In the Gift of This New Day

Neil Paynter

Description

A book of modern, engaged prayers following the rhythm of the Iona Community's daily prayer cycle. Concerns include: health and wholeness and the ministry of healing * church renewal * the ecumenical movement * people of other faiths and beliefs and the p

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Ecumenism

Informations

• Publié par: Wild Goose Publications
• Date de parution: 24 novembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781849524513
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

A book of modern, engaged prayers following the rhythm of the Iona Community’s daily prayer cycle. Concerns include:
The ministry of the whole people of God • the renewal of prayer and worship • health and wholeness and the ministry of healing • church renewal • the ecumenical movement • people of other faiths and beliefs and the promotion of understanding through dialogue and joint action for justice and peace • economic witness • poverty • trade justice • young people • working together for change • social and political action for justice, peace and the integrity of creation • victims and perpetrators of violence • peace movements and organisations • human rights and gender justice • racial justice and the rights of indigenous peoples • the environment and all who work for ecological sustainability • refugees and asylum seekers and our commitment to hospitality • the renewal of community and the well-being of our own local communities • intentional and basic Christian communities throughout the world …
Contributors include : Brian Woodcock, the Wild Goose Resource Group, Chris Polhill, Ruth Burgess, Peter Millar, Jan Sutch Pickard, Kathy Galloway, Joy Mead, Rosemary Power, Ian M Fraser, John Harvey, Ruth Harvey, Warren Bardsley, Norman Shanks, Alison Swinfen, Alastair McIntosh, Thom M Shuman and many other members, associates and friends of the Iona Community.
With an introduction by Ian M Fraser
Neil Paynter is the editor and author of over twenty books, including This Is the Day and Down to Earth (Wild Goose).
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In the gift of this new day
Praying with the Iona Community
Neil Paynter

