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.
Good Friday
Digital download: A poetic reflection on the journey of Jesus along the Via Dolorosa. 3 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.
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.
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.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Monday of Holy Week – The courage to be the only voice (PDF download)
Digital download: A Bible reading and a reflection for the Monday of Holy Week on having courage to stand up and speak out for what is right, with an emphasis on asylum seekers. Taken from the book The Sun Slowly Rises, by Neil Paynter. 9 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.
All-age resources
Digital download: A poem and a prayer for Ascension and some suggested all-age activities, prayers and songs for Pentecost. 4 pages.
All-age resources
Digital download: A selection of resources for Lent and Easter for children and young people, arising from the work of Janet Lees as Chaplain of Silcoates School, Wakefield. Janet uses her own 'remembered Bible' method to help people reclaim the Bible as their own. 24 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A resource for Advent and Christmas especially for those working with young people or children in a school, community or church setting - but also full of lively prayers, sketches and ideas for anyone looking to break out of a rut by using 'the remembered Bible'. 31 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A service of waiting and hope, built around the prophecies of Jeremiah and also linked to the theme of water and baptism. From the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 8 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A service for the dawn of Easter Sunday, ideal for the open air rather than inside a church building. A special time of the morning on a very special day. From the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 11 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Meditations for Good Friday based on experiences of Iona Community island staff who have worked with people on the edge socially, economically and emotionally. Each meditation includes reference to a Bible passage and can be used for personal reflection or as part of a service. From the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 16 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A simple service of lamentation for Good Friday that can be used by groups of 10 or 12 people in various locations such as people's homes or in different parts of a church building. From the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 8 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: An extensive Stations of the Cross with, at each station, a Bible reading and a testimony from a person who witnessed one of the events in the story. This is very much a community event in which everyone can be involved. Taken from the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 40 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A ceremony of foot-washing, Agape or Communion, the stripping of the church, and a vigil for 'the disappeared' and for prisoners of conscience. Taken from the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 13 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A pilgrimage for the start of Holy Week, mainly in the form of dramatic scripts for each stopping point. Although based on the weekly Iona pilgrimage, it can be adapted for any local environment, including urban ones, or even be used within the church itself. Taken from the book The Cross in the Marketplace, by Dave Broom. 34 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A service for the day when Jesus demonstrates what his claim to messiahship really means and what his Kingdom is really about - for committing ourselves to the values of the upside-down Kingdom of the unlikely Messiah Jesus, who stands today in the heart of the military-industrial complex and declares: 'Peace.' Taken from the book The Cross in the Marketplace, by Dave Broom. 7 pages.
A series of resources and complete liturgies for the major services of Holy Week. The book began life in community on Iona, and includes an Easter pilgrimage. Can be used in a church or house group or for private reflection, to deepen the experience of Easter - and inspire action.
A series of resources and complete liturgies for the major services of Holy Week. The book began life in community on Iona, and includes an Easter pilgrimage. Can be used in a church or house group or for private reflection, to deepen the experience of Easter - and inspire action.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: During Advent, we wait for the coming of Jesus Christ and for justice to be done. But God also waits for us, and asks: 'Well, what are you going to do about it all then? How are you, Christ's disciples, going to make a difference in the world?' 9 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A dialogue and reflection on the story of Abraham and Sarah entertaining angels unawares. Who was the last unexpected visitor you entertained? Did they bring good news? Were you happy to see them? Did your visitor bring you any unexpected blessings? - 6 pages.
Meditations & Reflections
Presents a method of using remembered (oral, not written) versions of the Bible with people of all ages and abilities, in which telling and interpreting the stories in light of the participants' own lives become inextricably linked.