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Life Songs : Readings for Milestones
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NZ$ 15.00 each
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Author:
Pinky Agnew (ed)
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Life Songs: Readings for Milestones
contains a selection of readings suitable for all life's celebrations and milestones. From the classic and traditional to the modern and humourous, it contains readings for naming and christening ceremonies, birthday and anniversary celebrations, funerals and memorial services as well as a selection of readings suitable for weddings and commitment ceremonies.
A companion volume to the successful
Heart Songs - Readings on Weddings
, this new book acts as a stand-alone compendium of quotes, readings, prayers, prose and poetry for ceremonies based around any of life's significant passages.
Life Songs: Readings for Milestones
is beautifully produced in metallic duotone.
First published July 2006.
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From Beginning to End: The rituals of our lives [BT]
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NZ$ 20.00 each
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Author:
Robert Fulghum
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Why "rituals"?
My thinking was set in motion by those who, knowing I was a parish minister for many years, have asked me for advice about ceremonies and celebrations. They wanted words to use at graduations, funerals, and the welcoming of children. They inquired about grace at family meals, the reaffirmation of wedding vows, and ways to heal wounds suffered in personal conflict. People requested help with the rituals of solitude, such as meditation, prayer, and contemplation. . . .
Rituals do not always involve words, occasions, officials, or an audience. Rituals are often silent, solitary, and self-contained. The most powerful rites of passage are reflective--when you look back on your life again and again, paying attention to the rivers you have crossed and the gates you have opened and walked on through, the thresholds you have passed over. Remembering.
As human beings have remembered for thousands and thousands of years.
ROBERT ...
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Dying : A New Zealand Guide for the Journey
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NZ$ 29.99 each
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Author:
Sue Wood & Peter Fox & Karen McMillan (ed.)
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The book has been written to help anyone who is dying from cancer or other terminal illness. Drawing on years of practical experience as counsellors in the field, Sue Wood and Peter Fox discuss what they and others have found happening in the terminal stages of illness - what the dying person can expect, what others have found important to do - and generally how to respond positively and practically to situations that are likely to arise on this difficult journey. The authors also address those involved in the day-to-day care and nursing, as well as the professionals. Their aim is to help deal with the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the patient and those caring for them, and to enhance the dignity and comfort of all concerned.
First published 2006, Auckland
softcover
196pp
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The Big Day: A guide to getting married in New Zealand
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Denise Irvine
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DoP April 2009, Auckland
210x148mm / 176pp
Softcover
The Big Day covers every aspect of arranging a wedding - from the simplest ceremony through to a lavish affair featuring a cast of many hundreds. Key to this book is information about what a couple must do to comply with the law in New Zealand and the range of options for choosing a celebrant, the venue, and all the various details that add up to making a wedding day special. No other New Zealand book addresses all the practical information associated with getting married as comprehensively as this book. Includes a useful 'resources' section at the back of the book listing tips from celebrants and married couples, examples of vows, suggested readings and useful websites.
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Heart Songs : Readings for Weddings
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Pinky Agnew (ed)
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A collection of poems, prayers, readings and prose pieces suitable for reading aloud at weddings or commitment ceremonies. It offers a wide range of material, from traditional to contemporary. It's an indispensible resource for couples, family members, civil and religious celebrants, wedding planners - in fact anyone involved in the fast-growing wedding industry. The increasing popularity of non-religious ceremonies mean couples are free to - and do - use a wide range of texts in their wedding service. Today's couple is looking for a unique way of expressing their commitment, one that reflects their personal style. This collection offers a reading to suit every couple. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction recounting amusing and sometimes moving anecdotes. Chapters include: Holy Love, Love and Laughter, Classical Love, You and me, New Age Love, Sweet Love, Prose Love and Quotable Love.
First published September 2004.
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Ceremonies & Celebrations: Vows, Tributes and Readings
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Messenger Dally
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The authoritative handbook for anyone planning any personal ceremony or celebration.
Ceremonies & Celebrations
gives details of how to organise a celebration or ceremony, with example ceremonies, a wealth of suggested readings and music, together with checklists and advice on how to write and structure your own ceremonies.
Ceremonies include: weddings (formal and informal), commitment to partnerships, renewal of vows, name giving/naming, graduation, coming of age and other birthdays, divorce, stepfamily acceptance, house dedication, 'sorry' ceremony, funerals and memories, and how to prepare a eulogy All of us have the right to choose and organise our own ceremonies according to our beliefs - and this book tells us what we have to do, and when.
