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Resources for worship
Tom Gordon |
Digital download: Reflections, prayers, stories, poems and a hymn addressing the plight of modern-day refugees, who yearn for community and security, who long to be settled and live in peace.
Tom Gordon is a former hospice chaplain, storyteller and member of the Iona Community. He is the author of several books, including Look Well to This Day: A year of daily reflections, A Blessing to Follow: Contemporary parables for living, Welcoming Each Wonder: More contemporary stories for reflection, and With An Open Eye: Parables with meaning for today.
18 pages
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Various contributors |
Digital download: Prayer, responses and a reflection for Lammastide. In the past, in Britain, Lammas Day (August 1st) was a celebration of thanksgiving, and loaves of bread were baked from the first wheat crop and brought to church to be used as Communion bread.
Taken from the book Bare Feet and Buttercups: Resources for Ordinary Time – Trinity Sunday to the Feast of the Transfiguration, by Ruth Burgess
For more information
For the whole book Bare Feet and Buttercups
For the e-book Bare Feet and Buttercups
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For the Feast of the Transfiguration
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Thom M Shuman |
Digital download: A communion liturgy to celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration or to use at other times. We are all capable of being forgiven and transformed.
13 pages
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Hiroshima Day, 6th August
Norman Shanks |
Digital download: A liturgy celebrating the Feast of the Transfiguration which coincidentally falls on the day that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The ‘shining power’ of the Transfiguration is compared with the ‘reverse transfiguration’ of the prioritisation of nuclear weapons over human needs. So this is a liturgy of commitment to standing on the edge and working for a transformation to another, more creative and just, world.
Norman Shanks is a retired Church of Scotland minister and a former Leader of the Iona Community.
6 pages
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Various contributors |
Digital download: Prayers, biblical reflections, responses, a song, a liturgy, a reflection, a story and a meditation to celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration (August 6th). Taken from the books Bare Feet and Buttercups and Acorns and Archangels, by Ruth Burgess.
20 pages
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Last call to contribute to a book
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Send your Iona stories for a new Wild Goose book
WGP editor Neil Paynter says:
‘I’m currently editing a book of short daily readings to help highlight and support the Iona Community’s Capital Appeal. I’m looking for those human stories from Iona. You know the ones – we all have them. Stories about people and the power of the Spirit. About different folk coming together – from different countries, backgrounds … Stories of encounter, challenge, exchange, transformation – that show why Iona and what the Iona Community does there is important to the world. That give it a human face.’
Deadline: July 30, 2016. Word count: Approximately 500 words.
Please send contributions to: neil@ionabooks.com |
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