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Books by Sisters of the Love of God

Books by Sisters of the Love of God

Books by Sisters of the Love of God
Wisdom of the Desert Fathers

Wisdom of the Desert Fathers

Sister Benedicta Ward
'Across a seemingly unbridgeable culture gap these very human saints of the Egyptian wilderness speak to our condition in the new demon-filled deserts of the urban west' (Martin Smith SSJE).

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£8.00

Hidden Joy

Hidden Joy

Sister Jane, Dorothy Sutherland
These profound meditations remind us gently and amusingly that every day we are faced with the choice between true and false religion.

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£4.50

Leisure

Leisure

Mother Mary Clare
We tend to regard work as toil, and leisure as true selffulfilment. However, used as means to enter into the rest of God, they become complementary.

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£2.00

Loving God Whatever

Loving God Whatever

Through the Year with Sister Jane

Sister Jane, Jim Cotter, Sister Avis Mary
Essentially a shy person, Sister Jane was nonetheless a born leader with a great gift for spiritual discernment and direction. This selection of her writings, arranged for daily reading through the year, reveals not only her spiritual wisdom but...

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£9.00

Our Father

Our Father

Benedicta Ward
The Our Father, or Lord's Prayer, is Jesus' own teaching on prayer. Many commentaries have been written on this central prayer of Christianity, from the early Church to the present day. These commentaries have a basic similarity, but the writers'...

Paperback

£5.00

Solitude and Communion

Solitude and Communion

Papers on the Hermit Life

A.M. Allchin
These essays were first published to mark the revival of the hermit life in the Church. Prepared for a meeting of solitaries at St David’s in Wales in 1975, both their historical and contemporary content continue to speak to and encourage those...

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£10.00

Monastic Hours of Prayer

Monastic Hours of Prayer

Benedicta Ward, SLG
The heart of monastic prayer is based in the psalms. In these essays, Sister Benedicta Ward examines the origin and development of the use of the Psalter in the daily worship of monks. She demonstrates that the traditional description of this...

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£5.00

Desert of the Heart: Daily Readings with the Desert Fathers

Desert of the Heart: Daily Readings with the Desert Fathers

Benedicta Ward
Stories and sayings from the fourth-century Desert Fathers in their life of solitude, silence and unceasing prayer. Spiritual wisdom, sharp humour and startling insight into human nature.

Paperback / softback

£6.50

Monastic Vocation

Monastic Vocation

Sisters of the Love of God
Within a Christian context, we truly follow a vocation when we hear the call of God in our lives and follow it. This book describes the answer to that call in the words of those who seek their spiritual home within a convent.

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£7.00

In Company with Christ

In Company with Christ

Through Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter to Pentecost

Benedicta Ward, SLG
Through the processions traditionally associated with Holy Week and Easter, Sister Benedicta explores the power, the theology and the spirituality of procession and pilgrimage. She investigates how the simple human act of walking, whether alone or...

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£8.50

Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm of Canterbury

Teacher of Prayer

Benedicta Ward SLG
For those who study St Anselm, his prayers provide an intimate personal introduction to his thinking and his spirituality. For Anselm, who never considered himself a teacher of prayer, his prayers were simply personal devotions that he occasionally...

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£6.00

True Easter

True Easter

The Synod of Whitby, AD 664

Benedicta Ward SLG
Sister Benedicta gives an illuminating account of the Synod of Whitby 664 AD, held to discuss the date on which Easter should be celebrated. The Synod has been presented as a clash between Irish and Roman missionaries representing two different...

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£5.00

Two Medieval English Saints

Two Medieval English Saints

Cuthbert and Alban

Sister Benedicta Ward SLG
In his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the Venerable Bede (673–735) recorded not simply the biographies of the early saints of Britain, but the stories and myths about them, deliberately passed down from those who knew them, describing...

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£6.50

Encountering the Depths

Encountering the Depths

Mother Mary Clare
Accepting the problems of the spiritual life in the modern world as a challenge Mother Mary Clare, a leading spiritual director of the Anglican Church, discusses the nature and practice of prayer for the serious Christian, lay and clerical.

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£8.00

Love Will Come with Fire

Love Will Come with Fire

Contemplative Poetry

Sisters of the Love of God
An anthology of poetry written by Sisters of the Community of the Love of God.

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£7.00

Doors

Doors

Sister Raphael SLG
Gathered over a lifetime of meditation on the metaphor of doors as ways into the fulfilment of Christian life and the love of God, this is a collection of thoughts and quotations for every day, for everyone who is looking for a sympathetic and...

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£8.00

Prayer Too Deep for Words

Prayer Too Deep for Words

Sister Edmee SLG
In this short book Sister Edmée examines the importance of silence in a prayerful life, not only outward silence, but the need to achieve stillness within, and what this means in terms of our approach to God in prayer. She also examines a more...

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£5.50

Divine Love in the Song of Songs

Divine Love in the Song of Songs

Sr Edmée SLG
The Song of Songs has exercised Jewish and Christian scholars for centuries, and will probably continue to do so. Its language and symbolism have fallen foul of modernist interpretations, particularly since the time of Freud. Sister Edmée, however,...

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£10.00

Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich

Four Studies to Commemorate the Sixth Centenary of the Revelations of Divine Love

A M Allchin, Benedicta Ward, SLG, Sister Eileen Mary
This book provides an introduction and companion to the study of the fourteenth-century Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The meaning of the Revelations for those who are living a contemplative life today is explored through...

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£5.50

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