Invocations And Benedictions For The Revised Common Lectionary

Invocations and Benedictions for the Revised Common Lectionary is an ideal resource for worship leaders and planners. Materials related to the full three-year cycle of the Revised Common Lectionary are included in this one resource, making it an excellent addition to an existing library of lectionary resources. Invocations and Benedictions for the Revised Common Lectionary supplies one invocation and one benediction for each Sunday of years A, B, and C of the lectionary. In addition, worship material for 14 special occasions and seasonal celebrations is included. A scripture index provides assistance with locating invocations and benedictions related to specific biblical passages.

Biblical and contemporary images and ideas come together in a powerful expression of faith. Updated to follow the newly revised Common Lectionary, this resource includes Invocation, Call to Worship, Litany Prayer for One Voice, and Benediction for each Sunday in the Christian year. The authors have created a "dialogue with Scripture" in which Biblical and contemporary images and ideas come together in a powerful expression of faith.

Spine title: Litanies and other prayers. Includes index.

Selected prayers from the Seasons of the Spirit curriculum have been gathered together in this book featuring Lectionary Year B. Each week features a variety of prayers that are tied to the specific lectionary readings for that week and are suitable for congregational use.

Proposed prayers for gathering, intercession, and scripture reading portions of worship, for use by all churches who use the Revised Common Lectionary.

A collection of fresh, inspiring Prayers of the People that connect to the Sunday lectionary. The needs of the church change from week to week, and the Prayers of the People should change with them. Hear Our Prayer features Prayers of the People that connect to the themes of the readings for each Sunday and principal feast in the Revised Common Lectionary. Originally crafted for the Subversive Undercroft podcast, hosted by Jon White and Lisa Graves, the prayers are contemporary, inclusive, and deeply relevant. Based on the pattern for the Prayers of the People in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, the prayers in this volume retain the familiarity of liturgical tradition, while offering a call to action to congregations in the present. Suggestions for customizing each prayer for the needs of individual worshipping communities appear throughout the book, and a concluding section includes prayers that respond to current events such as natural disasters, mass shootings, and elections.

This is a beautifully crafted collection of prayers for each Sunday and most major festivals in the church's year, together with additional material for each season. The Sunday prayers - known as collects in the Anglican tradition - follow the three-year cycle of the Revised Common Lectionary. The author uses expansive and inclusive language and imagery to address and describe God, to describe God's presence and action in the world, and to describe the people of God. Ideal for use at weekday celebrations, including the Book of Common Prayer Order for Eucharist.

Adopted by General Convention 2006 as the official lectionary of the Episcopal Church, effective the first Sunday in Advent, 2007, the Revised Common Lectionary seeks to improve and expand upon the Common Lectionary as found in The 1979 Book of Common Prayer. Ruth Meyers, academic dean and professor of liturgics at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary introduces the benefits of this new lectionary and explains how its inherent revisions allow for deeper and fuller access to the Biblical texts central to our worship -- publisher's website.