Fire and Bread

Ruth Burgess

Description

Prayers, responses, liturgies, songs, poems, reflections, meditations, sermons and stories, covering the weeks from Easter Day to Trinity Sunday, including Ascension Day, Pentecost, Saints' days, Rogation days, environmental days and many more.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Christian worship

Informations

• Publié par: Wild Goose Publications
• Date de parution: 16 mars 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781849520065
• Langue: English

Extrait

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
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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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