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A new download about pilgrimage this week, and (with apologies to those of us in the southern hemisphere) the spring download again. After unseasonal snowfalls this past week, we are still trying to invoke spring! We also have some suggested resources on the theme of prayer for you. Photo: Iona Abbey from the beach © David Coleman |
New download |
Digital download: A liturgy for those going on a pilgrimage or for those who just want to reflect on the journey of life. Includes prayers and reflections from various Iona Community members. 9 pages For more information and to see a sample
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Spring again |
Digital download: Did this winter seem especially long to you, with heavy eternally grey skies and endless rain or snow? … Well, here are some spiritually nourishing readings and prayers from various Wild Goose publications to help get rid of that heartless chill and to get the sap in your veins flowing again: to help you grasp hope and connect with the waking earth and brothers and sisters in the world, longing for resurrection. 34 pages For more information and to see a sample For our friends in the southern hemisphere: see Autumn and Harvest
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Prayer |
Digital download: Contemplations that use a focus on various parts of the body as a device for bringing ourselves into the present moment. Each section includes a Bible quote and references, a discussion, reflective activities and a prayer. Taken from the book Wild Goose Chase: Exploring the spirituality of everyday life, by Annie Heppenstall. 25 pages For more information and to see a sample For the whole book Wild Goose Chase
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For many people prayer is difficult. This new collection of prayers from the Iona Community helps us to be less bothered about what we should be saying when we pray. We can read a prayer and then sit quietly for a few minutes, allowing the particular words and thoughts to meet with our inner self, with our soul, which is linked to the energies and wisdom of the Creator of all things.
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Digital download: Prayers that could form part of a daily discipline over a period of days or weeks. Prayers for individuals to use as petitions, intentions or thanksgivings, and intercessory prayers and blessings for others. 11 pages.
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A collection of short prayers – wise, humorous, outspoken – about friends, enemies, relationships and the particular moments and places of our daily lives. The author wants to encourage individuals and congregations to be creative and courageous in their prayers. ‘Saying what we mean to God,' she writes, 'is more honest than tiptoeing around the issues and concerns we find disturbing or difficult.’ Instructions for leading three prayer-writing workshops are also included.
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A collection of blessings for the people, celebrations, sadnesses, artefacts, special occasions and journeys of our lives. It also explores the tradition of blessings, including biblical and Celtic, and offers ideas and resources to encourage readers to write blessings of their own, with suggestions for how to organise a blessings workshop.
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Digital download: Biblical reflections and intercessionary prayers relating to various aspects of daily life, aimed at bringing those for whom we pray into a triangular relationship with ourselves and God. Taken from the book Wild Goose Chase: Exploring the spirituality of everyday life, by Annie Heppenstall. 21 pages Fore more information and to see a sample
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Twenty-one simple ways of using our hands to speak to God, presented in word and image. These spiritual practices are from a broad range of religious traditions – from Anglican to Sufi, from Buddhist to Shaker. Some may be familiar, some new; all demonstrate the universal importance people of all faith traditions have given to embodied prayer.
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A collection of poems and prayers by the founder of the Iona Community, with images of the island. ‘To be in a seat at Iona Abbey, to be moved by the awesome oratory of a MacLeod sermon in full flood, to be led into the nearer presence of God by means of kaleidoscopic, imaginative prayer, was to be privileged and – more importantly – to be changed.’
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A six-day cycle of prayer in the Celtic tradition, incorporating the daily themes used in Iona Abbey: justice and peace, prayer for healing, care for the earth, commitment to Christ, the communion of heaven and earth, and welcome and hospitality. Includes a lectionary of psalms and gospel readings.
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A collection of prayers and poems having its roots in the Gaelic alphabet and in the tradition of understanding Christ as the Alpha and Omega, the Tree of Life.
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Fifty of the best-loved prayers of the Iona Community in a portable edition. Prayers by Kathy Galloway, Ruth Burgess, the Wild Goose Resource Group, George MacLeod, Kate Mcllhagga, Jan Sutch Pickard, Peter Millar, Joy Mead, Ali Newell, Chris Polhill, Ian M Fraser and others.
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Fifty new prayers from young and old and from folk around the globe – from Glasgow to Cincinnati, from Malawi to Alaska – that might be used in a daily discipline, many on the concerns of the Iona Community: poverty and economic justice, welcome and hospitality, interfaith dialogue, church renewal, peacemaking.
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Digital download: A litany for walking the streets of a city, taken from the book Wild Goose Chase, by Annie Heppenstall. The author says, ‘The litany arose out of a desire within our church community to surround the area with prayer following a street shooting. So a group began to meet to walk quietly around the area, stopping at significant places to pray, to sing and to light candles.’ 5 pages.
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