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the publishing house of the Iona Community, established in the Celtic Christian tradition of St Columba
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Books
More than a book about how to plan your perfect wedding, Rooted in Love is a unique treasury of inclusive resources for couples of all genders at every stage of marriage and committed partnership. An essential companion for couples, celebrants, counsellors, and all who care about the sacred work of loving another person well.
Fiction
A gripping novel that imagines a near-future Britain where growing old has become a crime. A 79-year-old woman who receives official notification that she is now ‘surplus to population requirements’ under the state’s Required to Die Act refuses to comply and begins a perilous journey north towards Free Scotland.
Poetry
Poems that move between the personal and the planetary, drawing on memory, landscape, history and lived experience to explore what it means to endure, to care, and to imagine a future still worth inhabiting – even if its form remains uncertain.
Lent & Easter
Fresh meditations on familiar scriptures for Holy Week, with suggested actions, from a new generation of theologians and writers. Connecting the ancient story of Christ’s passion with contemporary struggles for justice.
Lent & Easter
With these poems and meditations Bonnie Thurston continues her unsentimental journey through darkness towards light. Following the steep ascent of Holy Week, they speak honestly of loss and exhaustion, yet remain fiercely attentive to grace breaking through the ordinary days.
Poetry
A sweeping poetic testament to migration, memory and the fragile work of hope. These poems speak to displacement and belonging, to wounds that demand tending, and to the courage required to remake community.
Meditations & Reflections
Back in stock! Transform your meals with these reflections and blessings for food, fostering thankfulness and compassion. Let us cherish our shared sustenance.
Poetry
Rosemary Power maps the stormy crossings of the human spirit. Drawing on her deep connection to the Hebrides and a lifetime of advocating for the vulnerable, she offers poems that go to the heart of human experience and illuminate the most difficult straits of our lives.
Meditations & Reflections
The Blessing of Animals teems with God’s amazing creation. The perfect gift for the dog-walker, the bird-watcher, the soft-hearted cat-cuddler, or yourself, as a reminder that every creature is a small miracle.
Books
A sequence of poems inspired by the incredible 7th-century voyage of Irish hermit monks from the island of Iona to the wild, unknown shores of Iceland.
Latest E-Books
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Poems that move between the personal and the planetary, drawing on memory, landscape, history and lived experience to explore what it means to endure, to care, and to imagine a future still worth inhabiting – even if its form remains uncertain.
Lent & Easter
Fresh meditations on familiar scriptures for Holy Week, with suggested actions, from a new generation of theologians and writers. Connecting the ancient story of Christ’s passion with contemporary struggles for justice.
Lent & Easter
With these poems and meditations Bonnie Thurston continues her unsentimental journey through darkness towards light. Following the steep ascent of Holy Week, they speak honestly of loss and exhaustion, yet remain fiercely attentive to grace breaking through the ordinary days.
Meditations & Reflections
The Blessing of Animals teems with God’s amazing creation. The perfect gift for the dog-walker, the bird-watcher, the soft-hearted cat-cuddler, or yourself, as a reminder that every creature is a small miracle.
Rosemary Power maps the stormy crossings of the human spirit. Drawing on her deep connection to the Hebrides and a lifetime of advocating for the vulnerable, she offers poems that go to the heart of human experience and illuminate the most difficult straits of our lives.
A sequence of poems inspired by the incredible 7th-century voyage of Irish hermit monks from the island of Iona to the wild, unknown shores of Iceland.
Prayer & Worship
What if prayer is not about having the right words, but about noticing the sacred in the everyday? With wisdom drawn from her Celtic Christian roots, lifelong pilgrimage to the Isle of Iona, and deep engagement with Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and Jewish traditions, the author reimagines prayer as presence in the ordinary.
Care For Creation
In a world grappling with climate change, rampant pollution and collapsing ecosystems, hope can seem like a luxury. David Osborne takes us on a profound exploration, merging insights from science and religion, counselling and campaigning, pastoral work and parenthood, to show that hope is a substantial, energising force to help us work for change.
Meditations & Reflections
Poems that arrive like gentle reminders that life is happening – right now, right here – and it’s trying to tell you something. Martin's work bridges the spiritual and the secular with the grace of someone who’s not trying to win an argument. It just tells the truth beautifully and often makes you laugh along the way.
Meditations & Reflections
Poems embracing the Lenten season not just as a Christian observance but as a state of being – one of wilderness, waiting and transformation. With a journalist’s eye and a poet’s heart, Martyn Halsall crafts a collection that is both a passport and a signpost, guiding readers through Lent’s deeper resonances. Life itself, he suggests, is something we are lent – a gift, a process, a question still unfolding.
