Spring

Ruth Burgess

Description

A liturgical resource book that covers the months of February, March and April. It includes prayers, responses, stories, songs, poems, liturgies, reflections, scripts and monologues for the major Christian festivals and fast days of Lent and Holy Week, as well as for Candlemas, Fair Trade Fortnight and Earth Day. The material is written by Iona Community members, associates, friends and others.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Christian liturgy
• Easter

Informations

• Publié par: Wild Goose Publications
• Date de parution: 06 février 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781849526456
• Langue: English

Extrait

Spring is a liturgical resource book that covers the months of February, March and April.
It includes prayers, responses, stories, songs, poems, liturgies, reflections, scripts and monologues for the major Christian festivals and fast days of Lent and Holy Week, as well as for Candlemas, Fair Trade Fortnight and Earth Day. The material is written by Iona Community members, associates, friends and others.
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Spring
Liturgical resources for February, March and April
including Lent and Holy Week
Ruth Burgess

www. ionabooks .com
Contents of book © individual contributors Compilation © 2019 Ruth Burgess
First published 2019 by Wild Goose Publications, 21 Carlton Court, Glasgow G5 9JP, UK, the publishing division of the Iona Community. Scottish Charity No. SC003794. Limited Company Reg. No. SC096243.
PDF ISBN 978-1-84952-644-9 ePub ISBN978-1-84952-645-6 Mobipocket ISBN 978-1-84952-646-3
Cover photograph © Reana | Dreamstime.com
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Ruth Burgess has asserted her right in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this compilation and the individual contributors have asserted their rights to be identified as authors of their contributions.
Contents
Introduction
Spring in February
Candlemas
Fair Trade Fortnight
Ash Wednesday
Resources for Lent: Common Lectionary Year A
Resources for Lent: Common Lectionary Year B
Resources for Lent: Common Lectionary Year C
General resources for Lent
Annunciation
Mothering Sunday
Spring in March
Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday Evening
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week
Maundy Thursday
Gethsemane
Good Friday
Holy Saturday
Easter Vigil
Easter Morning
Earth Day
Spring in April
The earth awakens
About the authors
Index of authors
Contents in detail
Introduction
Spring in February
The coming of spring
St Bridget
As the days lengthen
Through frozen ground
February is blessed
Candlemas
Old folk
A couple came in with their baby
My name is Anna
Joseph (Luke 2:22–38)
God’s blessing (Luke 2:39–40)
God of light and love
Nunc Dimittis 1
Nunc Dimittis 2
Fair Trade Fortnight
To love God is to love each other (A song for Sally)
Ordinary tea
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday Eve (Shrove Tuesday)
Collect for Ash Wednesday (Isaiah 58:1–12)
Remember that you are dust
The time for ashing
An Ash Wednesday service
Have compassion on us: An Ash Wednesday liturgy
We don’t like Ash Wednesday
Help us turn
Your mercy is so huge (Psalm 51)
Companions
Resources for Lent: Common Lectionary Year A
Collects for Lent
I am long and very slithery (Genesis 2 and 3)
The unexpected move (Genesis 12:1–9)
Abram and Sarai (Genesis 12)
Nicodemus’ song (John 3)
Whoosh! Gurgle! Splossshhh! (Exodus 17)
I do not judge as you judge (1 Samuel 16)
Dem bones, dem bones (Ezekiel 37)
Resources for Lent: Common Lectionary Year B
I saw a dove (Mark 1:9–15)
Baptism
I wonder (Mark 1:9–15)
I put my trust (Psalm 25)
We bring to God
We come to you with wonder and awe (Psalm 22:23–31)
For generations (John 2:13–22)
Mr Nice Guy (John 2:13–17)
What kind of Saviour?
God of passion
Your glory fills the heavens (Psalm 19)
Lifted up (John 3:14–21)
We come to you (Psalm 107:1–3,17–22)
This is the truth (John 12:20–33)
You show us how to let go (John 12:20–33)
We who gather (Psalm 119:9–16)
Resources for Lent: Common Lectionary Year C
In the desert (Luke 4:1–13)
Forty days
You’re my refuge (Psalm 91)
Foxes and hens (Luke 13:31–35)
Lament for Jerusalem (and other cities)
Light and deliverance (Psalm 27)
Second chance (Luke 13:1–9)
The master is coming tomorrow (Luke 13:1–9)
I search for you (Psalm 63)
Lost and found (Luke 15:11–32)
Who would have thought?
Telling you everything (Psalm 32)
Lazarus and Martha reflect (John 12:1–8)
Around a table
Filled with laughter (Psalm 126)
General resources for Lent
Rethinking Lent
Clare’s grandad (A children’s story about death)
A season for more
A long forty days of silence
It’s easy to say sorry
Dear God
This is the season
Annunciation
Mary
I wanted to say no
The morning began quietly
Waiting
Mothering Sunday
Christ who loves us
Mothering God
We lift our prayers to you
Sticky fingers, sloppy kisses
We pray for God’s family
Sometimes it’s tough being a parent
Unsung
In my beginning
Mothering Sunday prayers
We pray also
Spring in March
Primroses on the Uisken road
One more spring
Creator God
I wake and know (St Patrick)
Joseph
A song for St Cuthbert’s Holy Island
Wake
The new growth of spring
A second chance
Palm Sunday
An arrangement
Children’s song
Palm Sunday collect
So many journeys
Here we go
Script for eleven voices (Luke 19:28–40)
Mum, I’m hungry (a script for two voices)
Are you coming?
If our Queen rode a donkey
Let us journey with you
A blessing of palm crosses
Palm Sunday Evening
We see the crowds
After the palms and the parade
A child’s-eye view
Let’s stay with the Hosannas
Jesus needs his friends (a sending)
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week
Three liturgies
Remember her, remember me
Extravagant love (John 12:1–8)
What a waste
Come Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Well done, Judas
Maundy Thursday
All is set
Come Thursday
Here we are
Feet
Foot washing – three takes
A night of wonder (John 13:1–17)
Let you wash my feet! (John 13:1–15)
Here is a table
Peter’s story
Radical
Judas reflects
Gethsemane
We should have been there for him
Watch with me
At midnight in a garden
In Gethsemane
Take this cup away from me (Luke 22:42)
In the courtyard (John 18:12–27)
Wine is poured and bread is broken (A hymn for Maundy Thursday)
Good Friday
Come Friday
Good Friday (an all-age service)
This is the day we dread
Hands of Jesus
If God does not weep
Who gets into paradise? (Luke 23:32–43)
The Red Road
The sister of Mary
The worst of it
Blood and bone
How dare the cross?
Good Friday in any town
Postmodern
The good guy
Judas
Pietà
Nicodemus
Holy Saturday
Come Saturday
A service in a graveyard
Why is it holy?
An aching place
Piercings
Holy Saturday is longer than a day
Easter Vigil
Get ready
Dying to life
You have brought us from darkness into light (an Easter Vigil prayer of thanksgiving)
The light keeps getting brighter now
Easter Morning
Darkness before dawn
Birds still sing
A gathering prayer
The angel
Spinning the story
Easter according to John’s Gospel
Mad Mary
Conversation with a gardener
Resurrection
An Easter prayer of confession
An Easter morning communion
Responses before the Gospel reading
We do not claim to understand
He is with us forever
Thank you
Earth Day
God of new life
A climate of change
The silent witness of the heavens
Each day another species lost forever
Spring in April
The light of day
I look with compassion
Upside-down God
Yangtze Easter
This year’s diary
Thank you, God, for spring
If we wait
Resurrection and love
Spring swings
Burgeoning
Sacrament
Help us to know ourselves
The earth awakens
A liturgy for spring
An elemental blessing
About the authors
Index of authors

Key to symbols
Prayer
Biblical reflection
Liturgy
Song
Story
Script
Meditation
Reflection
Poem
Responsive prayer
Monologue
Child-friendly
For Neil and Sandra with thanks and love
Introduction
Spring follows Winter .
Spring is a liturgical resource book that covers the months of February, March and April. It includes prayers, responses, stories, songs, poems, liturgies, reflections, scripts and monologues for the major Christian festivals and fast days of Lent and Holy Week, as well as for Candlemas, Fair Trade Fortnight and Earth Day. The material is written by Iona Community members, associates, friends and others.
I’ve defined each season by the month that contains the solstice or equinox and the month either side of it.
As the date of Easter changes each year I have chosen to include material for Easter and Eastertide in the next volume of this series, Summer .
Thank you to all the contributors for their rich and imaginative material that I have been privileged to edit.
Given the quality and amount of material that was contributed to this book and its predecessor Winter , completing the series in due course, with Summer and Autumn , should be a pleasure and a delight.
Thank you, too, to the Wild Goose Publications team: Maria O’Neill, Jane Darroch Riley for their professionalism and support – and particularly thank you to Sandra Kramer and Neil Paynter.
Bless to us, O God ,
the fragility of snowdrops ,
the blossoming of orchards ,
the dancing of bees .
Bless to us, O God ,
the wriggling of tadpoles ,
the shedding of Damart * ,
the lengthening of days .
Bless to us, O God ,
the smudge of ashes ,
the Lenten journey ,
the blazing Easter fire .
Bless and silence us with wonder ,
O God of hope and justice .
Gift us with courage .
Warm and quicken us with love .
Ruth Burgess
* winter underwear
Spring in February
The coming of spr