One of the most cherished areas of priesthood is the celebration of the eucharistic prayer; yet little theological reflections has emerged concerning it.
Taken from an address given at Nashotah House in April 1990.
"Unlike liturgical manuals of the past, which were intended specifically for the use of the clergy, this book is directed to a wider audience -- to members of parish worship committees, priests, organists and directors of music, lectors, deacons, cantors and other singers, bishops, altar guild members, acolytes -- in short, to all who bear responsibility for the planning and conduct of public worship. In order to be as helpful as possible to such a variety of persons, the book includes, in addition to specific recommendations, the rationale and historical background for much of what is suggested". -- Preface, p. xiii.
Contents: Preface dated Wednesday in Holy Week 1989 / Howard E. Galley -- Of Churches and Their Furnishings -- Of Liturgical Ministries -- Of Seasons, Music, and Liturgical Practices -- Of Preparations for the Service -- The Service in Detail -- Synopsis of Ceremonies -- Celebrations with Small Congregations -- Holy Communion After the Liturgy -- Reservation of the Sacrament -- Holy Communion by a Deacon -- The Bishop and Parish Eucharists -- The Bishop at Holy Baptism -- The Ordination of Priests and Deacons -- Appendix: Liturgical Texts -- Glossary.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-253) and index.
"Taking the familiar elements of the liturgy of the Eucharist, [this book] shows how the sensory and spiritual dimensions of worship can be fused to create an all-embracing experience of beauty that has the power to engage, inspire and transform. Its core approach is highly participatory, giving emphasis at every point to its underlying theological conviction that the assembly is the minister of the eucharistic action. Brimming with imaginative ideas that can be used or adapted in any setting and fully illustrated throughout, it explores basic principles, offers a step-by-step guide to introducing and managing change, provides a selection of supplementary liturgical texts, and includes imaginative ideas for using music and the arts in worship. An essential guide for all who are seeking to bring the liturgy to vivid life, 'Creating Uncommon Worship' is based on the actual experience of congregations in Britain and America, especially in Philadelphia Cathedral, where the author is Dean and where the regular worship has made an unforgettable impact on many". -- back cover.
Contents divided into five main parts: Part 1: Principles -- Part 2: Practice -- Part 3: The Eucharist in Slow Motion : The Meeting -- Part 4: The Eucharist in Slow Motion : The Meal -- Appendices.
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction dated Philadelphia, February 2004 / Richard Giles -- Preliminaries -- Components of Liturgical Assembly -- Basic Steps in the Management of Change -- Setting the Scene -- Preparation -- The Eucharist in Slow Motion: The Meeting -- The Eucharist in Slow Motion: The Meal -- Appendix A: Following the Way -- Appendix B: Alternative penitential rites -- Appendix C: Opening prayers -- Appendix D: Gospel acclamations -- Appendix E: Alternative affirmations of faith -- Appendix F: Guidelines for the prayers of the people -- Appendix G: Alternative introductions to the peace -- Appendix H: Alternative preliminary (offertory) prayers -- Appendix I: Alternative eucharistic prayers -- Appendix J: Alternative Alternative doxologies -- Appendix K: Alternative settings of the Lord's Prayer -- Appendix L: Sources of readings -- Appendix M: Music resources -- Appendix N: Arts resources -- Appendix O: Liturgical resources centres -- Bibliography -- Index.
A description, by a retired Anglican cleric in the diocese of Toronto, of the liturgy used at St. Gregory Nyssen parish in Berkeley California which combines the liturgy of the 1979 American Book of Common Prayer and elements from "Jewish and eastern Christian resources".
"It is with a great sense of joy that the Standing Commission on Church Music presents 'Church Hymnal Series I', containing five new settings for the Common Text (ICET) of the Eucharist Rite II, authorised by the General Convention for trial use. One of the greatest problems of changing liturgy is that of providing apt and singable settings for the parts of the services normally sung. A great part of that problem is in finding music which is really singable by congregations; which music will both commend itself to church people as an expression of their worship, and as well will speak with integrity as a musical idiom of our time. We present here five very difficult settings, which we earnestly believe, fulfill these functions". -- Intro.
Contents: Introduction / The Standing Commission on Church Music -- Five Settings of the Common Texts of the Holy Eucharist 1976.
