Peter Moger, National Worship Development Officer for the Church of England, presents part two of a two part series on selecting hymns:
We are pleased to welcome Peter Moger, National Worship Development Officer for the Church of England as a contributor to this blog. Peter is playing an increasing role in Visual Liturgy and we hope that his participation in the Tuesday tips will help us move beyond the nuts and bolts of the software into the reasons we are all using Visual Liturgy anyway – worship. This week, Peter presents part one of a two part series on selecting hymns:
Tim Anderson writes about a new feature in Visual Liturgy Live called ‘meta-templates’: The essence of Visual Liturgy is that you select a type of service, and the software populates it with the correct readings along with other material such as the proper preface in the Eucharistic Prayer, or a seasonal introduction to the peace.
As I have had my head down, working hard on preparing Common Worship: Christian Initiation ready for the Visual Liturgy Live launch, I thought I would take some time out to tell you a little bit about the book, and what you can expect to find in the software on release day!
One of the things that I am working on at the present time is getting all the notes and commentary material from Common Worship books that are new to Visual Liturgy into the Visual Liturgy help files. Since all that information is on my mind, today’s Tuesday tip is all about getting help.
We are breaking the usual pattern of Tuesday tips and Friday fill-ins this week to bring you a special article on our progress to come up with a new logo and packaging design for Visual Liturgy Live. As well as being lots of fun, we are working hard with our designers – Rareform London – to establish a new brand style for VL.
Today’s Tuesday tip is about how to use the Calendar. In some ways this feature of the software does what any normal Calendar does and you may be thinking that this is going to be a very quick tip! But there are a few useful things to know about the Calendar in order to get more out of your Visual Liturgy program.
You may or may not have heard that Microsoft are issuing a large security update for Windows today. It seems to be quite a significant one – even the BBC website has covered the story.
Certainly if you allow Windows to automatically update itself (and you really should make sure you get the benefit of these fixes), it may already have started whirring away and doing its thing.
In last week’s Friday fill-in, we showed you some of the new screenshots for key parts of Visual Liturgy. Thanks to everyone who commented on the designs and gave us plenty of food for thought. One thing we mentioned in passing was how the Lectionary Planner was changing. This week, we thought we’d show you how…
The tip for this week is all about how to set an item as a default. What this means is that if you use particular versions of texts all the time, you can tell Visual Liturgy to automatically use those versions so that you don’t have to keep changing them each time you start a new service.
