Welcome to the Daily Office

Thursday 15th October

This interactive daily office
is taken from the Iona
Abbey Worship Book

All material from the

worship book is used with
permission (
www.ionabooks.com)

If you wish to purchase or download the book, links are available on the
Iona Community website (see details at the end of this presentation)
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 Welcome to the Daily Office – what you will need
Thanks to Karin Schmid, Andrew
Symon and David Coleman for
permission to use photos; and to
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Alison Adam for producing the
song slides, including photos.
Please note that the slides will advance automatically,
but you can also move them on yourselves by pressing
‘Enter’ or ‘Page down’.
The Leader’s words for the Opening Responses, Call to
Prayer, Response of Faith etc. are shown in ordinary type;
your responses are in blue font: join in with others as
they respond.
We have left two minutes for you to read and reflect
on your own bible reading. If you require longer, simply
pause the presentation and proceed when you are
ready.
If you already have your own copy of the worship book,
we begin on page 63 (4A Morning Service).
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 Opening Responses

The world belongs to God

The earth and all its people
How good it is, how wonderful
To live together in unity
Love and faith come together
Justice and peace join hands
If Christ's disciples keep silent 
These stones would shout aloud
Open our lips, O God
And our mouths shall proclaim your praise
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Praise your Maker Praise your maker, all you nations;
and extol him, all you people.
Everlasting is God’s favour;
strong and constant love surround us.
Praise the Lord!
Alleluia! Amen!

From the collection, Psalms of patience,

protest and praise.
Paraphrase from Ps. 117, copyright © &
1991, WGRG, Iona Community, Glasgow,
Scotland.
www.wildgoose.scot
Used by permission
 Call to Prayer

Move among us, God; give us life

Let your people rejoice in you
Give us again the joy of your help
With your spirit of freedom sustain us
God, make our hearts clean
Restore us in body, mind and spirit

Let us pray.

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 Prayer of Confession
Trusting in God’s forgiveness,
Let us in silence confess our failings
And acknowledge our part in the pain of the world

Silence

Before God,
With the people of God,
I confess to turning away from God
In the ways I wound my life, the lives of others
And the life of the world
May God forgive you, Christ renew you, and the
Spirit enable you to grow in love
Amen
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 Before God,
With the people of God,
we confess to turning away from God
In the ways we wound our lives, the lives of others
And the life of the world

May God forgive you, Christ renew you,

and the Spirit enable you to grow in love

Amen
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 The Lord’s Prayer
So now, as Jesus taught us, we say
Please feel free to use whatever
All Our Father in heaven form of words you usually use
Hallowed be your name
Your kingdom come
Your will be done on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread;
And forgive us our sins
As we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us in the time of trial
And deliver us from evil;
For the kingdom, the power
And the glory are yours,
Now and forever.
Amen
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 Response of faith
With the whole church
We affirm that we are made in God’s image
Befriended by Christ, empowered by the Spirit

With people everywhere

We affirm God’s goodness at the heart of humanity
Planted more deeply than all that is wrong

With all creation

We celebrate the miracle and wonder of life
The unfolding purposes of God
For ever at work in ourselves and the world
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Psalm 90
All: You, God, have been our refuge from one
generation to another
Before the mountains emerged, before the earth was
born, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
You turn back mortals to dust, saying “Turn back,
earth’s children.” For, in your sight, a thousand years
are like a night watch or a single day
All: You sweep time away like a dream, like grass
that flourishes in the morning but withers and fades
come evening
We are consumed by your anger and overwhelmed
by your fury. For you lay out our sins before you, our
secret sins are open to your gaze
All our days pass under your scrutiny, our years die away
like a sigh. We may reach the age of seventy, perhaps
eighty if we keep healthy.
Our years bring us struggle and sorrow. They are soon
gone and so are we.
All: Who knows the power of your anger? Who but the
faithful understand you?
Help us plan our years so that wisdom may grow in our
hearts
How long, O God, till you return to us? Have pity on your
people.
Show us your love when morning breaks and we will be
joyful all our days
For all the days we have known misfortune, balance them
with days of joy.
All: Let your care be evident to your servants and your
glory to the next generation. Let your favour rest upon
us and bless the work of our hands.
 The bible reading

You are invited to consider

your own short reading

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 The bible reading
For the Word of God in scripture
For the Word of God among us
For the Word of God within us

Thanks be to God

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The treasure

From the collection, I will not sing alone.

