Liturgy for the Lord's Supper

In recent discussions with friends on the worship team in our community we've discussed the need for liturgy to augment our celebration of the Lord's Supper / Eucharist. It occurred to me that this creative project was a chance to have a go at doing that. The 'elemental life' has reminded us of the goodness of creation, and in the process I was also reminded of the inherent physicality of the Eucharist. Also as this project has taken place I am reminded once again of not only God's good creation but the fantastic future the cosmos has as God reconciles all things to himself. With this on my mind, I became aware of the Eucharist's eschatological significance (see also 'Surprised by Hope' N.T. Wright). I also liked the play on words: Dan has used 'elements' of matter to describe aspects of the spiritual life, but the bread and wine are also sometimes known as the 'elements' of the Lord's Supper.

So, I've taken some of the things we've discussed over the past few weeks and created a liturgy which I hope has a sense of poetry as well as meaning. Although I could probably play about with the words for longer, its good to have a deadline to make you settle on something.

I'm a visual artist and graphic designer by profession as well as someone who enjoys crafting words, and so it seemed appropriate (and fun) to do something with text, typography and image.

There are 3 versions here, one is just the text [60KB] the other two include images - a high resolution one [5.6MB] and a low resolution one [768KB]
Most of the images are my own - but I unfortunately couldn't find any images for 'fire' - so I've found an image of the web (used without permission I'm afraid)

PDF file:

Liturgy_Communion (with images lo_res)

Liturgy_Communion (with images hi_res)

Liturgy_Communion (plain gfx blck text on white)

Liturgy_Communion (white text on black)

cheers,
Jonny Norridge
jonny@newpollution.co.uk
www.newpollution.co.uk
www.surfaceandnoise.co.uk/disruptivegrace