Archive for August, 2009

New update: Common Worship Festivals (CHP, 2008)

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

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.

Visual Liturgy news and update

Friday, August 14th, 2009

On July 1st The Archbishop’s Council signed an agreement with Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd to publish liturgy and other resources for the Church of England. Visual Liturgy Live is one of the titles that will now be published by Hymns Ancient and Modern.

Work on Visual Liturgy Live is continuing and we have just posted an update to the software which you should receive automatically through online update. We also have several content modules currently being tested, including Marriage with Holy Baptism, Common Worship Festivals, and Midi tunes for hundreds of popular hymns.

Some of these updates will only be available to subscribers. However the software update is available to all users, even if your subscription is expired.

Your comments and questions are welcome; please use the online forum at http://www.visualliturgylive.net.