A presentation of a unique contemporary Eucharist infused with Celtic traditions. Drawing together texts from Scripture, the mainstream Irish, Scottish, and Welsh traditions, and contemporary spirituality, A Celtic Eucharist is a vital liturgy that relates to the here and now while it fosters a connection to the past. The result is an original and striking service that prompts fresh appreciation of the Eucharist. An optional Ceremony of Light is included for evening celebrations. A selection of alternative prayers and sentences allows for seasonal and pastoral variation, and helpful notes for celebrant suggest possible uses for this service. Easily adaptable to formal and informal settings, A Celtic Eucharist can be used in conjunction with other lectionaries.

Create your own Celtic orders of service for a Eucharist, Morning, Midday and Evening Prayer, Compline and other worship occasions - formal or informal. This book contains ancient and contemporary texts for every element of each service from call to worship to final blessing - the fullest range available for mixing and matching. The book is fully compatible with the "Common Worship" and other modern lectionaries. Clergy, worship leaders and individual users should be delighted to have a liturgical resource offering ancient and contemporary Celtic texts arranged to meet today's worship needs."A Celtic Primer" draws on early Welsh and Irish texts as well as the work of modern writers to create a daily prayer companion from which any act of worship can be created. Scripture and spiritual readings are included and seasonal variations add to its versatility. The celebration of the work of God in creation and redemption is interwoven throughout, resonating deeply with people's search for a sense of transcendence in their everyday lives.

Celtic traditions point to God in the natural elements in this refreshing take on how to pray. Where is God when we pray? Artist and priest Ruth Pattison looks to the legacy of Celtic spirituality to say God is in all of creation that surrounds us—earth, fire, water, air—and not up in the clouds. She invites the reader into a grounded spirituality rooted deep in Celtic tradition that sees everything as infused with the Spirit—including humanity. The material will deepen the experience of worship with creative hands-on spiritual practices for the context of liturgy. It can also be used for creating the structure and substance of retreats, spiritual formation classes, and for helping parents who want to learn to pray with children.

The Eucharist in Pre-Norman Ireland considers the social dimension of the Eucharist, as well as its treatment in art, architecture, and spirituality in pre-Norman Ireland.

The services and resources in The Iona Abbey Worship Book reflect the Iona Community's commitment to the belief that worship is all that we are and all that we do, both inside and outside the church, with no division into the 'sacred' and the 'secular'.

In this first new Eucharistic customary in nearly 20 years, Patrick Malloy, an Episcopal priest and liturgical scholar, presents a clear, illustrated guide for the presider and other leaders of the liturgy, contemporary in approach but based on ancient and classic principles of celebration. The 1979 Book of Common Prayer, like its predecessors, is long on telling the Church what to say, and short on telling it what to do. This leaves those who "choreograph" Prayer Book liturgies with a complex task and a powerful influence over the faith of the Church. The author begins with a concise theology of the liturgy that underpins all of his specific directives in the book. Contents include: Theological and liturgical principles; Liturgical ministry and liturgical ministers; Liturgical space; Vesture, vessels, and other liturgical objects; The liturgical year; The shape of the liturgy; The sung liturgy and singing during the liturgy; The order of the Eucharist (the "heart" of the book); and The celebration of Baptism during the Eucharist.

Morning, Midday and Evening Prayer and Complies with Meditations for the day and four years of Daily Readings from Books 1 and 2.

"A Celtic Eucharist" presents contemporary remains similar to the liturgy celebrated in a Celi De community in the early ninth century. Easily adaptable to formal or informal settings, "A Celtic Eucharist" can be used in conjunction with modern lectionary cycles.

[Rev. ed. of]: A manual for lay Eucharistic ministers in the Episcopal Church. c1991.