Visual Liturgy Live is the latest version of the highly successful and user-friendly software package used by thousands of churches to plan and prepare services.

This powerful program is an invaluable tool for preparing or presenting acts of worship. It enables users to select liturgy and other alternative texts, find lectionary readings, make hymn selections and choose prayers from a wide range of material to create customised services.

Visual Liturgy Live for Common Worship includes:

- The Common Worship Main Volume
- The President's Edition
- Pastoral Services
- Christian Initiation (New)
- Ordination Services(New) - Daily Prayer (New)
- New Patterns for Worship
- Times and Seasons (New)
- The Lectionary (Principal, 2nd and 3rd service readings in both NIV and NRSV translation).

The launch pack of Visual Liturgy Live also includes the RSCM's Sunday-by-Sunday hymn index allowing users to access hymn and worship suggestions for every Sunday in the Common Worship lectionary.

With Visual Liturgy Live you can:

View and edit a complete service as you create it
Browse easily through options for hymns, liturgy and readings
Save multiple services for forward planning and return to them later
Print your service booklets in a range of layouts
Export saved services to Microsoft Word and other programs whilst retaining all formatting and layout
Produce monthly rotas and calendars for church events
Create and print a list of readings
Install the official Common Worship fonts on your computer
Discover which liturgical colours are to be worn on any given date
Look up important additional guidance notes on service style and structure
Listen to extracts from hymns

Five features of Visual Liturgy Live

1. Welcome!
Improved access to service templates and saved services. New online link-up to improve usability.

2. Service designer
Streamlined boxes improve the use of space, see your whole service together; make instant changes to liturgy, hymns, prayers and readings, view services in different layouts for the congregation, for the minister or for use on an overhead projector.

3. Services planner
View all your saved services together, so that you can identify themes or patterns; work with multiple services over a period of time; improve forward planning; update and make changes without having to open each service individually.

4. Calendar
Organise and maintain events in your church calendar, from marking saints' days to remembering the important events.

5. Lectionary planner
Create an active lectionary plan in advance to pre-set readings for future services, prepare reading rotas in advance.

If you have never used Visual Liturgy Live before, you need to purchase the FULL version. If you are already a user of a previous version of Visual Liturgy, you should buy the UPGRADE version.