Daily readings, with prayers, poems and actions, for Lent and Holy Week from members, associates and friends of the Iona Community.

 

Also includes a section of additional resources for Lent, Holy Week and Easter.

 

Contributors include Ruth Burgess, Nancy Cocks, Brian Woodcock, Donald Eadie, Iain and Isabel Whyte, Peter Millar, Janet Lees, Jan Sutch Pickard, Warren Bardsley, Alex Clare-Young, Thom M Shuman, Kathy Galloway, Christian MacLean, Timothy Gorringe, Katharine M Preston, Richard Skinner, Carol Dixon, Niall Cooper, Anna Briggs, Alastair McIntosh, Martin Johnstone, and others.

 

Christ our life,

You are alive in the beauty of the earth

in the rhythm of the seasons

in the mystery of time and space.

ALLELUIA

 

Christ our life,

You are alive in the tenderness of touch

in the heartbeat of intimacy

in the insights of solitude.

ALLELUIA

 

Christ our life,

You are alive in the creative possibility

of the dullest conversation

the dreariest task

the most nerve-racking event.

ALLELUIA

 

Christ our life,

You are alive to offer new creation

to every unhealed hurt

to every deadened place

to every damaged heart.

ALLELUIA

 

You set before us a great choice.

Therefore we choose life.

ALLELUIA

 

Kathy Galloway