Lent & Easter
Daily readings, prayers and meditations for Holy Week, from Iona Community members, associates and friends, with an additional resource section of poems, prayers and reflections.
Lent & Easter
Daily readings, prayers and meditations for Holy Week, from Iona Community members, associates and friends, with an additional resource section of poems, prayers and reflections.
Healing
Liturgical and practical resources from Iona Community members, friends and others designed to create more awareness and understanding about mental health.
Liturgical and practical resources from Iona Community members, friends and others designed to create more awareness and understanding about mental health.
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.
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.
Lent & Easter
Daily reflections and resources for Holy Week from members, associates and friends of the Iona Community.
Lent & Easter
Daily reflections and resources for Holy Week from members, associates and friends of the Iona Community.
Advent & Christmas
Daily readings, with prayers, poems and actions, for Advent and Christmas from members, associates and friends of the Iona Community.
Advent & Christmas
Daily readings, with prayers, poems and actions, for Advent and Christmas from members, associates and friends of the Iona Community.
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.
Lent & Easter
Daily readings, with prayers, poems and actions, for Lent and Holy Week from members, associates and friends of the Iona Community.
Lent & Easter
Daily readings, with prayers, poems and actions, for Lent and Holy Week from members, associates and friends of the Iona Community.
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.
Daily readings celebrating the 'Iona effect' – about people from different countries and backgrounds coming together. Stories of encounter, challenge, exchange, connection, transformation. Stories about people and the power of the Spirit.
Books
Daily readings celebrating the 'Iona effect' – about people from different countries and backgrounds coming together. Stories of encounter, challenge, exchange, connection, transformation. Stories about people and the power of the Spirit.
Bible readings, reflections and prayers for the days of Holy Week, and a large section of resources, all from members, associates and friends of the Iona Community.
Books
Bible readings, reflections and prayers for the days of Holy Week, and a large section of resources, all from members, associates and friends of the Iona Community.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Reflections on homelessness and about finding Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit in down-to-earth places. From the book Down To Earth, by Neil Paynter. 19 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.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
A Reflection, Prayer and Pledge for International Women’s Day (PDF download)
Digital download: All the evidence is that gender equality leads to better decisions, fairer policies, more participation, prosperity and peace. International Women's Day presents a challenge to us all - let's reflect, pray and pledge for a radical transformation of the current world order. 12 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.
A book of modern, engaged prayers following the rhythm of the Iona Community's daily prayer cycle which is based on the many and varied concerns of the Community.
A book of modern, engaged prayers following the rhythm of the Iona Community's daily prayer cycle which is based on the many and varied concerns of the Community.
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.
All-age resources
Digital download: A lively service about friendship, for all ages, including one of the author's 'Fergie the Frog' stories, a 'Jesus & Peter' dialogue on the model of those created by the Wild Goose Resource Group, a version of the story of Zacchaeus, friendship bracelets and more besides. Nancy is a former Deputy Warden of Iona Abbey. 12 pages.