Mark Earey Knihy

Focusing on the integration of worship and pastoral care, this book introduces the concept of 'pastoral liturgy.' It explores how traditional worship can address specific pastoral needs and adapt to new contexts, such as retirement or divorce. Additionally, it emphasizes the church's role in the community by providing meaningful rituals for various life events, helping individuals connect with both the divine and their own experiences. The work encourages a broader understanding of liturgy as a tool for support and connection beyond church walls.

Many popular recipes come from lineages that can be traced back for decades, even centuries. For at least 2,000 years, festive cakes have been made in December, and, using archaeological evidence and ancient books, The Twelve Cakes of Christmas defines the key ingredients of the cakes that would eventually be served on Twelfth Night at the end of the Christmas season. From 17th-century English cookbooks, the book identifies recipes that would have been made as twelfth cakes, full of expensive ingredients, such as raisins, almonds, sweet wine, and candied peel, but made like fruit-breads, with yeast. In the 18th century, a revolution in mixing occurred. Ingredient proportions followed the new pound cake principle, and, for the first time, butter and sugar were creamed together. The Victorian age saw Twelfth Night customs give way to those associated with Christmas Day. In the colonies, growing demand for rich Christmas cakes resulted in the renaming of a range of recipes. Plum cakes, ri

Worship is a dynamic, living encounter that should never be static. In this comprehensive volume, a wide range of experienced liturgists, musicians and pastoral practitioners consider the principles that will determine the character and quality, as well as the content, of our worship in the future.

Epilepsy is a common condition which has been recognised since the beginning of history, and as the opportunities for diagnosis and effective treatment have increased, it becomes more important that health professionals have a working knowledge of how epilepsy interacts with their own area of expertise. This book deals with epilepsy.