Added 25th July, 2011
Anyone is welcome to submit material for inclusion in the Liturgy section. We welcome individual prayers and hymns as well as “complete” liturgies such as Communion. We would like to include liturgy relating to occasions of deep emotion and spirituality, such as healing, the birth of a child, loss and dying. Material should wherever possible be original, offering a genuine alternative to existing liturgy. We do not rule out drawing on existing words but you will be asked to attribute the source and gain permission for its inclusion. Decisions about inclusion in the project will be made by the Liturgy Project subcommittee of PCN led by Angela Smith, a PCN Trustee. Please click on the link for advice, declaration forms relating to copyright and where to send your submission.
Thanks
Added 4th November, 2010
This communion liturgy, prepared by John Churcher chair of PCN Britain, was first used at our residential committee in January 2010. Feel free to use it for public worship but we would appreciate you crediting its sources which are listed at the end of the liturgy.
Added 9th November, 2010
A Hymn by PCN member, Chris Avis, Tune: In Dulci Jubilo
First verse
Our world cries out to be reborn:
a world of pain, all tossed and torn.
Babies born to mothers
scarce old enough to yet conceive,
like Jesus born to Mary,
so young, so fearful, so naive;
he was there before us,
Jesus born that way….
Added 15th November, 2010
A hymn from David Stevenson which can be sung to Abbot’s Leigh by Cyril V Taylor.
First verse:
Loving God in all creation,
Source and pulse of human life,
Unseen hope of every nation,
Healer of disease and strife;
You are rich beyond our dreaming,
Bursting forth in sacred mirth,
Light and colour gaily streaming
Through the dull affairs of earth….
Added 15th November, 2010
A hymn by David Stevenson which can be sung to Manna by J G Schicht
First Verse
Eternal Love, your grace we praise
Which shapes and comforts all our days,
Evolves the world we know.
Let worship, symbols come of age
To help us read beneath the page
And test the status quo!
Added 20th April, 2010
A hymn by PCN member, Monty Lynds, copyright 2006. Can be sung to the tune St Peters.
First Verse
I thank you God for giving me
The freedom to explore
Unfettered by the words of some
I’ll learn to know you more.
Added 21st April, 2010
A hymn by PCN member, Monty Lynds, copyright 2004.
Can be sung to the tune, Kingsfold
First Verse:
We sing our song of light divine
Now born to all the earth.
To every colour, every race
To poor and noble birth.
To those of all and varied paths
With different ways to God.
The gifts of love to humankind
Are on the road He trod.