Text divided into five sections: Setting I / Robert Powell -- Setting II / Malcolm Williamson -- Setting III / Alastair Cassels-Brown -- Setting IV / Richard Felciano -- Setting V / Calvin Hampton.
"Edited by Colin O. Buchanan, Director of Studies, St. John's College, Nottingham. Member of the Church of England Liturgical Commission".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This volume stands third in a line of liturgical reference books. In 1962 the Oxford University Press published B.J. Wigan's collection, 'The Liturgy in English' (LiE), which included in English all the Anglican eucharistic texts from 1549 to 1960 which he had been able to obtain, A second edition was published in 1964, and is still in print at the time of writing. In 1968 this was followed by the present writer's 'Modern Anglican Liturgies 1958-68 (MAL) from the same Press. MAL supplemented LiE in several ways, not only by adding new texts, but also by giving a brief background history to the production of all texts in both books (with the exception of the Church of England's own texts of 1549-1662, which are very fully covered in many other writings.
The seven and a half years which have elapsed between the compilation of MAL and the works on this volume have seen a further spate of new eucharistic liturgies, which are duly collected here. An introduction is again provided for each text, but instead of going back over the whole of the respective Province's liturgical history, the account simply runs from 1968 to 1975, Thus this volume supplements LiE and MAL, and with them gives a conspectus, with texts, of the whole of Anglican eucharistic liturgy since 1549". -- Preface.
Contents divided into seven main parts: Part I: Anglican Eucharistic Liturgy 1968-1975 -- II: The United Kingdom and Eire -- Part III: The Americas -- Part IV: Africa -- Part Part V: The Middle East -- Part VI: Asia -- Part VII: Australasia.
Contents: Preface dated 13 February 1975 / Colin Buchanan -- The Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Anglican Eucharistic Liturgy 1968-75 -- Appendixes -- The Church of England -- The Episcopal Church in Scotland / David K. Maybury -- The Church in Wales / John C. Mears -- The Church of Ireland / F. Charles Jameson -- The Anglican Church of Canada / R.N. Savary -- The Protestant Episcopal Church of the U.S.A. -- The Church of the Province of the West Indies -- The Episcopal Church in Brazil -- The Anglican Church of Chile / Colin F. Bazley -- The Church of the Province of South Africa / Warwick Seymour -- The Church of the Province of Central Africa / John Burgess -- The Church of the Province of Tanzania / J. Roger Bowen -- The Rest of Africa -- The Diocese of Iran (Jerusalem Archbishopric) -- The Church of Pakistan -- The Church of North India -- The Church of South India / Thomas S. Garrett -- The Anglican Church of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) -- The Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean -- The Council of the Church of South-East Asia -- The Anglican Church in Korea / C. Richard Rutt -- The Holy Catholic Church of Japan (Nippon Sei Ko Kai) -- The Church of England in Australia / Donald W.B. Robinson -- The Diocese of Papua New Guinea -- The Church of the Province of New Zealand / Brian R. Carrell -- The Province of Melanesia -- Appendixes -- Index.
Contents of Appendices: A: Common Forms -- B: Offertory Sentences -- C: Proper Prefaces -- D: Other Propers -- E: The 'CSI-LfA' Family of Rites -- F: The Eng2-Eng3 Family of Eucharistic Prayers -- G: Errata and Corrigenda to LiE and MAL.
"Edited by Colin O. Buchanan, Director of Studies, St. John's College, Nottingham. Member of the Church of England Liturgical Commission".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This volume stands third in a line of liturgical reference books. In 1962 the Oxford University Press published B.J. Wigan's collection, 'The Liturgy in English' (LiE), which included in English all the Anglican eucharistic texts from 1549 to 1960 which he had been able to obtain, A second edition was published in 1964, and is still in print at the time of writing. In 1968 this was followed by the present writer's 'Modern Anglican Liturgies 1958-68 (MAL) from the same Press. MAL supplemented LiE in several ways, not only by adding new texts, but also by giving a brief background history to the production of all texts in both books (with the exception of the Church of England's own texts of 1549-1662, which are very fully covered in many other writings.
The seven and a half years which have elapsed between the compilation of MAL and the works on this volume have seen a further spate of new eucharistic liturgies, which are duly collected here. An introduction is again provided for each text, but instead of going back over the whole of the respective Province's liturgical history, the account simply runs from 1968 to 1975, Thus this volume supplements LiE and MAL, and with them gives a conspectus, with texts, of the whole of Anglican eucharistic liturgy since 1549". -- Preface.
