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A Holy Island Prayer Book
Prayers and Readings from Lindesfarne
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
A Holy Island Prayer Book, with prayers for morning, midday, and night, follows the rhythms and seasons of the natural and Christian year as observed on Holy Island.
Listen My Son
St. Benedict for Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
“Perhaps the greatest need in the human heart is the need for life to have meaning….Meaning flows from relationships and the vocation of the Christian parent is to develop first one’s relationship to God, and then the loving relationships within the family. In the face of extraordinary pressures,...
by Donna H. Barthle
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
The complete guidebook for individual acolytes. Written for acolytes of varying ages, this handbook includes information about the history of the ministry of acolytes, the duties of various acolyte positions, the vestments acolytes wear, and the equipment they use. Includes space for acolytes to record...
This Must Be the Place
Reflections on Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
• Connects the metaphor of home that runs through the stories of our faith – the Prodigal Son, the Son of Man has nowhere to call home, heaven as home – with the deep desire to belong and to feel wanted • Author of Keeping the Feast turns discussions about food and faith into what it means...
Falling into Grace
Exploring Our Inner Life with God
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
• A focus on the Christian spiritual life from the perspective of grace, not works • Popular new and emerging author • Study guide included for personal or small group reflection Jesus was quite clear that we must lose our life before we find it. This book gives a hopeful and realistic look...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
“God created us to be lovers,” writes Nick Wagner in his introduction to Spiritual Direction in Context. “When we love, we are in right relationship. We are acting for justice. The ministry of every spiritual director, in any context, is to serve as a guide into the depths of that love relationship.”...
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
• Topic of popular interest addressed by a popular author Playing off the last chapter of her previous book, The Courage to Grow Old, well-beloved author Barbara Crafton looks at the world around us: What do we know about creation? What gift is there for us in the "alsolife" of stars and...
Echo of the Soul
The Sacredness of the Human Body
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
An enlightening meditation on our physical selves and how they enrich our experience of spirituality.
Throughout the years, many spiritual seekers have considered the human body to be a hindrance to Divine illumination, an enemy to be suppressed. Yet the most ancient texts actually challenge...
Downtown Monks
A Benedictine Journey in the City
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Downtown Monks, originally published in 2000, was the first book by Albert Holtz and tells the story of the challenges facing a community of Benedictine monks in their ministry of running a boys’ school amid the gritty realities of inner-city life in Newark, New Jersey. Father Holtz’s story remains...
Light on the Path
Guiding Symbols for Insight and Discernment: Meeting God through Dreams, Sacraments, Stories, Meditation, and Spiritual Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
• Easy-to-understand model of spiritual discernment for individuals and groups • Introduces an array of spiritual practices • Connects powerful spiritual practices with psychological understanding and social insight • Study guide included Dan Prechtel contends that the Holy One wants to—and...
Tending the Holy
Spiritual Direction Across Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
"God is mystery," writes Norvene Vest in the Introduction to Tending the Holy, "and every form of religion is an effort to respond faithfully to the mystery of God by whatever name. The Divine breaks through into human experience in many ways, and humans respond variously to the awesome...
A Practical Christianity
Meditations for the Season of Lent
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
A Practical Christianity: Meditations for the Season of Lent is a devotional book that challenges readers to take up “practical Christianity”—proposing Christian faith as something we do, not something we merely believe in. The starting point for Christianity lies within its practice, says the...
by Michael Battle
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
How do we practice reconciliation in a world full of violence? How do we love someone at work who seems hell-bent on sabotaging a successful career? And how do religious people resolve differences when religious interpretations seem to lead to righteous indignation rather than reconciliation? We practice...
Attending the Dying
A Handbook of Practical Guidelines
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Megory Anderson was called to a vigil at the bedside of a friend who was dying one night. That experience was so powerful that she began working with others who needed help attending to those who were dying. Today Anderson is the executive director of the Sacred Dying Foundation in San Francisco,...