Visual Liturgy

In July, the Church of England issued two new service guidelines which merge the Marriage Service with a Thanksgiving for the Gift of a Child or with Baptism, designed to help churches show their welcome for engaged couples with children:

Marriage and Thanksgiving for the Gift of a Child

and

Marriage and Holy Baptism

New templates based on these guidelines – making it easier and quicker to plan such ‘merged’ services – are now available to Visual Liturgy Live users with an active subscription, via the Online Update feature of Visual Liturgy Live.

For more details on the guidelines, which have been welcomed by the Chair of the Liturgical Commission, The Rt Revd Stephen Platten, please click here.

Church House Publishing announces a significant addition to the content of Visual Liturgy Live. Common Worship Festivals is the latest Common worship title to be published and includes resources for the celebration of saints’ days throughout the Christian Year. This material includes resources for the observance of the 232 Festivals and Lesser Festivals which make up the Calendar, as well as for certain Special Occasions, such as when the Church prays for the Guidance of the Holy Spirit or the Peace of the World. There is a plethora of provision for individual saints – all the liturgical material from the published volume, apart from the music – to give both clergy and laity extra breadth and depth in their worship.

Visual Liturgy users with an active subscription can download this material by using the Online Update feature of Visual Liturgy Live. There are lots of helpful hints on how to use this and other seasonal material in the VL Live forums.

Many of the new options will appear automatically when, for instance, Holy Communion Order One is selected for a particular event, while alternative options can be selected in the normal ways in the browser. The full provision for each event is helpfully available for perusal in individual resource folders.

Note: If there is a software update available in online update, we recommend that you install this as well as Common Worship Festivals.

31st March 2009 – We’ve just published some draft Easter material for VL Live users in the downloads section of the Visual Liturgy Live website, and will continue to add more over the next few days.

Church House Publishing has just released a new content update for Visual Liturgy Live, featuring the dramatised passion narratives which were published in print as Proclaiming the Passion (CHP, 2007). (more…)

Over the weekend just gone, and today Monday 3rd November, www.visualliturgylive.net has been unavailable to many of you. The functioning of Visual Liturgy Live on your desktop is completely unaffected by this problem. It’s happening because the company with which the domain name is registered are “experiencing performance issues on their DNS servers. This means that some customers will encounter difficulties with their domain names, including the visibility of websites.” There is little we can do execpt urge them to fix this as quickly as possible, which we are doing, and will update you when it is fixed.    

Most of you will be aware that if you use the Help menu in Visual Liturgy, and click on Visual Liturgy online, you will see the Visual Liturgy website. VL Live and VL4 each have their own websites and support forums. VL Live users, and those of you who are new to any version of Visual Liturgy, may not have explored the Visual Liturgy Live support forums yet, though, and we’d like to encourage you to do so. We’ve posted a message in the forums that tells you more about how to use them and what you’ll find there. Click here to read more…

The first major update for Visual Liturgy Live will be released on Tuesday 12th June. Full details can be found here on our support forum.

Andrew Sweeney

We are pleased to be able to provide more information about the first major update for Visual Liturgy Live. As promised, there will be a number of bug-fixes including

A handful of users have reported issues with the Gill Sans font and we have a support-forum entry to help with this problem.

We expect to finish testing this update on Monday, and therefore to release it on Tuesday. If it is ready sooner, we will release it sooner, but we will make an announcement whenever and as soon as it is ready for you to download.

We are pleased to announce the Visual Liturgy Live registration system and website is now LIVE.

Please fill out the form in Visual Liturgy Live and click ‘register now’. Please make sure your password is between 6 and 12 characters and incorporates at least one uppercase letter and one number to ensure that your password cannot be easily guessed.

You can then log into the Visual Liturgy Live website and access the new forums.

We have made lots of progress this week towards fixing the registration problems that have caused you all so much frustration since you installed VL Live. We had hoped to fix it by last night in time for this morning but we weren’t quite ready and we need to finish our testing today.

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