Ever wondered how vicars turn out services week after week? If you've been involved in organising a Sanctus-1 service you'll know how much time it takes. Well, it turns out there's a little help available for the busy vicar, that goes by the name of Visual Liturgy. According to their blurb,
"Visual Liturgy services are based on templates, which are service frameworks that have intelligent links to the lectionary. These can be customized, so that you can easily create a service template for your own church that will be automatically up-to-date every time you use it.
There is a large hymn and song database of over 5,000 songs to choose from. Full text is available where copyright allows."
Your response to this will be somewhere from "This is news?" to "Ah: that's clever", possibly by way of "I'm outraged! Shouldn't all services be lead by the Holy Spirit?"
The answer to this last point may have come last week, when an overzealous team at Symantec released an update to its anti virus software that identified a key component of Visual Liturgy as being malware .This has apparently caused many users to delete the offending file, forcing them to produce their services the old fashioned way.
Or maybe they were being directed by the Holy Spirit...
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