When We Gather: A Book of Prayers for Worship - For Years

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Summary: Graciously Worldly without being Wordy
Review: This book stays within reach as I plan worship. Covering all three years of the New Revised Common Lectionary, James Kirk's "When We Gather" provides a Call to Worship and several prayers or litanies for each week of the Christian year. The Calls to Worship, prayers, and litanies can very comfortably be used "as is" or, even better, could serve as inspiration to those who would like to write their own. The inclusive language maintains the balance between the imminent and the transcendant nature of the Trinity and should serve well in the vast majority of English speaking congregations.

I would give this resource 5 stars if either (1) it identified the individual weeks in ordinary time as Propers or by date rather than as Sundays in Ordinary Time. I find the identification by Propers to be the easiest to use. Or, (2) if the resources were provided in electronic format. In this day and age, when bulletins are produced on computers, I see little reason to make our lives more difficult by forcing us to type in what somebody else already has.