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Contemplative Life

View our range of books on the Contemplative life and prayer.

Contemplative Life
Saint Therese of Lisieux

Saint Therese of Lisieux

Her Relevance for Today

Sister Eileen Mary
A life that is brief, uneventful and entirely hidden, if offered to God for the sake of love alone, can be fruitful far beyond the limits of its time and place.

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£2.00

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

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

Sayings of the Urban Fathers and Mothers

Sayings of the Urban Fathers and Mothers

James Ashdown
A translation of sayings of the Desert Fathers and Mothers into the urban wilderness of twentieth-century London, bringing the wisdom of the ancient desert vibrantly and entertainingly alive for modern Christians.

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£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

Prayer of Silence

Prayer of Silence

Alexander Ryrie
The cultivation of an inner life of prayer has always formed an essential part of the Christian way. Many long for silence and stillness, yet the words 'contemplative prayer' can seem to denote some specialist method of prayer. Sandy Ryrie, using...

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£7.00

Cosmos, Crisis and Christ

Cosmos, Crisis and Christ

Essays of Wendy Robinson

Andrew Louth
Wendy Robinson’s work was primarily interpersonal and in retreat talks or lectures where she could engage with her audience directly; many of the essays here are transcriptions of those talks. Even ten years after her death, her theology and her...

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£14.00

Learn to be at Peace

Learn to be at Peace

The Practice of Stillness

Andrew Herbert Norman
‘Learn to be at peace, and thousands around you will find salvation.’ Drawing the title from these words of Saint Seraphim of Sarov, Andrew Norman has a simple yet urgent message: learn the practice of stillness and develop a contemplative awareness...

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£2.00

Prayer of the Heart

Prayer of the Heart

An Approach to Silent Prayer & Prayer at Night 3rd Edition

Sandy Ryrie
Using the words of the Russian Orthodox spiritual teacher, St Theophan, that in prayer we should ‘stand with the mind in the heart’, Sandy Ryrie explains how to use short phrases to still the mind and enable us to rest with our attention set on God....

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£4.00

Pearls of Life

Pearls of Life

A Life-belt for the Spirit

Tony Dickinson
In 1996 Bishop Martin Lönnebo (1930–2023), recently retired after fifteen years as Lutheran Bishop of Linköping in Sweden, was exploring the Aegean when his boat was overtaken by a storm and he and his fellow-passengers had to take refuge on a tiny...

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£6.50

Augustine Baker

Augustine Baker

Frontiers of the Spirit

Victor Alexande de Waal
David Augustine Baker (1575-1641), Welshman, lawyer, Benedictine monk and priest, was an individualist who lived in a number of boundary situations - geographical, linguistic, cultural, religious - and often crossed frontiers. He encouraged...

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£4.00

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

Creative Suffering

Creative Suffering

Iulia De Beausobre
Suffering runs through the whole of human life. Iulia de Beausobre, speaking in London in the dark days of 1940 from her own experience of solitary confinement and exile, describes how the Russian people have learned to respond to suffering. She...

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£2.50

Saint John Cassian on Prayer

Saint John Cassian on Prayer

John Cassian, A.M.C. Casiday
The fourth century European saint, John Cassian, has been honoured for over 1600 years by the universal church as one of the greatest of early monastic writers. His two great works, the Institutes and the Conferences, set out a vision for western...

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£6.50

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.

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£6.50

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

Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich

This book contains four papers read at a conference held on 2–3 February 2023 to mark 650 years of the Revelations of Divine Love. They show the breadth and reach of Julian’s inspiration in today’s world, from personal issues such as impatience and...

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£7.00

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