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Book Synopsis God Under my Roof: Celtic Songs and Blessings by : Esther de Waal
Download or read book God Under my Roof: Celtic Songs and Blessings written by Esther de Waal and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN THIS introduction to songs and blessings collected from the oral tradition of the Hebrides, Esther de Waal uses the poems themselves to evoke a vision of the wholeness of life. We are seen to belong to a common creation, responsible for the natural world but essentially at peace with it; secure in the knowledge that wherever we go we are under God’s heaven, and that God can be found close at hand, under our very roofs. We are encouraged to make some of the prayers included here our own, to find ourselves befriended by God and the saints as we talk to them with unforced simplicity and candour. So we discover that ‘it is through the rites of ordinariness that the rhythm of eternity penetrates’ our days and nights.
Book Synopsis Anselm of Canterbury – A Monastic Scholar by : Sister Benedicta Ward SLG
Download or read book Anselm of Canterbury – A Monastic Scholar written by Sister Benedicta Ward SLG and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairacres Publications 62 Saint Anselm (1033–1109) was abbot of the Norman monastery of Bec, and later Archbishop of Canterbury under William Rufus and Henry I. In this short study of one of the most original thinkers of the earlier Middle Ages, Sister Benedicta discusses the relationship between Anselm’s scholarship and his life as a monk, showing how the one grew naturally out of the other. Anselm’s understanding of the inter-connections of reason and faith, thought and prayer, which can be traced throughout his writings, both theological and devotional, remains significant for Christian scholarship in any age. At the same time he was one of the most attractive, loving and compassionate of men. Simplicity, humanity and gentleness are joined in Anselm to the clear and sane mind of a great scholar.
Book Synopsis Embertide: Encountering Saint Frideswide by : Romola Parish
Download or read book Embertide: Encountering Saint Frideswide written by Romola Parish and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SLG Press Contemplative Poetry 14 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. Embertide is not a simple retelling of her biography, but engages with all the different versions of her life and seeks to understand her importance in the past and her significance today. It is liminal, elusive and delicately balanced; a kind of spiritual pilgrimage towards understanding elements of faith. Spiritual pilgrimage is a lifetime journey of rethinking and revisiting our perceptions and understanding, just as saints’ written lives have been refashioned to appeal to different audiences at different points in time. This poem is the outcome of one such spiritual pilgrimage, and each reader will encounter it differently, on their own terms. Our saints, in their afterlives, are still travelling, and we follow in their wake.
Book Synopsis Four Ways to the Cross by : Tony Dickinson
Download or read book Four Ways to the Cross written by Tony Dickinson and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2022-03-20 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairacres Publications 195 Most of us live, in our prayers and our worship, and in our understanding of Christian discipleship, with one Passion story. We take incidents from the four Gospel accounts of the suffering and death of Jesus and weave them into a single ‘harmonized’ whole. In this essay, Tony Dickinson unravels these four narrative strands to reveal an understanding of the events that shape each one. He also examines how each account is influenced by the sacred writings of Israel, especially the Psalms.
Book Synopsis Songs of Celtic Christianity by : Dennis Doyle
Download or read book Songs of Celtic Christianity written by Dennis Doyle and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 26 hymns in celebration of the rich heritage of Celtic Christianity, including Irish music from traditional sources and original songs derived from ancient prayers. Each song is presented with an explanation of its background, allowing the reader to delve deeply into this fascinating era of Christianity marked by the missionary work of St. Patrick and St. Brigid. All of the songs include lyrics, some in both English and Gaelic. the music is presented as simple melody arrangements with guitar chords. Audio available online.
Book Synopsis Essays in Faith and Learning by : Michael Bollenbaugh
Download or read book Essays in Faith and Learning written by Michael Bollenbaugh and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the collected thinking of a few people who have had strong personal connections to Dr. Song Nai Rhee. Because the integration of faith and learning is a core value held by Dr. Rhee, the various authors have written essays on this topic in honor of his life and work. Such a book is typically referred to as a Festschrift, a celebratory writing given for a special person. Dr. Rhee's robust career at Northwest Christian College/University is celebrated by the essays brought together in this book. All the authors have known Dr. Rhee as students or as academic colleagues or both. What they write about ranges from topics found in biblical literature to expressly theological ideas to matters that are eminently practical. Yet each essay is held in place by its relevancy to the ongoing conversations about how faith and learning are integrated in the context of the Christian liberal arts university. More important, each author has a deep and abiding respect for Dr. Song Nai Rhee. His teaching and mentoring at Northwest Christian College/University have left an indelible mark on each of their lives.
Book Synopsis Letters of Saint Antony the Great by : Derwas Chitty
Download or read book Letters of Saint Antony the Great written by Derwas Chitty and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairacres Publications 50 These seven letters were addressed by St Antony (251-356 AD) to his disciples. This hermit of the Egyptian desert draws our attention to those things which are essential in the spiritual life. Among the main themes are the witness of the Holy Spirit in the conscience of each person, the need for self-knowledge, the call to follow Christ, the unity of the Church, and our mutual co-inherence as members of the Body of Christ.
Book Synopsis Journeying with the Jesus Prayer by : James F. Wellington
Download or read book Journeying with the Jesus Prayer written by James F. Wellington and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairacres Publications 186 In recent years more and more Christians in the West have been discovering the many blessings of the Jesus Prayer. This prayer originated among the Desert Fathers and Mothers of the Eastern Mediterranean around fifteen hundred years ago, and for centuries has inspired and enabled Christians of the Orthodox Church to find a deeper relationship with God through the continual rhythmic repetition of the short prayer, ‘Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me’. In this book, James F. Wellington tells the story of his own journey with the prayer, highlighting the graces which he has received on his travels. These include unceasing prayer, inner watchfulness, stillness of heart, and perfect longing. He concludes with a celebration of what the Jesus Prayer has taught him, and is still teaching him, about the inner geography of the human heart.
