Moments of Our Nights and Days

Ruth Burgess

Description

A resource book for planning baptisms, naming ceremonies, weddings and civil partnerships and marking the many other significant moments of our nights and days. There are resources that do not assume any faith commitment, as well as ones that reflect Christian belief.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Christian worship
• Christian mysticism

Informations

• Publié par: Wild Goose Publications
• Date de parution: 29 octobre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781849523202
• Langue: English

Extrait

Moments of Our Nights and Days is a resource book for planning baptisms, naming ceremonies, weddings and civil partnerships and marking the many other significant moments of our nights and days. There are resources that do not assume any faith commitment, as well as resources that reflect Christian belief. Sections include:
Approaching birth • Birth and birth blessings • Adoption Baptism and naming ceremonies for young children Sentences and blessings for baptisms, naming ceremonies and dedications Bits and pieces for baptisms, dedications, blessings and naming ceremonies Liturgies of baptism for older children and adults Parenthood and grandparenthood • School and growing up Teens • Celebrating friendship Liturgies for celebrating relationships, marriages and partnerships Sentences and blessings for marriage and partnership ceremonies Bits and pieces for celebrating relationships, marriages and partnerships Breakdown of relationships • Home • Work and unemployment • Health and caring Moments of our days • Being who I am • Growing older • Prayers for travelling
Moments of Our Nights and Days is a companion book to Saying Goodbye , a resource book for funerals, also published by Wild Goose Publications.
Keep us alert on our journeying, God: full of wonder strong in your strength cherished in our weakness .
Summon us to live in your loving justice with friend and with stranger and with those we find hard to love .
In bad times and good times you are always with us, Gifter of the moments of our nights and days .

– Ruth Burgess
 
 
 
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Moments of our nights and days
Liturgies and resources for baptisms, weddings, partnerships, friendships and the journey of life

