COCU Year B 2023-2024 (with coding system as used on this website, which helps keep all resources for each particular week in the lectionary)
NEW! COCU Year C 2024-2025 (with coding system as used on this website, which helps keep all resources for each particular week in the lectionary)
World Council of Churches (WCC) ecumenical prayer cycle here.
Acknowledgement of country (various)
Year B
(for ‘special days/weeks’ arranged by month click here. A few dates are included below)
(Scroll down further for links to specific elements of worship for resources)
International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP)
(usually celebrated on the first or second Sunday in November)
November 9th Kristallnacht (night of broken glass)
(the night of Nov 9–10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property)
November 9th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
November 10th COCU65B
November 11th Remembrance Day
November 13th World Kindness Day
November 17th COCU66B
November 19th International Men’s Day
November 20th UN World Children’s Day
November 24th COCU67B Reign of Christ
November 25 16 days of activism against gender based violence begins (concluding on Human Rights Day on December 10)
November 25 International Day Elimination of Violence against Women
December 10 International Human Rights Day
Components of worship – general
Acknowledgement of Land
Gathering
Prayer of thanksgiving
Prayer of confession/prayers of who we are/Words of Assurance
Prayer for Illumination
Readings (see specific weeks)
Prayers for others
Lord’s Prayer
Prayer of Dedication
Benediction and sending out
(Communion)
(Communion Hymns)
Starters for great resources
Lectionary Liturgies (Thom Shuman) with HC each week
Sacredise
Textweek
Singing from the Lectionary
Songs of Hope, Faith and Love (Australian) with lyrics, chords and recordings
Church of Scotland Weekly Worship
Re-worship
Together to Celebrate
Pray the Story
UCC Worship Ways
Unfolding Light
Spill the Beans (no longer uses the lectionary but great resources)
Church Anew blog ….spiritual reflections, imaginative biblical commentary, and thoughtful ideas for innovation (including Diana Butler Bass, Walter Brueggemann).
Australian Women Preach podcast
Rev Roddy Hamilton, New Kilpatrick Parish Church – Original Liturgy
Project Reconnect has sermons for every week – check them out here.
Worship Well have sermons and other elements of worship available each week in plenty of time to use – they’re here.
Saltbush provide liturgy and video sermon “uniting the scattered community” here.
L3 (Liturgy, Learning and (purposeful) Life) from Mediacom
L3 Lay Leaders Liturgy form Mediacom
Intergen (resources for children’s and family ministry and for worship)
The Billabong
Citation index (Vanderbilt Library) in canonical order
UCA Calendar of commemorations
Ecumenical prayer cycle (World Council of Churches)
2024 NCCA Ecumenical Prayer Cycle with lectionary readings