This book suggests three different ‘pathways’ to help churches to offer an integrated approach to the liturgy marking the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus:

1.       The Lenten tree mirrors the use of the Jesse tree, with the gradual addition of symbols as the season progresses.

2.     Head, hands and heart focuses on the suffering of Christ and aims to bring in what is said in church services into harmony with Christian beliefs.

3.     The Stations of the Cross resource offers a set drawn solely from biblical texts, supplemented by extra stations and a series of Stations of the Resurrection.

·          Written by leading figures from among the Church of England’s worship and children’s advisers.

·          The second in a three-volume series created as a companion to Common Worship: Times and Seasons.

·          Includes fully worked-out services for all the key dates – including Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Ascension and Pentecost.

A CD-ROM is included, containing illustrations, templates, full-colour photographs, and the texts of services for easy reproduction.  Ideal for guidance and inspiration during worship.

Tim Lomax, a member of the Church of England’s Liturgical Commission, says: ‘This book goes much further than a “how-to” guide. By providing a liturgical theology for all-age worship, it does the whole Church a great and much-needed service.’