Common Worship: Holy Week and Easter

Church services for Holy Week and Easter are coming to life in a new way this year thanks to the publication of Common Worship: Holy Week and Easter, which for the first time brings together rich and dramatic resources in an easy-to-use single volume. Light and portable yet durable, Common Worship: Holy Week and Easter is particularly ideal for use in drama, processions and services involving movement around churches or cathedrals. Its publication was approved by the Liturgical Commission following the success of Common Worship: Times and Seasons, which has enjoyed sales of 10,000 copies since its launch in 2006.

Canon Neil Thompson, Precentor of Rochester Cathedral, said: "In this clear and simple volume, ready for use at the lectern and altar, the riches of Common Worship's commemoration of Holy Week and Easter is arranged and ordered for dramatic realisation in worship.

"This volume helps to transpose the words into liturgical drama and at the same time to let in imagination and local custom. There is a completeness and a simplicity to this setting out of the heart of the Christian year that will prove to be an invaluable gift to our worship."

Common Worship: Holy Week and Easter is a complete liturgical resource for the richest week of the Christian year, grouping seasonal liturgies for every service of Holy Week and Easter with Holy Communion Order One.

The volume includes:

• Liturgy for Palm Sunday
• Liturgies for every day of Holy Week
• Liturgies for Maundy Thursday and Good Friday
• The Passion Narratives in continuous and dramatic forms
• Material for scriptural Stations of the Cross
• The Easter Liturgy
• The Easter Vigil
• Thanksgiving for and Stations of the Resurrection
• Musical settings both old and new

The National Worship Officer and Secretary of the Liturgical Commission, the Revd Christopher Woods, said: "This is an exciting and attractive publication combining all the rich and dramatic resources familiar to many each Holy Week and Easter. It is sturdy yet flexible enough to be used at the altar or when moving around church or processing during worship. I heartily commend it to all parishes, cathedrals and other places of worship. It is available now and it appears at precisely the right time as we prepare to lead our people in worship and prayer this Easter."

Common Worship: Holy Week and Easter (ISBN 978 0 7151 2171 9, 464pp, Hardback) is published by Church House Publishing, priced £100. It is available from all good Christian booksellers or direct from http://www.chpublishing.co.uk/product.asp?id=2396567.

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