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A collection for modern worshipers in modern times that honors the deep spiritual traditions of the ages.


Book Description
The ecumenical Iona community worships in the ancient Celtic tradition, while imbuing their prayers with a contemporary commitment to peace, justice, and the rediscovery of an integrated spirituality. The Pattern of Our Days is a collection of Iona's actual liturgies, litanies, responses, and meditations. Like all their prayers, these are honest, earthy, and original. They can be used as is by both individuals or groups, adapted, or tapped for ideas for other acts of worship. Believing that no part of life is beyond the reach of faith, these prayers and liturgies emphasize the whole person praying with both intellect and senses. The material draws deeply from Celtic and Benedictine traditions, as well as the Liturgy of the Hours, but also seeks to actively include all as part of a worldwide church. The wide-ranging themes covered by the prayers and liturgies include pilgrimage, healing, witness, dissent, sanctuary, forgiveness, thanksgiving, cursings, blessings, and more. Designed to encourage creativity in worship, this book is a unique resource for parishes, liturgy-planning committees, small faith groups, and religious communities. It's also inspirational reading for the individual seeker, those interested in monasticism, and those drawn to Celtic spirituality--whether their own roots lie there or not.


About the Author
Kathleen Galloway studied theology at Glasgow University and is the editor of the Iona Community magazine, Coracle. The Iona Community, an ecumenical Christian community founded in 1938 by George MacLeod, gathered about the rebuilding of the ancient ruins of Iona Abbey and now seeks to rebuild "the common life," by bringing together work and worship, prayer and politics, the sacred and the secular--seeking new ways of living the Gospel in today's world.

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