Prayer

Creative Suffering

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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Jesus Prayer

Gospel Soundings

Margaret Rose Prentice

Sr Pauline Margaret provides wise guidance for beginners in the ancient spiritual practice of praying the Jesus prayer, one of the great gifts of the Orthodox tradition. Her insights are drawn from the Gospels and her experience of conducting ...

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Sacrifice and Spirit

Michael Ramsey

Sacrifice and Spirit contains the transcripts of two talks on major New Testament themes given by Michael Ramsey. The first is on the Christian concept of sacrifice - a notion rooted in rather gruesome Old Testament custom but now often overlaid...

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Jesus the Living Lord

Michael Ramsey

This clear and simple exploration of the life, death and resurrection of Christ remains one of the most succinct expressions of the heart of the Christian faith.

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Prayer as Self-Offering

Alexander Ryrie

Self-offering is an essential and important aspect of all genuine personal prayer. This offering is the work of God within us, a work in which we participate through prayer. It is a process begun in this life, and completed after death when we see...

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Suffering

Why All This Suffering? What Do I Do About It?

Reinhard Korner, Sister Avis Mary

Throughout history, the question has been asked, ‘Why does God allow suffering?’ No-one has found a satisfactory answer, but what complicates the question is the widespread notion that God has two sides – one loving and forgiving,...

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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

Being There

Caring for the Bereaved

John Porter

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Prayer and the Struggle Against Evil

John Barton

None of us needs reminding that terrible situations exist and horrific events happen in the world around us. When we are confronted by such things, the word ’evil’ comes readily to our lips. What is evil though, and how can we respond?

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Growing Old with God

2nd Edition

T. N. Rudd

This heartening and perceptive study outlines common problems and sorrows in the ageing process. But there can be growth and fulfilment, too, and benefit to others. Tom Rudd affirms God’s loving purposes, encouraging us to see that the retirement...

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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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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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Our Deepest Desire

Prayer, Fasting & Almsgiving in the Writings of Augustine of Hipp.

Sister Susan SLG

This book presents the teaching of St Augustine of Hippo on prayer, fasting and almsgiving in historical and modern contexts, in a way that is accessible for any reader, for use not only during Lent, but for any time for the year as a reflective...

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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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The Victory of the Cross

Poetry by the Sisters of the Love of God

Dumitru Staniloae

The Cross is the symbol of victorious love because of Christ’s acceptance of it as the way to life transfigured through suffering.

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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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Prayer and Holiness

2nd Edition

Dumitru Staniloae

In these five essays Fr Staniloae gives us the essentials of his teaching on prayer. They are the fruit not only of personal experience and long familiarity with the hesychast writings of Orthodox monasticism, but also of the spiritual tradition of...

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Power of the Name

The Jesus Prayer in Orthodox Spirituality

Kallistos Ware

Reprinted many times since it was first published, and translated into numerous languages, this book is an invaluable guide at every stage of spiritual pilgrimage. It is a classic exposition of the Jesus Prayer and its use in the Hesychast Orthodox...

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Still Listening

Sowing the Seeds of the Jesus Prayer

Bruce Batstone

I have conversations with people about how they pray the Jesus Prayer as they walk the city streets, as they travel on buses or on the Tube, as they cycle, or as they sit at home. From these experiences I have come more and more to see the Jesus...

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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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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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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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Landscape, Soul and Spirit

Ecology, Prayer and Robert Macfarlane

Andy Lord

How might we develop our spirituality in the context of an environmental crisis that demands changes to our individual and communal ways of life? There is a challenge to develop our inherited patterns of spiritual life in the current ecological...

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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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Prayers of Jacob of Serugh

Mary Hansbury

Jacob of Serugh (451–521) is one of the great poets of the early Syriac tradition. His meditations, prefaces to his homilies, focus us on the centrality of divine love in the context of scripture. These are some of the richest, theologically...

