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Daily Prayers For Busy People
$17.99Add to cartEach entry begins with an invocation to God called Presence, followed by Father O’Malley’s poetic rendering of a familiar psalm that speaks profoundly to our modern situation. This is followed by a hymn, excerpted from a great spiritual or literary master. A Scripture reading and closing prayer complete the section.
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124 Prayers For Caregivers
$9.99Add to cartIn 124 Prayers for Caregivers, an author with a solid background in counseling offers an emphatic and encouraging presentation of prayerful responses to serving God in the role of caregiver. Includes prayers, brief quotations from the Bible or other sources, several lines of reflection, and a closing petition. Those seeking growth as caregivers in need of prayers that express their desire to “give everything over to God” will find strength and consolation in this book.
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Drawing From Wisdoms Well
$19.95Add to cartThe Samaritan woman, Martha, Julian of Norwich-if these women could speak to us today, what would they say? About their lives, about their faith . . . and about ours?
Gloria Ulterino brings to life these and many other women of faith in this extraordinary collection of communal celebrations. Firmly rooted in contemporary scholarship, set in the context of prayer and reflection, and charged with the energy of the author’s imaginative gifts, these celebrations involve us in the stories, the struggles, the hopes, and the deepest convictions of these amazing women of scripture and history.
Each of the thirteen prayer services is accompanied by an intriguing background study that situates the lives of these women-named and unnamed-in their own time and place. The celebrations faithfully portray each one and draw out the connections to the experience and concerns of contemporary women of faith. The rituals gently lead participants to pray with their own struggles with faith and the church, and to discover the constant presence of holy Wisdom in it all.
Ideal for small faith sharing groups, retreat settings, and larger communal settings, Drawing from Wisdom’s Well brings a sense of solidarity and hope to contemporary women on a journey of faith.
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Revised Common Lectionary Prayers (Revised)
$29.00Add to cartWhy not give your input to this ongoing task force which writes prayers that will accompany the readings of the widely used Revised Common Lectionary? While drawing heavily on the rich liturgical traditions of the past, these prayers speak in a contemporary language. Good for worship committees.
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Seeing With Our Souls
$16.95Add to cartAs part of her ongoing quest to break open monastic wisdom for the modern world, Sr. Joan Chittister’s latest book addresses the question: What qualities of the soul must be cultivated by each of us if we are to become a positive presence in a changing world? Rooted in the ancient tradition of lectio divina – sacred reading that connects Scripture with the pursuit of personal transformation – Seeing with Our Souls highlights a key Bible passage for each of twelve key qualities of soul and offers brief reflections that speak to the core of one’s spiritual practice. Each reflection asks us to identify the political, spiritual, economic, and cultural choices we make and to assess our aspirations for the future. Seeing with Our Souls is ideal spiritual reading for busy people interested in gleaning scriptural and monastic wisdom for everyday life.
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Let Me Know Myself
$19.95Add to cartSoon after his conversion Augustine prayed “O God, let me know myself; let me know you.” He was convinced that the eventual discovery of God began with a discovery of one’s self. In “Let Me Know Myself . . .”, Donald Burt, O.S.A., offers reflections on what Augustine said about the nature of the “self,” obstacles standing in the way of discovery, and some of what one can learn about oneself from experience and faith.
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Privilege Of Love
$29.95Add to cartUnique in the Church, the Camaldolese life is ordered to a three-fold good: solitude, community, and witness. Men and women as hermits live by a monastic rule, committed to both solitude and community life. The discipline of solitude combined with the second good, the rigors of community living are intended to widen the heart in service of the third good: bearing witness to the abundance of God’s love as the self, others, and every living creature are brought into fuller communion in the one Love.
The essays in The Privilege of Love convey the richness and the depth of the Camaldolese Benedictine spirit. Their diversity of expression is itself a manifestation of the magnitude of God’s bonding Love. This bonding is the Spirit’s own gift, weaving together the many voices found in these pages-voices of women and men, of monk, hermit, and layperson. The voices speak of historical roots, of the riches found in solitude and the grit of community life, of the psychological strength required in any pursuit of God, of the vulnerability of the human heart which is the home for wisdom’s Word, and of the privilege of being in love with Love itself.