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Celebrating Marriage - a New Zealand Guide to Weddings Ceremonies and Birth Celebration (3rd edition 1996)
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author:
Douglas Pratt
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Includes planning checklists for weddings and advice on developing a marriage relationship, as well as multi-choice material for the content of weddings and birth celebrations. Pratt lectures in Religious Studies at Waikato University.
This 3rd edition published 1996.
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ReligioNZ : A Guide to Religions in NZ
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Bronwyn Elsmore
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ReligioNZ is a guide to understanding the different religions in New Zealand. It contains descriptions of 68 main religions from Adidam to Zoroastrian, plus short introductions to 200+ other groups and religions practised in this country. Includes a glossary of religious terms, contact details and an index.
First published April 2006.
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Celebrating the Southern Seasons : Rituals for Aotearoa (revised edition 2005)
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Juliet Batten
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This edition is out of print.
Updated and expanded, the 10th anniversary edition of this pioneering work is even more valuable as a resource book than its predecessor. Exploring the natural world, astronomy and ancient civilisations, it shows how we can use tradition, intuition and ingenuity to adapt existing ceremonies and create our own.
As the twentieth century drew to a close, a pioneering book brought rituals and ceremonies down to earth and closer to home. Celebrating the Southern Seasons showed how the traditional European festivals we inherited can be a more profound experience if they are in tune with the seasons, how they can be adapted for Aotearoa, and how rewarding an appreciation of longstanding Maori festivals can be. In 2005, ten years after the book's first publication, New Zealanders are much more inclined than previously to consider how various traditions can enrich our celebrations here and now. Matariki, the ...
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Earthly Farewell : A Funeral Planning Guide
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Hilary Hudson
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Earthly Farewell
provides all the necessary information for planning a funeral. From advice on wills and trusts to planning funerals of different types, examples of funeral ceremonies and eulogies, readings and hymns. This book will be a valuable resource for everyone.
First published 2004.
Poems and Readings for Funerals and Memorials
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author:
Luisa Moncada
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The death of a loved one is one of the hardest things that most people have to deal with. Selecting a reading that commemorates or reminds you of that special person can be very difficult and finding it easily can be even harder. "Poems and Readings for Funerals and Memorials" gathers together many of the most treasured and poignant poems, readings, quotations and religious extracts that both celebrate life and express grief and sorrow about death. The readings have been chosen from a wide range of sources and include both well-known and less familiar poems, extracts from the New and Old Testaments, song lyrics, quotations from plays and extracts from books. Authors are diverse including Nick Cave, W. H. Auden, Simon Armitage, A. A. Milne, Raymond Carver and Alice Walker. This collection hopes to inspire and provide much-needed help for anyone dealing with the death of a loved one and is indispensable at this difficult time.
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Poems and Readings for Weddings
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NZ$ 27.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Julia Watson (ed)
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‘How do I love thee...?’
Weddings require public voices — speeches and responses — but along with these people often want to have a poem read to mark their marriage in a personal way. Whether it’s a poem full of beauty or of humour, whether it’s by a modern poet or a poet from the past, it will be a means of finding the right words to celebrate a very special occasion.
When attending friends’ weddings — and because she’s an actress — Julia Watson has often been asked to read a poem. In the same way, many people have asked her for ideas about what to choose. In this book, she has collected over ninety poems and readings for weddings.
‘Stay near to me, stay true to me...’
As fewer weddings are taking place in church, people are looking for new readings more appropriate for civil ceremonies. And even traditionalists might like to have something extra read at their wedding lunch or party. Julia Watson's inspiring book ...
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Remembering Well: Rituals for Celebrating Life and Mourning Death
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NZ$ 45.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Sarah York
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3
“Remembering Well” offers family members, clergy, funeral professionals and hospice workers ways to plan services and rituals that are faithful to the deceased person’s values and beliefs - while also respecting the needs and wishes of those who will attend the services. Issues addressed include the difficult decisions that survivors must make quickly when a death occurs and the sensitive topic of family alienation.
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The Funeral Celebrant's Handbook: Creating services that celebrate life & mourn death
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Barry H. Young
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3
Today more than ever, personal funeral services that capture the essence of the departed person - their character, spirit and legacy - are being planned and conducted by civil celebrants in collaboration with family and friends of the deceased.
