"You have done a great job here! "
- Rev. John Meyers
"Thanks for the great resource!
You've given me one of the greatest gifts
I could have - a few more moments of free time each week."
- Rev. Karl Sokol
"An excellent resource for the celebration of the Eucharist - fresh, stylish, and theologically sound, drawing on elements both ancient and modern - and user-friendly!" - Rev. Steve Mindrup
The sacrament of Holy Communion is multisensory, interactive and powerful when it is celebrated with joy, quality, love and verve! It's a part of ancient-future worship and spiritual disciplines that the Protestant church is rediscovering. More and more churches are celebrating the sacrament weekly, at least in one service.
How, then, do we keep it fresh, meaningful, connected with the rest of the service, and full of joy and verve?
The Story and the Feast is one answer. It is a digital (CD) resource offering weekly Great Thanksgivings and other Communion liturgy (confession, pardon and prayer after receiving) tied to the stories of the Revised Common Lectionary - but non-lectionary preachers can also use it by simply looking up their intended text in the scriptural index at The Text This Week. There are multiple offerings where the lectionary has multiple story suggestions, and extra liturgies for special days of Lent-Holy Week, Christmas Eve, etc.
The Great Thanksgivings are shaped in the ancient trinitarian format, and can be used with your own preferred wording or music for congregational responses, and your own denomination's consecration of the elements. Slides (Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 format) that can be copied and pasted into your own presentation software are also included for every liturgy, along with text documents that can be copied into your bulletin document (in both Microsoft Word 2007 and Adobe Acrobat formats) or slides in your own format.
And, of course, it includes notes for the Biblical Storytelling team as they prepare to tell the texts!
The resource comes in three CD's: Year A and Year B are now available. Year C will be published in summer of 2012.
To order,
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Price: $35 for one CD; $60 for two years.
Conference special price (at 2011 conferences only): $30 for one CD; $50 for two years.
Shipping cost: $2 per CD.