Weekly Readings, Children's Booklets, and Hymns

Diocese of Willochra, David Beswick & St James Cathedral Townsville

  A ministry offering seasonal liturgies and resources with an Anglican flavour, that supports ministers and their churches.

Weekly Reading Sheets

The Diocese of Willochra provides lectionary readings sheets for download as .pdf. They include the Collect for the day and you can download them from https://www.diowillochra.org.au/monthly-downloads

St James Cathedral Townsville also provides a .pdf of the upcoming week's readings: https://www.stjamescathedral.com.au 

Children's Ministry Booklets

Lectionary based weekly booklets for Children’s Ministry are available from St James Cathedral Townsville:
https://www.stjamescathedral.com.au

You may also find the commercial website Sermons4kids helpful for children's addresses and activities: https://sermons4kids.com/     calendar 

If you are looking to purchase, the Illustrated Ministry website (progressive theologically, but their colouring in sheets & stickers are high quality and suitable in an orthodox context) and the Redemptorist Publications website (both Catholic and Anglican versions) have lectionary-based children's sheets: https://www.illustratedministry.com & https://www.rpbooks.co.uk/look-download

Hymn Suggestions

Extensive hymn suggestions are available from David Beswick's website. David is a former uniting church minister and his site provides hymn suggestions inline with the Revised Common Lectionary: https://www.beswick.info/rclresources/extendedindex.htm

Hymn suggestions can also be downloaded from the Diocese of Willochra's monthly downloads page: https://www.diowillochra.org.au/monthly-downloads

Contemporary song suggestions are also available from the Music Task Force of the Anglican Church in North America
Effective and singable Contemporary-Songs-for-the-Church-Year and the Word to Worship website: https://wordtoworship.com/lectionary/rcl 

Hymn Accompaniment

If you do not have a musician to play you may consider using Spotify or Apple Music. In particular you may consider: