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Individual Saints

Books on Individual Saints, including Julian of Norwich, John of the Cross and Mary.

Message of St. Seraphim

Irina Gorainov

Foreword By Donald Allchin This relatively recent Russian saint was born Prokhor Mochnin in 1759 in Kursk, on the northernmost Russian steppes. At 19, he entered a remote monastery and was given the name Seraphim (Hebrew for...

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£5.00

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

Abhishiktananda

A Memoir of Dom Henri Le Saux

Murray Rogers, David Barton

Dom Henri Le Saux (1910-1973) was a French Benedictine monk who pioneered relations between East and West when he was sent to India to found a Benedictine community. This is his story.

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£4.50

Shepherd and Servant

The Spiritual Legacy of St.Dunstan

Douglas Dales

A portrait of the scholar, artist and musician who was England's spiritual leader for almost 30 years and regarded as a saint in his own lifetime.

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£2.50

Gentleness in John of the Cross

Thomas Kane

St John of the Cross tells us how God leads us from violence to gentleness until we are gentle enough to experience the awesome gentleness of the inner life of God.

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£1.75

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

On Tour in Byzantium

Excerpts from The Spiritual Meadow of John Moschus

Ralph Martin

John Moschus, a monk from a monastery near Jerusalem, set off with a companion in about AD 575, to tour the Christian centres of the eastern Mediterranean. He thought of the world as a spiritual meadow, where wild flowers of every kind grew in...

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£7.00

Carmelite Ascent

An Introduction to St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross

Mary Clare,Mother

This short introduction to the spirituality of the leaders of the Carmelite Reform is a lively and approachable way into their thought and writings. Mother Mary Clare has set them in the context of their historical background in sixteenth-century...

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£5.00

God and Darkness

A Carmelite Perspective

Gemma Hinricher, Sister Avis Mary

There is a paradox in Christian life and prayer: that God’s light is darkness and God’s nearness is hiddenness. Jesus, the human face of God, is our way and orientation through that darkness and incomprehension which are so often part of our...

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£4.00

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'...

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£5.00

Hymns of St.Ephrem the Syrian

Mary Hansbury

St Ephrem the Syrian who lived in the 4th century is a great visionary poet and spiritual teacher of the earliest Christian centuries. A lyrical delight in the beautiful things of creation, rich theological symbolism, striking and simple imagery...

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£5.50

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

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

Letters of Ammonas, Successor of St Antony

2nd Edition

Derwas Chitty

The fourteen surviving letters of Ammonas, disciple of St Antony, on the gifts of the Spirit, spiritual direction and discernment of the will of God

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£5.50

Monastic Letters of St Athanasius the Great

3rd Edn

Leslie William Barnard

Six letters addressed to monks, revealing St Athanasius as a wise spiritual guide and loving pastor, concerned that the monks avoid heresies and extreme behaviour.

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£6.00

Wisdom of Saint Isaac the Syrian

2nd Edn

Sebastian Brock

In recent decades there has been a notable renewal of interest in St Isaac the Syrian, a seventh-century master of the ascetic life. This selection of short sayings is part of Dr Brock’s work on a fuller, long-neglected manuscript which he is making...

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£5.00

Gregory of Nyssa and the Sins of Asia Minor

Jonathan Farrugia

St Gregory of Nyssa is known to theologians as one of the three great Cappadocian Fathers who are credited with the final clarification of the doctrine of the Trinity in the late fourth century. Few have ventured to study his role as a bishop who...

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£8.00

‘In the image of the Image’

Adam Couchman

Gregory of Nyssa is the most important author of the fourth century in relation to theological anthropology, and was one of the most outspoken of the early Church Fathers on the subject of slavery. Gregory’s theology is built upon his perception...

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£6.00

Saint Gregory Nazianzen

2nd Edn

John McGuckin

This selection of twenty poems by the fourth-century Greek theologian, St Gregory Nazianzen, represents his Christological writing. It includes the poems ‘On the Son’ and ‘On the Incarnation’, written to defend the orthodoxy of the Council of Nicea....

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£2.25

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

In the Footsteps of the Lord

The Teaching of Abba Isaiah of Scetis 2nd Edition

John Chryssavgis, Luke Penkett

The Discourses of Abba Isaiah of Scetis are grounded in Scripture and the teaching of the earliest Christian monks. Abba Isaiah was one of the first of the Desert Fathers to examine the relationship between abba and disciple, the monastery and the...

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£5.50

Embertide

Encountering Saint Frideswide

Romola Parish

St Frideswide, or Frithuswith, was an important saint during the medieval period and is patron of the City of Oxford. Her shrine was a place of pilgrimage but was destroyed during the Reformation and since then she has largely disappeared from view....

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£6.50

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

Prayers of Saint Isaac of Nineveh

Sebastian Brock

The scholarly investigations and translations of Prof. Sebastian Brock have been largely responsible for bringing Saint Isaac of Nineveh, also known as Isaac the Syrian, to public attention. Isaac was a seventh-century Syriac Christian bishop and...

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£7.50

Bernard & Abelard

Sister Edmee SLG

This essay examines the theology of, and relationship between, the saintly Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153), customarily considered a traditionalist, and the arrogant, brilliant and controversial philosopher Peter Abelard (1079–1142), disruptive and...

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£8.00

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

Great Joy

Reflections on the Meaning of Christmas

Kenneth Mason

A refreshing and positive antidote to the worry that the real meaning of Christmas is getting lost under all the commercialism and a reminder that whatever else is happening, Christmas is always about God revealing his unconditional love.

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£2.50

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

Gift of Joy

Curtis Almquist

Joy, a gift of the Spirit, is a rare commodity in society. Contains some of the key features of joy, and encouragement to rejoice.

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£2.00

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