Summer

Summer is a liturgical resource book that covers the months of May, June and July.   It includes prayers, stories, responses, songs, poems, reflections, monologues, liturgies and reflections for the major Christian festivals and seasons of Eastertide and Pentecost, as well as for Ascension, Saints’ days, pilgrimage, holidays and other occasions.   The material is written by Iona Community members, associates, friends and others. Raspberries All the year round I can buy them pre-packed on the supermarket shelves, and sometimes I do. But to fiercely prune them talk to them stake them water them watch the bees buzz around them feel the sun warming them protect them from interested birds nurture them see their colour deepen watch them swell to ripeness smell their promise of sweetness and then to pick them their juice staining my fingers and to eat them ... Wow! Ripe raspberries. It’s summertime. Rejoice!              Ruth Burgess