Worship That Cares: An Introduction to Pastoral Liturgy-Mark Ear

Worship that CaresAn Introduction to Pastoral Liturgy\nAuthor(s): Mark Earey\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: SCM Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: SCM Press\nISBN-13: 9780334044116, 978-0334044116\nSynopsis\nWorship that Cares is in introduction to the principles and skills of pastoral liturgy. It offers an overview of the ways that worship can be a means of pastoral care, such as ways that Sunday worship can extend care to those who attend, but is focused on those acts of worship which begin with a particular pastoral need. It goes on to consider how the principles which underlie these standard rites can also be applied to what might be considered new pastoral contexts or needs (such as rites to mark retirement etc.) and those situations which are not acknowledged in church circles (such as divorce etc.). A final chapter discusses ways that the church can move out into the community, offering apt liturgy to help community groups to mark crises and joys with non-churchy rituals which ns