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The first of two books addressing the 'whys' and 'hows' of congregational singing. Unapologetically anecdotal, it deals not with musical theories but with the reasons why people sing and how best to enable them to do so.
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Prayers, meditations, litanies, readings, responses, scripts, symbolic actions and more, tracing Jesus' road to the cross through Lent, Holy Week and Easter.
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Fifteen powerful a cappella songs from the South African church.
Only One Way Left is based on a memorable series of the Cunningham Lectures delivered in 1954 by the founder of the Iona Community at New College, Edinburgh, where the audience increased from lecture to lecture until there was standing room only.
First published in 1951, this book had its origin in a discussion as to whether the prime determining factor in human social relations is economic, as claimed by the Marxist world, and acted on implicitly by most of the rest of the world. Ralph Morton therefore begins with a study of the teaching of the Bible on economic and social life.
Readings from the founder of the Iona Community. Many lives were changed by George MacLeod's spine-tingling sermons, and many more by his personal example. These extracts give a flavour of the passion and poetry of the Celtic mystic who led the rebuilding of Iona Abbey.
Meditations & Reflections
These poems provide a powerful resource for personal contemplation and many of them can be used in a group or worship setting.
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.
This collection of daily readings is designed to help us reconnect with the energies of God and to centre our lives upon things that ultimately matter.
Daily readings for four months from a wide range of contributors within the Iona Community. These prayers, liturgies, songs, poems and articles, which reflect the concerns of the Community, can be used for group or individual reflection and are intended to inspire positive action and change in our lives.
A six-day cycle of prayer in the Celtic tradition, incorporating the daily themes used in Iona Abbey: justice and peace, prayer for healing, care for the earth, commitment to Christ, the communion of heaven and earth, and welcome and hospitality. Includes a lectionary of psalms and gospel readings.
Advent & Christmas
DOWNLOADABLE BOOK. Candles & Conifers offers resources for groups and individuals covering the weeks from All Saints' Day to Christmas Eve, including saints' days, Remembrance Day, World AIDS Day and Advent.
Advent & Christmas
This companion volume to Candles & Conifers is a collection of worship and meditation resources for the season of Christmastide - including Christmas Day, Holy Innocents' Day, Winter and New Year, Epiphany, Homelessness Sunday and Candlemas. It also contains eight Christmas plays.
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.
The services and resources in The Iona Abbey Worship Book reflect the Iona Community's commitment to the belief that worship is all that we are and all that we do, both inside and outside the church, with no division into the 'sacred' and the 'secular'. They draw on many traditions, including the Celtic, and aim to help us to be fully present to God, who is fully present to us - in our neighbour, in the political and social activity of the world around us, and in the very centre and soul of our being.
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Twenty-one of the forty-five chants, responses, choruses, introits and shorter songs that are featured in the Come All You People songbook.
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A selection of songs from the songbook There is One Among Us, sung by the Wild Goose Worship Group.
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I Will Not Sing Alone is a deliberately eclectic collection of words and music from different ages fused in contemporary arrangements.
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A range of gutsy and earthy congregational, choral and solo songs very different from traditional Christmas carols - from the songbook of the same name.
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Love and Anger draws on: the biblical songs of justice, World Church songs of protest and praise, and songs of experience from late twentieth-century Britain.
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16 of the 50 songs from the songbook of the same name. Songs from the psalms. Songs from all continents. Songs from the Wild Goose Worship Group. Songs for all.
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Eighteen of the songs from the Psalms of Patience, Protest and Praise songbook. Songs from the Psalms, paraphrased and arranged by John Bell.
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25 World Church songs, with an emphasis on Central and South America.
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Tracing the sometimes sure, sometimes faltering steps of Jesus and his followers through the entire season of Lent, to Easter Day and then beyond, these songs allow us to reflect on their progress, enter their experience and ultimately to make their confusion, doubt, joy and liberation our own. Many are four-part harmony, which will be satisfying for music groups or choirs to sing, as well as being accessible to congregations.
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Twenty-five beautiful songs from the World Church with an emphasis on Africa.
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Now available on CD, fifteen powerful a cappella songs from the South African church, including the acclaimed 'We Are Marching in the Light of God'. Recorded in 1984.