Healing the Land

Description:
In our wounded world there is a widespread hunger for wholeness. Since the Church exists to be Christ?s instrument for healing fragmented people and communities, that healing has to begin with the Church itself.

In four sections - Healing a Wounded World, Sacraments and Significant Life Occasions, Blessing the Earth, and Prayer Rhythms for the Natural Seasons - Ray Simpson draws on diverse sources within and beyond the main Church traditions to provide profoundly prayerful and healing patterns of worship.

Healing the Land, the third of four volumes of The Celtic Prayer Book, draws on the all-encompassing Celtic Christian tradition with its emphasis on constant renewal and its sense of the unity of all creation. It reconnects prayer to the rhythms of our daily life, and uses memory, confession, blessing and hallowing prayers in order to realise God?s healing purpose today.

Contents:
About this book

HEALING A WOUNDED WORLD
Introduction
Healing the church
Service for the healing of the Church
Service for the Healing of the Land
Healing the Land: Prayers, Actions and Blessings
Healing the Land: Prayer Labyrinths
Healing the Land: Prayer Walks
Hallowing Places
Service of Healing and Wholeness
Covenant Service
Transfiguration/Candle-lighting
Morning Prayers for Transfiguration
Midday Prayer for Transfiguration
Evening Prayer for Transfiguration
Night Prayer for Transfiguration
Sanctity of Life
Commonwealth Observance
Europe
Service of Prayer and Thanksgiving for Europe
United States of America
Service after and Act of Terror
At Public Demonstrations

SACRAMENTS AND SIGNIFICANT LIFE OCCASIONS
Introduction
Preparation before Sunday Holy Communion
Holy Communion
St Cuthbert Holy Communion
Deep Remembering
Eucharist for Healing the Land
Eucharist of the Holy Grail
Agape Meal
Shalom: a Weekend Household Meal
Blessings on Wheels
Baptism
Baptism of a Believer
Baptism of an Infant
Blessing and Dedication of Infants
Blessing of the Baby's Future
Renewal of Baptism
Weddings
Dying, Funerals and Wakes
Other Rites of Passage
House Blessings
Departures and Journeys
First Voyage of the Coracle

BLESSING OF THE EARTH
Introduction
Blessing of the Earth
Blessings of Animals and Toys
Celebration of Creation
The First Day of Summer (Beltane)
Early Crops
St Martin Wine Blessing
Last Ingathering of Crops
Prayer for the Winter Solstice
Night Prayer for New and Full Moons
New Year's Night

PRAYER RHYTHMS FOR THE NATURAL SEASONS
Spring (for Imbolc)
Summer
Autumn of Thanksgiving
Winter

Acknowledgements

ABOUT THIS BOOK
This is a resource for new and historic Churches and Christian networks.

Since 11 September 2001 the world has changed and is changing. The Church needs to be responsive as an instrument of a living, loving God.

This book is in the Celtic Christian tradition in the sense that 'the very nature of tradition without renewal quickly becomes obsolescent'.

With this in mind, the material in this volume is grouped together under these headings:
Healing a Wounded World
Sacraments and Significant Life Occasions
Blessing the Earth
Prayer Rhythms for the Natural Seasons

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