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Contents of book © individual contributors Compilation © 2015 Neil Paynter
First published 2015 by Wild Goose Publications, Fourth Floor, Savoy House, 140 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3DH, UK, the publishing division of the Iona Community. Scottish Charity No. SC003794. Limited Company Reg. No. SC096243.
PDF: ISBN 978-1-84952-450-6 ePub: ISBN 978-1-84952-451-3 Mobipocket: ISBN 978-1-84952-452-0
Cover photograph © David Coleman
The publishers gratefully acknowledge the support of the Drummond Trust, 3 Pitt Terrace, Stirling FK8 2EY in producing this book.
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Contents
Introduction
First day
The ministry of the whole people of God …
Thank you for the blessing of your call
Let your Spirit whirl around us
We are your people
Second day
The renewal of prayer and worship …
Good gifts
Our fondest thoughts of you
Open to depth
Third day
Health and wholeness and the ministry of healing …
A prayer for our wholeness
A prayer for healing
A prayer for the dark night
Fourth day
Church renewal; our local Christian community and new forms of being church …
All of life is worship
A prayer for setting off
Being open for business
Fifth day
Christian education and retreat centres …
Christ of the quiet places
I am Mary and I am Martha
Night prayer with blankets
Sixth day
The ecumenical movement; ecumenical organisations and bodies in our own countries and worldwide …
The long journey towards unity
At the grassroots
The Lord’s Prayer
Seventh day
People of other faiths and beliefs; the promotion of understanding through dialogue and joint action for justice and peace …
Common heartbeat
O Lord of the pilgrim way
At the heart of creation
Eighth day
The implementation of the Community’s economic witness; money to meet our needs and a just economic order …
Prayer for economic justice
Help us to be accountable
Prayer for money to meet our needs
Ninth day
People living in poverty; trade justice; aid and advocacy organisations …
People living in poverty
Aid and advocacy organisations and movements
Trade justice
Tenth day
Those without access to education or training or employment …
Prayer for mothers
In a time of austerity (from a demo for the end of Benefit sanctions)
God with us
Eleventh day
Young people, work with young people …
My story: poverty, truth and dreams/prayer
Affirmation from Iona Youth Festival, 2015
Bless young and old in their living together
Twelfth day
Staff and volunteers on Iona and at Camas …
Prayer for Camas staff
Storms and rainbows (an Iona prayer)
I have useful hands/prayer
Thirteenth day
The people of Iona and Mull; life in community …
Prayer of thanksgiving for Columba
Prayer for the people of Mull and Iona
God of the elements
Fourteenth day
The Word …
God of our words and wonderings
Storyteller God
We have need of …
Fifteenth day
Those who sustain the world …
For their sustaining
Sixteenth day
Working groups, social action, working together for change …
Working together for change
United in love, united in action
Followers of the Way
Seventeenth day
Social and political action for justice, peace and the integrity of creation; victims and perpetrators of violence everywhere …
This good earth
In your kingdom there are no warheads
You do not turn away
Eighteenth day
The United Nations (UN); implementation of the Millennium Development goals; UN Peacekeeping forces; peace movements and organisations everywhere …
The United Nations
Peacekeeping, peace movements and organisations everywhere
Implementation of the Millennium Development goals
Nineteenth day
Human rights and gender justice …
Dangerous Women Creed
Call us to your work
A prayer of confession (from a service on Adomnán’s Law of the Innocents in Iona Abbey)
Twentieth day
Racial justice and the rights of indigenous peoples …
The road from Selma to Montgomery, and beyond (on the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march)
Your wandering people
God of all peoples, all communities
Twenty-first day
The environment and all who work for ecological sustainability …
Prayer of thanksgiving
Prayer for a lighter carbon footprint
In the gift of this new day
Twenty-second day
People without homes; displaced peoples; refugees and asylum seekers; our own commitment to hospitality …
Immigration/Home Office Prayers
God of the exiles
Into futures without fear
Twenty-third day
The renewal of community and the well-being of our own local communities …
Meditation and prayer
In our local living
A blessing for building community
Twenty-fourth day
Family groups; far-flung members; former members and associates …
The family of Jesus
Gathered and scattered
What it means to be family
Twenty-fifth day
Associate members and groups, friends …
Mantra
Your will be done (A prayer from Church Action on Poverty)
Prayer for stewardship
Twenty-sixth day
The growth and deepening of our life as an ecumenical Christian community …
Affirmation
Embracing difference
Resilience
Twenty-seventh day
New members; all whose lives have been touched by the Iona Community and for all we have received from them …
A blessing on a new member of the Iona Community
All those whose lives have been touched by the Iona Community
For all we have received from them
Twenty-eighth day
Intentional and basic Christian communities throughout the world …
The church born from below
A vision statement
The Corrymeela prayer for courage
Twenty-ninth day
Iona Community groups on the Continent …
A prayer from the Swiss Iona Group
Gathered and scattered (prayer for a meeting by Skype)
Together we are strong
Thirteenth day
Iona Community groups in the USA …
In a world which hungers for community
A prayer from the Open Door Community in Atlanta, Georgia
Scattered in so many places
Thirty-first day
On the thirty-first day of each month Iona Community members pray for members who have died
Words to live by
Prayer for travelling companions
Prayer from the Iona Community’s Hallowing Service
A prayer for the journey
‘Who do you say I am?’
Sources and acknowledgements
About the contributors
Introduction
by Ian M Fraser
‘The practice of the presence of God’
God chose not to stay aloof from the creation, but to come alongside human beings, inviting our cooperation in bringing the world’s life to its fulfilment. That means for us something like becoming apprentices who look to the Master Craftsman for guidance, learning to hone native skills to play an increasingly mature part in shaping the life of the world in God’s way. The Genesis stories of a) representative human beings, Adam and Eve, and b) the Tower of Babel indicate the disaster it could be for the world if human beings attempt to take over from God’s final power. God, who sees the whole scene and can be turned to if we choose to do so, is at hand to guide and direct life.
The human race, time after time, let God down. Instead of going back to the drawing board to contrive creatures who were more amenable, God chose to come alongside in the Son, who accepted the terms of life as we have to live it, laying aside the glory of the Godhead, exposed to the rough and tumble of ordinary life