Visual Liturgy

VL Live is Premiered at the Times and Seasons book launch.

The Church of England Liturgical Commission officially launched three new publications yesterday at St Marylebone Parish Church, London. The Rt Revd Stephen Platten, Chairman of the Liturgical Commission, launched Common Worship: Times & Seasons, Using Common Worship: Times and Seasons 1, and Together for a Season 1 at an event attended by members of the Liturgical Commission, diocesan liturgical committee members, staff of Church House Publishing, and members of the press.

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The more observant among you will have noticed that our Tuesday Tip and Friday Fill-in have become less frequent of late. This is partly due to the holiday season, but mainly to the handover of the role of New Media Manager at Church House Publishing from David Green to yours truly, Andrew Sweeney.

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Tim Anderson writes about a new feature in Visual Liturgy Live called ‘meta-templates’: The essence of Visual Liturgy is that you select a type of service, and the software populates it with the correct readings along with other material such as the proper preface in the Eucharistic Prayer, or a seasonal introduction to the peace.

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As I have had my head down, working hard on preparing Common Worship: Christian Initiation ready for the Visual Liturgy Live launch, I thought I would take some time out to tell you a little bit about the book, and what you can expect to find in the software on release day!

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In last week’s Friday fill-in, we showed you some of the new screenshots for key parts of Visual Liturgy. Thanks to everyone who commented on the designs and gave us plenty of food for thought. One thing we mentioned in passing was how the Lectionary Planner was changing. This week, we thought we’d show you how…

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The work on the new Visual Liturgy Live continues to take shape. Our development team are making good progress with plans to link the Lectionary planner into your services and a new ‘Manage my readings’ function. More about those later. However, today, we want to tell you about some re-designs of three important screens.

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Since I joined the Church House Publishing team as Assistant New Media Manager last summer I have had the privilege of being part of the Visual Liturgy project team. A growing part of my job has been firstly going to Visual Liturgy training days and then leading them.

These training days and seminars have taken me the length and breadth of the country and I have loved the opportunity to meet the people actually using our product. This week I have met a few of you at the Christian Resources Exhibition in Sandown Park, Esher where I have been running Visual Liturgy seminars all week.

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This week we had a discussion about the Visual Liturgy data format. One of the major changes between VL3 and VL4 was the move from Rich Text Format to HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for the text format. This gives users a lot of flexibility in how services are displayed. When VL 4.0 was first released you had to manually edit the CSS to take advantage of this, but that is no longer the case. If you go to the File menu and choose Styles, you can use a simple stylesheet editor built into Visual Liturgy.

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David Green, Project Manager for Visual Liturgy, notes a significant milestone has been reached for Visual Liturgy Live.

While there may not be much happening on the surface of Visual Liturgy at present, the team have been hard at work getting all the documentation ready for the new release –  Visual Liturgy Live. Primarily, it my responsibility to draft these documents and get them to the point where everyone agrees what we are going to be doing.

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