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A collection of worship and meditation resources for the season of Christmastide - including Christmas Day, Holy Innocents' Day, Winter and New Year, Epiphany, Homelessness Sunday and Candlemas.

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Philosophie et théologie

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Publié par	Wild Goose Publications
Date de parution	07 novembre 2005
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781849520157
Langue	English

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

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 978-1-84952-015-7 Mobipocket:ISBN 978-1-84952-016-4 PDF:ISBN 978-1-84952-017-1
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
Contents in detail
Introduction
Christmas Day
Once in Bethlehem
Birth
Light
Emmanuel
Christmas plays
Saint Stephen’s Day
Holy Family
Holy Innocents
Winter and New Year
Epiphany
Baptism of Jesus
Christian Unity
Homelessness Sunday
Candlemas
Sources and acknowledgements
Index of authors
About the contributors

CONTENTS IN DETAIL
Key to symbols

Prayer

Reading

Biblical reflection

Liturgy

Responses

Song

Story

Drama
Christmas Day

At half past three in the morning

Who is without, who is within?

Tabgha

In your arms I lie

Praise God

Christmas responses

We remember your promises

Love and danger

How old were the angels?
Once in Bethlehem

On the mountainside

Shepherd

Mary

Joseph

I was there

To the baby God

Someone to watch over

Mary
Lamb
Joseph
Kings – Wisdom
Kings – Stars
Kings – Anticipation
Someone to watch over (closing prayer)

The Mary of your Christmas cards

Theotokos – Broken dreams

Nativity

Stay my child

Christmas seen
Birth

In the fullness of time

A rumour of Christmas

A work in progress

God made life

Meditation in front of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem

A new me

It’s Christmas

What glory this?

Christmas coming

Hush! Watch! Hear!

The Rotarian crib

Christmas is a time for my belly

Prologue

Give me tears for Christmas

In the beginning

The Word

Jesus is born

Occasional sightings of the Gospel

Christmas blessing

Night prayer with blankets

Christmas is when I am Joseph
Light

O glorious God of the stars

A thought

Inside me

Light to your people

Thank you God

Christmas by candlelight

Light in the world

Photo intercessions

Closing responses
Emmanuel

Isaac’s carol

Emmanuel God

Immanuel

A serious carol

Bethlehem 2002

Hidden journeys of the nativity

A prayer at Christmas

Telling the story

Life and love

Our needs and those of others

Child of Bethlehem

Christmas reflection written with children and young people

Sometimes I cry

Prayer for children

Christmas baptismal hymn

Remembering with Mary
Christmas plays

Oh what a night

The shepherds’ play

Wow! Good News

Angels, Inc

Is it a King?

Christmas play – with or without puppets

Follow the star!

Only God would christen him Jesus
Saint Stephen’s Day

On St Stephens day

Responses
Holy Family

A series of responses

God in your mercy

Hear our prayer

His pulsing fist
Holy Innocents

To live in light

You share our anger

God of earth and heaven

Your child’s coming was my child’s going

Herod

The innkeeper’s wife

Herod and the children

Putting Herod back into Christmas

Weep with us
Winter and New Year

Something wise, something joyful

Instrument of peace

From the damp

Year’s end

Watchnight service prayer from Iona

We would let go of the past

Always Emmanuel

Step softly

Let us give thanks

A blessing as you journey into the new year

New Year blessing

Christ, the Morning Star

Benediction
Epiphany

Gladly we come together

Responses for Epiphany

The strange coming

Journeying with the Magi

Field mushrooms

Christmas gifts

The three kings

Epiphany

Three wise men

Light of the world

MAGI

Bowed psaltery moments, Iona 2000

The wise man

The travellers

Giving

A lesson in humility

Winter blessing

Follow that star

The Professor

Until the needles dropped
Baptism of Jesus

Responses

Father to son

Mother to son

Turn us around
Christian Unity

Your body, the church

Have mercy on your church

God of many names
Homelessness Sunday

I never knew his name

Two voices
Candlemas

Thoughts and prayers for Candlemas

An old saint for new ways

Benedictus

Closing responses

Candlemas

Celebrating old age

A flame that cannot be put out

For Frances
and for Ali;
sharers of snowdrops,
lighters of candles,
travellers of life

INTRODUCTION
Hay & Stardust is a resource book which covers the period from Christmas Day to Candlemas. It is a companion volume to Candles & Conifers (Wild Goose Publications), which covers the period from All Saints’ Day to Christmas Eve.
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.
Also included are a number of Christmas plays; props include puppets, knuckledusters, big flashes, sticking plasters, sacks and stars! You have been warned.
The material in Hay & Stardust is arranged chronologically, with sections relating to particular days and to general Christmastide themes. I have, in the contents pages, classified the material into types, for ease of reference.
My grateful thanks to all the contributors for their rich and imaginative material that I have been privileged to edit. One book swiftly turned into two! Opening my mail has been 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.
One of our regular contributors, Ian Cowie, died whilst this book was being put together. He and his prayers and his humour will be greatly missed. I close with words from his New Year Blessing:
Now we arise and go forth on the journey before us,
knowing that, where Christ leads, life is a journey home.
Therefore we travel in faith, in hope and in love.
Ruth Burgess Summer 2005
CHRISTMAS DAY

AT HALF PAST THREE IN THE MORNING
On Christmas day at half past three in the morning I woke up and I saw light coming out of my window. I thought it was light, but it wasn’t light, it was just a lamppost making shadows. So I started to open my presents, and when I was on the second one before the last my daddy came in and said: ‘Put the presents down and try and get back to sleep.’
Graham, aged 7
WHO IS WITHOUT, WHO IS WITHIN?
Cold dark nights, warm bright lights;
Christmas is the hardest and the kindest time.
Memories and expectations, confrontations, salutations!
Who is without, who is within?
A question still at Bethlehem’s inn.
What awaits the Christ child now
is in our power to decide,
as the world attends another Christmastide.
Liz Gregory-Smith

Written the year that Palestinian Christians and Muslims took refuge in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
TABGHA
Jesus,
You had a birthday today.
A little boy stood,
and solemnly set alight
every stub of candle
that he could dig out of the sand tray
at the front of the church.
And growing in the stillness,
gloriously reflected
in your golden halo
and in his dark eyes,
there was light, dancing.
Ruth Burgess

Note: Tabgha is the location of a church near Lake Galilee.
IN YOUR ARMS I LIE
In your arms
I lie –
Full-filled,
stilled
Complete-replete,
dribbling milk.
Beryl Jeanne
PRAISE GOD
Praise God!
Praise God
for the joy and delight of children
and grandchildren.
Praise God
for the calmness after the storm
of shrieks and wrapping being shredded.
Praise God
for laughter,
for thank you’s,
for words of wonder and surprise.
Praise God
for Bethlehem’s birth,
for Calvary’s suffering,
for Easter’s life.
Praise God!
Thom M Shuman
CHRISTMAS RESPONSES
A child is born
A child to save us
WE SHARE THE NEWS WITH GREAT JOY
A child is born
A child to challenge us
WE SHARE THE NEWS WITH GREAT JOY
A child is born
A child for the world
WE SHARE THE NEWS WITH GREAT JOY
Ruth Burgess
WE REMEMBER YOUR PROMISES
Here we are, Lord;
we are not many,
nor are we very wise
or powerful,
nor rich by the standards of the world,
but we do come
joyful and triumphant
on this special day,
because of what you have done.
On this day
we remember your pro