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God Under my Roof

Esther De Waal

In this collection of songs and blessings from the oral tradition of the Hebrides we are encouraged to make some of the prayers our own, to befriend God and the saints as we talk to them with unforced simplicity and candour.

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Amado Nervo

John Gallas

Amado Nervo (1870–1919) was a Mexican poet generally considered the most distinguished exponent of the literary movement known as Modernismo. Although he intended to become a priest, he abandoned his studies in 1888 and turned first to journalism...

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Anglo-Saxon Poets

The High Roof of Heaven

John Gallas

This anthology of Old English poetry brings together sacred texts from two of the great surviving Anglo-Saxon poetic codices: the Vercelli Book, including one of the most famous of medieval texts, the Vision of the Rood, and the Exeter Book, source...

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Middle English Poet

John Gallas

Middle English Lyrics are characterized by their brevity and intensity of expression. They were composed by men and women from both sacred and secular backgrounds and survive in numerous manuscript sources. This collection brings together works that...

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Voice Inside Our Home

Selected Poems

Edward Clarke

This selection of poetry draws on the author’s developing relationship with the Psalms over a number of years, and on the inspiration of the birth and early years of his two sons, culminating in a set of eulogies or sonnets in prayer. The whole is a...

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Drops in the Sea of Time

Women and God

John Gallas

This selection of poetry by female authors explores our relationship with God and creation. The collection includes many of the greatest women poets of history, from around the world and across the ages: from a Rwandan housewife to a Japanese...

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Fly Not Too High

Gabrielle de Coignard & Vittoria Colonna

John Gallas

Like private prayers, the sacred sonnets of Gabrielle de Coignard (c. 1550–1586) and Vittoria Colonna (1492–1547) have long been soft utterances in a quiet corner of devotional literature. Bright expressions of faith amongst the problems and...

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Chancing on Sanctity

Selected Poems

James Ramsay

In a variety of moods and forms the poems in this collection attempt to capture something of the spiritual element that resides in the ore of common experience. They range from sing-song verse to taut lines embodying struggle. In some the everyday...

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This Far Place

Gabriela Mistral

John Gallas

In 1945 Gabriela Mistral became the first Latin American author to be awarded a Nobel Prize. She was a passionate advocate for many disadvantaged groups in her native Chile, but particularly women and children living in poverty and unable to access...

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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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Touchpapers

John Gallas

This is a collection of extracts, quotes and short poems offered to stimulate contemplation of a single brief idea. By poets and writers famous and unknown, these encourage the reader to seek more of the same, or simply provide a thought or idea on...

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Divine Themes & Celestial Praise

Henry Vaughan & George Herbert

Henry Vaughan George Herbert

This book contains poems by Henry Vaughan, all of them selected from the 1655 edition of Silex Scintillans. Almost all are followed by a related poem from George Herbert’s 1633 collection, The Temple. For Vaughan, Herbert was that ‘blessed man,...

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Selected Poems

Clare McKerron

This collection speaks about the experience of nature, religion, thought, ideas and people; sometimes with the anxiety that those relationships can bring, but also with plenty of celebration. There are thoughtful ponderings, gazing into the beauty...

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Take Flight to God

Reinhard Sorge, John Gallas

The religious poetry of Reinhard Sorge speaks of his journey to Christian belief, and the final joy and deep love of God that he eventually found. This is the first time a book entirely of Sorge’s poetry has been published in the English Language,...

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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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With One Heart and Mind

Contemplative Prayers

Anthony Kemp

A collection of short prayers to support and sustain individuals in private devotion throughout the changing seasons of the liturgical year, celebrating the lives of the saints and addressing a number of day-to-day concerns.

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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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Journeying with the Jesus Prayer

James F Wellington

In this book, the author describes his journey with the Jesus Prayer, and the graces he has received on his way. He concludes with a celebration of what the Jesus Prayer has taught him, and is still teaching him, about the inner geography of the...

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