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Meditations & Reflections

Wintersong

Joy Mead £7.99

Poems written during an emotional time of absence and loss. Out of the shadows, the darkness, and often the injustice, the need to lament and mourn goes hand in hand with the special significance of small moments and ordinary occasions.

Lent & Easter

The Road Chosen

Janet Killeen £8.99

Poems, stories and reflections for Holy Week, using a variety of perspectives to get close to its events as Jesus unflinchingly walked the road that he had chosen.

Prayer & Worship

Autumn

Ruth Burgess £14.99

A liturgical resource book for August, September and October which includes prayers, responses, stories, poems, liturgies, songs, reflections, scripts and monologues.

Advent & Christmas

Towards Bethlehem

Janet Killeen £7.99

Stories, poems and reflections for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany giving new perspectives on traditional narratives. Suitable for individual or group use.

Books

Summer

Ruth Burgess £14.99

A liturgical resource book that covers the summer months of May, June and July with prayers, stories, responses, songs, poems, reflections, monologues, liturgies and reflections for the major Christian festivals and seasons of Eastertide and Pentecost.

Joy Mead £8.99

A new collection of poems from Joy Mead. Her poems celebrate what it is to be alive and also, perhaps, what it is to contemplate death.

Books

Spring

Ruth Burgess £14.99

Liturgical resources for February, March and April including Candlemas, Lent, Holy Week, Fair Trade Fortnight and Earth Day.

Ruth Burgess £12.99

Based on the biblical books from Esther to Maccabees, this is a collection of stories, scripts and reflections written by Iona Community members, associates, friends and others. It is a companion volume to Olives and Obligations.

Ruth Burgess £12.99

Stories, scripts and reflections, based on the biblical books from Genesis to Nehemiah, written by Iona Community members, associates, friends and others. Esther to Maccabees will follow.

Bonnie B Thurston £8.99

Reflective, powerful poems about how, on a cosmic and a personal level, darkness gives way to light, reminding us 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'

Advent & Christmas

Winter

Ruth Burgess £14.99

This liturgical resource book covering November, December and January includes prayers, stories, responses, songs, poems, reflections, liturgies and meditations for the major Christian festivals and other occasions that fall during these months.

Joy Mead £9.99

A collection of favourite Joy Mead poems, many of them selected by the author's readers and friends, who ask 'Where can I find -?' when they want a poem for a special occasion. Also includes some new works.

Advent & Christmas

A Star-Filled Grace

Rachel Mann £9.99

Poetry, liturgy and narrative resources on beloved Advent and Christmas themes, questioning the cosy and sentimental view of the festive season and taking seriously the idea that God in Christ is born as a vulnerable outsider who transforms the world in radical ways.

Joy Mead £0.00

A free download providing an updated version of one of the poems in Glimpsed in Passing.

Joy Mead £8.99

Poems from Iona Community member Joy Mead. They come from the beauty of the glimpsed moment - a precious jewel held for a short time amid the pain and sorrow of the world, then let go into the bigger picture - The beauty is what we remember, what gives the moment its significance.

Martin Lönnebo, Carolina Welin, Carolina Johnasson £8.99

A book about the original Pearls of Life bracelet. There is a now a new version of the Pearls (available from Verbum Sweden at: https://www.verbum.se/fralsarkransen/fralsarkransen-av-glas-p52634417) where one of the beads is a different colour, but most of this book is still relevant.

Rachel Mann £9.99

Powerful and moving readings, stories and poems for Easter. Rachel Mann writes with the voices of the characters involved in the biblical accounts of passion and resurrection, unafraid to explore the darkest aspects evoked by these events.

Ruth Burgess £14.99

A resource book for anyone who is planning a funeral. You may be a family member or a friend of someone who has died. You may be planning your own funeral. You may arrange and conduct funerals professionally. Here you will find an abundance of words and ideas for celebrating a life in ways that are personal and honest.

Joy Mead £9.99

A book about small things and little occasions, the smells, colours, sounds, the looking, perceiving, thinking, remembering of our lives and the love that makes them significant. In a mix of poems, stories and material suitable for private or public reflection it explores our knowing and our unknowing. It celebrates the validity of all experience,...

Ruth Burgess £14.99

A collection of resources for the late summer and autumn period of Ordinary Time, covering the weeks from the Feast of the Transfiguration to All Hallows' Eve.

Joy Mead £10.99

This collection of incarnational poetry from the author of A Telling Place, The One Loaf and Making Peace in Practice and Poetry explores a spirituality that engages with people, things, and the joys and sorrows of daily life.

Ruth Burgess £14.99

This book of Eastertide resources covering the period from Easter Sunday to Trinity Sunday offers prayers, responses, liturgies, songs, poems, reflections, meditations, sermons and stories for a period of nearly two months, including Easter Day, Ascension Day, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, Saints' days, Rogation days, environmental days and many more.

Ruth Burgess £14.99

Another rich collection of resources from Ruth Burgess, this time for summer, although much of the material can be used in other contexts as well. Prayers, stories, responses, songs, poems, reflections and meditations.

Advent & Christmas

Advent Readings from Iona

Brian Woodcock & Jan Sutch Pickard £8.99

Celebrate Christmas with reflections and prayers for each day of Advent. This effective antidote to the commercialism of the festive season can be used for individual meditation or group worship. The authors are former Wardens of Iona Abbey and the MacLeod Centre on the Isle of Iona.

Ruth Burgess £9.99

Short prayers about friends, enemies, relationships and the particular moments and places of our daily lives. The book also includes instructions for three prayer-writing workshops.

Ruth Burgess £9.99

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.

Advent & Christmas

Candles & Conifers

Ruth Burgess £14.99

Candles & Conifers offers resources for groups and individuals covering the weeks from All Saints' Day to Christmas Eve, including saints' days, Remembrance Day, World AIDS Day and Advent.

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Joy Mead £10.99

Through poems and reflections Joy Mead imagines the women mentioned in the Bible as central to their own stories, rather than appearing briefly on the margins of a narrative which reflects a world perceived and led by men.

Advent & Christmas

Hay & Stardust

Ruth Burgess £14.99

This companion volume to Candles & Conifers is 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.

Joy Mead £10.99

A book which explores the making and the mystery of bread - growing, making, baking, sharing - in story and recipe, poetry and prayer. In bread we see the true connectedness of all life - the uniting of body and soul, spirit and material.