Hay & Stardust: Resources for Christmas to Candlemas

Offers a collection of worship and meditation resources for the season of Christmastide - including Christmas Day, Holy Innocent's Day, Winter and New Year, Epiphany, Homelessness Sunday and Candlemas.

It also contains 8 Christmas plays: props include puppets, knuckle-dusters, big flashes, sticking plasters, sacks and stars!

Just like its companion volume Candles & Conifers which covers the period from All Saint's to Christmas Eve, the material in this book has been contributed by Iona Community members, associates, friends and others and reflects their diverse experiences of life.

(10-20 actors, 30 min.)

Contents include:

Christmas Day

• 6 readings, 2 prayers, 1 response

Once in Bethlehem

• 3 songs, 5 Biblical reflections, 3 readings, 1 prayer

Birth

• 5 prayers, 12 readings, 4 songs

Light

• 1 song, 3 readings, 3 prayers, 1 liturgy, 1 response

Emmanuel

• 4 songs, 2 liturgies, 3 readings, 1 Biblical reflection, 5 prayers, 1 response

Christmas plays

• 8 scripts

Saint Stephen's Day

• 1 prayer, 1 response

Holy Family

• 1 response, 2 prayers, 1 reading

Holy Innocents

• 1 response, 3 prayers, 2 songs, 2 readings, 1 story

Winter and New Year

• 3 readings, 9 prayers, 1 response

Epiphany

• 2 responses, 8 readings, 1 Biblical reflection, 3 songs, 2 prayers, 4 stories

Baptism of Jesus

• 1 response, 2 Biblical reflections, 1 prayer

Christian unity

• 3 prayers

Homelessness Sunday

• 2 readings

Candlemas

• 3 readings, 1 script, 1 story, 1 song, 2 responses