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Publié par | Wild Goose Publications |
Date de parution | 16 mars 2007 |
Nombre de lectures | 0 |
EAN13 | 9781849520065 |
Langue | English |
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Also by Ruth Burgess:
A Book of Blessings
At Ground Level (out of print)
Candles & Conifers
Eggs and Ashes (with Chris Polhill)
Friends and Enemies
Hay & Stardust
Hear My Cry
Praying for the Dawn (with Kathy Galloway)
Contents of book © the individual contributors Compilation © 2006 Ruth Burgess
First published 2006 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 978-1-84952-006-5 Mobipocket:ISBN 978-1-84952-007-2 PDF:ISBN 978-1-84952-008-9
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
Introduction
Easter Day
Resurrection, laughter and new life
Resurrection appearances
Opening and closing responses for Eastertide
Ascension Day
Pentecost
Holy Spirit
Saints’ days
Trinity
Environmental days
Joining Church
Making and keeping promises
Being Church
I am
Eucharist, feasting and celebration
Community
Creation and new life
The Bible in about an hour
Songs and prayers for the journey
Sources and acknowledgements
Contributors
Index of authors
CONTENTS IN DETAIL
Key to symbols
Prayer
Reading
Biblical reflection
Liturgy
Responses
Song
Story
Sermon
Drama
Practical
Meditation
Easter Day
Opening and closing responses for Easter Day
Give thanks that God is good
Glory to God
Easter glory fills the heaven
An Easter Communion
On those times (An Easter confession)
A new day
Lord of Life and Resurrection
Very early in the morning
Lord, we have seen you walking
Among the children (Easter Sunday sermon, Iona Abbey, 2006)
The Syrophoenician woman’s story
Blind Bartimaeus’s story
The Samaritan woman’s story
The story of the boy with the loaves and fishes
Mary’s story
Prayer (Looking in the wrong places)
Risen, glorious Christ
We thought we had heard it all (Lord, have mercy on us)
Risen Christa
For it is by your love
Resurrection, laughter and new life
For now I am making you hear new things
Liturgy for Holy Humour Sunday
Newness of life
Story snapshots
Heard the news? (Coo, what a pong!)
Mary
Thomas
The graveyard superintendent
Jesus
Martha
The mourners
Lazarus
The Lazarus story – the official view
Tillie
This day
God of the purple robe
Shatter the box
Question time
Easter offering
The invitation of Easter
Hide and seek
Towards freedom
Prayers of the heart
Easter story
Miracle in O’Meara Street
Here in the heart of God
Show and tell
Easter ’78
Reflections at Easter
Miss Prince
The moribund Church
It’s not even news
The spring cycle
A blessing
Resurrection appearances
Resurrection
What a morning!
Easter haikus
Resurrection encounters:
Mary Magdalene
The upper room
Driftwood
Thomas
Simon Peter
Encounter
Peter and Mary
Emmaus way
Two friends
An Emmaus Road liturgy of commitment from Iona Abbey
Prayers on the Emmaus Road
Emmaus Road
Emmaus now
I know that my Redeemer liveth
Thomas’s story
Scars reveal resurrection
Acts of the apostles
Peter: Transformation
Thomas: My twin
Stephen: Holy ground
On the road
Resident aliens
Times of refreshing
The picnic
At the lakeside
Early this morning
Eastertide prayers of intercession
Opening and closing responses for Eastertide
In the breaking of bread and in prayers
A great mercy and a sure hope
You take us seriously
Open our eyes to you amongst us
The light is shining
Coming and going
Sharing stories, sharing food
We are travelling the way of justice
Come and hear
We are not alone: God’s love is with us
Old and young
Named as Christians
What do Christians do?
In us, among us
What can bring us happiness?