Book Synopsis A Kind of Watershed by : Christine North
Download or read book A Kind of Watershed written by Christine North and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairacres Publications 111 The watershed shown on the front cover is Striding Edge in the Helvellyn area of the Lake District. The shadow on one side of the ridge and light on the other are a striking visual image of the experience of forgiveness and new life which the author has come to associate with repentance. Her personal introduction to this sacrament explains why to go to confession and how to set about it. As Michael Mayne says in his foreword, ‘Those who have known that sense of liberation, even resurrection, within the context of sacramental confession will not need Chris North’s words to confirm their own experience. Others, who are not aware that confession is available or are suspicious of this good Anglican practice, may be reassured and encouraged to explore for themselves this most costly yet rewarding of ways of encountering the grace of God.
Book Synopsis Fly not too High by : Gabrielle de Coignard
Download or read book Fly not too High written by Gabrielle de Coignard and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SLG Press Contemplative Poetry 6 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 businesses of writing as women in sixteenth-century France and Italy, of illnesses, long widowhoods, personal grief and politics, these sonnets speak both passionately and practically about the trials and triumphs of living, and of living with faith.
Book Synopsis Shem`on the Graceful by : Mary Hansbury
Download or read book Shem`on the Graceful written by Mary Hansbury and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairacres Publications 184 The late seventh century in the Syrian Church saw the flourishing of several noted monastic writers, amongst them Shem`on, a monk of an abbey in south-west Iran. Few of his writings remain, but this homily has been preserved as a model of instruction on the solitary life. Preached at the consecration of the cell of a monk embarking on the hermit life, it clearly states the disciplines required to live this form of asceticism, as well as the difficulties and dangers that will be encountered. Through this life of stillness (hesychia), the whole person lives centred on life in the resurrected Christ and in the continuing work of the Holy Spirit in the Church and in the world.
Book Synopsis The Power of the Name by : Kallistos Ware
Download or read book The Power of the Name written by Kallistos Ware and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairacres Publications 43 Re-printed many times since it was first published, and translated into numerous languages, this book by METROPOLITAN KALLISTOS WARE OF DIOKLEIA, 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 tradition of the prayer of stillness, and the author shows how anyone who prays can apply this teaching to themselves.
Book Synopsis Prayer of the Heart by : Alexander Ryrie
Download or read book Prayer of the Heart written by Alexander Ryrie and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2020-03-14 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairacres Publications 124 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. In standing before God, we open ourselves to God’s work in us. The author then explores the particular situation of night prayer. In hours of darkness and sleeplessness, we are vulnerable to the anxieties and fears which daytime activity sometimes holds at bay, but at night the spirit may also become more aware of the reality of God and more ready to pray.
Book Synopsis Anselm of Canterbury by : Sister Benedicta Ward SLG
Download or read book Anselm of Canterbury written by Sister Benedicta Ward SLG and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 shared with others to encourage them to develop their own devotional style. Anselm would probably have been surprised to discover not only how widely his words were disseminated, but also the ways in which their translation and interpretation changed over the centuries. This brief study, by one of the leading scholars of early monastic life and thought, examines Anselm’s prayers as models and inspiration for mystics, saints and writers up to the present day.
Book Synopsis Dante’s Spiritual Journey by : Tony Dickinson
Download or read book Dante’s Spiritual Journey written by Tony Dickinson and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairacres Publication 191 This book is the fruit of nearly six decades of engagement with the Divine Comedy, a poem that has captured and held the imagination of Christians for seven hundred years. The author describes how Dante’s journey through the three realms, Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso maps onto the inner spiritual journey of all Christians. The dark wood in which the poem begins sums up Dante’s own mid-life crisis—moral, political and financial—and the beginning of a sometimes humiliating journey to self-knowledge. The questions that Dante addresses, attempting to explain the consequences of the death and resurrection of Jesus, are questions that still concern us today. This book accompanies us on our quest to a greater understanding of the relationship between Christian faith and human life.
Book Synopsis River of the Spirit: The Spirituality of Simon Barrington-Ward by : Andy Lord
Download or read book River of the Spirit: The Spirituality of Simon Barrington-Ward written by Andy Lord and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairacres Publications 189 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. Each chapter focuses on aspects of the great Easter and liturgical themes of life, death, resurrection and outpoured Holy Spirit. The image of the river of the Spirit provides a practical way into living with Christ, shaped by His passion, for the transformation of the world. It is a way that draws together different traditions in a world embracing spirituality embodied in, and beyond, the Jesus Prayer.
Book Synopsis The Visiting Minister by : Paul Monk
Download or read book The Visiting Minister written by Paul Monk and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SLG Press Vestry Guides 1 There are many reasons why a church may have a visitor coming to celebrate their services for them, and the incumbent is not always available to help if the occasion is unexpected. Anything from illness of the incumbent to awaiting the appointment of a new priest can mean that the minister who celebrates the service might be a visitor who does not know the church and will need introducing to its in-house styles and customs. The group inviting visitors will therefore need to liaise with the visitor and prepare the church ready for worship. This short guide is written to help in these tasks of preparation. Its checklists and images comprise a simple guide explaining what needs to be done to support the visitor and make sure the service runs smoothly.
