Wild Goose Big Book of Liturgies


Book Description

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')







Wild Goose Big Book of Liturgies


Book Description

Liturgies and liturgical resources for New Year, Epiphany, Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, Advent and Christmas. A liturgy for an 'ordinary day', and resources for special days like the UN International Day of Friendship and World AIDS Day. Full communion services and shorts acts of worship; liturgies for small groups and all-age gatherings; collections of resources that could be used to help shape liturgies, or at special events and gatherings. Services rooted in church, community, home and school life. So - as always with the Iona Community - worship which is contextual, with a strong justice and peace edge.







Wild Goose Big Book of Liturgies


Book Description

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.




Wild Goose Big Book of Liturgies and Resources 3: Bread of Hope


Book Description

Another rich and wide-ranging anthology from Wild Goose, including resources for Lent and Holy Week and Advent and Christmas. Also includes resources for evening worship, Valentine's Day, weddings, funerals, International Women's Day, the UN International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Pentecost, St Benedict's Day, a service of solidarity with rough sleepers, Trans Day of Remembrance, the United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, and more. As always with the Iona Community, this is worship which is contextual, prophetic, with a strong justice and peace edge. These liturgies and resources were originally published as single digital downloads. The book is a follow-up to the four previous Wild Goose Big Books. Contributors include Janet Lees, Alex Clare-Young, Simon Taylor, Rodney Aist, Thom M Shuman, Iain and Isabel Whyte, Tom Gordon, Bob Warwicker, Stephen G Wright, John Murning, Jan Sutch Pickard, Sandra Sears, Urzula Glienecke, John Harvey, Ian M Fraser, Kathy Galloway, Elaine Gisbourne and Nancy Cocks.




Iona Abbey Worship Book


Book Description

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'.




Moments of Our Nights and Days


Book Description

A resource book for planning baptisms, naming ceremonies, weddings and civil partnerships and marking the many other significant moments of our nights and days. There are resources that do not assume any faith commitment, as well as ones that reflect Christian belief.




Wild Goose Big Book of Worship Resources


Book Description

A wide-ranging collection of resources for Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, Transfiguration, Harvest, Holocaust Memorial Day, Mothering Sunday, and other special days, and on areas of concern, like refugees and peacemaking. Worship rooted in city and country, in work and in schools, in peacemaking and the eradication of poverty, in churches and the Iona Community resident group ... So - as always with the Iona Community - worship which is contextual, prophetic, 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.




A Wee Worship Book


Book Description

A completely revised and expanded edition of this collection of liturgies for morning, day, evening, Holy Communion and healing services and there are revised liturgies from the original edition. Aimed primarily at participative worship with shared leadership, it includes optional methods of scriptural reflection and prayer with symbolic acction. There is also a preface of comments on leading worship, dealing with all the issues which ordained clergy never tell lay people but presume they should know.