Wild Goose Big Book of Liturgies

Book, 2017, 270 pp
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Full communion services and shorts acts of worship; liturgies for small groups and all-age gatherings; worship rooted in church life and the Iona Community’s resident group on Iona, in social justice and pastoral work. So – as always with the Iona Community – worship which is contextual, with a strong justice and peace edge.

Also see the second Big Book of Liturgies, available separately.

Contents include:

A Wee Word for Advent

  • 1 Opening Words
  • 1 Bible Reading
  • 1 Prayer
  • 1 Song
  • 1 Closing Words

God's Family first All-age Worship for the first Sunday of Advent

  • 4 Worship Leader Intro and reflections
  • 1 Song
  • 1 Prayer
  • 2 Scripture
  • 1 Advent story of Fergie the Frog
  • 1 Prayer/Litany

What are you waiting for? A service for Advent

  • 1 Opening Responses
  • 2 Prayer
  • 1 Reflection/Litany
  • 1 Blessing
  • 1 Introduction to Symbolic action

Waiting in Darkness: An Advent liturgy

  • 1 Evening Liturgy with Candles
  • 1 Blessing

Bread of Life: An all-age Communion or Lent

  • 2 Prayers
  • 1 Leader's Worship Call
  • 1 Words from God
  • 1 Word about bread
  • 3 Scripture Reading
  • 1 Drama: Breaking Bread
  • 1 Child Friendly Service of Communion

A liturgy for the Feast of the Transfiguration: Hiroshima Day, 6th August

  • 1 Opening Response
  • 1 Reflection
  • 1 Affirmation of Faith
  • 1 Prayer
  • 1 Closing Words

A lament for Jesus & for the crucified of our time: A liturgy for the evening of Good Friday

  • 1 Setting and Opening
  • 1 Opening Prayer
  • 2 Eulogies
  • 2 Laments
  • 1 Prayer/Litany
  • 1 Amnesty International banned radio advertisement
  • 1 Ending

A Good Friday liturgy of Bible Readings and prayers (John 17-19)

  • 12 Scripture Readings
  • 11 Prayers
  • 7 Songs
  • 1 Blessing

What does it mean to be obedient to God? Worship and drama for Good Friday

  • 1 Introduction
  • 1 Opening Prayer
  • 1 Welcome
  • 1 Drama
  • 1 Bible Reading
  • 1 Affirmation of Faith
  • 2 Prayers

Living Easter: An all-age Communion for Easter

  • 1 Song
  • 4 Scripture Readings
  • 1 Reflection
  • 4 Prayers
  • 1 Drama: The Rooster's Story
  • 1 Object Lesson on planting
  • 1 Invitation to the Table
  • 1 story of our Easter Table
  • 2 Sung responses
  • 1 Breaking the bread and pouring the cup
  • 1 Closing Response

That all my dance: A simple liturgy for Pentecost to Trinity Sunday

  • 2 Prayers
  • 1 Circling Prayer
  • 1 Intercession
  • 1 Closing Response
  • 1 Blessing

Bell, book and candle: A liturgy for St Columbia's Day

  • 1 Order of Service with Blessings and Story telling

Beyond the baggage of Fatherhood: A liturgy for Father's Day

  • 1 Welcome
  • 1 Prayer
  • 1 Litany
  • 1 Action
  • 1 Prayer of Intercession
  • 1 Blessing
  • 1 Song

In the Beginning: A liturgy for Harvest Festival

  • 1 Opening Responses
  • 2 Reading for 3 people
  • 1 Poem
  • 5 Prayers

Saints Alive! An all-age service for All Saints

  • 1 Welcome
  • 3 Prayers
  • 1 Conversations about saints
  • 2 Song
  • 1 Bible Story
  • 1 Action
  • 1 Offering
  • 1 Blessing

The saints of God are down our street: A liturgy for All Saints

  • 1 Opening
  • 3 Prayers
  • 4 Scripture Readings
  • 4 Hymns
  • 1 Meditation

A shorty liturgy of hospitality

  • 2 Bible readings
  • 1 Litany of confession
  • 1 Litany of hospitality
  • 1 Hospitality of Christ - sharing bread and wine
  • 1 the Lord's Prayer
  • 2 Music

A world full of shelter: A short act of worship

  • 1 Proverb
  • 3 Poems
  • 1 Prayer
  • 1 Song

Swords into ploughshares: A short liturgy

  • 1 Reading
  • 1 Prayer of confession
  • 1 Closing Prayer
  • 1 Benediction

Now come two hearts: A blessing liturgy for a marriage or partnership

  • 1 Opening words
  • 1 Declaration of Intent
  • 1 Affirmation of the families
  • 1 Prayer
  • 1 Speaking Promises to each other
  • 1 Blessing of the rings
  • 1 Concluding Prayer
  • 1 Benediction

The blessed path: A wedding/partnership ceremony

  • 1 Planning Guidance
  • 1 Suggested Hymns
  • 1 Suggested Readings
  • 1 Ceremony
  • 1 Invocation Prayer
  • 1 Introduction to Readings
  • 1 Readings suggestion
  • 1 Declaration of commitment
  • 1 Marriage Vows
  • 1 Blessing
  • 1 Concluding Prayers

An invocation and celebration of love

  • 1 Preparation Notes
  • 1 Liturgy
  • 1 Reflection
  • 1 Active Participation
  • 1 Closing prayer

Friends of the Lord: An all-age service about Friendship

  • 1 Introduction
  • 1 Opening Words
  • 4 Prayers
  • 3 Reflections
  • 1 Reading: Fergie's best friend
  • 4 Songs suggestions
  • 2 Stories
  • 1 Prayer Litany

Companions ont he journey: A blessing of pets and animals who are a part of our lives

  • 1 Opening Sentences
  • 1 Suggested Bible Readings
  • 1 Story
  • 1 Litany of Blessing
  • 1 Blessing of pets
  • 1 Closing prayer

Hunger for Justice: What's for dinner tonight, mum?

  • 1 Opening Responses
  • 2 Song suggestion
  • 2 Scripture Reading
  • 2 Chants
  • 2 Stories
  • 1 Symbolic Action
  • 1 Prayer Litany
  • 1 Closing Prayer

What is valuable and true: A liturgy for economic witness

  • 1 Gathering Words
  • 3 Song suggestion
  • 2 Prayers
  • 1 Contemporary Adaptation of Psalm 72
  • 1 Bible Readings
  • 1 Litany
  • 1 Action
  • 1 Closing Response

God of the Tipping Point: A service of sorrowing, defiance and commitment

  • 1 Opening Responses
  • 2 Scriptures
  • 1 Reflection
  • 1 Invitation to commitment
  • 1 Prayer
  • 1 Symbolic action
  • 1 Affirmation from South Africa
  • 1 Closing Responses

A Framework for a memorial event

  • 1 Purpose
  • 1 Content and Style
  • 1 Religious or not?
  • 1 Music
  • 1 Readings
  • 1 A Memorial Action
  • 1 Following the event
  • 1 The framework - a complete event

A liturgy for setting out on a pilgrimage and a prayer for the journey

  • 1 Opening quote
  • 1 Call to worship
  • 1 Opening Response
  • 1 The discipline of letting go
  • 1 Dreaming and not looking back
  • 1 Costs and rewards of walking Christ's way
  • 1 Prayer action
  • 1 Final gathering
  • 1 Prayer for the journey

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