Holy Ground: Liturgies and Worship Resources for an Engaged Spirituality

'Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground,' God said to Moses.

All ground is holy ground - city streets, housing estates, shanty towns, playgrounds, prisons, shopping malls...

This book presents liturgies and worship resources on a range of subjects and concerns - globalization, food, water, HIV/AIDS, the environment, interfaith dialogue, the arms trade, prisoners of conscience, 20th-century martyrs, homelessness, racism, gender, living in community, youth, children, aging - written by Iona Community members, associates and friends; by folk engaged in the life of the world. It is a collection for anyone searching for worship material that reflects the world we live in.

Conents include:

Human rights, human wrongs

• prayer service for prisoners of conscience
• refugee evensong
• vigil liturgy for abolition of death penalty

In an unjust world

• from slavery to freedom, a liturgy
• AIDS/HIV, a liturgy
• Living water, a liturgy
• a liturgy about justice, food and sharing
• a liturgy for justice in the global marketplace
• a liturgy for a globalised world
• a liturgy of solidarity from Iona Abbey

In our own backyard

• a communion liturgy
• praying for our cities
• a rural liturgy
• a liturgy about poverty and the environment
• prayers
• world AIDS day service

In all generations

• liturgy for children and adults together
• liturgy prepared by young people for all of God's people
• liturgical resources on aging

Blessed are the peacemakers

• liturgy of penitence for the arms trade
• prayer vigil
• prayer vigil for peace
• Ash Wednesday service of repentance
• interfaith service for peace

Challenging Prejudice

• liturgy challenging racism
• service affirming sexualiy and celebrating diversity
• a liturgy about gender
• liturgical material about mental health
• a commitment liturgy for Deaf and hearing people
• a liturgy of inclusiveness

With All Creation

• a service of prayers for the environment
• a liturgy on 'ecological footprint'
• a liturgy of commitment

Engaged Community

• an act of  commitment to a common work of reconciliation
• worship resources for worship in a time of war
• a service of foot washing

Additional Resources

• responses, affirmations, litanies and dialogues
• stories and readings
• blessings
• reflections and meditations