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This week we have two new downloads for Lent and reminders of some of our resources for Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day. Photo © David Coleman |
New downloads for Lent
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Digital download: Reflections for all the weeks of Lent on various biblical characters – some not so well known – all involved in some way with the Passion of Jesus. Includes three Josephs, two seekers (Martha and Joanna), three Simons, two Judases and three Marys. Rosemary Power is a member of the Iona Community who has worked in new forms of ministry, including pilgrimage ministry, congregational ministry and social responsibility. 41 pages For more information and to see a sample For all Lent and Easter downloads
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Digital download: A selection of resources for Lent and Easter for children and young people, arising from the work of Janet Lees as Chaplain of Silcoates School, Wakefield. Janet uses her own ‘remembered Bible’ method to help people reclaim the Bible as their own. 24 pages For more information and to see a sample For all Lent and Easter downloads
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Shrove Tuesday
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Digital download: A fun service for all that involves making pancakes (and eating them afterwards) and thinking about the journey of Lent that we are about to set out on. 5 pages. |
Ash Wednesday
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Digital download: A service for beginning the Lenten journey, to bring our brokenness and hopelessness and place them on the Table of grace. Includes optional marking with ashes. 11 pages.
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Digital download: A preparation for the period of reflection and prayer that is Lent; a call to come back to God and to come back to the earth and wonder at the gift of our lives together. Includes visiting three ‘stations’ and marking of the palm of the hand with ashes. 7 pages.
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Digital download: A meditative liturgy (but including practical actions) and a reflection for celebrating Ash Wednesday and entering a sacred season. 8 pages. |
Resources for Valentine’s Day
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Digital download: For a slightly different take on celebrating love – from the romantic and erotic to the universal and divine – a collection of pieces from various Wild Goose publications. Includes contributions by Annie Heppenstall, Ruth Burgess, Rosie Miles, Nicola Slee, Jan Berry, Thom Shuman, Kathy Galloway and many others. 31 pages For more information and to see a sample
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Digital download: A participative liturgy on love, designed to be carried out in a circle around a low table. Includes preparation notes. 11 pages For more information and to see a sample
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Digital download: A meditative prayer for Valentine’s day, giving thanks for love and the ‘goodness at the heart of humanity, planted more deeply than all that is wrong’. 3 pages |
Visit Iona
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A week of creativity and sharing stories in community with some of the authors published by us. As well as a chance to enjoy the beauty and tranquillity of the island and to live a communal life for a few days, there will be creative writing workshops, and craft and music sessions. Authors include Sally Foster-Fulton, Neil Paynter, Tom Gordon and Jan Sutch Pickard. |
Contribute to a bookCONTRIBUTIONS are invitedfor a new liturgical resource book being created by Ruth Burgess (author of Fire and Bread, Eggs and Ashes etc.Theme WINTER, including All Saints, Advent, Christmas, Epiphany … Prayers, poems, liturgies, reflections, readings, drama scripts, songs, stories, meditations, etc. To send a contribution or to obtain more details, please email admin@ionabooks.com with the subject line Winter contributions. Deadline February 28th 2016 |
Resources for Lent and Easter
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