Celebrating All Saints and All Souls with Pixar by Claire Brown; we can now add Soul to the list of excellent movies to share and explore.
Illustrated Ministry's All Saints Day Children's Bundle includes:
This series includes 3 original liturgies, title graphics, planning guide with hymn suggestions, promotional blurbs, and sermon starters.
Pairs well with God on the Move: Faith and Democracy, which includes 3 original liturgies, title graphics, planning guide with hymn suggestions, promotional blurbs, and sermon starters.
The Presbyterian Historical Society: The National Archives of the PC(USA) offer historical background and other resources for Reformation Sunday observations.
Recording of O Day Full of Grace with organ, orchestra, and four-part chorus.
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What songs meant the most to your loved ones and friends lost to COVID-19?
NPR curated a list.
The Illustrated Worship Planning Guide will walk church staff (or worship committee, church council, pastor, etc.) through the process of creating relevant liturgy for your specific community in special liturgical times. It provides a liturgical framework for special Sundays with prompts toward reflective discussion, prompts for creating a multi-sensory experience of liturgy, and examples of litanies for the different parts of the liturgy (Passing of the Peace, Prayer of Confession and Assurance of Pardon, Prayers of the People, Invitation and Welcome to the Table, and Charge & Benediction).
Digital download; 6 pages. An all-age service about what makes a saint and where they are to be found – mainly in the world all around us. Incorporates the story of the five loaves and two fishes.
Digital download: A liturgy for those from whom we are separated, taken from the book Praying for the Dawn by Ruth Burgess and Kathy Galloway.
Digital download; 11 pages. Resources for All Hallows’ Eve include:
Digital download for celebrating the period around Halloween – including Samhain, All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. 43 pages include:
shares Osheta Moore's “Here Lies Love,” a litany to remind us that though we lay our loved ones to rest and we feel a myriad of emotions, not a single one of them is foreign and unseen by Jesus.