Mike Claridge
website and resources
Resources
On this page you’ll find resources of
liturgical (worship) and other material,
Above:
Epiphany Box
Video meditations
Sunday 22nd March 2020
Sunday 29th March 2020
Holy Week 2020
Advent and Christmas
Advent Verses for the Food Bank (PDF)
Scriptural verses, for each of the three years of the lectionary, linked to donations of items for the local Food Bank.
Nuts about Christmas (versions 1 and 2) (PDF)
These messages use carefully adapted walnuts to convey the Christmas message. In version 1 (left), three walnuts are used containing tinsel, a tiny 'present' and hay. In version 2 (right), four walnuts are used containing tinsel, a tiny ‘present’, hay and a tightly rolled up Palm Cross or paper cross.
My rewriting of the classic ‘nativity explained with chocolates’ address. This PDF now contains images of each of the products mentioned. Ideally accompanied by a tub of chocolates to share at the end.
Epiphany to Lent
Candlemas "Candle" (PDF)
A "colour in" sheet for The Presentation of Christ in the Temple linking Christmas/Epiphany to Lent/Easter.
Epiphany Box (PDF)
A simple to make box that enhances the message of Epiphany at All Age worship.
God so loved the world (Valentine)
(Link to video on Vimeo)
Short video animation of John's Gospel, Chapter 3,verses 16 and 17, with accompanying music (Stainer's 'God so loved the world') with a Valentine's Day theme.
Holy Week and Easter
Meditations on the Passion
(left) Symbols of the Passion (PDF)
Five short meditations for Holy Week entitled; The Meal, The Whip, The Crown, The Cross and The Nails.
(right) Simon of Cyrene: A face in the crowd (PDF) A short meditation on Simon of Cyrene who helped to carry Jesus' cross.
See also: The Passion in Art and Music
Originally written as a Lent Course in 2015. This uses images in paintings and music
from Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St Matthew Passion. With reflections and study sheets.
Click here.
Various Liturgical Resources
Dedication of a War Memorial
Order of Service for a new memorial
at Knighton Foods, Staffordshire
Black Country Circuit Prayer (PDF)
Prayer written for the inaugeration of the Circuit on 6th September 2015.
Breaking of Bread (PDF)
A simple service to use at home while unable to meet for Holy Communion together. May 2020
Welcome Service Prayers (PDF)
Intercessions written for my Welcome Service as Minister of The Cotteridge Church on Thursday 23rd March 2017
Welcome Service Liturgy (PDF)
Compiled for my Welcome Service as Minister of The Cotteridge Church on Thursday 23rd March 2017
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
(Anon, but sometimes attributed to H. G. Wells).
Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land (1991)
The role of the Church in a refugee community.
Written during a placement with the Vietnamese Roman Catholic
Community at St Francis’ Church, Handsworth, Birmingham.
Redeeming the Fragments (extract) (1994)
Lessons in Reconciliation from the churches of Sri Lanka
Part of a document written following a study tour in Sri Lanka.
This extract focuses on refugees.
Cotteridge Church 30th Anniversary
PDF of display of photographs prepared for the
30th Anniversary of the LEP at The Cotteridge Church.
