The Nursery Rhyme Mass is a fun way of sharing the mysteries of the Eucharist with children and young people.
The whole Mass is rewritten and set to nursery rhyme tunes well-known and understood by children: it is intended to make All-Age worship sacramental and encourage the participation of the whole family in the sacrament of salvation in a profound yet fun way.
The full text for the Nursery Rhyme Mass can be found in Fr. Simon’s book: Creative Ideas for Sacramental Worship with Children.
Please consider buying the book which is packed with all kinds of creative ideas for bringing the Sacramental Life into worship alongside Children, perhaps as a thanks for using this liturgy.
The Nursery Rhyme Mass is an on-going and evolving project, and we welcome new parts and alternative sections from all who wish to participate. Although it is nice to recognise Fr. Simon Rundell as the original author, this liturgy is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License so that as many churches as possible can share in this worship.
Plain Text
Click here for a simple web page with the current Nursery Rhyme Mass on it.
Look upon this as a starting point: take this text and play with it – make these texts work for you (and get some of the dodgier rhymes to work!) and submit them back here. This should now we a collaborative effort. See the text here Then, consider buying the book!
Here is a sheet with the rhymes on which we have used in Church (in Microsoft Publisher format). I think a visual display is better than bits of paper, but I still make these options available for you. Alternatively, cut and paste from the text page.
Sound
Download
Prezi is an amazing presentation tool, and far transcends Powerpoint or Keynote. You can show the presentation from within your browser or download it locally where there is no internet access.
This is a very simple text version here.
The standalone version (Mac or PC) is here (55Mb)
Powerpoint
For those who wish to use the Nursery Rhyme Mass, these Powerpoint 2013 slides may be useful.
Older versions of Powerpoint may require a conversion or an additional reader
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The Nursery Rhyme Mass is a fun way of sharing the mysteries of the Eucharist with children and young people.
The whole Mass is rewritten and set to nursery rhyme tunes well-known and understood by children: it is intended to make All-Age worship sacramental and encourage the participation of the whole family in the sacrament of salvation in a profound yet fun way.
The full text for the Nursery Rhyme Mass can be found in Fr. Simon’s book: Creative Ideas for Sacramental Worship with Children.
Please consider buying the book which is packed with all kinds of creative ideas for bringing the Sacramental Life into worship alongside Children, perhaps as a thanks for using this liturgy.
The Nursery Rhyme Mass is an on-going and evolving project, and we welcome new parts and alternative sections from all who wish to participate. Although it is nice to recognise Fr. Simon Rundell as the original author, this liturgy is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License so that as many churches as possible can share in this worship.