Advent Readings from Iona

Advent Readings from Iona
Author: Brian & Pickard Woodcock, Jan Sutch
Publisher: Wild Goose Publications
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2000-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1905010834

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.

Wild Goose Big Book of Liturgies

Wild Goose Big Book of Liturgies
Author: The Iona Community
Publisher: Wild Goose Publications
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2017-07-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1849525544

Liturgies for Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter, Transfiguration, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, All Saints', St Columba's Day, Father's Day; on hunger, economic witness, peacemaking, the environment, pilgrimage, welcome, hospitality and friendship. Includes a blessing liturgy for a marriage or partnership, a wedding/partnership ceremony and resources for a memorial event.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. So - as always with the Iona Community - worship which is contextual, with a strong justice and peace edge.Originally published as single digital downloads by Wild Goose, these are now all brought together for the first time in the second of at least two Big Books of resources and liturgies.Contributors include John Harvey, Nancy Cocks, Tom Gordon, Jan Sutch Pickard, Joy Mead, Chris Polhill, Ian M Fraser, Thom M Shuman, Alison Swinfen, Annie Heppenstall, Norman Shanks and others.God of the rhinoceros and the midge,God of the Large Hadron Collider and the iPhone,help us to sense your presence in and through all things. God whose grace is sufficient for all our needs,help us to be people of compassion, justice and peace.(Norman Shanks, from 'A liturgy for the Feast of the Transfiguration')

Iona Abbey Worship Book

Iona Abbey Worship Book
Author: The Iona Community
Publisher: Wild Goose Publications
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2001-03-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1849520003

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'.

Cloth for the Cradle

Cloth for the Cradle
Author:
Publisher: Wild Goose Publications
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1997
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781901557015

This rediscovery of the stories of Christ's birth through adult eyes is for use in group and worship situations. The material is drawn from the work of the Wild Goose Worship Group who have an innovative style of worship.

Celtic Treasure

Celtic Treasure
Author: John Philip Newell
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2005-10-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802829832

Daily prayer book from Scripture and Celtic Christianity.

Celtic Prayers from Iona

Celtic Prayers from Iona
Author: J. Philip Newell
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1997
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809104888

J. Philip Newell and his wife Ali were cowardens of the lay religious community of Iona Abbey in the Western Isles of Scotland. There Philip developed this book as an aid to daily prayer. Here is a weekly cycle of morning and evening prayers in the Celtic tradition, with gospel and psalm readings taken from the liturgical year. Each "day" reflects a concern of the Iona Community: justice and peace, healing, the goodness of creation and care for the earth, commitment to Christ, communion of heaven and earth, and welcome and hospitality.

Advent

Advent
Author: Fleming Rutledge
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467451479

Advent, says Fleming Rutledge, is not for the faint of heart. As the midnight of the Christian year, the season of Advent is rife with dark, gritty realities. In this book, with her trademark wit and wisdom, Rutledge explores Advent as a time of rich paradoxes, a season celebrating at once Christ’s incarnation and his second coming, and she masterfully unfolds the ethical and future-oriented significance of Advent for the church.

Candles & Conifers

Candles & Conifers
Author: Ruth Burgess
Publisher: Wild Goose Publications
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2005-10-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1849520143

A collection of worship and reflection 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.

Celtic Daily Prayer

Celtic Daily Prayer
Author: The Northumbria Community
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 5538
Release: 2018-03-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0007378742

Morning, Midday and Evening Prayer and Complies with Meditations for the day and four years of Daily Readings from Books 1 and 2.

What Were You Arguing About Along The Way?

What Were You Arguing About Along The Way?
Author: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1786223996

Created by Pádraig Ó Tuama five years ago, the Spirituality of Conflict website is one of the most exciting and vibrant online lectionary resources. For each Sunday there is an extended reflection, a prayer, and questions for lectio divina or group discussion. Featuring Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Pentecostal writers from Corrymeela, the Iona Community, Holy Island, Coventry Cathedral’s Centre for Reconciliation, the Church of Scotland and elsewhere, it reflects the broad nature of the witness to peace. Approaching conflict in its various forms - personal, social, global - through the lens of the gospels, conflict, it explores the conflicted nature of Jesus’ world and how people navigated routes through it. It enables the scriptures to speak to the conflicts in our lives and reveals how they can have positive as well as negative outcomes. This volume of collected material focuses on the beginning and the end of Jesus’ human life and covers the gospels for Advent, Christmas. Lent, Holy Week and Easter.