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Spirituality

Spirituality titles, including books on spiritual development, joy and meditation(s)

George Herbert, Priest and Poet

Kenneth Mason

George Herbert's total dedication provides inspiration and encouragement to priests who desire to experience more deeply the holiness of their own priesthood.

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£2.50

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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£6.00

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

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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£2.00

At the Lighting of the Lamps

Paul John McGuckin

The Church has always used hymns to express its spirit and doctrine. Free-verse translations of some well-known early hymns, alongside the original Greek and Latin texts.

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£5.75

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

Apostolate and the Mirrors of Paradox

Sydney Evans

An exposition of how the seven paradoxes of the Christian life described by St Paul in the Second Letter to the Corinthians can shape a lifetime of ministry

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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

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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£2.00

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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£1.50

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

From Perfection to the Elixir

How George Herbert Fashioned a Famous Poem

Ben de La Mare

Ben de la Mare’s inherited and deep understanding of poetry leads him to explore George Herbert’s spiritual journey in the composition of his famous hymn, Teach Me My God and King.

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£3.00

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

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

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

I Have Called You Friends

Suggestions for the spiritual life based on the farewell discourses of Jesus

Reinhard Körner, ocd, Sr Mary Avis, slg

A person’s final words command extra-special attention and in this short yet replete text, the messages contained in Jesus’ final words to his disciples are explored for their significance today. The final discourses, as they are called, fill...

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£4.50

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

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

Ann Griffiths and Her Writings

Llewellyn Cumings

Ann Griffiths (1776-1805) is regarded as the greatest female poet who wrote in Welsh, and one of the greatest of hymn writers. Her Christian journey began at the local parish church, but she later sought spiritual enlightenment among the Methodists....

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£5.00

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

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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£3.50

River of the Spirit

The Spirituality of Simon Barrington-Ward

Andy Lord

In this study of the spirituality of one of the Anglican Church’s great spiritual leaders the author considers the ways in which spirituality can represent our patterns of life with God that merge experience, prayer, community, theology and mission

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£6.00

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

Living Healing

Andy Lord

A concern for healing and wholeness is common among many people today. This book introduces the thinking and practice of Leanne Payne, a leader in the charismatic healing ministry of the last century. Her focus on coming into the Presence of God as...

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£6.00

Towards a Theology of Psychotherapy

The Spirituality of Wendy Robinson

Andrew Louth

Wendy Robinson (1934–2013) was a trained psychotherapist who became a member of the Russian Orthodox Church in England in 1980. To be able to combine these two vocations was, for her, to discover herself. She practised psychotherapy both with...

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£8.00

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

Eliot’s Transitions

T. S. Eliot’s search for identity and the Society of the Sacred Mission at Kelham Hall

Vincent Strudwick

The influence of the Society of the Sacred Mission on T. S. Eliot's poetry and personal spiritual journey.

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£9.50

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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£7.00

Pondering, Praying, Preaching

Romans 8

Bonnie Thurston

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£6.00

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

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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£3.00

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

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

Eight Chapters on Perfection & Angels’ Song

Walter Hilton, R. Dorward

Eight Chapters on Perfection is Hilton’s translation of a Latin text by the Aragonese Friar Dom Lluis de Font, and is the only surviving record of that manuscript. It is a text of great humanity and wisdom about the possibilities of friendship and...

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£6.50

Kind of Watershed

An Anglican View of Sacramental Confession

Christine North

Experiencing forgiveness can be like a watershed in our lives. An Anglican perspective on the Sacrament of Reconciliation, including answers to questions such as: Why go to Confession? How do I prepare?

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£4.00

Jesus the Undistorted Image of God

John Townroe

The Eastern Orthodox description of Jesus as ‘the undistorted image of God’ is the author’s favourite statement of belief about Jesus in relation to God and of the mysterious attractiveness of Jesus who draws everyone without distinction to God.

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£5.50

Mixed Life

Translated into Modern English by Rosemary Dorward

Walter Hilton, Rosemary Dorward

Clear, practical advice for Christians trying to balance duty to others with prayer and contemplation. The supreme example of the ‘mixed life’ is Christ himself.

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£8.50

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

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

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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£3.50

Unicorn

Meditations on the Love of God

Harry Galbraith Miller

Meditations on the love of God, starting from some scriptural texts and inspired by medieval tapestries, interwoven with consideration of the mythical unicorn and the Church’s calendar.

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£1.50

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

Dante's Spiritual Journey

A Reading of the Divine Comedy

Tony Dickinson

This book describes how Dante’s journey through the three realms of his Divine Comedy maps onto the inner spiritual journey of all Christians. Dante’s questions still concern us today and the text accompanies us on our quest to a greater...

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£5.00

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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£6.00

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

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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£5.50

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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£5.50

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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£6.00

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