Resources Available Here

 

At SCC, we’ve created, assembled and adapted a variety of resources for our community services, and we’d like to share them with you. They are all available without cost, though if you’d like to thank us with a donation, it would be gratefully accepted!

an example of illustration from our "Kid's Liturgy" with clouds and a butterfly, and the words "Hello Divine Voice, You sing, and the heaves sing with you."

SCC Children’s Liturgy: Our Music & Arts Coordinator, Teena Brown, has adapted and summarized our monthly liturgy to make it accessible to kids, and we all benefit! Download it here for your home or shared use.

 

Rosie's painting - cover for our Main Celtic Liturgy

Celtic Service “Main Liturgy” (v 5.8) – Continually tweaked and adapted over the 18 years that this service has been celebrated, this is the liturgy usually used at our early services in the cafe. Parts have been borrowed from liturgies at the Iona or Northumbria communities, from Scripture and elsewhere, and much is our own. You can download it here.

 

 

Helen's lino-cut image, cover of our Alternate Liturgy

Celtic Service “Alternate Liturgy” (v. 6.6) – Our “main liturgy” became too beloved to make major changes, but we wanted to keep making room for something new. So we created an “alternate liturgy” that roams into freer territory – again with a mix of borrowed bits and homegrown words. Download it here.

 

Special Keepsakes! After the first three years of the Celtic service, we created a copy of the 2010 liturgy combined with a “best of” of the contemporary readings that various leaders chose to add to the lectionary readings from 2007 – 2010. After the pandemic we did it again. Collector’s Items! Download yours below to get a taste of what has inspired us in the past – and may just keep inspiring us now.

 

2010 “Keepsake Edition” – Includes 2010 liturgy and the “best of” the contemporary readings 2007-2010.

 

2022 “Celtic Readings during Pandemic” – Includes a selection of the contemporary readings that helped get us through a difficult few years as we continued to meet, often online.

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A Compassionate Consent to Reality

: OK, this is it. Tomorrow, I start to share, via (free) Substack, the ideas that will be building blocks for my main writing project: an exploration of the phrase, “a compassionate consent to reality,” and how I think the phrase can describe a contemplative pathway for healing and maturing. As…
Some ruins and a Celtic cross and the sea beyond
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“Send us on our way with your peace” – Parting Blessings

Our main liturgy has used a beloved version of St. Patrick’s Breastplate (from the Northumbria community) for many years now as a blessing prayer before the closing. It seemed hard to imagine that we could find something different for the Alternate Liturgy that had a similar depth and beauty. Then…
Communion is celebrated under olive trees
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“Welcome to the Table” – A focus on participation in love

(Exploring the Alternate Liturgy, Pt. 5) The centrepiece of the Celtic Service is a weekly time of Communion (or Eucharist). In both our main and alternate liturgies, we’ve avoided the standard “words of institution” just as we’ve avoided hierarchical and formulaic means that may be supposed to determine any “validity”…

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