Echoing the Word - The institution narrative
Echoing the Word - The institution narrative
by SPCK - Paula Gooder & Michael Perham
*8 The institution narrative The narrative of the institution of the Eucharist at the ‘last supper’ has always been seen as a crucial part of eucharistic liturgy. There is only one known exception and that is the third-century Syrian liturgy of Addai and Mari which, in a Eucharis…
Echoing the Word - Introduction
Echoing the Word - Introduction
by SPCK - Paula Gooder & Michael Perham
Introduction There must be very few Christians who do not acknowledge the importance of the Bible in worship. At the very least they will read the Scriptures, often under the discipline of a lectionary that ensures they read a wide and balanced selection. They may also sing the S…
Times and Seasons - Prayers for Eucharist
Times and Seasons - Prayers for Eucharist
by Jan Berry
PRAYERS FOR EUCHARIST INVITATION Come to this table where God invites you to wait for the pain and hope of new life embodied in human birth. Come to this table where God invites you to wait for the fragments to be gathered and brokenness to be held. Continues... concludes with a …
The Open Gate - The Eucharistic Prayer
The Open Gate - The Eucharistic Prayer
by SPCK - David Adam
The Eucharistic Prayer At the centre of the Eucharist is the great eucharistic prayer. It is the offering of our Lord Himself to us, now in time and for all eternity. It contains the eternal relationship and love that our God always has towards us. It seeks to express deep myster…
The Open Gate - The Eucharistic Prayer - Prayers 3&4
The Open Gate - The Eucharistic Prayer - Prayers 3&4
by SPCK - David Adam
The Eucharistic Prayer [He] took bread and gave you thanks; he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you. [Here the priest may break the bread, holding part in each hand and spreading his arms outwards to make the shape of th…
:It had been a strange journey
:It had been a strange journey
by Marjorie Dobson
Meditation, drama, monologue :It had been a strange journey Third Sunday of Easter Luke 24. 13-35 It had been a strange journey. Talking, talking, talking all the way. First about the sickening events of that mock trial and the totally unjustifiable execution. Then about the conf…
Harvest Festival Communion Liturgy
Harvest Festival Communion Liturgy
by Andrew T Murphy
A Holy Communion liturgy for occasions when communion takes place during the Harvest Festival. The words should invoke harvest imagery from the scriptures and well-known hymns. The liturgy covers the Holy Communion part of the service from the Peace to the Post-Communion Pray…
A Processional Eucharistic prayer for Easter Day
A Processional Eucharistic prayer for Easter Day
by Andrew Lunn
Three prayers are included: an offertory prayer; the anaphora (first part) of a communion thanksgiving prayer; a prayer for after communion. The thanksgiving is written to be used processionally, drawing together the table, the font, the place of preaching, and an empty tom…
Prayers for All Occasions Book - Corpus Christi, Thanksgiving Prayer