Sundays and Seasons: Guide to Worship Planning, Year A - 2017
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SKU: AU.9781451495973
This edition: paperback. Worship planner. 328 pages. Published by Augsburg Fortress (AU.9781451495973).ISBN 9781451495973. 8.5 x 11 inches.
Sundays and Seasons supports comprehensive week-by-week planning with content and ideas for liturgy and music, preaching and visuals, shaped by the Revised Common Lectionary, the church year, and the assembly gathered around word and sacrament.
Worship planners and leaders, preachers, presiding ministers, worship committees, musicians, visual artists, sacristans and altar guilds, and those who create congregational worship folders, will find an indispensable companion in Sundays and Seasons as they prepare for worship each week.
A diverse group of more than 50 contributors from across the church has provided:
WEEKLY HELPS
Day and reading introductions
Propers: prayer of the day, gospel acclamation, scripture texts, preface, color
Examples of prayers of intercession for each Sunday and major festival
Exploration of images in the readings
Ideas for approaching the day and its texts in preaching and worship
Ideas for deepening children's engagement with worship
Assembly song suggestions from a variety of resources in a wide range of musical styles
Choral, children's choir, keyboard/instrumental, and handbell recommendations
Notes on commemorations
SEASONAL HELPS
Seasonal introductions
Reproducible worship texts for the seasons, including texts for the observance of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation
Reproducible rites for days and occasions, including a midweek Lenten series based on Luther's Small Catechism
AND MORE
New cover art by Christina Saj and interior art by Gertrud Mueller Nelson
Helps and suggestions throughout the publication that will prepare your worshiping community for the observance of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation
Introduction to the year of Matthew with an eye to this 500th anniversary year
Suggestions for Reformation-inspired praying for the whole church in 2017
Reflections on the hymn of the day as a Reformation inheritance
Extensive bibliography
Use Sundays and Seasons print edition together with sundaysandseasons.com for effective and efficient planning, preparation, and production of all your worship needs.