Here is a free digital copy of Celebrating Eucharist by Bosco Peters in two formats: as web pages and as PDFs (scroll down for the latter).
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- provided that reproduction is not for commercial purposes, and
- there is attribution “From Celebrating Eucharist by Bosco Peters (www.liturgy.co.nz)”.
- If quoting from the book on a website, you must also also include a clickable link back to the webpage here that you are quoting from.
The book was initially published by DEFT and is still available in printed form from some bookshops.
If you are interested in reflecting more on the principals and foundations that underly this book, I suggest that you take time to watch the following video:
Web version of Celebrating Eucharist
Foreword & Preface
Introduction
1 Liturgy
2 Leading Worship
3 Ceremonial Action
4 The Worship Environment
5 Preparation
6 The Gathering of the Community
7 The Proclamation
8 The Prayers of the People
9 The Peace
10 The Preparation of the Gifts
11 The Great Thanksgiving
12 The Breaking of the Bread
13 The Communion
14 Prayer after Communion
15 The Dismissal of the Community
16 Celebrating Baptism at a Eucharist
17 Celebrating other services with a Eucharist
18 Children at the Eucharist
19 Service of the Word with Holy Communion
20 Some Resources for the Church Year
21 Additional Eucharistic Prayers
22 Services for a New Beginning (Catechumenate)
23 A Service of Institution and Welcoming
24 Examples of Prayers of the People
25 The Calendar
Short List of Further Resources
PDF version of Celebrating Eucharist
Contents
Foreword & Preface
Introduction
1 Liturgy
2 Leading Worship
3 Ceremonial Action
4 The Worship Environment
5 Preparation
6 The Gathering of the Community
7 The Proclamation
8 The Prayers of the People
9 The Peace
10 The Preparation of the Gifts
11 The Great Thanksgiving
12 The Breaking of the Bread
13 The Communion
14 Prayer after Communion
15 The Dismissal of the Community
16 Celebrating Baptism at a Eucharist
17 Celebrating other services with a Eucharist
18 Children at the Eucharist
19 Service of the Word with Holy Communion
20 Some Resources for the Church Year
21 Additional Eucharistic Prayers
22 Services for a New Beginning (Catechumenate)
23 A Service of Institution and Welcoming
24 Examples of Prayers of the People
25 The Calendar
Short List of Further Resources
Is there a way to download the whole book in one PDF file? I’d like to keep it on my computer for reference. Thank you for doing this – I’ve been following along online.
Blessings / Cal Cornils
California
Thanks, Cal. I thought the single PDF was there – but it seems not to be. All this, you probably realise, is reworking old files into new software. I have added a single PDF onto my “to do” list and will try to remember to add another response to this comment so that you see it – meanwhile you will just have to have a folder with several PDFs in it. Blessings.
Dear Bosco,
Thank you for this site!
I have assembled your files into a single “Celebrating Eucharist” pdf of 3504 KB. I’d be happy to email it to you if you give me an address.
With greetings from sunny Switzerland!
Thanks, Paraic – the email address for this site is liturgy DOT co DOT nz AT gmail DOT com
I will add the PDF to this page & mention that you put it together.
Blessings!