Copyright © &  2005, WGRG,
Iona Community, Glasgow, Scotland.
www.wildgoose.scot
Used by permission
If I bought a field
with holy, hidden treasure
buried by the Lord,
and precious beyond measure.
What would I presume
that God, in love, had hidden:
gifts from sages kept
and to the rich forbidden?
Would I think that gold
was what the Lord had planted?
Or might it be the wealth
which all my life I’d wanted?
Or might God conceal
delights I never heeded –
not the things I want,
but what I’ve always needed?
If I bought that field
and found the hidden treasure
would I clutch it tight
or share for others’ pleasure?
‘Listen’ says the Lord,
‘the field was long since given.
Treasure lies within;
your heart was sown in heaven.’
 Prayers of gratitude and concern

Members and
Associates of the Iona
Community lead these
prayers

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 On the Fifteenth Day we pray for

Members belonging to the Family Group of:

Forth
Ewan Aitken &
Hilary Aitken Brown with Chara
Urzula Glienecke
Carrie Gooch
Yousouf Gooljarry with Kane, Leo
Staff at the Glasgow Office: Pat Bennett, Bonnie Blake, Tom Gordon and Mary
Paul Clelland, Joy Coppell, David Dugan, Kathy Galloway, Yvonne Morland
Lynn Harper, Christian Maclean, Suzanne Miller, Karen Lesley Orr
Turner. Eurig Scandrett
Those involved in The Iona Abbey Capital Appeal; Ian Wilson and Shirley
buildings development work and Iona Centres Futures Rachael Yates and Andrew Reeves with
Groups Florence
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Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay

 On the Fifteenth Day of this month we pray for Associates in
Glasgow & Lanarkshire

Bruce Sinclair, GLASGOW

Isobel Smith, AIRDRIE
Fiona Stack, GLASGOW
Alex Stuart, GLASGOW
John Stuart, GLASGOW
David Swinfen, GLASGOW
Cecilia Tordzro, GLASGOW
Gameli Tordzro, GLASGOW
Anne Walker, GLASGOW
Phil White, GLASGOW
Ashley Whitehead, GLASGOW
Clive Whiteside, COATBRIDGE
Andrea Williamson, GLASGOW
Ellie Woodburn, GLASGOW

Walk with them today, O God – And keep us on your way

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 Daily Prayers (Thursday)
Jesus, you have set before us a great hope
that your kingdom will come on earth,
and have taught us to pray for its coming.
Make us ready to celebrate
the signs of its dawning,
and to pray and work for the perfect day
when your will shall be done on earth
as it is in heaven.
Amen

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 Closing responses
This is the day that God has made
We will rejoice and be glad in it
We will not offer to God
Offerings that cost us nothing
Go in peace to love and to serve
We will seek peace and pursue it
In the name of the Trinity of Love
God in community, holy and one

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 In Iona of my heart, Iona of my love
Instead of the voice of monks shall be the lowing of cattle
But ere the world comes to an end
Iona shall be as it was

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 The worship book can be purchased and / or downloaded from the
Iona Community website.
Go to ‘Resources’, then ‘Wild Goose publications’ (www.ionabooks.com)
Slides collated by Andrew Symon and Karin Schmid with help from: Alison Adam and Martin Coe; Ewan
and Hilary Aitken and family; Annie Benjamin; Elaine Cameron; Alex Clare-Young and Jo; Andrew Dart;
Ros Davies and family; Fiona Fidgin; Elaine and Michael Gisbourne and family; Ursula Glienecke; Jane
and Bob Hodges; Marvyn Mackay; Ali and Peter Marshall; Jacqui Morton; Liz Paterson; Nicki
Pennington; the Schmid family; Peter and Anne Sear; Clare Sibley; Jill Stoner and Simon Evans;21
Maggie
Symon; Jean and Raymond Young.
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