It's been a long time since I've led communion by extension. Since the last time the service has been revised and the Readers, including me, trained. So it was out with the robes (a pleasant surprise for some) and the new service sheet to see how things would work out.
I had spent a considerable amount of time during the week working on getting the liturgy onto the PC only to discover that the PowerPoint approach does not work on the church Laptop - slightly annoying, but we had the service sheets, so it wasn't a disaster. PWCE is supposed to NOT look and feel like a Holy Communion service. Some of the changes that have been made to achieve that made the transition into the communion liturgy seem clunky, and I will have to take another long, careful look at what we do and how we do it, if I have the opportunity to lead this service again. I explained at the start that it was a new service, so hopefully I didn't put people off too much.
The service was 1 hour and 45 minutes. This is long by our standards, we are normally finished in 1.5 hours.
Most of the feedback I received at the end related to the robes, and some to the length of the service. What I really wanted to hear about was the service - what worked well, what didn't, what people found difficult. So if you were at Christ Church this morning, please comment.
Hi Pete, I tried to comment when this first came up, but the PC lost internet connectivity. I liked the PWCE it did make a change and did feel differ rent to a certain degree - the roles helped. From what I can remember the beginning section worked well and was different , but from then on it felt the same.
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