Holy Week
Digital download: A series of short reflections and prayers that might be used before – or during – a simple meal each evening of Holy Week. 4 pages.
Good Friday
Digital download: A group activity to reflect on some of the things that people other than Jesus said on Good Friday. 3 pages.
Digital download: Poems about finding our own paths to hopeful spaces. ‘Hope is a dimension of the spirit …' 8 pages.
Good Friday
Digital download: A poetic reflection on the journey of Jesus along the Via Dolorosa. 3 pages.
Holy Week
Digital download: A reflection and a meditation on drinking the bittersweet cup of life. 5 pages.
Meditations & Reflections
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.
Meditations & Reflections
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.
Songbooks
One hundred 21st-century hymn texts by John L Bell & Graham Maule that can be sung to familiar tunes - making the most of minimal congregational song resources in an accessible and resilient way.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A reflection, meditation and prayer relating to the three gifts offered to the baby Jesus by the ‘wise men from the East’. 5 pages
Saints & others
Digital download: A liturgy for St Benedict’s Day focusing on creating holy space, offering holy service and living holy communion. Suitable for a wide range of ages and for use by small groups or individuals. 6 pages.
Healing
Digital download: Poet Joy Mead imagines what the world would be like if we all concentrated on the positive aspects of life. 4 pages.
Digital download: A set of worship items for evening time that could be used by a family or a group. Includes simple songs/chants, psalms, prayers and ways of remembering the Bible. 5 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.
Digital download: A personal and poetic meditative reflection on ageing, with an emphasis on a sense of wonder arising from the seemingly small but immensely meaningful things of life. 18 pages.
Issues & Inspirations
A guide to a pilgrimage route in one of the most majestic landscapes in the UK, that of the Lake District. Also provides an historical backdrop to the region and St Kentigern, who is also known as St Mungo, the patron saint of Glasgow.
Prayer & Worship
A guide to a pilgrimage route in one of the most majestic landscapes in the UK, that of the Lake District. Also provides an historical backdrop to the region and St Kentigern, who is also known as St Mungo, the patron saint of Glasgow.
Books
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.
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.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A dialogue/drama script involving humans, God and plenty of sheep, giving an alternative view of Christmas and life in general. 6 pages.
Books
One hundred 21st-century hymn texts by John L Bell & Graham Maule that can be sung to familiar tunes - making the most of minimal congregational song resources in an accessible and resilient way.
Creation & Environment
Digital download: A liturgy about the joy of seeing holiness in the ordinary but also for the sadness of the world and the possibilities of transformation. 6 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A reflection, a poem and a prayer for Good Friday on the hope beyond the despair of the day and the mystery of the torn veil of the temple. Taken from the book The Sun Slowly Rises, by Neil Paynter. 6 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Joy Mead contemplates the nature of the soul, interspersed with some of her poems. 15 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A poetic exploration of prayer as a diverse, open, imaginative, exciting journey - the complete opposite of hands together, eyes closed. 13 pages.
Creation & Environment
Digital download: This meditative look at climate change, the sacrednesss of all life and human responsibility inspires us to be attentive, caring and empathetic with all beings with whom we share the sacred space of the earth. 4 pages.
All-age resources
Digital download: All-age resources for baptisms and for celebrating 'Baptismas' ('Like Christmas; only for Baptism'). School chaplain Janet Lees thinks that church is generally far too predictable and delights in creating, along with her pupils, new approaches to old themes. 9 pages.
Books
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.