Competencies
- Demonstrates the ability to effectively use the Book of Common Prayer and the Book of Occasional Services
- Demonstrates knowledge of the worship services that may be led by those who are not ordained, including:
- Morning and Evening Prayer
- Compline
- The Great Litany
- Reconciliation of the Penitent
- Ministration of the Sick
- Ministration at the Time of Death
- Burial of the Dead
- Festival of Lessons and Carols
- Demonstrates public speaking skills.
- Demonstrates the ability to read and interpret rubrics.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the church year and the ability to determine ecclesiastical dates
- Demonstrates basic knowledge of the Bible and its organization.
- Demonstrates the ability to find assigned readings for services of worship.
- Demonstrates the ability to plan and execute a service of worship, including appropriate hymns and prayers.
- Demonstrates knowledge of vestments and other related practical matters related to executing public services of worship.
Resources
The Book of Common Prayer
Prayer Book Rubrics Expanded by Byron Stuhlman
Pastoral Offices
Enriching Our Worship 1 and 2
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Wonder Love and Praise
Hymnal 1982
The Book of Occasional Services
Lesser Feasts and Fasts
The New Church’s Teaching Series: Opening the Prayer Book by Jeffrey Lee
The New Church’s Teaching Series: Opening the Bible by Roger Ferlo
The New Church’s Teaching Series: A Theology of Worship by Louis Weil
The Bible for Dummies