Contents divided into seven main parts: Part I: Anglican Eucharistic Liturgy 1968-1975 -- II: The United Kingdom and Eire -- Part III: The Americas -- Part IV: Africa -- Part Part V: The Middle East -- Part VI: Asia -- Part VII: Australasia.
Contents: Preface dated 13 February 1975 / Colin Buchanan -- The Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Anglican Eucharistic Liturgy 1968-75 -- Appendixes -- The Church of England -- The Episcopal Church in Scotland / David K. Maybury -- The Church in Wales / John C. Mears -- The Church of Ireland / F. Charles Jameson -- The Anglican Church of Canada / R.N. Savary -- The Protestant Episcopal Church of the U.S.A. -- The Church of the Province of the West Indies -- The Episcopal Church in Brazil -- The Anglican Church of Chile / Colin F. Bazley -- The Church of the Province of South Africa / Warwick Seymour -- The Church of the Province of Central Africa / John Burgess -- The Church of the Province of Tanzania / J. Roger Bowen -- The Rest of Africa -- The Diocese of Iran (Jerusalem Archbishopric) -- The Church of Pakistan -- The Church of North India -- The Church of South India / Thomas S. Garrett -- The Anglican Church of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) -- The Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean -- The Council of the Church of South-East Asia -- The Anglican Church in Korea / C. Richard Rutt -- The Holy Catholic Church of Japan (Nippon Sei Ko Kai) -- The Church of England in Australia / Donald W.B. Robinson -- The Diocese of Papua New Guinea -- The Church of the Province of New Zealand / Brian R. Carrell -- The Province of Melanesia -- Appendixes -- Index.
Contents of Appendices: A: Common Forms -- B: Offertory Sentences -- C: Proper Prefaces -- D: Other Propers -- E: The 'CSI-LfA' Family of Rites -- F: The Eng2-Eng3 Family of Eucharistic Prayers -- G: Errata and Corrigenda to LiE and MAL.
"This volume stands fourth in a line of liturgical reference works. It follows Bernard J. Wigan (ed.), 'The Liturgy in English' (Oxford University Press, 1962, 1964), Colin O. Buchanan (ed.), 'Modern Anglican Liturgies 1958-68 (Oxford University Press, 1968) and Colin O. Buchanan (ed.) 'Further Anglican Liturgies 1968-1975 (Grove Books, Bramcote, 1975)." -- Preface..
Contents: Abbreviations and Typographical Rules -- Preface / Colin Buchanan -- Acknowledgements -- The Church of England -- The Scottish Episcopal Church -- The Church in Wales -- The Church of Ireland -- The Anglican Church of Canada -- The Episcopal Church in the United States of America -- The Church of the Province of the West Indies -- The Provinces of South America -- The Church of the Province of West Africa -- The Church of the Province of Nigeria -- The Church of the Province of Tanzania -- The Rest of Africa -- The Churches of Pakistan and North and South India -- The Anglican Church in Korea -- The Rest of Asia -- The Anglican Church of Australia -- The Province of Papua New Guinea -- The Church of the Province of New Zealand -- The Province of Melanesia -- Appendices.
Contents of Appendices: A: Common Forms -- B: Offertory Sentences -- C: Proper Prefaces -- D: Other Propers -- E: Some Eucharistic Prayers -- Folders in Document Pocket in Inside Back Cover.
Two (2) folded tables in envelope tipped on to inside back endpaper. One sheet contains: Table C: Proper Prefaces -- Appendix D: Other Propers. Second sheet contains: Table E1 -- E2 -- E3.
Colophon: Printed in Great Britain by the University Press, Cambridge.
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- What Does the Healthy and Authentic Living Project Look Like ? -- Appreciating Liturgy -- Discovering What God is Like: The Word -- Approaching the Eucharist -- Living Every Day in Gratitude -- How the History of the Prayer Book Contributes to the Healthy and Authentic Living Project -- The Power of Music and Symbol -- Appendix One: An Instructed Eucharist: For a Congregation to Understand What is Going On -- Appendix Two: Liturgy and Transformation: For the Scholar -- Notes -- Additional Resources.