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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.

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Philosophie et théologie

Christian worship

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Publié par	Wild Goose Publications
Date de parution	07 octobre 2005
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781849520126
Langue	English

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Also by Ruth Burgess:
A Book of Blessings
At Ground Level (out of print)
Eggs and Ashes (with Chris Polhill)
Friends and Enemies
Hear My Cry
Hay & Stardust
Praying for the Dawn (with Kathy Galloway)

Contents of book © the individual contributors Compilation © 2005 Ruth Burgess
First published 2005 by Wild Goose Publications, 4th Floor, Savoy House, 140 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3DH, UK. Wild Goose Publications is the publishing division of the Iona Community. Scottish Charity No. SCO03794. Limited Company Reg. No. SCO96243. www.ionabooks.com
ePub:ISBN 978-1-84952-012-6 Mobipocket:ISBN 978-1-84952-013-3 PDF:ISBN 978-1-84952-014-9
Cover painting and internal illustration © Scott Riley
All rights reserved. Apart from the circumstances specified below, no part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, including photocopying or any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher.
Non-commercial use: The material in this book may be used non-commercially for worship and group work without written permission from the publisher. If parts of the book are photocopied for such use, please make full acknowledgement of the source. Where a large number of copies are made, a donation may be made to the Iona Community, but this is not obligatory.
For any commercial use of the contents of this book, permission must be obtained in writing from the publisher in advance.
Ruth Burgess has asserted her right in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

GENERAL CONTENTS
Saints and souls
Christ the king
World AIDS Day
Responses and blessings for the Sundays in Advent
The cats’ Advent calendar
Advent candle ceremonies
Liturgies and prayer practices for Advent
The Jesse Tree
Last things: Death, judgement, heaven and hell
Watching and waiting
Light and darkness
Journeying through Advent
Prophets
Enter the angels
Christingle service
The longest night
Christmas Eve
Sources and acknowledgements
Index of authors
About the contributors

CONTENTS IN DETAIL
Key to symbols

Prayer

Reading

Biblical reflection

Liturgy

Responses

Song

Story

Sermon

Drama
Saints and souls

Light a candle

Beinn A’ Chochuill

I’m not going to sing

Unlikely saints

St Frances of Rome

Responses for All Saints’ Day

Bidding prayers for All Saints’ Day

A prayer for All Saints’ Day

Remember

Prayer of adoration

Independence

As a net

The saints of God

A litany for All Saints’

From a service of remembrance and travelling on

Born anew

The memory of beauty

Bright God of healing, set us free (women’s winter liturgy)

Pentecost

November

Grandfather, 1978

60+

Eddie

All heaven weeps (for Remembrance Sunday)

Saint Martin’s of Tours

Andrewtide

The day after John Lennon died
Christ the King

Responses

The return of the King

The people God calls blessed

Psalm 97
World AIDS Day

Responses

Stories from Africa

Open our eyes

Bless your people
Suggestions for liturgies
Responses and blessings for the Sundays of Advent
The cats’ Advent calendar
Advent candle ceremonies

Watch and wait and pray (An opening for worship)

Give light give hope

A candle burns

Signposts through Advent

The candles of Advent

One red candle

Come and light the candles

Shine a light
Liturgies and prayer practices for Advent

Advent is for everyone – Four all-age liturgies and activities

The coming King

Waiting and longing – a prayer practice
The Jesse Tree

Jesse Trees – background information

A prayer for family use

Jesse Tree song
Last things: Death, judgement, heaven and hell

Sheep

I walk dangerous paths

Jesus is coming

What was the catch?

If you came

No messing

God is not like that

Sitting with Mr Fenton

My mother was not most pleased

Victory

Death is a lonely place

Waiting

Sealing a coffin

Over
Watching and waiting

Advent

Advent intercessions

In our waiting
Advent in Tamil Nadu

Prayers for Advent

Advent in Tamil Nadu

Waiting

Another waiting at Kanniyakumari

An Advent service not to forget

This is some Advent

God of waiting

Maybe

God waits

Waiting

Be strong, take heart
Light and darkness

Light and darkness

A call to worship

Declaration

We see the light

God, wake us up

Bright God of Advent

A penitential liturgy for Advent

Carrying a candle

Re-enchanted

Darkness and light – a creed for Advent

In the dark with Jesus

Christmas tree

Christmas shopping

The lights
Journeying through Advent

Stars

God of the streets

Opening prayer

Every evening

Advent adventure

Very short Advent confession

Bright star-maker God

We stand amazed

Send us out with anticipation and joy

Advent approach

Stirring up memories

Chopped fruit and sticky fingers

With our zimmer frames

Journeying towards Christmas in a fragile world

Come, God-with-us
Prophets

A prayer for the prophets

You brood of vipers!

