blessing for a deceased baby
- 117. Prayers of the people at a funeral
- 118. What is dying?
- 119. Death is nothing at all ...
- 120. They that love beyond the world . . .
- 121. Prayer of Quaker origin
- 122. Prayer following pregnancy loss
- 123. A psalm for the dying
- 124. Psalm of grief
- Hymns:
- 125. How shall I sing to God
- 126. We bring our gratitude to you
- 8 She stooped to look inside ...: Rites of remembrance
- 127. All Souls: an evening of remembrance and thanksgiving
- 128. Remembering the dead
- 129. A service of prayer and remembrance
- 130. Act of acknowledgement and farewell after an abortion
- 131. A litany of remembrance
- 132. The Eucharist for the abused
- 133. Liturgy for a hard journey
- 134. Liturgy of healing from sexual abuse
- 135. Prayer of thanksgiving
- 136. Meditation on the Collect for Purity
- 137. Womenspace midwinter song 1990
- 138. Song of awakening
- 139. Act of thanksgiving and remembrance
- Hymns:
- 140. We cannot measure how you heal
- 141. We shall go out with hope of resurrection
- 142. Give thou to me, O God
- 143. 'All shall be well, in love enclosed'
- 144. Beginnings and endings
- 9 Give me your hand ...: The Christian vision
- 145. Blessed be the New Year
- 146. A ritual to invite light into areas of darkness
- 147. A Pentecost celebration
- 148. Communion service on the theme of justice, peace and the integrity of creation
- 149. Mother earth, the fruit of God's womb
- 150. A winter solstice observance
- 151. Ash Wednesday Service 1991
- 152. Peace preachers' commissioning liturgy
- 153. We are not alone
- 154. Litany for creation in travail
- 155. Litany of the four elements
- 156. A liturgy for women and men
- 157. A litany
- 158. Prayer rosary
- 159. A prayer for all creative people
- 160. God in the struggle
- 161. Prayer of approach
- 162. God of light and warmth
- 163. Blessing of the stew pot
- 164. Thomas
- Hymns:
- 165. The people who stumbled in darkness
- 166. We sing a love that sets all people free
- 167. Make us true servants to all those in need
- 168. Come down, O love divine
- 169. Come, Holy Spirit, in this hour
- 170. Worker God, who planned creation
- 171. Is this the gentle Jesus
- 172. Praise to you, our great Creator
- 10 Go into all the world ...: Good news to all humanity
- 173. Lost in wonder, love and praise
- 174. A eucharist for people on the move . . .
- 175. Litany: Go into the world
- 176. Prayer
- Acknowledgements
- Authors and compilers
