This liturgy was originally put together to offer an alternative to the embarrasingly cap in hand liturgy, put together by Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) for the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
Ecumenical bodies are supposed to be committed to diversity, but unfortunately CTBI assumed in their liturgy that everybody in the country was a fervent Royalist.
The service includes suggestions for hymns, and readings, prayers for the Windsor family as individuals, and two alternative versions of the National Anthem, one a completely Republican one from the Primitive Methodist hymnbook of 1855, and the other published in 1836 in an attempt to rewrite the national anthem with a more religious note.
You can download this liturgy for free in Word format or in pdf format or as a web page. Feel free to adapt it as you wish, and print it out for use in your church.
It may be that some of you reading this page think that we are better off having a Queen. That's fine, but seeing as there are different opinions on this matter, can we please have a vote on it?
Link to the Republic site.
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