Digital download: Poems about finding our own paths to hopeful spaces. ‘Hope is a dimension of the spirit …' 8 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Daily scripture readings, poetic reflections, and candle-lighting prayers for Advent, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Advent & Christmas
Publication October 26th. Daily scripture readings, poetic reflections, and candle-lighting prayers for Advent, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Holy Week
Digital download: A reflection and a meditation on drinking the bittersweet cup of life. 5 pages.
Digital download: A liturgy for Passion Sunday. 7 pages.
Palm Sunday
Digital download: A liturgy for Palm Sunday. 8 pages.
Ash Wednesday
Digital download: An evening service for Ash Wednesday with optional imposition of ashes. 9 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.
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
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.
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.
Prayer & Worship
How Shall We Pray This Morning? For What Shall We Pray This Night?
Morning and evening liturgies for a time of lockdown and beyond.
Prayer & Worship
How Shall We Pray This Morning? For What Shall We Pray This Night? (Downloadable book)
Morning and evening liturgies for a time of lockdown and beyond.
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.
Meditations & Reflections
A whole year of daily short prayers, or 'nudges', inspired by the Bible - to speak to heart and soul.
Books
A whole year of daily short prayers, or 'nudges', inspired by the Bible - to speak to heart and soul.
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.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Very short reflections for each day of Lent and Holy Week on how it seems easier to abstain from the very things we should be doing, rather than from those we shouldn't. 19 pages.
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 and a poem for Holy Saturday on the relationship between Jesus and Judas and what betrayal means for us. Taken from the book The Sun Slowly Rises, by Neil Paynter. 4 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
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.
Advent & Christmas
Bible readings, reflections and prayers for Advent, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, for all those who find themselves serving, eating, resting and singing in diners (real and metaphorical) in this holy season - in hope that there they will discover God, serving and eating and resting and singing and welcoming them with open arms.
Advent & Christmas
Bible readings, reflections and prayers for Advent, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, for all those who find themselves serving, eating, resting and singing in diners (real and metaphorical) in this holy season - in hope that there they will discover God, serving and eating and resting and singing and welcoming them with open arms.
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.