Bare Feet and Buttercups

Ruth Burgess

Description

A collection of worship and reflection resources for the summer period of Ordinary Time - prayers, stories, responses, songs, poems, reflections and meditations, written by Iona Community members, associates, friends and others.

Sujets

• Christian worship
• Philosophie et théologie

Informations

• Publié par: Wild Goose Publications
• Date de parution: 01 juin 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781849520096
• Langue: English

Extrait

Contents of book © the individual contributors Compilation © 2008 Ruth Burgess
First published 2008 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
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Cover painting and internal illustration © Scott Riley
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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
TRINITY SUNDAY
GENESIS
EXODUS
FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF JESUS
STORIES AND SAYINGS OF JESUS
PEOPLE JESUS HEALED
ON THE WAY OF JESUS
SAINTS
FATHER’S DAY
SUMMER
WEE BEASTS
ENVIRONMENT
JOURNEY AND PILGRIMAGE
PRAYER
JUSTICE AND PEACE
IN TIMES OF CHANGE
MORNING AND EVENING
PRAYERS FOR THE WEEK
DAILY LIFE
RESOURCES FOR LAMMASTIDE
THE FEAST OF THE TRANSFIGURATION
SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX OF AUTHORS

CONTENTS IN DETAIL
Key to symbols

Prayer

Biblical reflection

Liturgy

Responses

Song

Story

Sermon

Script

Meditation

Reflection

Poem

Creed
Introduction
TRINITY SUNDAY

Responses for Trinity Sunday

A prayer for Trinity Sunday

God, our gifts we lay before you

God

I think I’ve got it

God of the still small voice

I bet you are nice

A new song

Father to son

A genderless Trinity

God cannot abide sin

Not yet
GENESIS

Genesis One

God’s light

The fruit

The crown of your creation

Noah’s prayer

Lord God of Abraham

Sarah’s story

Hagar’s story

Jacob’s Luz becomes his Bethel

No changing history
EXODUS

Hear my cries, my prayers

Holy ground

The bushes are burning

Behold the Lamb of God

The official statement

Breadmaking God

The manna jar

With unveiled faces

Not counting

Amazed
FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF JESUS

Catching people

Come and see (Andrew remembers)

p4c3‘And she arose and served him’

He’s my son

James

Asleep in the storm

Walking on water
STORIES AND SAYINGS OF JESUS

The eye of the needle

The vine

The Kingdom of heaven

Storyteller

Water of Life

On his way

The Commandments

Setting a hand to the plough
PEOPLE JESUS HEALED

More than I’d ever bargained for

Prayers based on John 6

O Jesus he spak not a word

More than enough

Whispers

The two women

Another working day

At the wedding of Jairus’s daughter

Jesus heals a man with paralysis

Listen to me

Bethesda

Syrophoenician woman
ON THE WAY OF JESUS

The kingdom of God

Follow, follow

Getting angry

On the upside-down road

A right relationship

We know fine well

Meditation on the Lord’s Prayer

God’s wild card

Storage space

Poor in spirit
SAINTS

St Julian’s Day

Paraphrase of Altus Prosator

St Columba’s Day

Great God of the elements

Saints in meltdown

The Fair Flower of Wales

Saints who have walked our roads

Dear Abbot
FATHER’S DAY

Father God

Warm us and heal us with love

Inasmuching

Our Father

Man

A Father’s Day wish for an (almost) absent father

We give thanks for faithful men

The embrace of God’s love

Hymn for Father’s Day

Let us pray for fathers

Fathers

A blessing
SUMMER

Thank you

On the approach of my summer holiday

To go on holiday

Summer

Dandelions

Prayer of thanks for summer fruit

The lake

The shed

All the holidays

Summer intercessions (City life)

