Cloth for the Cradle: Worship Resources and Readings for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany - Softcover

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A wealth of worship resources for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany from the Wild Goose Worship Group. These litanies, meditations, monologues, poems, prayers, readings, scripts and symbolic actions aid the rediscovery of the stories of Christ's birth through adult eyes. 

Contents include:

ADVENT RESOURCES 

    Behind the corridors of space (responses) 

    Waiting (meditation) 

    In the beginning of creation (responses)  

    The people who walked (meditation)  

    Among the poor (litany) 

    A story of light & darkness (meditation) 

    Open our eyes (prayer) 

    The desert will sing and rejoice (responses) 

    Lucky day (script) 

    Prepare the way of the Lord (responses) 

    Mary and the angel (script) 

    The Magnificat (meditation) 

    Mary, pondering (reading)

    Mary and Lizzie (script) 

    We suspect angels (prayer) 

    God of the watching ones (blessing)

    Pinning our hopes on Jesus (i) (intercessions) 

    Pinning our hopes on Jesus (ii) (symbolic action) 

    Into our world as into Mary's womb (responses) 

    The village gossips (script) 

    The census (script) 

    How far is it? (symbolic action) 

    Registering hope (symbolic action) 

    Mary's journey (reading) 

    The diaries of Joseph and Theodore (script) 

    The Bethel Inn (script)

    Cloth for the cradle (symbolic action)

    In hope, the universe waits (responses)

CHRISTMAS RESOURCES

    It was to older folk that Jesus came (reading)

    Light looked down (responses)

    This, tonight, is the meeting place (prologue)

    The journey of Jesus (reading)

    The Incarnation (script)

    Litany of the Incarnation (litany)

    When the world was dark (intercessions)

    The shepherd (script)

    And did it happen? (reading)

    They have heard it on the hills (proclamation)

    The Word (meditation)

    A perfect disgrace (script)

    Michael Mouse (script)

    A special baby (script)

    Once in Judah's least known city (reading)

    A boy has been born for us (responses)

    In the face of the Gospel (intercessions)

    Anna and Simeon (script)

    Women weeping (meditation)

EPIPHANY RESOURCES

    The wise man's journey (reading)

    The gatekeepers (script)

    The soldiers  (script)

    God of God, Light of Light (responses)

    God bless us and disturb us (reading)

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