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Two new downloads this week, one of them from the 'Liturgies for healing' series and one for Remembrance Day, along with other resources for Remembrance. Photo © David Coleman |
New downloads |
Digital download: A short liturgy in support of someone who is walking the last road of life, created by the Iona Prayer Circle, a worldwide network that prays for people and places in distress. With additional reflections. 12 pages. This is a time of power Be as you need to be. However you understand Whenever you are called home ‘All shall be well, and all shall be well, Yvonne Morland, Iona Prayer Circle * Julian of Norwich |
Digital download: Prayers, a short liturgy and a reflection for use on Remembrance Day. Taken from the book Winter, by Ruth Burgess. 6 pages |
More resources for Remembrance |
Digital download: Four sets of words for Remembrance Sunday (some with roles for 3 or 4 speakers), plus a poem/reflection. Taken from the book Dirt, Mess and Danger, by Glendon Macaulay. 9 pages. |
Digital download: A reflection on war and remembrance based on the ancient feast of Martinmas, 11th November. It draws on the Life of the fourth-century Martin of Tours, a conscripted soldier turned monk, and uses as a focus images from the ninth-century Saint Martin’s cross on Iona, to respond to contemporary situations. Service with illustrations: 22 pages |
Advent and ChristmasFor all Advent and Christmas books For all Advent and Christmas downloads
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Disturbing Complacency does not advocate a 'cosy' view of Christmas but rather urges people to use this season to address some of the most important issues of our time. To do so the author makes creative use of quotes from other sources, interspersed with her own perspective on the subjects under consideration. Lisa Bodenheim, a minister of the United Church of Christ and an Associate of the Iona Community, writes: Let us prepare for the birth of Christ by stretching our faith and disturbing our comfort. Let us ruffle our complacency and develop awareness, a courageous spirit and a security that comes from a deep-rooted faith. - Short, structured readings for each day of Advent For more information and to see a sample
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A wealth of worship resources for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany from the Wild Goose Worship Group. These litanies, meditations, monologues, poems, prayers, readings, scripts and symbolic actions aid the rediscovery of the stories of Christ's birth through adult eyes. |
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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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