Conybeare,Frederick Cornwallis
This title offers an explanation of the main aspects of the Communion service and explores the meaning of the bread and wine. It is suitable for all denominations, and has careful coverage of sensitive issues.
The Wedding Mass
This booklet is offered as an aid in choosing the readings for a Wedding Mass. It also includes a selection of intentions for the prayer of the faithful, and poignant blessings and reflections.
Doorways to the Sacred (Ancient Faith, Future Mission)
by Ian Mobsby and Phil Potter
Fresh Expressions of Church are key aspect of mission strategy for many denominations in the UK and beyond. Here, a stellar line-up of writers explores the central question of how Fresh Expressions turn from mission projects into authentic forms of church, developing a sacramental life of their own. Chapters include: * Lucy Moore on Messy Church and Holy Communion * Graham Cray on the sacraments for the unchurched * Jonathan Clark on baptism and mission * John Drane on seeing the world as s...
Rituals for Life, Love, and Loss
by Dorothy McRae-McMahon and Sydney Barbara Metrick
Rituals for Life, Love and Loss provides spiritual rituals and meditations for the modern world, for times of celebration and grief. Dorothy McRae - McMahon, who is internationally renowned for her knowledge of rituals, has created meaningful ceremonies for everyone, regardless of their faith.From naming a child and blessing a home to the sadness of ending a marriage and a simple funeral, Rituals for Life, Love and Loss gives us the words and symbols we need to make the everyday sacred.
Thomas Long begins this fascinating volume by describing how the Christian funeral developed historically, theologically, and liturgically, and then discusses recent cultural trends in funeral practices, including the rise in both cremations and memorial services. He describes the basic pattern for a funeral service, details options in funeral planning, identifies characteristics of a "good funeral," and provides thoughtful guidance for preaching at a funeral. Long also notes a disturbing trend...
frei + christlich - Der freie christliche Impuls Rudolf Steiners heute
by Volker David Lambertz
Originally published in 1910, this book contains a study of the Eucharistic liturgy used by the Church in the first three hundred years of its existence. Woolley carefully examines the origins and development of the proanaphora and anaphora, and includes in an appendix the original Greek, Coptic, Ethiopic or Latin texts of many of the ancient witnesses of liturgical practice along with an English translation for texts not in Latin or Greek. This book will be of great value to anyone with an inte...