Description
This is the influence of much of the liturgies I have conducted to bless civil partnerships and marriages (of same sex couples) after a civil wedding. As a strong supporter of the Campaign for Equal Marriage in the Church of England, I have been doing these blessings since about 2010. I am not waiting for the LLF process to finally come out with words, for beautiful liturgies are here already. A great resource.
Synopsis:
The Service of My Love is a complete guide to the Christian celebration and blessing of civil partnerships. It combines reflection on the pastoral, ethical, ministerial and theological aspects of blessing civil partnerships with orders of service and supplementary material.
Full contents:
Full contents:
- Pat and Chris would like a blessing: a pastoral perspective
- Excerpts from a life story: a personal perspective
- A vicar’s dilemma: a ministerial perspective
- A Communion at odds: an ecclesiastical and theological perspective
- An undoubted good?: an ethical perspective
- A working text for a ceremony of commitment and blessing
- For a celebration of Holy Communion
- A service of prayer in church
- Supplementary resources
