Daily life
Digital download: Reflections on being with God through cycles and passing of time - for each day of the week and different times of the day. Includes biblical quotes and references, reflections and points of focus, and a canticle and a prayer for each day or time. Taken from the book Wild Goose Chase: Exploring the spirituality of everyday life, by Annie Heppenstall. 24 pages.
Digital download: A service of appreciation and blessing for all the non-human beings who accompany us, in gratitude for their friendship, loyalty and unconditional love. 'Pets are visible signs of that invisible grace God fills us with in each and every moment of our lives.' 8 pages.
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Digital download: Contemplations that use a focus on various parts of the body as a device for bringing ourselves into the present moment. Each section includes a Bible quote and references, a discussion, reflective activities and a prayer. Taken from the book Wild Goose Chase: Exploring the spirituality of everyday life, by Annie Heppenstall. 25 pages.
Digital download: Meditations on the lives of some ordinary people from the Bible, using the haiku format, and a suggestion for using this method for contemplation on any chosen theme. Taken from the book Wild Goose Chase: Exploring the spirituality of everyday life, by Annie Heppenstall. 4 pages.
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Digital download: A vigil for Good Friday that concentrates the final 24 hours of Jesus into about an hour. 9 pages.
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Digital download: A remembrance and celebration of that Last Supper of long ago and what it means to us - as the beginning of hope and much more. 10 pages.
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Digital download: Insightful meditative poems for Ash Wednesday, the Sundays of Lent, and Holy Week, which can be used in group situations or for personal reflection. 21 pages.
PDF download: A communion liturgy for Ascension - a reminder that at Pentecost the torch of Jesus' ministry was passed on to the disciples, and down to us through all the centuries. 9 pages.
PowerPoint download: A communion liturgy for Ascension - a reminder that at Pentecost the torch of Jesus' ministry was passed on to the disciples, and down to us through all the centuries. PowerPoint format.
PDF + PowerPoint download: A communion liturgy for Ascension - a reminder that at Pentecost the torch of Jesus' ministry was passed on to the disciples, and down to us through all the centuries. PDF + PowerPoint formats.
Digital download: A service for beginning the Lenten journey, to bring our brokenness and hopelessness and place them on the Table of grace. Includes optional marking with ashes. 11 pages.
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Digital download: A participative liturgy on love, designed to be carried out in a circle around a low table. Includes preparation notes. 11 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A programme of suggested Bible readings and short prayers for Advent and Christmas that will help you create a few minutes of reflection for each day of this season. 16 pages.
Digital download: A new communion liturgy to celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration or to use at other times. We are all capable of being forgiven and transformed. 13 pages.
Communion
Digital download: From the book Wild Goose Chase, by Annie Heppenstall, this is a radical (in the true sense of the word) way in which a group of 'ordinary' people can share thanksgiving with confidence, drawing from the roots and scriptures of our faith, using a structure which follows a traditional act of worship. 11 pages.
City living
Digital download: A litany for walking the streets of a city, taken from the book Wild Goose Chase, by Annie Heppenstall. The author says, 'The litany arose out of a desire within our church community to surround the area with prayer following a street shooting. So a group began to meet to walk quietly around the area, stopping at significant places to pray, to sing and to light candles.' 5 pages.
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Digital download: A programme of suggested Bible readings and short prayers for the whole of Lent and Holy Week that will help you create a few minutes of reflection for each day of this season. 17 pages.
Care For Creation
A book of 28 short readings and reflections in response to the call back to the garden, back to full relationship with God and all creation. Suitable for group or individual use.
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Digital download: What has been the journey that brought you to this point? The Blessed Path is a creative and flexible marriage/partnership ceremony exploring the theme of life-journeys and the commitment a couple make to walk together along the path, 'on rough ground and on smooth ' 17 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A short Bible reading and a short reflection on the names applicable to Jesus (Author of Salvation, Bread of God, Firstborn of Creation, Living Stone, The Way). Taken from the book Going Home Another Way, by Neil Paynter. 1.5 pages.
Books
A book of 28 short readings and reflections in response to the call back to the garden, back to full relationship with God and all creation. Suitable for group or individual use.
Advent & Christmas
Daily readings for the four weeks of Advent. 'Reading one of Thom's books is like walking and talking with a friend. Someone who understands the fragility and failings of being human (and himself) but who continues to laugh, and to hope and work for the coming of the Light.'
Advent & Christmas
Daily readings for the four weeks of Advent. 'Reading one of Thom's books is like walking and talking with a friend. Someone who understands the fragility and failings of being human (and himself) but who continues to laugh, and to hope and work for the coming of the Light.'
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Detailed instructions for a workshop exploring meditative prayer using beads, based on the words 'Be still and know that I am God.' 18 pages.
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Digital download: A simple meditation, using beads, based on the words 'Be still and know that I am God'. Includes a description of how to make the bead string and some further reflections. This meditation is useful for calming the mind when in challenging circumstances. 4 pages.
Prayer & Worship
Liturgies and worship resources on a range of subjects and concerns - globalisation, food, water, HIV/AIDS, the environment, interfaith dialogue, the arms trade, prisoners of conscience, 20th-century martyrs, homelessness, racism, gender, living in...
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Digital download: A blessing liturgy for a marriage which with a very small adaptation can also be used for a partnership ceremony.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A service to be held on or near the longest night of the year, taken from the book Candles & Conifers, by Ruth Burgess.
Books
Annie Heppenstall points us towards finding God in all aspects of daily life and in the natural world around us. The book's many resources for individuals and groups include body prayers, bead prayers, a covenant of salt, shrine-making, contemplations for various daily activities, creating sacred space in the home, and a leaderless Eucharist.
Advent & Christmas
Reflections for the season of Advent based on those people who might only be mentioned once in the Bible (in the lineages in Matthew and Luke) - the women, the prophets, the exiles who, while not linked to Jesus genetically, nevertheless passed on their 'spiritual DNA' to him and to us.