alternative to. The Alternative Great Thanksgiving on page 436 is explicitly “
alternative to The Great Thanksgiving on page 420
.” This page A20 one is not alternative to any particular Eucharistic Prayer, certainly there is no “Great Thanksgiving for use with children” that this is alternative to. This is simply a Great Thanksgiving Prayer “for use with children”.
There is a
kidify the Gospel, do we
kidify our services to be something we grow out of, or do we have the Gospel, do we have our services that people grow
into and that can nourish us for a lifetime?
Let me press this further: surely we should – at least in our formally agreed rites, at least aspirationally (which our agreed texts, surely, should be!) – we should understand that different ages, different abilities, different stages all be present gathered around God’s table. We