Digital download: Four liturgies focusing on trans affirmation inspired by the International Transgender Day of Visibility. They explicitly celebrate trans and non-binary people and include a trans naming liturgy. 23 pages.
Inspiration for each day of Lent, Holy Week, Advent, Christmas and beyond, including short passages from scripture, reflective poems, suggestions for meditation or action, and short prayers.
Meditations & Reflections
Finding Our Way Back, Praying Our Way Forward (Downloadable book)
Inspiration for each day of Lent, Holy Week, Advent, Christmas and beyond, including short passages from scripture, reflective poems, suggestions for meditation or action, and short prayers.
Digital download: A collection of resources created by members of the Iona Community’s LGBTQ+ Common Concern Network as a reflection of all that they seek to celebrate and affirm. Includes prayers, poems, reflections and songs. 36 pages.
Father's Day
Digital download: Reflections, a poem and a prayer for Father’s Day. 10 pages.
Digital download: Resources for Trans Day of Remembrance on November 20th. Includes an invocation, a reading, a reflection, an act of remembrance, a letting go activity and intercessions. 8 pages.
Digital download: A hymn (words only) written for COP26 but which can be used in any service with a theme of environmental concerns. 2 pages.
Healing
Reassurance for those living with loss. How to help people cope with bereavement, and adapt to the change and challenge of the losses in their lives.
Reassurance for those living with loss. How to help people cope with bereavement, and adapt to the change and challenge of the losses in their lives.
Mothering Sunday
Digital download: Five poems by Tom Gordon dedicated to mothers and mothering. 7 pages.
Valentine's Day
Digital download: A reflection and resources for Valentine’s Day, focusing on a broader interpretation of what it represents. Includes two finger labyrinths to use as tools for reflection. 11 pages.
Ash Wednesday
Digital download: A reflection on failure and rebuilding for Ash Wednesday and a reflection on ‘standing on the edges’ of things for Lent. 3 pages.
Digital download: An act of remembrance and a sermon for Transgender Day of Remembrance, plus some extra resources. Taken from the book Transgender Christian Human. 17 pages.
Prayer & Worship
Wild Goose Big Book of Worship Resources 2 (Downloadable book)
Another wide-ranging collection of resources for the main festivals and other special days, along with blessings and reflections on various subjects, such as climate change, homelessness and racial justice.
Another wide-ranging collection of resources for the main festivals and other special days, along with blessings and reflections on various subjects, such as climate change, homelessness and racial justice.
The life story (so far) of Alex Clare-Young, the first out transgender minister in the United Reformed Church. Includes resources and activities to encourage individuals and groups to explore the subject of gender identity.
The life story (so far) of Alex Clare-Young, the first out transgender minister in the United Reformed Church. Includes resources and activities to encourage individuals and groups to explore the subject of gender identity.
A second big book of liturgies for all the main festivals and some other special days - from short acts of worship to full communion services.
A second big book of liturgies for all the main festivals and some other special days - from short acts of worship to full communion services.
Digital download: Two Acts of Commitment plus extra resources, as used in Iona Abbey services. 18 pages.
A year of daily readings, offering simple and direct reflections for facing the joys and sorrows, challenges and decisions of each day.
Books
A year of daily readings, offering simple and direct reflections for facing the joys and sorrows, challenges and decisions of each day.
All-age resources
Digital download: Prayers and poems by and for children. Whether you're a kid or a kid at heart, we hope you'll find them helpful, comforting, moving, entertaining, fun. 38 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Some reflections and a word for each week of Lent, as an aid to meditating on the meaning of this season and with the possibility of keeping a journal of reflection. 9 pages.
Ash Wednesday
Digital download: A service which invites us to prepare for Lent. Whether we have been at the edge of the wilderness before or not, we are all different people from who we were last year, and the journey through Lent allows us to reflect and to be renewed. 11 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A poetic reflection on the incarnation of Christ. You kept your appointment, just like you said you would - 3 pages.
Digital download: Two alternative Sunday morning Communion services from Iona Abbey, with an additional section of extra resources. Taken from the new, revised edition of the Iona Abbey Worship Book. 30 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Iona Abbey Prayers for the World and Its People (PDF download)
Digital download: Intercessory prayers for the world and its people, with suggested Bible readings for each day of the week on various themes. From the new, revised edition of the Iona Abbey Worship Book. 8 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Two services that draw on the part of the Iona Community's Rule which is a commitment to justice, peace and the integrity of creation. Includes appendix with notes for the services and extra resources. From the new, revised edition of the Iona Abbey Worship Book. 14 pages.
Liturgies from the Iona Community for numerous festivals, special occasions and areas of concern. Full communion services and shorts acts of worship; liturgies for small groups and all-age gatherings; worship rooted in church life and the Iona Community's resident group on Iona, in social justice and pastoral work.