In the Gift of This New Day
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In the Gift of This New Day

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  1. 204 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

In the Gift of This New Day

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About this book

A book of modern, engaged prayers following the rhythm of the Iona Community's daily prayer cycle. Concerns include: health and wholeness and the ministry of healing * church renewal * the ecumenical movement * people of other faiths and beliefs and the p

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Contents
Introduction
First day
The ministry of the whole people of God …
Thank you for the blessing of your call
Let your Spirit whirl around us
We are your people
Second day
The renewal of prayer and worship …
Good gifts
Our fondest thoughts of you
Open to depth
Third day
Health and wholeness and the ministry of healing …
A prayer for our wholeness
A prayer for healing
A prayer for the dark night
Fourth day
Church renewal; our local Christian community and new forms of being church …
All of life is worship
A prayer for setting off
Being open for business
Fifth day
Christian education and retreat centres …
Christ of the quiet places
I am Mary and I am Martha
Night prayer with blankets
Sixth day
The ecumenical movement; ecumenical organisations and bodies in our own countries and worldwide …
The long journey towards unity
At the grassroots
The Lord’s Prayer
Seventh day
People of other faiths and beliefs; the promotion of understanding through dialogue and joint action for justice and peace …
Common heartbeat
O Lord of the pilgrim way
At the heart of creation
Eighth day
The implementation of the Community’s economic witness; money to meet our needs and a just economic order …
Prayer for economic justice
Help us to be accountable
Prayer for money to meet our needs
Ninth day
People living in poverty; trade justice; aid and advocacy organisations …
People living in poverty
Aid and advocacy organisations and movements
Trade justice
Tenth day
Those without access to education or training or employment …
Prayer for mothers
In a time of austerity (from a demo for the end of Benefit sanctions)
God with us
Eleventh day
Young people, work with young people …
My story: poverty, truth and dreams/prayer
Affirmation from Iona Youth Festival, 2015
Bless young and old in their living together
Twelfth day
Staff and volunteers on Iona and at Camas …
Prayer for Camas staff
Storms and rainbows (an Iona prayer)
I have useful hands/prayer
Thirteenth day
The people of Iona and Mull; life in ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. First day: The ministry of the whole people of God …
  7. Second day: The renewal of prayer and worship …
  8. Third day: Health and wholeness and the ministry of healing …
  9. Fourth day: Church renewal; our local Christian community and new forms of being church …
  10. Fifth day: Christian education and retreat centres …
  11. Sixth day: The ecumenical movement; ecumenical organisations and bodies in our own countries and worldwide …
  12. Seventh day: People of other faiths and beliefs; the promotion of understanding through dialogue and joint action for justice and peace …
  13. Eighth day: The implementation of the Community’s economic witness; money to meet our needs and a just economic order …
  14. Ninth day: People living in poverty; trade justice; aid and advocacy organisations …
  15. Tenth day: Those without access to education or training or employment …
  16. Eleventh day: Young people, work with young people …
  17. Twelfth day: Staff and volunteers on Iona and at Camas …
  18. Thirteenth day: The people of Iona and Mull; life in community …
  19. Fourteenth day: The Word …
  20. Fifteenth day: Those who sustain the world …
  21. Sixteenth day: Working groups, social action, working together for change …
  22. Seventeenth day: Social and political action for justice, peace and the integrity of creation; victims and perpetrators of violence everywhere …
  23. Eighteenth day: The United Nations (UN); implementation of the Millennium Development goals; UN Peacekeeping forces; peace movements and organisations everywhere …
  24. Nineteenth day: Human rights and gender justice …
  25. Twentieth day: Racial justice and the rights of indigenous peoples …
  26. Twenty-first day: The environment and all who work for ecological sustainability …
  27. Twenty-second day: People without homes; displaced peoples; refugees and asylum seekers; our own commitment to hospitality …
  28. Twenty-third day: The renewal of community and the well-being of our own local communities …
  29. Twenty-fourth day: Family groups; far-flung members; former members and associates …
  30. Twenty-fifth day: Associate members and groups, friends …
  31. Twenty-sixth day: The growth and deepening of our life as an ecumenical Christian community …
  32. Twenty-seventh day: New members; all whose lives have been touched by the Iona Community and for all we have received from them …
  33. Twenty-eighth day: Intentional and basic Christian communities throughout the world …
  34. Twenty-ninth day: Iona Community groups on the Continent …
  35. Thirteenth day: Iona Community groups in the USA …
  36. Thirty-first day: On the thirty-first day of each month Iona Community members pray for members who have died
  37. A prayer for the journey
  38. Sources and acknowledgements
  39. About the contributors
  40. Wild Goose Publications is part of the Iona Community …