Summer solstice

A prayer for midsummer
WEE BEASTS

Haikus written at our cabin

Not afraid

Dealing with hornets

A different moth poem

All the local moths

National Insect Week

Everybody knows that cats like to rumba

Ouch!
ENVIRONMENT

A hymn for World Environment Day

Our footprints are heavy

Two questions

Our polluted world

Be with me, God

Forgive us

Rain

Island prayer

Firm is the rock

In the beginning

Garden gathering

Breathing circles

Teach us to care
JOURNEY AND PILGRIMAGE

The journey

Journey haikus

Pilgrimage

Blessing

Arise within me

Heeling over

God of our journeying

Letter home from Africa

This island of Iona

Iona dance

On the beach at Aberdaron

Affirmation

Walsingham

Empty church, West Sutherland

Pilgrimage

From a youth service of welcome on Iona

On our daily journey
PRAYER

The promised presence

Home

Someday

On writing prayers

Non solum …

We appeal to you

Relaxing

Amen

Prayer

Teach us, Lord Christ, to pray

A prayer room

I heard …
JUSTICE AND PEACE

Your choice

The cost of forgiveness

The dreams of children

Come, Lord Jesus

A dangerous idea

The church is sent

Earning a living

A solemn blessing

I broke the rules

God is generous

A litany for joy and justice in shopping

Teach us to be sparing

Those who make do

God of the different way
IN TIMES OF CHANGE

New beginnings

Yes

In this new place

Adventurous God

Last day

Haikus on reaching seventy

The longest day – thoughts on retirement

Time out

Leaving for university/higher education

Starting a gap year

Prayer for a gap year

Joe’s redemption

God who stands beyond the future

God of new beginnings

Avoiding making decisions – the seven golden rules

God of time and eternity

Speak to me
MORNING AND EVENING

God of the morning

Washing blessing

Joy of our mornings

Gold pieces

Today

It is evening

Night prayers

God of wonder

Hide us in your love

I am tired

The closeness of God
PRAYERS FOR THE WEEK

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday
DAILY LIFE

A working creed

Storymaking God

Friendship

Our days

Tickle me, God

Screaming inside

Hush puppies

London Sunday

People rush

The dance

Things we can make and do

The Big Book

The God of lost property

I wish

Would I ask?

Prayer in uncertainty

God sends us messages

Listening God

The importance of waiting

God’s place
RESOURCES FOR LAMMASTIDE

God of the ripe corn

The first fruits

My brave father

First and last fruits

God of the harvest
THE FEAST OF THE TRANSFIGURATION

Responses for the Feast of the Transfiguration

They saw his glory

Ever-changing God

Prayer of confession

James and the giant cloud

Christ transfigured

God of the ordinary

Two blessings for the Feast of the Transfiguration

For Joan and Ralph
newly and oldly baptised
With love




INTRODUCTION
Bare Feet and Buttercups is a resource book which covers the period from Trinity Sunday to the Feast of the Transfiguration (August 6th). This period is usually referred to as Ordinary Time, or the Days after Trinity. This is the penultimate book in a series of resource books that cover the Christian calendar.* It will be followed by a resource book called Acorns and Archangels, which will cover the period from the Feast of the Transfiguration to All Hallows Eve (October 31st) and will include the psalms and the prophets, gospel material after the Transfiguration, and the Acts of the Apostles and New Testament letters.
I had thought the series complete until a friend commented: ‘What about all those days after Trinity?’ So here they are!
This book contains material relating to Genesis and Exodus and gospel passages up to the story of the Transfiguration. There are also children’s letters to the Abbot of Monkwearmouth, resources for Father’s Day and for the summer, cats who like to rumba – and a talking dog.
Most of the material in this book consists of the stuff that liturgies are made of: stories, songs, responses, poems, biblical reflections, sermons and prayers.
My grateful thanks to all the contributors for the wealth of rich material I have been privileged to edit – it’s been a labour of delight. It’s also been the second time that one book has turned into two.
Thanks are also due, as always, to the Wild Goose Publications team: Sandra Kramer, Jane Darroch-Riley, Alex O’Neill, Tri Boi Ta and Lorna Rae Sutton, for their professionalism and support. A huge thanks is due to Neil Paynter for his attention to detail, and with whom it is a pleasure to exchange emails. Thanks also to Scott Riley for his artwork.


God of ripe plums
and meadowsweet,
thank you for summer.
Thank you for warmth
and beauty and wonder,
thank you for life.
Ruth Burgess, April 2008
* Candles and Conifers: Resources for All Saints’ and Advent
Hay and Stardust: Resources for Christmas to Candlemas
Eggs and Ashes: Resources for Lent and Holy Week
Fire and Bread: Resources