Every moment holy8/14/2023 ![]() The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Advertisement". In addition to certain standard Google cookies, reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. This cookie is used to enable payment on the website without storing any patment information on a server. ![]() This cookie is set by Stripe payment gateway. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. I’m sure Douglas Kaine McKelvey would say the same if he saw my copy of Every Moment Holy. Which reminds me of what a guitar-builder once said to me when I worried aloud to him that I had put a dent in his work: ‘it’s meant to be played.’ I’d lend you mine, except that it’s already getting tattered, coffee-stained and bent out of shape. To see both for yourself, you’ll just have to buy a copy. Neither is there the space to catalogue the treasure of liturgies you’ll find in the first few contents pages. The prose of this review feel stilted in comparison to the beautiful turns of phrase McKelvey has laboured over. (Extract from ‘A Liturgy For Those Who Feel Awkward in Social Gatherings’) You do not call me to be a social butterfly or to You do not call me to be cool, to be sophisticated, to be Are you paying bills, having your electricity cut off, randomly thinking of another person, feeling awkward in a social gathering? Here are the words for those prayers that you didn’t have the words for. McKelvey wants to show you how to reach for eternity in the times and places we all believe matter to God but so often overlook. This book doesn’t try to convince you that your everyday life matters to God – instead, it just assumes it does. ![]() Prayers for workers (‘For One Who Is Employed’), busy parents (‘For the Hurried Preparation of a Meal’), readers (‘Lament upon the Finishing of a Beloved Book’), performers (‘Before Taking the Stage’), and social media addicts (‘For Those Flooded By Too Much Information’ amusingly precedes ‘For Those Who Covet the Latest Technology’, in turn making way for ‘For One Battling a Destructive Desire’). Here is a set of prayers for ordinary Christians in everyday places. The liturgies that fill Every Moment Holy bring the theological richness of gathered worship out of our church buildings and into the grit of real life. And if you just read the word ‘liturgies’ and immediately thought ‘dreary call-and-response’, you’ve nothing to fear. The author, Douglas Kaine McKelvey, has crafted a set of liturgies like you’ve never heard before. To put Every Moment Holy on a shelf would be to keep it at a distance from the beauty, banality and brokenness of your everyday life – precisely the place it is meant to be read, re-read, and read again. Most books are read once before finding their homes on shelves. Every Moment Holy makes sense whichever page you start from. Most books are meant to be read from front to back. 2: Death, Grief, and Hope in the Rabbit Room Store.Every Moment Holy isn’t your average book. In one hand I grasp the burden of my grief,Īnd here, between the tension of the two,Ĭlick here to pre-order Every Moment Holy, Vol. So we, your children, are also at liberty Me again and again of your goodness, your With the advent of new joys, good friendships, To live with thanksgiving in what is, andīe at work gilding these long heartbreaks Give me courage, O Lord courage to live themįully, to love and to allow myself to be loved, So give me strength, O God, to feel this griefĭeeply, never to hide my heart from it. It is not real joy at all.įor the return of joy and hope, in the end My pain, so that I dull my capacity to experienceįor joy that denies sorrow is neither hard-won, Is okay when it isn’t, nor coddle and magnify Let me neither ignore my pain, pretending all ![]() Mired in yesterday’s hurts, that I miss entirely A Liturgy for Embracing Both Joy & Sorrowĭo not be distant, O Lord, lest I find this burdenĭo not be distant, O Lord, lest I become so Click here to view the audiobook on Amazon. 1, featuring readings by Fernando Ortega and Rebecca Reynolds. We hope you find hope and comfort in it.īefore we get to the liturgy, a special announcement: There is now an audiobook for Every Moment Holy, Vol. At this point of the year, this particular liturgy feels especially appropriate. 2: Death, Grief, and Hope, which releases on February 19th, 2021. We’re excited to share with you today a new liturgy from Every Moment Holy, Vol.
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