Category: resources
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Prayabouts
Curating environmental concerns, some alarming, some a little more hopeful, most have links to help dig into the story more. I’m repopulating these. Suggestions welcome. Mostly there are no directions about how or what to pray: these are things to hold before God and over time to get a sense of the right sort of
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Actions and rituals
On this page, there are a number of ideas for actions and rituals that could be used with, for example, the climate lament ideas on this site. Please try to use materials with a view to their recyclability, compostability and sustainability. Mourning Armbands. There is a long tradition -now largely only seen on sports’ teams
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Earth Overshoot days
Earth Overshoot Day is the date in the year when humanity’s use of planetary resources and ecological services in a given year exceeds what Earth’s ecosystems can regenerate or replace in that year. In 2021, it falls on 29 July. Individual countries will also have different national dates most in the West will be well
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Abba Father: sung prayer
The song ‘Abba Father, let me be…’ (Dave Bilbrough) seemed ripe for ‘tweaking’ into a sung version of the Lord’s prayer. I had in mind using it, say, as a midday prayer. There are a couple of points where the scansion may trip you up and I think it might be helpful for me to
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Canticles
Benedictus (Song of Zechariah) | Magnificat (Song of Mary) | Nunc Dimittis (Song of Simeon) | Message of the Cross| What we have received | The Song of Christ’s Glory | Song of the Cosmic Christ | You are worthy | Great and Wonderful| Canticle of Solomon| Canticle of Salvation | Canticle of God’s Word
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Church of England and canons
There are two strands of canons which are pertinent here. One is about what forms of service are authorised, the other is what a priest is meant to do in terms of daily office. In short CofE priests are supposed to say Morning and Evening prayer each day (Canon C46) and those services are defined
Book of our Common Prayer 