The voice of God

Remembering (The women in the genealogy of Jesus)

Anna’s story

Come, God
Enter the angels

Magnificat moments

On the road

Elizabeth – a monologue

We lift our hearts in praise

Magnificat for two voices

Gestation of God

Good enough

Angel voices

Joseph

Choosing God
Christingle service

Christingle service

O round as the world is the orange you give us!

(Carol for a Christingle service)
The longest night
Christmas Eve

Responses for Christmas Eve

Advent hymn

A poem for two voices

If you came in spring

Dear God

Christmas prayer

Christmas Eve in Durham

Angel dialogue

Christmas Eve, 1979

The now carol

You are deeply, deeply loved

Come, Light of life

Leonard

Bidding prayers for Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve invocation

We’ve mucked out the stable

Rock us gently

Tonight

It’s nearly Christmas

For Jenny Grower of all things green, red and golden

INTRODUCTION
Candles & Conifers is a resource book for November and December. It covers the period from All Saints’ Day to Christmas Eve. It is a companion volume to Hay & Stardust (Wild Goose Publications), which covers the period from Christmas Day to Candlemas.
Whilst a number of complete liturgies are included, most of the material in this book consists of the stuff that liturgies are made of – stories, prayers, ceremonies, songs, responses, poems and biblical reflections.
The material is arranged chronologically, with sections relating to particular days and to general Advent themes. I have, in the contents pages, classified the material into types, for ease of reference.
My grateful thanks to all the contributors for the wealth and range of material that I have been privileged to edit. One book swiftly turned into two! Opening my mail has been a pleasure and a delight.
Thanks are also due to the Wild Goose Publications team, to Jane Darroch-Riley, Alex O’Neill, Tri Boi Ta and Sandra Kramer for their professionalism, encouragement and support; and to Neil Paynter, whose attention to detail is becoming legendary; I am hugely and gratefully in debt.
May you light your candles with hope and wonder. May you live in justice and holy joy
Ruth Burgess Summer 2005
SAINTS AND SOULS

LIGHT A CANDLE
Voice 1:
Light a candle
Voice 2:
Light a candle for saints and sinners
Voice 3:
Light a candle with hope
A candle may be lit
Voice 1:
Light a candle
Voice 2:
Light a candle for all of creation
Voice 3:
Light a candle with joy
A candle may be lit
Voice 1:
Light a candle
Voice 2:
Light a candle for hope and wonder
Voice 3:
Light a candle with love
A candle may be lit
Ruth Burgess
BEINN A’ CHOCHUILL 1
All Saints’ tide,
and bridal snow
smoothes over the rocks and wrinkles
of the ancient face.
It seems almost profane,
step by thrusting step,
to indent a track across.
But onward, upward,
it is clear, we are not the first:
someone has been before –
yesterday at a guess –
and where their feet have been,
compacted snow stands
like stepping stones. The wind
has blown away all that is powder,
dry, like sand. Only the steps remain,
and tell us it can be done.
Alan Horner
I’M NOT GOING TO SING
‘I’m not going to sing,’ he said,
and he spent the next thirty minutes
kicking at hassocks,
dropping his 10p (which, naturally,
never made it to the collection plate)
and retrieving it from under the pew.
Surprisingly (to my mind) he was silent
during the prayers –
and never forgot the Amen.
Then – he was the one the ‘prayer man’
(as he called him) chose to wear
a cardboard halo.
Saint Michael – falling up the aisle.
Saint Michael – with a wicked grin
and six years
of laughter in him –
who refused to give back his halo
to the prayer man,
and wore it proudly home.
Blessed be God.
Blessed be God in his angels
and in all his saints.
Ruth Burgess
UNLIKELY SAINTS
The children sat on the floor in the story-area, but one wee boy stayed on the other side of the room. The teacher more or less dragged him over, and settled for him sitting on a chair facing the other way. It was my first time in that class. I started the story (Luke 19:1–10) and made it quite dramatic, adding in some possible background to Zacchaeus’s life; talking about someone who’d always been small – born small, the smallest at school, getting bullied because of it – deciding he didn’t need friends, being quite bright and doing well in his schoolwork, getting a good job that gave him lot