Ascension
Digital download: Worship resources for Ascension: scripture reading suggestions, a responsive reading and a substantial reflection. 7 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Reflections, monologues, songs, drama scripts, stories, biblical reflections and a poem and a prayer for exploring the resurrection appearances of Jesus. Taken from the book Summer by Ruth Burgess. 43 pages.
Easter Sunday
Digital download: A poem for Easter Sunday. 2 pages.
Holy Week
Digital download: A reflection and a meditation on drinking the bittersweet cup of life. 5 pages.
Palm Sunday
Digital download: A liturgy for Passion Sunday. 7 pages.
Palm Sunday
Digital download: A liturgy for Palm Sunday. 8 pages.
Palm Sunday
Digital download: A poem for Palm Sunday to inspire us to meditate on that day in our own locale. 2 pages.
Lent & Easter
Digital download: Four poems exploring the temptations of Jesus in the wilderness. 7 pages.
Sheet music download: A song for Easter Sunday, by one of the Iona Abbey musicians. 3 pages.
Palm Sunday
Digital download: Three prayers, two monologues, four drama scripts, a children’s song and a reflection for Palm Sunday, all taken from the book Spring by Ruth Burgess. 18 pages.
Easter Sunday
Digital download: An Eastertide resource for individual reflection or group worship, inspired by a landmark on the Isle of Mull. It can be adapted for other locations, inside and out, online or for a recorded service. 10 pages.
Ash Wednesday
Digital download: An evening service for Ash Wednesday in a time of pandemic, which takes into consideration the fact that people may be feeling isolated, bruised and exhausted from their experiences during this time. 11 pages.
Trinity Sunday
Digital download: Resources for Trinity – responses, prayers, monologues, a song and a drama script. Taken from the book Summer, by Ruth Burgess. 19 pages.
Pentecost
Digital download: A responsive reading, a reflection and a prayer of confession for Pentecost. 6 pages.
Pentecost
Digital download: A poetic prayer for Pentecost touching on joy, grieving anger, holy fire, life itself. 2 pages.
Easter Sunday
Digital download: Worship resources for Easter Day – a reading, a responsive reading, a substantial reflection and a prayer. 8 pages.
Good Friday
Digital download: An ecumenical prayer walk for Good Friday which uses local landmarks to relate to the concerns of the community and its links to the wider world. Based on the medieval tradition of fourteen stations of the Cross. 24 pages.
Good Friday
Digital download: An outdoor service for Good Friday. 10 pages.
Digital download: An all-age song for Easter Sunday, words only, to be sung to the tune of ‘This old man’. 2 pages.
Maundy Thursday
Digital download: A reflective Tenebrae service that can be used with all ages from 9 years upwards, during which candles are extinguished to symbolise how Jesus was abandoned by everyone on the night before his death. 9 pages.
Holy Week
Digital download: A liturgy for group use, intended as a way of using Holy Saturday within the context of Passion liturgy, by pausing, and reflecting on a world without God, and on our own human losses. 14 pages.
Digital download: A poetic reflection on death and loss, including that of Jesus, for Holy Saturday. 4 pages.
Ash Wednesday
Digital download: A reflection on failure and rebuilding for Ash Wednesday and a reflection on ‘standing on the edges’ of things for Lent. 3 pages.
Ash Wednesday
Digital download: Liturgies, reflections and prayers for Ash Wednesday, from the book Spring, by Ruth Burgess. 20 pages.
Digital download: Two substantial prayers - one for Ascension and one for Pentecost. 4 pages.
Sheet music download: A song for Easter, by one of the Iona Abbey musicians. Full score. 3 pages.
Digital download: A song for Easter, by one of the Iona Abbey musicians. Full score. 3 pages.
All-age resources
Digital download: A lively all-age service for Palm Sunday, including a dialogue between the pebbles on the road that Jesus travelled, an exploration of what it means to be a king, and an opportunity to make a crown of thorns from pipe cleaners. 10 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Eleven poems to reflect on during Passiontide: 'a sacred time of remembering what it means for a friend, and brother, to be betrayed, to be afraid, to be humiliated, to be falsely accused, to be deserted by those who love him ' 10 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Readings for two voices reflecting on the temptations of Jesus, relating to hunger, humility and hierarchy. 5 pages.