- 272 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
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')
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Voice one: | The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. |
Voice two: | Those who lived in a land of deep darkness ā on them light has shined. |
Voice one: | For a child has been born for us, a son given to us. |
Voice two: | Authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. |
Voice one: | His rule shall grow continually, and there shall be endless peace for his kingdom. |
Narrator: | One Saturday morning Fergie the Frog and his best friend Roger decided to go exploring. They each packed a lunch of fly-loaf sandwiches and Swamp Soda. āBe home in time for supper,ā called Mother Frog. |
Fergie: | Sure thing, Mum. Weāre just going to explore the stream. |
Roger: | Come on, Fergie. Letās get going. |
Narrator: | Fergie and Roger set off through the trees towards the stream. They left their packs on a sunny log and played leapfrog on ... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- A wee word for Advent
- Godās family first: All-age worship for the first Sunday of Advent
- What are you waiting for?: A service for Advent
- Waiting in darkness: An Advent liturgy
- Bread of life: An all-age Communion for Lent
- A liturgy for the Feast of the Transfiguration: Hiroshima Day, 6th August
- A lament for Jesus & for the crucified of our time: A liturgy for the evening of Good Friday
- A Good Friday liturgy of Bible readings and prayers (John 17ā19)
- What does it mean to be obedient to God?: Worship and drama for Good Friday
- Living Easter: An all-age Communion for Easter
- That all may dance: A simple liturgy for Pentecost to Trinity Sunday
- Bell, book and candle: A liturgy for St Columbaās Day
- Beyond the baggage of fatherhood: A liturgy for Fatherās Day
- In the beginning: A liturgy for Harvest Festival
- Saints alive!: An all-age service for All Saintsā
- The saints of God are down our street: A liturgy for All Saintsā
- A short liturgy of hospitality
- A world full of shelter: A short act of worship
- Swords into ploughshares: A short liturgy
- Now come two hearts: A blessing liturgy for a marriage or partnership
- The blessed path: A wedding/partnership ceremony
- An invocation and celebration of love
- Friends of the Lord: An all-age service about friendship
- Companions on the journey: A blessing of pets and animals who are a part of our lives
- Hunger for justice: āWhatās for dinner, mum?ā
- What is valuable and true: A liturgy for economic witness
- God of the tipping point: A service of sorrowing, defiance and commitment
- A framework for a memorial event
- A liturgy for setting out on a pilgrimage and a prayer for the journey
- About the authors