weeWONDERBOX: An Iona Community Liturgy of Healing
A service of prayers for healing and laying on of hands
Each week between September 2016 and June 2017, weeWONDERBOX offers a weekly Iona Community liturgy. However, on this the last Wednesday of the month, the liturgy takes a slightly different form, that of a service of prayer and action for healing, hope and well-being.
A Book Group on Learning from the experiences of churchless Christians
A short 2-week series to read and discuss excerpts of the recent book, ‘The Invisible Church’ by Steve Aisthorpe (a Mission Development Worker for the Church of Scotland and is based in the Highlands). The book explores the realities behind the statistics of apparent church decline and suggests an explanation of some of the processes at work, informed by reflection on scripture. Enabled by Jo Love of the Wild Goose Resource Group.
A weekly Iona Community liturgy.
A time to still your soul, be affirmed, comforted as well as challenged. Participative worship which uses unaccompanied song, music, conversation and simple symbolic action to explore how the Word, our experience and lives intersect.
Each liturgy is led by different members, associates or friends of the Iona Community, with the support of the Programme Team and Wild Goose Resource Group.
On the last Wednesday of the month, the liturgy will take the form of a service of prayers for healing and laying on of hands.
weeWONDERBOX: Missing Women – A search for sturdy females, with John L. Bell.
A 4 week series looking at the stories of women overlooked in the Biblical narrative.
For the last 6 years, Holy City has collaborated with the wonderful Pádraig Ó Tuama in offering an Urban Retreat in Advent in Glasgow’s city centre. This is the now the 7th glorious occasion.
This year, Pádraig will engage with poetry … about religion, Christmas, Mrs Claus and other tinselled characters. Pádraig will bring some examples and retreat participants are invited to do the same.
These poems will be used to talk about Advent, Christmas, our stories and our cities, to engage in discussions and delights.
Zabbaleen of Cairo – A personal journey to the margins in word, music and image with Christian Stejskal
This unique one-man performance is a colourful multi-media, personal journey by Christian Stejskal. After meeting Cairo’s “Zabbaleen” rubbish collectors while walking from Vienna to Axum Ethiopia, Christian spent 5 years taking photos and listening to their stories. This spoken-word and photographic recounting of their lives is accompanied by music on the violin.
Are you an ‘Undecided’? Not sure which way to vote in the EU Referendum? Leaning towards ‘Yes’ (Remain), or maybe towards ‘No’ (Leave), but there are some big issues that
Starting on Wednesday 1st of June, and running throughout the rest of the month of June 2016, weeWONDERBOX welcomes a weekly Iona Community Liturgy for yer delectation and devotion.
Of Flesh & Bones’ … a guide to doing worship well.
Wild Goose Resource Group
Abbey & MacLeod Centres, Iona, 25 June – 1 July 2016
Worship is not primarily about the ego, personal taste, inflexible tradition or anaesthesia. It is about God and humanity. To enable worship to be effective, to speak for and to people requires commitment, imagination and engagement. This is what the week is all about and it is open to all.
The Wild Goose Resource Group will be leading the week’s workshops, with plenty of singing, plenty of dreaming, plenty of people seeking ‘new ways to touch the hearts of all’.
‘An Evening of Pentateuchery’ will be a relaxed affair – a wee soirée, with beverages and nibbles, plus ‘choice’ entertainment and diversions (music, sketches, spoken word, films & other nonsense).
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