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.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: an original dialogue, activity and reflection on the story of the Prodigal Son. Jesus's stories were about the people he met and the situations he encountered. The Gospel is not some disconnected philosophical or moral message, but is lived out in real life, among real people: the Prodigal Son is that guy down the pub you've heard about who spent all his father's money and had to come back home with his tail between his legs. 6 pages.
A book about small things and little occasions, the smells, colours, sounds, the looking, perceiving, thinking, remembering of our lives and the love that makes them significant. In a mix of poems, stories and material suitable for private or public reflection it explores our knowing and our unknowing. It celebrates the validity of all experience.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Moving and insightful prayers and poems for Easter Day and beyond, up to Pentecost, taken from the book The Green Heart of the Snowdrop, by Kate McIlhagga. 22 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Intimate, insightful prayers and poems for the period of Lent, taken from the book The Green Heart of the Snowdrop, by Kate McIlhagga. 25 pages.
Books
A book about small things and little occasions, the smells, colours, sounds, the looking, perceiving, thinking, remembering of our lives and the love that makes them significant. In a mix of poems, stories and material suitable for private or public reflection it explores our knowing and our unknowing. It celebrates the validity of all experience,...
Through conversations and connections Joy Mead explores the true meaning of community - beyond the jargon of ''community cohesion'' and the ''Big Society''.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Bible readings, poems, prayers and reflections for Good Friday. 15 pages.
Books
Through conversations and connections Joy Mead explores the true meaning of community - beyond the jargon of ''community cohesion'' and the ''Big Society''.
Meditations & Reflections
A collection of incarnational poetry exploring a spirituality that engages with people, things, and the joys and sorrows of daily life. Where are the altars? In the churches and great cathedrals? Or out in the world and in the everyday?
Five practical workshops, for groups or individuals, to explore the use of words and poetry in everyday life. The readings and activities in this book aim to lead us to a deeper understanding of how we use language.
Meditations & Reflections
The best of Kate McIlhagga's work in one collection. Includes poems and prayers of gathering and beginning; creation and self; Advent and Epiphany; Lent and mothering; Easter and Pentecost; pilgrimage and endings and blessings.
Through poems and reflections Joy Mead imagines the women mentioned in the Bible as central to their own stories, rather than appearing briefly on the margins of a narrative which reflects a world perceived and led by men.
Digital download: A short service of grief, anger and thanks to mark the birth of a stillborn child, taken from the book The Pattern of Our Days, ed. Kathy Galloway. 2 pages
Difficult times
Digital download: A liturgy for those facing serious illness, taken from the book Praying for the Dawn by Ruth Burgess and Kathy Galloway.
Books
This collection of incarnational poetry from the author of A Telling Place, The One Loaf and Making Peace in Practice and Poetry explores a spirituality that engages with people, things, and the joys and sorrows of daily life.
Five practical workshops, for groups or individuals, to explore the use of words and poetry in everyday life. The readings and activities in this book aim to lead us to a deeper understanding of how we use language.
Advent & Christmas
Celebrate Christmas with reflections and prayers for each day of Advent. This effective antidote to the commercialism of the festive season can be used for individual meditation or group worship. The authors are former Wardens of Iona Abbey and the MacLeod Centre on the Isle of Iona.
Advent & Christmas
Celebrate Christmas with reflections and prayers for each day of Advent. This effective antidote to the commercialism of the festive season can be used for individual meditation or group worship. The authors are former Wardens of Iona Abbey and the MacLeod Centre on the Isle of Iona.
Books
Through poems and reflections Joy Mead imagines the women mentioned in the Bible as central to their own stories, rather than appearing briefly on the margins of a narrative which reflects a world perceived and led by men.
The best of Kate McIlhagga's work in one collection. Includes poems and prayers of gathering and beginning; creation and self; Advent and Epiphany; Lent and mothering; Easter and Pentecost; pilgrimage and endings and blessings.
Books
A book which explores the making and the mystery of bread - growing, making, baking, sharing - in story and recipe, poetry and prayer. In bread we see the true connectedness of all life - the uniting of body and soul, spirit and material.