Ruth Burgess

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Contents of book © individual contributors Compilation © 2014 Ruth Burgess
First published 2014 Wild Goose Publications 4th Floor, Savoy House, 140 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3DH, UK www.ionabooks.com Wild Goose Publications is the publishing division of the Iona Community. Scottish Charity No. SC003794. Limited Company Reg. No. SC096243.
PDF: ISBN 978-1-84952-318-9 Mobipocket: ISBN 978-1-84952-319-6 ePub: ISBN 978-1-84952-320-2
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Contents
Approaching birth
Birth and birth blessings
Adoption
Baptism and naming ceremonies for young children
Sentences and blessings for baptisms, naming ceremonies and dedications
Bits and pieces for baptisms, dedications, blessings and naming ceremonies
Liturgies of baptism for older children and adults
Parenthood and grandparenthood
School and growing up
Teens
Celebrating friendship
Liturgies for celebrating relationships, marriages and partnerships
Sentences and blessings for marriage and partnership ceremonies
Bits and pieces for celebrating relationships, marriages and partnerships
Breakdown of relationships
Home
Work and unemployment
Health and caring
Moments of our days
Being who I am
Growing older
Prayers for travelling
Sources and acknowledgements
Contents in detail
Introduction
Approaching birth
Annunciation
Pregnancy
A question of a name
Birth and birth blessings
Rounded walls
Tom
For Kira
A blessing on Henry, my first grandchild
A nontraditional blessing
Open your heart
Three days born
So, here you are, born
Adoption
Blessing at the placement of a child for adoption
Blessing for an adoptive family
Service of thanksgiving after adoption
Baptism and naming ceremonies for young children
The blessing of a child (without baptism)
Celebration of baptism (where one parent is a Christian and the other is not)
Naming ceremonies
Naming grandchildren
Blessing of a child at a family gathering
Baptism in church
A service for the anointing of a child
An order of service for the baptism/naming/dedication of a child
A welcoming blessing for children already baptised
Sentences and blessings for baptisms, naming ceremonies and dedications
Bits and pieces for baptisms, dedications, blessings and naming ceremonies
Baptism is all about community
Blessing the water for baptism
Prayer over water
Oceans and puddles: a water litany
A drop of water from the sea
Involving children at baptisms
A naming and blessing story
Practices from Friends
Promises, from The Salvation Army
Baptism of a young boy and his baby sister
Some very important questions
Baptism hymn
A blessing for a baby born in spring
A blessing for a baby born in autumn
A blessing for a baby born in winter
A dandling blessing
For the gift of this child
A baptismal moment (for Juan Diego)
Give us a swing, Jesus
I long to dance
An invitation to baptism
Baptism blues (for my god-daughter)
Baptism bells (for Rebecca)
A prayer at baptism
John the Baptist
Heard about?
Cwtch up, Cariad (a Welsh blessing)
Cradle roll service
Liturgies of baptism for older children and adults
Baptism of older children
Liturgy of baptism
Parenthood and grandparenthood
Prayer for parents and for those who wish to be parents
Praise God for a granddaughter
Thanksgiving for a child
Raising kids
Matthew’s hug
How am I supposed to pray?
School and growing up
Blessing for those beginning school
New school
Blessing for a new school term
The school playground: memoir of a postwar London-Irish childhood
Bullies
Sports day
I wish
A prayer for primary-school leavers
A prayer for a test
Prayer at a Sunday School prize-giving service
Telling people about my religion
Laces
Prayer for school leavers
Teens
Something more
When Jesus was a teenager
Prayer for those going to university
Michael
A search for wisdom (a prayer of confession)
Blessing for students leaving home to study
A journey of learning
Coming of age
Celebrating friendship
May God befriend us (opening responses)
Haikus for friendship
The hidden gift
A celebration of friendship
God, offer the hand of friendship (prayers of intercession)
Thank you for my friends
A closing blessing
Liturgies for celebrating relationships, marriages and partnerships
Blessing for a civil partnership
Knitting lives together: a liturgy for the blessing of an interfaith partnership (Jewish and Christian traditions)
The blessing of a civil partnership in church
A service of blessing
Celebrating a relationship
A wedding service/blessing of a partnership
Sentences and blessings for marriage and partnership ceremonies
Bits and pieces for celebrating relationships, marriages and partnerships
A family wedding blessing
An opening statement for a partnership ceremony or wedding
Three wedding/civil partnership memories and ideas
Including the guests
A wedding prayer
The perfect couple
This is your day
Blessings and vows
Love poems for a wedding (to Lindy and Bill)
Love has brought you here
You came here to make it sacred
How I became a fundamentalist
Blessing of a marriage (at a family gathering)
Do you realise what you’ve just said?
No one is given away
Love is the circle
We meet at one point (a blessing)
Life comes to us strangely
On their way
Prayer for a wedding anniversary
She who shares life with me
Dreams take flesh
A prayer for understanding
Love grows
Breakdown of relationships
Divorce
Prayer for spouses who are separated
War hangs heavy between us
It does not take much (a poem at breaking point)
My petition for divorce
After the Decree Absolute
A liturgy for laying down and letting go
Who will cast the first stone?
Bring light out of darkness
Grandpa’s lament
A liturgy of assurance following an abortion
Parting
For the future
God of our desire
Home
Prayers and symbolic actions for moving into a new home
Blessing at the dinner table
A garden blessing
Wanaki
A last look back
The last return of the prodigal
Blackstone’s journey
Blackstone’s love
Toby
Emptiness
All this stuff
Amazing
Work and unemployment
Starting a new job
A blessing on a new workplace
Night shift
You see their worth
Collective dust
Wet and dry
Not working
In the days
Day in
Prayers of intercession at a time of economic crisis
Health and caring
After a heart attack
As I bathe your body
No words necessary
Frequency
A carer’s prayer
God of the night-time
On living with times of illness and times of remission
Moments of our days
The gift of this day
Jesus, my companion
Reflections on a train journey
The Golden Arches
Signs of God
The journey
Cleveland Way haiku
From Caedmon’s song
Beloved God
I need a new address book
A wee prayer for good times
The dangers and grace of routine
For self-examination
Blessed are …
We sleep into mystery
Being who I am
Being who I am
Songs of praise
Some people look at me
Some people say
I found God in Bangladesh
Andrew the runner
Who am I?
Bodhrán
Just as I am
Down’s Syndrome
Inconsistency
Gracious friend
Ordination
On becoming a church elder
Growing older
Growing older
Second life (prayer for a 50th birthday)