Eucharistic Prayers for Inclusive Communities
Volume II Possibilities for the Liturgical Year
Edited by: Sheila Durkin Dierks and
Bridget Mary Meehan
"The liturgical year draws us into the Sacred that makes up each moment of life. Each season is unique with its own stories, rituals and celbrations: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, and Ordinary Time. I like to think of liturgy as God's invitation to the communtiy to gather together to listen to Sacred Story and to recall that we are writing a new chapter with our lives each day, to savor the precious memories of our relationships, and to share our lives as bread broken and wine poured in service to others. As we come together, we are companions on the journey to plumb the sacred mystery of Boundless Love in our midst that permeates all of life and to become more deeply, who we really are, the Body of Christ, blest and shared for the healing and transformation of our world. The liturgies in this book offer us resources to clebrate the liturgy of life with everyone and everything. Let us celebrate!"----Bridget Mary Meehan, RCWP
" As we worship in a variety of communions, and increasingly pray in ecumenical settings, many of us are struck by the beauty and simplicity of new and fresh ways on praising and blessing. As an example, The New Zealand Prayer Book, the gift of nearly twenty years of effort by Anglicans with the Maori community, is a new vision of how we retain the sacredness of our celebrations while being blessedly influenced by fresh cultural perspectives. Small communities such as Women Eucharist gatherings, and groups such as Dignity have begun to adapt available Eucharistic Prayer. The ever-widening chorus of voices which calls us to inclusiveness in gender, culture, age and ableness, reminds us that all are to be welcomed and embraced in our Eucharistic feasts." ---Sheila Durkin Dierks, deacon, Ecumenical Catholic Communion
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Eucharistic Prayers for Inclusive Communities Volume II
Possibilities for the Liturgical Year
Editors: Sheila Durkin Dierks and Bridgit Mary Meehan
66 pgs, $19.00, soft cover, spiral bound,
ISBN:9780981576640