Digital download: Stories, drama scripts, monologues, prayers and reflections related to lectionary readings for September, taken from the book Autumn, by Ruth Burgess. 35 pages.
Creation & Environment
Digital download: Prayers and reflections for Creation Time, taken from the book Autumn, by Ruth Burgess. 15 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.
All Hallows'
Digital download: Two liturgies, two reflections and a prayer for All Hallows’ Eve, taken from the book Autumn, by Ruth Burgess. 9 pages.
Digital download: A liturgy for Remembrance Sunday with an emphasis on the need for peace. Also includes an extensive section of additional resources and suggestions, as well as an optional symbolic action for children. 34 pages.
Digital download: Poems and reflections on Autumn during October, taken from the book Autumn, by Ruth Burgess. 13 pages.
Digital download: Reflections, poems, songs and a prayer about the time of falling leaves, taken from the book Autumn, by Ruth Burgess. 9 pages.
Digital download: A collection of prayers, including responsive prayers, focusing on autumn, taken from the book Autumn, by Ruth Burgess. 8 pages.
Harvest
Digital download: Prayers, responsive prayers, reflections and a song for Harvest, taken from the book Autumn, by Ruth Burgess. 15 pages.
Meditations & Reflections
Poems and prayers from morning to night, the title poem inspired by an insight of Julian of Norwich. From the first cup of tea in the morning as the recycling lorry trundles down the street to those final random thoughts before we drop off at night. As the children grow up and someone we love dies; as we rage against life and love brings us home.
Meditations & Reflections
Poems and prayers from morning to night, the title poem inspired by an insight of Julian of Norwich. From the first cup of tea in the morning as the recycling lorry trundles down the street to those final random thoughts before we drop off at night. As the children grow up and someone we love dies; as we rage against life and love brings us home.
Transfiguration
Digital download: Prayers, reflections, a drama script and a sermon for the Feast of the Transfiguration (August 6th), taken from the book Autumn, by Ruth Burgess. 10 pages.
Digital download: Six prayers and a song for summer, taken from the book Summer, by Ruth Burgess. 4 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.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A liturgy for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day designed around four monologues which relate to symbols from the Christmas narratives. 13 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.
Rogation
Digital download: Poems for Rogationtide by Rebeka Maples and an Elemental Rogation Liturgy by Ruth Burgess. Taken from the book Summer, by Ruth Burgess. 16 pages.
Ash Wednesday
Digital download: Liturgies, reflections and prayers for Ash Wednesday, from the book Spring, by Ruth Burgess. 20 pages.
Digital download: A song (words and music) and a reflection for Fair Trade Fortnight, taken from the book Spring, by Ruth Burgess. 4 pages.
Digital download: Two poems, two prayers and a reflection for celebrating the start of Spring in February. Taken from the book Spring, by Ruth Burgess. 5 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A service for Christmas Eve – or alternatively Christmas Day – inspired by the poem ‘Getting to the front of the stable’ by Anne Weems. 14 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Seven blessings for a wedding or partnership, with each stanza one line longer than the previous. 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.
All-age resources
Digital download: An all-age communion inspired by the story of St Francis of Assisi. For use on 4th October, the Feast of St Francis, or at other times. Includes a blessing of animals. 11 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: An all-age service for starting a new year, focusing on the Magi's visit to Jesus and the amazing gifts they brought, and how to choose a gift for God for the coming year - a kind of new year's resolution from the heart. 10 pages.
All-age resources
Digital download: An all-age service exploring the different meanings of love and the story of the Prodigal Son. It also includes one of Nancy's Fergie the Frog stories and a symbolic action involving paper, scissors and an amazing expanding heart. 12 pages.
All-age resources
Digital download: Another of Nancy's lively communion services for all ages, this time for Easter Sunday and incorporating a rooster's view of the Resurrection. The author is a former Deputy Warden of Iona Abbey. 13 pages.
All-age resources
Digital download: Another fun all-age service, this time for Lent, focusing on bread and including a drama script and a child-friendly communion service. 14 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: An all-age service for Advent centred on light. It incorporates another of Nancy's 'Fergie the Frog' stories as a script. 14 pages.
All Saints' Day
Digital download: An all-age service about what makes a saint and where they are to be found - mainly in the world all around us. Incorporates the story of the five loaves and two fishes. 6 pages.