Latest E-Liturgies & Prayers Downloads
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Palestine
Digital download: Poems by young writers in Gaza, shared during a live event of poetry and solidarity. Written under conditions of war, these works speak of loss, memory, and the insistence of hope. 31 pages.
Digital download: Haikus based on the Psalms of Lament, a daily practice of prayer, listening and creativity. The authors also encourage us to find our own creative voice. 37 pages.
New Year
Digital download: Journey through the often-overlooked days between Christmas and Epiphany with this reflective guide which blends creativity, prayer and gentle action. 34 pages.
Digital download: Prayers and short reflections for visitors to Iona, whether on a pilgrimage or otherwise, reflecting the beauty of the island, its holy history and its open-ended potential to effect change in people’s lives. 20 pages.
Digital download: A resource which has been used in Iona Abbey as a time of sacred listening, to honour a person’s life story and celebrate their full, complete and Divine lived personhood. 8 pages.
Creation & Environment
Digital download: Seven poems by Joy Mead. Hope lives in our paying attention to the details of life, our everyday experiences, the things we see and know and the love, fear, remorse, pity and wonder of it all. The resurrection moment will come from this place … 9 pages.
Meditations
Digital download: A reflection, meditation, prayer and spiritual exercise to help us take a deep dive into an expanded possibility of awareness, of what it is to be human, and to truly answer the question ‘Where are you living?’ 3 pages.
Good Friday
Digital download:Â A service of reflection for Good Friday evening. Includes several voices, as well as poems reflecting the different historical and current languages of Scotland. 22 pages.
Holy Week
Digital download: Daily opportunities during Holy Week for individuals or groups to reflect on events of the week as the journeying of Christ comes to an end in Jerusalem. 27 pages.
All Saints' Day
Digital download: An extensive reflection for All Saints’ Day, through the lens of the death and memories of the author’s father. How is All Saints’ Day different from every other day of personal remembrance, and how might we honour together the loss of our saints? 12 pages.
Latest Audio Downloads
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Music (audio)
A contemplative album of songs shaped by Celtic spirituality, prayer, and attentiveness to the living world.
Audio Books
Audio version of Kenneth Steven's sequence of poems inspired by the incredible 7th-century voyage of Irish hermit monks from the island of Iona to the wild, unknown shores of Iceland. With music by Simon de Voil.
Music (audio)
Twenty-one of the forty-five chants, responses, choruses, introits and shorter songs that are featured in the Come All You People songbook. For the whole album as a downloadable zipped file go here.
Music (audio)
Love From Below audio download: sixteen songs of discipleship, from the book of the same name, sung by the Wild Goose Worship Group. For the whole album as one zipped file go here.
Music (audio)
Love From Below audio download: sixteen songs of discipleship, from the book of the same name, sung by the Wild Goose Worship Group. For separate tracks on the album, go here. The CD of this album is no longer available.
Music (audio)
Twenty-one of the forty-five chants, responses, choruses, introits and shorter songs that are featured in the Come All You People songbook.
Music (audio)
I Will Not Sing Alone is a deliberately eclectic collection of words and music from different ages fused in contemporary arrangements.
Latest Sheet Music Downloads
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Sheet music
Sheet music download: A song about letting go, from one of the Iona Abbey musicians. 3 pages.
Sheet music download: A song for Easter Sunday, by one of the Iona Abbey musicians. 3 pages.
Sheet music download: A song close to the hearts of many affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, who have found that it represents their hopes and feelings during the time of lockdown. 3 pages.
Sheet music download: A song based on an affirmation used by the Iona Community about living as close to God when apart as when together. 3 pages.
Sheet music download: A responsive blessing song – from one of the Iona Abbey musicians. Full score. 2 pages.
Sheet music download: Song of trust based on Psalm 63 from the Psalms of Patience, Protest and Praise collection, by John L Bell. 3 pages.
Sheet music download: Song based on Psalm 40 from the Psalms of Patience, Protest and Praise collection, by John L Bell. 3 pages.
Sheet music download: Song based on Psalm 56 from the Psalms of Patience, Protest and Praise collection, by John L Bell. 2 pages.
Sheet music download: Song based on Psalm 19 from the Psalms of Patience, Protest and Praise collection, by John L Bell. 1 page.
Sheet music download: Song of praise based on Psalm 147, from the Psalms of Patience, Protest and Praise collection, by John L Bell. 3 pages.
