On this site, available free, is my book Celebrating Eucharist. It is particularly appropriate for those leading worship and is also useful to worshippers generally. I am a strong advocate that we all celebrate Eucharist together. The book can be used by individuals and also in a discussion group or worship-planning group.
Celebrating Eucharist is set in the context of New Zealand Anglicanism, but its ideas and principles apply well beyond that context. It needs some slight revision – but again, you can already make those adaptations to newer developments yourself. This online version also needs some tidying up – I just haven’t had the time for that.
This post has a sense of Throwback Thursday – the book is presented as a tab on this site, but I regularly encounter people who are not aware it exists and who are delighted to discover it. I hope you and your community find it fruitful.
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Thanks, something to dip into. Particularly as I am a Reader, who often exercises the role of the Deacon.
And occasionally, when Clergy are absent, the role of Leading Communion by Extension (i.e.using pre-consecrated elements), Which is a privilege.
http://cofeworcester.contentfiles.net/media/assets/file/Guidance_on_leading_services_of_Holy_Communion_by_Extension.pdf there is also a BCP Version
Thanks for the encouragement, Ernie. You’ll be particularly interested, then, in A Service of the Word with Holy Communion. Easter Season Blessings.
Do you think it matters that I don’t take eucharist Bosco? For several reasons, practical, liturgical and spiritual.
I have forced myself to do so in the past so as not to confuse or upset others but I’m too old for that now.
I try to let it pass naturally and since I am usually providing music at that point in the service it is not too obvious, but I sense unspoken criticism when I let people know I don’t take communion, do you have any thoughts?
It depends on why you don’t receive communion, Tracy. And I don’t know if you want to discuss that publicly. Certainly, there’s no reason to receive communion simply to stop people being upset. From what I know of you, you seem to have the most sensible of thinking – so I’m sure God nourishes you even though not taking communion. Easter Season Blessings.
Communion is such a deep multi-meaning word…you are right, it’s not really a public discussion appropriate topic!
I’m getting my ass kicked with some life lessons right now, Bosco, humans being human, but I think I’m handling it with grace and sensible thinking as much as possible ( thanks for saying that )
I like it when churches offer a blessing as an alternative to the eucharist; seems fitting.
Yes, Tracy, I always explain that a blessing is available if one comes forward. Sorry about the ass kicking – good about the life lessons and the grace and sensible thinking. Easter Season Blessings.