With this move away from traditional funeral services, comes an increased responsibility for the funeral celebrant, to honour the departed in an appropriate way, and make sure each service runs as smoothly as possible.
This handbook is the ideal companion for qualified celebrants or church leaders, celebrants-in-training, or those who are thinking about entering this vocation. It covers every aspect of a service, beginning at the time of initial contact and the first meeting with the bereaved, right through to the service itself. In this book, you will also find a varied collection of readings, poems and sample eulogies for each type of funeral service, as well as advice about conducting ...
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The Heart and Soul of Celebrancy
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NZ$ 39.99 each
Paperback
Author:
Sally Cant
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A how to guide for Celebrants around the globe
Ceremony has the capacity to unify and heal. Being a successful celebrant requires having a rare blend of business sense, professionalism and a genuine emotional bond with those needing your services. Sally shows with insight, compassion and a business like approach, how to develop these qualities. Sally offers very specific, practical, step-by- step examples of how to conduct weddings, funerals and other ceremonies. She also gives of her own warmth and love of working with people at those times in life when they want to celebrate a special occasion.
"Sally Cant has produced a delightful book on contemporary civil celebrancy based on her very extensive experience in Australia. It is a wonderful 'nuts and bolts' book for those wishing to be celebrants with heartfelt professional excellence! Sally highlights the need for authentic and original ceremonies that reflect the ...
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How to Say I Do: Make your civil marriage ceremony your own
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NZ$ 33.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Mandy Newman
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2
Make your civil marriage ceremony your own
A comprehensive guide to creating and organising the perfect modern civil wedding ceremony.
The writing is on the wall. Traditional weddings are on the way out, and civil ceremonies are in. But while many people know what they don't want - no church, no priest - most are left wondering what they can do instead.
Packed full of ideas, inspiration, stories and excerpts from real weddings,
How To Say I Do
is a snappy pint-sized handbook that provides all the answers for brides and grooms-to-be wanting to create their own perfect wedding ceremony.
What to say and how to say it
Choosing the perfect venue and location
Creating the right mood for you
Finding a simpatico wedding celebrant
Trouble shooting tips (e.g. parent politics)
Along with loads of poems and readings ranging from
The Owl and the Pussy Cat
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The ...
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Life Prayers from Around the World
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author:
Robertson & Amidon
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2
The mysteries and delights of life on earth are illuminated in this richly eclectic collection of poetry, wisdom, prayers, and blessings from thinkers, writers around the world. Here you will find the poetry of Hildegard of Bingen and Gary Snyder; the political wisdom of Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr; a treasury of women's prayers and much more. A joyous affirmation of the human journey in all its forms, in all its struggles and glories.
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Poems and Readings for Weddings and Civil Partnerships
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NZ$ 25.00 each
Paperback
Author:
A Vasudevan (compiler)
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2
One of the most difficult tasks at weddings and civil partnerships is choosing an appropriate reading for the service. "Poems and Readings for Weddings and Civil Partnerships" features around 150 key texts to help you make the best choice. Ranging from biblical extracts from the Old and New Testament and spiritual readings to extracts from modern novels and pithy quotations, some well-known, others not, this book is an essential buy for anyone who has been asked to choose a reading or anyone planning a wedding or civil partnership.Arranged in alphabetical order by author, each entry features the title, author name and dates, a listing indicating if it is a traditional, non-traditional, religious or non-religious reading and in some cases further information about the entry. The book also includes key information detailing what is or isn't acceptable in certain services and a list of the top 5 readings for particular ceremonies, ...
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Words for Your Wedding
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Hardback
Author:
David Glusker
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2
For vows that couples will never forget, this do-it-yourself guide is the reference book on the words spoken at a wedding. Includes Protestant, Roman Catholic, Ecumenical, Jewish, and civil ceremony traditions.
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Be Mine: An Anthology for Lovers, Weddings and Ever After
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NZ$ 37.00 each
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Edited by Sally Emerson
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This anthology offers a delightful and provocative collection of readings and poems, comic and profound.
The perfect partner for weddings and valentines, wedding anniversaries and vow renewals, for ceremonies civil or religious, above all it should be enjoyed by anyone who wants to try to understand the great mysteries of love. BE MINE charts and celebrates all stages of romance from first loves to lasting loves, from proposals to weddings to wrong turnings. With readings suitable for all ages, containing pieces well-known and well-loved, and forgotten and unknown, this collection is a journey through the epic and domestic, the patience and passions of love.
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