Worship and Liturgy

This section of the website of Bristol Diocese contains downloadable resources and links to support and assist worship.

Worship is a meeting between God and his people – as individuals and together. The means of communication used in this meeting – texts, actions, movement, silence, music – is called ‘liturgy’, which comes from words meaning ‘the work of the people’ – our worship offering to God.

Do ask (contact details are below) if the items or topics you are looking for are not here, if you are seeking training, or if you have material to share.

Services (click here)

Advent
	Advent Vigil – Taize

Kingdom
	All Souls’ Day non-eucharistic service

Harvest
	Harvest all-age Eucharist

Eucharistic
	CW HC distrib (large print)
	CW HC Ord1E home

School
	Welcoming a new Head Teacher in a Church School

Prayers

Speaking to God (prayer leaflet)
Vestry prayers
Prayers for protection and peace

Links and resources

	www.cofe.anglican.org/worship - the national Church of England website, containing downloadable resources for worship and details of printed publications
	www.time-to-change.org.uk/churches - Worship on the theme of mental health: a guide for the Church
	www.transformingworship.org.uk/TransformingWorship - the Transforming Worship website is a national Church of England site for obtaining and sharing worship resources
	www.visualliturgylive.net - Visual Liturgy Live is the website for a computer software package that contains a database of prayers and texts for the church year, and templates for producing tailored services
	www.oremus.org/liturgy - An Anglican Liturgical Library contains liturgical texts from several Anglican provinces around the world
	www.oremus.org/labarum - the Labarum Collection contains ready-to-print services for various occasions and times of year, from the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department
	www.rscm.com/publications/sbys.php - The Royal School of Church Music publishes ‘Sunday by Sunday’ quarterly, a liturgy planner for ministers and musicians; the web site has some downloadable resources for selected occasions
	www.familyfriendlychurches.org.uk - Aims to support churches that want to improve their profile with children, young people and familes. Also help churches make the best use of IT equipment
	www.willowcreek.org.uk – Our mission is to envision, equip and encourage Christian leaders to build prevailing local churches
	www.decadeministries.co.uk- Aims to provide all age christian communication materials and training
	www.joehasler.co.uk – Eucharistic prayer and resources

Metrical Psalter

“The service should normally include a psalm or psalms”.
(Common Worship page 27 note 6)

This recommendation is widely ignored as being too difficult; Common Worship contains a psalter, but how many of us actually sing from it? The documents below form a metrical psalter; a resource to be mined in the same way as Common Worship or Visual Liturgy.

These are designed to be straightforward to use, to go to simple tunes, suitable for the smallest village or to be embroidered and developed both by large urban churches with choirs and those with groups or bands.

Preface (essential reading!)
Metrical Psalter 1
Metrical Psalter 2
Metrical Psalter 3
Metrical Psalter 4
Metrical Psalter 5
Metrical Psalter 6
Songs and Canticles
Table to help find psalms suitable for different occasions