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Proskuneo: to kiss towards or to bow down in reverence. My name is Vic Hammond and I love to curate worship experiences. In this blog you will find my thoughts and reactions to the changes going on within the church and in wider culture. You will also find a variety of resources for use in your own worship gatherings. Each blog entry is tagged with a label/category (reflection, resource, station, liturgy, and news) to make your searching easier. I hope you enjoy your visit.

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Showing posts with label Liturgy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liturgy. Show all posts

Monday, April 2, 2007

Stations of the Cross

Here's another great Easter resource. It is a liturgy called Stations of the Cross. It recreates the journey Christ took in his last hours of life. The stations take you from the trial to the tomb through a series of prayers and reflections. I have used this liturgy in a number of ways (Click here for the liturgy).

I have reproduced it as a booklet complete with artwork of the stations so that individuals or small groups could meditate on the liturgy at their convenience.

It can also be used as a prayer walk on retreats by setting up symbolic replicas of the stations on a path through the woods. The liturgy can be on CD so that people listen to it on headphones instead of havimg to read it.

The liturgy can also be adapted to corporate worship setting as more of a visual lectio divina experience. We wrote music to sing the trisagion prayer, pictures of the stations were projected on a screen, and the readings were presented in a variety of mediums.

Since we are such a visual culture, I believe that pictures/graphics are essential to the liturgy. I'd grab a digital camera and start making the rounds of your local Catholic and Episcopalian churches. Some of them will have sculpture or art pieces of the Stations set up in the church.

Sunday, April 1, 2007

Tenebrae Service

Lindsey and I go to a little house church called The Story. We only meet on Sunday nights, so we had to adjust the church calendar a bit to fit all the differenct Easter sevices in. Last Sunday we celebrated Palm Sunday and tonight we celbrated a Tenebrae Liturgy for Good Friday.

We took the Tenebrae litugry from the Anglican Book of Occasional Services and then shortened it to about an hour. We also added some more interactive elements to the service (it is a pretty passive experience in the original form). Tenebrae means darkness or shadows and is focused upon the death of Jesus.

So here it is. If you need a Tenebrae Service liturgy, help yourself.