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Pastoral and Occasional Liturgies: A Ceremonial Guide
Author(s): Leonel Mitchell (Author)
- Publisher: Cowley Publications
- Publication Date: 25 Jan. 1998
- Language: English
- Print length: 146 pages
- ISBN-10: 1561011584
- ISBN-13: 9781561011582
Book Description
Finally, Mitchell concludes with the services involving bishops, including celebrations of new ministries, consecrations of churches, and ordination rites.
Like its two companion volumes, Howard E. Galley? s
The Ceremonies of the Eucharist and Mitchell? s Lent, Holy Week, Easter, and the Great Fifty Days, this new guide offers clear descriptions of ways of celebrating the rites as well as the theological and historical reasons behind them. The book is designed to be useful in churches of all sizes, small and large.Editorial Reviews
Review
In this ceremonial guide Mitchell helps the reader to construct occasional and pastoral offices, expands the rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer, and describes the use of material from the Book of Occasional Services. Apart from the more obviously pastoral liturgies, he covers the celebration of the Daily Office, the sanctification of the year, and Episcopal services. The model assumed for these prescriptions is a mid-sized and middle-church Episcopal parish. . . . A member of the Episcopal clergy or a lay liturgical minister will thus find a reliable and sensible guide to the planning of worship. . .
This is a useful reference book. More descriptive than prescriptive, it combines sound liturgical principles with encouragement for readers to take account of their particular situation in all liturgical planning.