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Journey Of Lent
$15.95Add to cartThis book provides scripture-based reflections for each day of the Lenten season. It is an uplifting work for those who wish to enrich their personal prayer and meditation. It shows the Lenten season in its intended light — as a period of preparation, where we ready ourselves spiritually for life as Christians.
In this, Gribble provides a daily challenge to the one who is searching for a way to draw closer to God in everyday life. With each day’s reading he includes scripture passages, a theme and keenly stimulating thoughts for reflection.
More than simply a collection for personal meditation, it is also ideal for teaching and preaching illustrations.
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Celtic Vision : Prayers Blessings Songs And Invocations From The Gaelic Tra
$16.99Add to cartDevotees of Irish spirituality–and those interested in Irish heritage–will cherish this authentic collection of Celtic wisdom and prayer. Every aspect of daily life is sanctified with prayers for hearth, home, work and play. Blessings, invocations and good wishes catch the Celtic spirit affirming the presence and power of the Creator.
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On Prayer : A Letter To My Godchild
$8.99Add to cartConceived as a very personal letter to the author’s godchild, this book is actually a marvelous introduction to prayer in the Catholic tradition. Discusses prayers of adoration, contrition, petition, thanksgiving, contemplation, Lectio Divina, Prayer of the Hours, and more. For teens and adults.
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Invitation To Centering Prayer
$8.99Add to cartAt the urging of Pope Paul VI in 1971, the leaders of monastic communities throughout the world were encouraged to help the people of God rediscover an ancient way of prayer, centered in God and grounded in truth. This ancient method of prayer came to be known as “Centering Prayer.” This book is for those who seek an enriched prayer life.
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Clouds And Glory
$21.95Add to cartClouds and Glory is one of a three-volume collection of prayers, scripture readings, and blessings based on the Common Worship Lectionary, used in many parts of the Anglican Communion. Written in the Celtic style for which the author is known, and linked to the Sunday readings for Year A, these prayers and intercessions may be used by congregations for the Prayers of the People, as well as by those who seek to supplement their own daily devotions.
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Prayer Of Saint Francis
$14.00Add to cart“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred let me sow love,Where there is injury, pardon . . .
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life”.
This famous prayer, traditionally attributed to Saint Francis, has traveled the world, winning hearts and inspiring minds with its simple and persuasive witness to the power of unconditional love. As Leonardo Boff shows in his moving reflections, this love not only brings each person the promise of eternal salvation, but also provides the basis for social peace, redeems the world, and constitutes the hidden meaning of the universe.
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Growing Into God
$10.95Add to cartGrowing into God is a personal and poignant new collection of poetry. Tapping into the deep spiritual life inside all of us, and drawing upon her growing understanding of God in our insecure and fast-moving world, Gateley travels the spiritual path from disillusionment to faith, despair to joy. Gateley s poetry is passionate, authentic, and immediate. Speaking to the spiritual malaise of our times, she calls and challenges us to new possibilities by recognizing and responding to our deepest hungers. This beautiful new collection of poetry will renew and affirm you on your spiritual quest.”
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Glimpses Of Glory
$24.95Add to cartGlimpses of Glory is the second in a three-volume collection of prayers and other resources based on the new Common Worship Lectionary used widely around the world. Written in the Celtic style for which the author is well-known, and linked to the Sunday readings, these prayers and intercessions may be used by congregations for the Prayers of the People, as well as by individuals seeking to supplement their personal devotions.
“Holy God open our ears to your call our eyes to your presence, our hearts to your love. Give us the courage to say, ‘Here I am Lord, send me.’ Strengthen our faith that we may be willing at all times to heed your call. We pray for all who are called to proclaim your glory, all who seek out the lost, uplift the fallen and comfort the wounded. We pray for the outreach of the church to which we belong. Lord as you have called us Make us worthy of our calling.” -
Pocket Book Of Catholic Prayers
$6.95Add to cartContents
Preface
The Mass-Our Greatest Prayer
Daily Prayers
Morning Prayers
Night Prayers
Confession Prayers
Prayers Before Communion
Prayers After Communion
Prayers For Every Day Of The Week
Prayers For The Liturgical Seasons
*Advent Season
*Christmas Season
*Season Of Lent
*Easter Season
*Ordinary Time
Prayers To Our Blessed Mother
Prayers From The Psalms
Prayers From The Gospels
Prayers From The EpistlesAdditional Info
New beautiful booklets that contain the most loved Novenas, Catholic Prayers, and Essential Devotions for every Catholic in pocket book form. -
Prayers For Expecant Parents
$5.00Add to cartPregnancy is a holy time and also a very human time of waiting. The Spirit has come into our lives bringing joy and awe as well as many physical and emotional challenges.
