Prayers and Plays for Christmas and Holy Week • four thought provoking Way of the Cross meditations for Holy Week, and |
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Daily Services Morning and Evening Prayer from A Prayer Book for Australia Find yourself praying with the Church. The pattern of praise, psalm, scripture and prayer has been developing in the daily life of God’s people for millenia. In this book you will find a collation of these morning and evening prayer services with a weekly cycle of psalms and a selection of prayers from APBA made accessible for use at home or work. |
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Ministry with the Sick and Dying, Ministry with the Sick, Ministry with the Dying from A Prayer Book for Australia Ministry with the Sick and Dying draws our attention to the spiritual needs of God's people in pressured times, especially when we face death. This edition gathers the relevant ministry resources from APBA in an accessible and unobtrusive way for the use ministers in the home, hospital or other setting to respond to need in sickness and dying. |
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The Constitution Canons and Rules of General Synod 2004 |
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An Australian Lectionary 2008 Year A, APBA |
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PRESS RELEASE Prayers and Plays for Christmas and Holy Week by Revd Dr Elizabeth Smith Elizabeth Smith has produced a terrific resource for Holy Week and Christmas with fresh perspective and vivid language that will tantalize children and adults alike. Clergy, youth leaders and teachers will find these scripts innovative and highly useful for use with any congregation, as well as for study and personal reflection. One of the greatest gifts a preacher can have is to successfully insert the message of the Gospels into the everyday life of the listener. Elizabeth Smith has done this most admirably … The new lyrics set to well-known hymn tunes are done very cleverly, and the result is a satisfying blend of theological truth and wholesome enjoyment -Jenny O’Brien, Diocesan Liturgy Educator, Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide. Kay McLennan, former ABC broadcaster has reviewed Prayers and Plays for Christmas and Holy Week and likens it to “Born to be King” by Dorothy L. Sayers because of the way she anticipates it will open up the love of God for new generations. In this book you will find dramatic presentations to inspire Christian worship: • four thought provoking Way of the Cross meditations for Holy Week, and RRP $39.95 including free photocopy permission for schools and parishes. Available 12 February Available at your local retailer or Broughton’s distributor John Garratt Publishing |
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REVIEW by Kay McLennan Prayers and Plays for Christmas and Holy Week by Elizabeth Smith Once upon a time our wise wise Sunday School teacher riveted her group of young teenagers for two years as we explored Dorothy Sayers' THE MAN BORN TO BE KING. We learnt more about Our Lord and to love Him more than ever before. And it stuck! Last Christmas I spent the day with a family who'd made its annual visit to church the night before, and had struck a Christmas play written to be performed by his lively parishioners by their beloved locum. My friends had been entranced by the whole thing, were still alluding to it, and have determined to take even MORE of the family next year. And now gifted hymn-writer the Revd. Elizabeth Smith has come up with her own highly accessible Christmas play. HE MUST HAVE BEEN A BEAUTIFULY BABY is based on the birth stories of Matthew and Luke. They're fleshed out, in eight scenes, with some very likely vignettes: gossiping Nazareth neighbors, terrified shepherds, concerned inn-keepers, an exhausted mid-wife, kindly Bethlehem matrons, and three very shrewd travellers with their baggage handlers. The whole comes with some wondrously punchy carol poems set to familiar tunes. Contained also in the book are four meditations for Holy Week or Good Friday based on the gospel accounts in turn. Nothing if not salient, they're intended to be walked in Stations of the Cross style. The play can be read by half a dozen performers changing hats, or thirty or more. It will work in any congregation. The meditations may be led by from two to eight or more readers. They might NOT work outside Luna Park in down-town St Kilda where our own wonderful Good Friday ecumenical walk led by Fr Terry Kean and Sr Clare Griffin of Sacred Heart Mission comes to its climax. They WILL work in standard suburbia and country town in a park, a church garden, or around a church itself. In one book: a dozen very valuable resources for any parish. Kay Mclennan. -Kay Mclennan retired recently from ABC Religious Broadcasts and Classic FM after twenty-five years behind a microphone Broughton Books are distributed by John Garratt Publishing: |
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