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A new Advent book from Thom Shuman this week - but because of difficulties at the printer we only have the e-book version at the moment unfortunately. See our special book/e-book offer however. There is also a new download for Interfaith Week (this week) and our usual reminders about resources for Advent and Christmas. Photo © David Coleman |
New book for Advent |
Print edition not yet in stock, but if you buy it we will email you a copy of the e-book version to use in the meantime. (NB If you order other physical items in the same order, they won't be sent out until this book is in stock around November 21st.) Bible readings, reflections and prayers for Advent, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. This little book is for all those who find themselves serving, eating, resting and singing in diners (real and metaphorical) in this holy season, and in all the days before and after – in hope that there they will discover God, serving and eating and resting and singing and welcoming them with open arms. Thom M Shuman is the author of The Jesse Tree, Gobsmacked, and The Soft Petals of Grace (Wild Goose). He lives in Columbus, Ohio where he serves as a transitional pastor. He is an Associate member of the Iona Community. Help us to search the shadows for your children, God of Advent, |
New download for Interfaith Week |
Digital download: A reflection, a contemplative exercise, and a prayer and meditation for Interfaith Week. Isabel Smyth is a Sister of Notre Dame, with long experience in the area of interfaith relations. At present she is Secretary to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference Committee for Interreligious Dialogue, Secretary to the Council of Christians and Jews and writer of the blog www.interfaithjourneys.net. 10 pages For more information and to see a sample
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Advent and ChristmasFor all Advent and Christmas books For all Advent and Christmas downloads
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A daily prayer book for Advent which can also be used as a prayer journal. It takes its inspiration from the Advent antiphons - a group of prayers that reflect on the character and activities of God. For more information and to see a sample
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Bible readings, reflections and worship resources for Christmastide from Iona Community members and associates – to help you hear God’s Word through the commercialism of the season, the propaganda of the times; and to glimpse the sacred in the secular. May this book be a friend through the joy and euphoria of Christmas and New Year, and may it feed you, challenge you, in the in-between times. There are good-hearted, human companions here for our journey through this bewildering and beautiful world. For more information and to see a sample
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A collection of worship and meditation resources for the season of Christmastide – including Christmas Day, Holy Innocents’ Day, Winter and New Year, Epiphany, Homelessness Sunday and Candlemas. It also contains eight Christmas plays. When sleet blinds you, For more information and to see a sample
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Digital download: Four reflective liturgies for Advent based on the memories of Mary about the birth and early life of her son, with an emphasis on the similarity between then and now as difficult times in which to live. Each piece has a suggested song, a Bible reading, a reflection by Mary, prayers and a blessing. 14 pages For more information and to see a sample
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Digital download: A combined PDF and PowerPoint version of an Advent communion liturgy about waiting (‘not lost time but a liminal time’), new possibilities and the re-imagination of the world. PDF and PowerPoint versions For more information and to see a sample For the PowerPoint-only version
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Digital download: A meditation on the Advent/Christmas story that can be used as part of an all-age act of worship, such as a carol service. |
Recently published |
A new smaller-format edition of Ewan Mathers’ beautiful photographs depicting in detail the carvings of the restored cloisters of Iona Abbey, with text reflecting on the meaning of each design and information about the flora and fauna of the Isle of Iona and beyond, which most of the carvings represent. This use of symbols from the natural world reflects the close links of the early Celtic Christians with the land around them. As a frequent visitor to Iona since childhood, Ewan observed the newly rebuilt cloisters being transformed over thirty years from rough pillars of fragile sandstone into a complete, cyclical, unified work of art. As an adult he began to look more closely at the carvings and from conversations with Chris Hall, the principal carver, to learn something of what they represent. |
Reflective, prayerful poems about how, on a cosmic and a personal level, darkness gives way to light. The author reminds voyagers that ‘light shines in the darkness’, that darkness is required to perceive light – and that Easter means the light has come, life triumphs, and the promised Holy Spirit will empower us for growth: ‘eastering’ … ‘You are in skilled hands here, so let yourself be carried along, ready to experience delight, or be jarred into discomfort. Above all ponder, weigh, take time. For each poem comes out of the quiet depths of a person who is a fellow pilgrim, illuminating the familiar with her own God-given insight.’ – Esther de Waal |
Liturgies for Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter, Transfiguration, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, All Saints’, St Columba’s Day, Father’s Day; on hunger, economic witness, peacemaking, the environment, pilgrimage, welcome, hospitality and friendship. Includes a blessing liturgy for a marriage or partnership, a wedding/partnership ceremony and resources for a memorial event. Originally published as single digital downloads by Wild Goose. For more information and to see a sample
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New prayers, in the ‘Celtic’ tradition, for the whole of life - from chopping carrots or doing the laundry to healing our deeply wounded world. For more information and to see a sample
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Witty and reflective poems of faith and doubt, starting with the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden and concluding with the events of the first Easter, taking in on the way Julian of Norwich’s hazelnut, Mastermind, God as a blizzard, and the eighth deadly sin. For more information and to see a sample
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A wide-ranging collection of resources for Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, Transfiguration, Harvest, Holocaust Memorial Day, Mothering Sunday, and other special days, and on areas of concern, like refugees and peacemaking. Originally published as single digital downloads. |
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