Guides
Practical answers for whoever produces the service booklet.
Everything below is written for the person who actually has to produce Sunday’s booklet — the vicar, the churchwarden, the parish administrator, the reader who inherited the job. Short answers first, detail after.
Copyright and permissions
What a parish may reproduce, and on what conditions.
Common Worship copyrightThe five conditions for local useThe acknowledgementExact wording and where it goesHymn words and licencesCCLI, Calamus, and public domainPrinting the psalmWhich psalter, and how to set it
Printing and folding
Getting a booklet out of the office photocopier.
Printing a bookletThe whole method, start to finishImposition explainedWhich page prints where, and whyPage countsWhy four, and where to put the spareShort edge vs long edgeThe one setting everyone gets wrongLarge printSizes, quantities, and how to make oneSheet or bookletChoosing the formatBefore you press printFourteen checks, in order
The order of service
What goes in, in what order, and what changes when.
Order One, in fullEvery part, in sequenceWhen the Gloria is omittedAdvent and Lent, and the exceptionsWhich creedNicene, Apostles', or neitherWhat is a collectThe prayer that gathers the dayMorning PrayerThe office, in fullEvensongBCP and Common Worship comparedA Service of the WordStructure without a scriptAll-age worshipShaping it, and printing itEucharistic Prayers A–HWhich one, and when
The church year
Seasons, colours, dates and the three-year cycle.
The church yearSeasons, in order, with datesLiturgical coloursWhich colour, and whenYears A, B and CWhich year are we in, and whyKingdom seasonNovember, and why it is confusingWhen is EasterFifteen years of dates, and the ruleFeasts and festivalsThe ranks, and what displaces whatOrdinary TimeAfter Trinity, and the Propers
Hymns and music
Choosing what to sing, and printing it lawfully.
Choosing hymnsA method, not a scrambleHymns for AdventWaiting, not yet arrivingHymns for LentAnd what the Alleluia rule rules outHymns for EasterAll fifty days, not just oneHymns for RemembranceAnd the shape of the silenceHymns for HarvestRepertoire and the shape of the dayHymns for ChristmasAcross all the servicesHymns for PentecostAnd Trinity SundayHymn metreWhat 87.87.D means, and why it helps
How parishes make them
Word, Canva, and where each one starts to hurt.