This collection of scripture and prayer will help expectant parents give thanks for their blessings, pray for their child and their parenthood, calm their anxieties and intercede for all children and their caregivers. Within sections for each trimester of the pregnancy are prayers for morning and evening as well as other pieces for praise, petition and reflection for any time. Two additional sections offer prayers for anxious moments and prayers of thanksgiving. This is a profound and helpful little book that will support expectant parents as they prepare to welcome their child.
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7 Bells To Bethlehem
$13.95Add to cartAmong the most beautiful prayers ever composed, the ‘O’ Antiphons have for twelve centuries voiced the Church’s longing for Christ’s Coming at Christmas. In this remarkable book, Oliver Treanor explores the rich biblical background to each Antiphon and, drawing on the spiritual tradition of the Fathers and the teachings of Vatican II as well, leads us to the deep sources of meditation that lie within the texts. Here is an ideal Advent companion for individuals or groups seeking to recharge their spirituality for Christmas – and indeed throughout the year. For the ‘O’ Antiphons guide us beyond Advent into the entire mystery of salvation, bringing us beyond the Christmas season to the Paschal Mystery itself. It is in fact a book for all seasons.
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Centered Living : The Way Of Centering Prayer
$17.99Add to cartThis look at the popular contemplative technique known as Centering Prayer is your key to a richer spiritual life. In easy-to-understand, non-technical language, internationally renowned author M. Basil Pennington combines testimonies of practitioners, updated guidelines, theological reflections, and helpful hints for teaching others in an exploration of all the essential information about Centering Prayer.
For millions of Christians worldwide, it is the experience of prayer rather than the words which constitute it that are most important. In its simplicity, Centering Prayer opens our hearts to God, cleanses the mind, and soothes the soul.
More than just a catalog of facts and practical suggestions, this book benefits even the most seasoned practitioner or teacher of Centering Prayer. However, the clarity of Father Pennington’s approach also enables newcomers, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, to develop a firm grasp of the practice.
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Poor Therefore Rich
$29.95Add to cartFollowers of the way of Jesus Christ through two millennia have engaged in the joyful yet life-costing struggle of responding to the challenge of being transformed into his likeness. This further volume of Carthusian Novice Conferences offers the father-master’s words of instruction on poverty to the men who have been drawn to the Carthusian form of the Christian way.
As with all of us, ‘poverty’ operates on many levels, and one of the most remarkable qualities of these talks is that they range over the economic history as well as the more traditionally spiritual teaching of the Carthusian Order in its own struggle to seek Christ in simplicity and silence.
Like all Christians, the Carthusians find Jesus the great Exemplar of the poverty that is desirable and yet ‘costs not less than everything’; and once again we are reminded, with characteristic directness, of the source and fount of the desirable poverty – the total mutual self-giving of the Persons of the Holy Trinity.
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Praying With Benedict
$24.95Add to cartPraying with Benedict explores the spirituality of the monastic tradition and draws out the essence of a way of praying that embraces the whole of the Christian’s life.
Korneel Vermeiren begins by examining the spirituality of the early monastic tradition from the fourth to the sixth centuries. He looks at the central place of prayer in the Rule of St Benedict and the tradition of continuous prayer, exploring the teaching of such formative figures as Basil the Great. He then reflects on the Benedictine precept: ‘nothing is to be preferred to the work of God’.
Praying with Benedict looks in practical terms at the how, when, and where of prayer; at bodily postures, various types of prayer, and the importance of emotional and spiritual readiness. Finally, the place of the Eucharist in the life of prayer is discussed with reference to Benedict’s teaching and the eucharistic practices of pre-Benedictine monasticism.
This book offers a clear presentation of monastic spirituality and opens it to persons outside monastery walls. It links St Benedict’s teaching to earlier spiritual traditions and shows how various elements of monastic life complement each other. Common prayer, reading, personal prayer, and the Eucharist are not isolated from one another or from daily life, but are integral and essential elements of living in the spirit of St Benedict.
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Your Sorrow Is My Sorrow
$16.95Add to cart1. The Foretelling Of Sorrow
2. Fleeing From Destruction
3. