Winter

Ruth Burgess

Description

A liturgical resource book that covers the months of November, December and January. It includes prayers, stories, responses, songs, poems, reflections, liturgies and meditations for the major Christian festivals of All Saints', Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, as well as for Remembrance, Blue Christmas, Christingle, New Year, Christian Unity and other occasions. The material is written by Iona Community members, associates, friends and others.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Christian liturgy
• Christmas

Informations

• Publié par: Wild Goose Publications
• Date de parution: 21 novembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781849525114
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Another great collection of seasonal resources from Ruth Burgess.
Winter is a liturgical resource book that covers the months of November, December and January.
It includes prayers, stories, responses, songs, poems, reflections, liturgies and meditations for the major Christian festivals of All Saints’, Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, as well as for Remembrance, Blue Christmas, Christingle, New Year, Christian Unity and other occasions. The material is written by Iona Community members, associates, friends and others.
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Winter
Resources for November, December and January
including Remembrance, All Saints’, Advent, Christmas, New Year and Epiphany
Ruth Burgess

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Contents of book © individual contributors Compilation © 2016 Ruth Burgess
First published 2016 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 978-1-84952-510-7 ePub ISBN 978-1-84952-511-4 Mobipocket ISBN 978-1-84952-512-1
Cover photograph © Michael Marten
We gratefully acknowledge the contribution of the Drummond Trust, 3 Pitt Terrace, Stirling, towards the publication of this book
All rights reserved. Apart from reasonable personal use on the purchaser’s own system and related devices, no part of this document or file(s) may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means, without the prior written permission of 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. Please make full acknowledgement of the source and where appropriate report usage to the CLA or other copyright organisation.
Commercial use: For any commercial use of this material, permission in writing must be obtained in advance from Wild Goose Publications at the above address.
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.
For Sheila and Debbie with love
Contents
Winter in November
Souls and saints
Remembrance
Thanksgiving Thursday and Black Friday
Christ the King/The reign of God
Advent
Watching and waiting
Blue Christmas
Winter in December
Christingle
Early Christmas Eve
Watchnight
Christmas Day
The Christmas story
Mary and Joseph
Shepherds and angels
Holy Innocents and Holy Family
New Year
Epiphany
Homelessness Sunday
Winter in January
The baptism of Jesus
Prayers for Christian unity
Blessings and sendings
Contents in detail
Introduction
Winter in November
A prayer for growth in winter
The Penmon robin
Winter haiku
A bit of a blow
The day of the storm
Remind me: a prayer during winter’s storms
A blink of sun
Like November
Red lantern of light
Souls and saints
We are part of each other
Really, God?
Reflection for All Souls’ Day
A liturgy of death and new life – St Winefride (Gwenfrewi), 3rd November
In steps of saints
We give thanks
Prayers for an All Saints’ Communion
St Lucy’s Day (December 13)
A prayer for All Saints’
What I miss when I am missing you
Saints alive
They’re all around us
Remembrance
From the darkness of death
They shall not grow old
We commend to you
A response for Remembrance Day
Loving God
The ordinary people
Seeking the ways of peace
Let us go from this place
Thanksgiving Thursday and Black Friday
Another leaf in the table
Thanksgiving
Thank you
The mall is my shepherd
Prayer for Black Friday
Buy Nothing Day
Black Friday!
Christ the King/The reign of God
You I could follow
From seed to shoot
The Christian year
Christ reigns
Opening responses
Closing prayer
The king and the castle
Waiting for a God of
A sending
Advent
Poem for Advent
St Nicholas Day (December 6th)
Just when
Advent wreath ceremony
Gladness
God approaches
For such mornings as this
Intercessions for Advent
Prayer of approach and adoration
Gaudete Sunday
A song for Gaudete Sunday
God in the dark
Advent call
Responses and prayers for the Sunday before Christmas
As we wait
Be with us, God
Watching and waiting
Be still (Psalm 37)
Watching and waiting
Winter’s wisdom (an Advent invitation to foolish waiting)
Advent again
Know that I am God (Psalm 46)
The light time and the dark time
The bogey-god
The Spirit broods
In Advent we wait for you
Evening service
Hoping and yearning
Bearers of hope
We come expecting nothing
For you we wait
We will watch and we will wait
We are waiting
Blue Christmas
Bring it all to me (a service for the longest night)
Homecoming
The longest night
Until the light comes again
Companion
Bring your peace, Lord
A liturgy of remembering
Time to remember
Christmas doesn’t work for everyone
Winter in December
A thanksgiving for winter
Solstice
Seeking silence
The heavens declare
Winter in Dunblane
Midwinter on Ulva (‘We have come, following a star’)
Long for home
Longest night
When the snow falls deep
Winter praises
Winter shore walk
The light shines
Kinharvie walk
The sense of winter
Winter prayers
The Lord of the winds
Stars
Christingle
Three sets of opening responses
A prayer for a Christingle service
A story with dressing up
A story with actions and noise
Litany of the Christingle
Leftovers
Benediction (for when the Christingle service is held on Christmas Eve)
Early Christmas Eve
There was no room
Christmas Eve
Child of Bethlehem
Mary and Joseph at Capstone Farm
Yusuf was bored
Lord Jesus, hear our prayer
Earth-dwelling God
Oh, that we were there
The Angel Tam
Are you ready? A Christmas Eve play
God who loves to be with us
A crib prayer
Christmas Eve tonight
Watchnight
He walked alone on Christmas Eve
All this night
The bothy
Christmas came simply
It was dark
In the darkness
A Christmas blessing
A prayer for others
Hope came
Light, to crumple up the darkness
Christmas Day
God in a manger
No and yes
In memoriam
Aren’t primary-school Nativity plays embarrassing?
The song of the angels
The Lord of life
We believe in Christmas
Bidding prayers
A Christmas Day blessing
Look, Lord, said the angels
The Christmas story
Luke and Matthew (for two voices)
The householder’s story
I can talk now
The two songs
Elizabeth watches the hoopoes
Mary and Joseph
To be a good man
Advice from uncle
A wee dose of reality
Saying yes
Hello, bump
God delivers: a dialogue between Joseph and a friend
My soul magnifies the Lord
‘Mary – he’s beautiful’
Our story
Advent thoughts from Our Lady in old age
Shepherds and angels
Wash night: a shepherds and angels drama
Angels are special
Come and sit
Angels say
A shepherd’s story
Something aaamazing (for three voices)
The story of Josh and his sheep
Glory to a child
Holy Innocents and Holy Family
Little boy in Bethlehem
Walking to Bethlehem
Night flight
Donkey monologue
To Egypt
New Year
As the old year passes
Got your list done?
New year – new me
Again we come
Change me, God
A liturgy of hopeful brokenness
Bring us bright God
God of our past
Covenant challenge
Covenant of love
If I had
Blessed are you
The ‘in-between’ Sunday
Travelling with God
God our provider
Fresh is the morning
Dancing in the rain
Epiphany
A star for our journey
Star of wonder
We all have gifts
Mary remembers the visitors
We use our gifts for God
We are
Wise
A bright light is shining
Strangers at the door bringing gifts
The wise of old
Those first visitors
WOW!
New roads
Homelessness Sunday
We belong to God
Walking by the homeless
May our hearts and minds be open
Dilemmas
Winter in January
As the sun revives
God of ever-new beginnings
A litany of hope
Angel in the dump
That name
Lord of the seasons
At the pantomime
January dawn
Winter walk on Hod Hill
The first time
A communion liturgy
January 28th
Winter hope
Turning the sod
The baptism of Jesus
He scared me
Am I ready?
What did it for me
To live out our baptism promise
Pirate Jesus
In this spirit we baptise you
Look what you can be
Prayers for Christian unity
An opening prayer
We ask for courage
Our united service
Give us grace
Bidding prayers
A prayer for Christian unity
Blessings and sendings
God’s blessing be ours
In our heart a dream
A winter blessing
A blessing from Bethlehem
A good work
May God salt the path before you
When
Praying the day through
Time for rest
Bless you
This long night
Sources and acknowledgements
About the authors

Key to symbols
Prayer
Biblical reflection
Liturgy
Song
Story
Script
Meditation
Reflection
Poem
Responsive prayer
Affirmation
Introduction
Winter is a liturgical resource book that covers the months of November, December and January. It includes the major Christian festivals of All Saints’, Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, as well as material for Remembrance, Blue Christmas, Christingle, New Year and Christian Unity.
It’s twelve years since I first began compiling and editing a series of resource books that covered the liturgical year, and it’s been good to begin again, in a slightly different format, with Winter .
I’ve defined each season by the month that contains the solstice or equinox and the month either side of it. Given the quality and amount of material that was contributed to this book, completing the series in due course, with Spring , Summer and Autumn , should be a pleasure and a delight.
Thank you to all the contributors for their rich and imaginative material that I have be