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Worship Planning
Church Publishing 9781640655300 $49.95 paper | 8.5 x 11 | 368 Pages July 19, 2022
Planning for Rites and Rituals
A Resource for Episcopal Worship, Year A: 2022–2023 This is the indispensable companion for worship planning for the Episcopal Church. Following the three-year Revised Common Lectionary cycle and the church calendar year, this is the all-in-one liturgical season planner for worship. Included are suggestions for each season: rites, blessings, prayers, litanies, pageants. Readings, psalms, worship, formation, and hymn suggestions are compiled for each Sunday and holy day. Presiders and preachers, worship team leaders, musicians, Christian educators, sacristans, and altar guilds will find this to be the perfect resource, putting all the elements for planning worship and seasonal observances in one handy volume.
Church Publishing 9781640654341 $32.95 paper | 8.5 x 11 | 252 Pages May 17, 2022
2nd Edition Carl P. Daw, Jr. and Thomas Pavlechko A revised and expanded version of this classic text for church musicians and other worship planners. Here, in one volume, is the primary, comprehensive planning resource for musicians, clergy, and other liturgists using the Revised Common Lectionary in the Episcopal Church. Liturgical Music for the Revised Common Lectionary is a newly revised guide for selecting music, whether for the congregation or choir, to support the themes of each Sunday liturgy and Holy Day in the RCL calendar for Year A. The Hymnal 1982; Lift Every Voice and Sing; Wonder, Love, and Praise; Voices Found; My Heart Sings Out; Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America); Moravian Book of Worship (Moravian Church), and Common Praise (Anglican Church of Canada). THOMAS PAVLECHKO has composed and published a lectionary psalter and numerous liturgical planning materials for the Lutheran Church (ELCA), and has musical experience with the Episcopal Church. He is church musician at St. Martin’s Lutheran Church in Austin, Texas. CARL P. DAW, JR. is an Episcopal priest and writer who served as the executive director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada from 1996 to 2009. He has been successively secretary and chair of the Standing Commission on Church Music of the Episcopal Church and was a consultant member of the Text Committee for The Hymnal 1982. He lives in Watertown, Massachusetts.