Love of God
We are witnesses
Children of God
Holy and just
In the midst of creation
Heard and valued
God is a God of grace and salvation
Into our streets and homes we go
In my living and in my loving
Growing in us
Sometimes believing, sometimes doubting
As God sent Jesus
In the night and in the morning
Take our hands in your hands
Whoever we are
When our way is joyful
God is loving and full of kindness
Day by day
We come to a holy God
Love God
All who are hungry
In the beginning
Ascension Day
Opening and closing responses for Ascension Day
We know you and we do not know you
What are you doing here?
In the name of the Maker
We go in hope
God of laughter and tears
In a cloud
A prayer for Ascension Day
Ascension intercessions
Let us celebrate
Help us to see
Pentecost
Opening and closing responses for Pentecost Sunday
God speaks to us
God of fire and beauty
Opening responses for a Pentecost service
The surprising thing about Pentecost
A prayer for Pentecost
An affirmation for Pentecost
Fire songs
When the day of Pentecost came
Come, Holy Spirit
On the great day of Pentecost
Holy Spirit meditation
The gift of Yourself – intercessions for Whitsunday
Prayers of intercession for Pentecost
Pentecost prayer
A meditation for Pentecost
Come among us
Come, Holy Spirit
God of fire
Sudden from out the air
Holy Spirit
On everyone who looks to God
Mysterious God
Free flowing Spirit
O Holy Spirit
God’s whisper
Visiting my nana
Litany of the Spirit
Like a wild bird (a baptismal hymn)
Rejoice! O Daughter of Zion
Walking with the Holy Spirit
Lord God, whose Spirit drives us out
Saints’ days
Being remembered
A hymn for St David’s Day
Saints alive (for Saint Beuno)
Love is God’s meaning: a liturgy to celebrate the feast day of Julian of Norwich, 8th May
A place of refuge: a liturgy to celebrate the feast day of St Melangell, 27th May
Gary
Voyage – Pentecost, 563
The pilgrim road
Listen to their silence
Brendan
Their earthly journey closed
Bede
Trinity
Opening and closing responses for Trinity Sunday
What is God like?
Be strong and happy
In the beginning, God the Maker
In us God lives
God the Maker
By love and through the Maker
A prayer for Trinity Sunday
Audaciously and graciously
Without you
Transformation
Alpha, Omega and Emmanuel in the inner city
The Trinity as a circle
Knowing her blessing
Wayfaring
Environmental days
Be Nice to Nettles Week
The docken leaf of your love
Picking nettles
Two recipes for nettle soup
Nettle tea
Nettles growing in the garden
Compost
To deter mildew, blackflies and aphids on plants
A prayer for World Oceans Day
Recycling – resources for a service of commitment
Joining Church
Getting the wean done
It happened again yesterday
Jesus risen from the grave
Shot through and through with wonder
Hungry and thirsty for justice
An Easter blessing
Big Tommy’s confirmation
Making and keeping promises
Two ordination prayers:
Ordination
True beauty
Three prayers of consecration:
This year’s journeying
Here is my life
For the life of your world
See, it is done
Christ!
Devoted as I am
Being Church
Gathering
Being Church
Doubt and faith
Song of the Lord’s reviving (after Ezekiel 37)
Pilgrimage home
Not just to prayer and worship we’re committed
Living, learning and laughing together
Another rejection
Someone like me (A story from Iona)
We offer this building
Grapes
Embarrassed
Appearances
I am
Alleluia
Gates and bread
I am the Bread
The Bread of the Lord
Water of life
I am the vine
This door?
Hymn based on the I am sayings of Jesus
Prayers based on the I am sayings of Jesus
A dismissal
Eucharist, feasting and celebration
Take, eat, this is my body
The feast of life: a service of commitment (Iona Abbey, 1998)
A foretaste of the heavenly banquet
The bread and cup pass me by
Bread
We’re longing for a different world
Potter’s House Eucharist
And are the bread and wine your body, Lord?
Birthday celebration
At the gates
The Body of Christ
Dancing with the Creator
The cup
Community
Glory to God in the High Street
The Church in the community (A story from the Gorbals)
Vision
Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy
The touch of God
During a power cut
The chance to make a difference
Esme and Peter
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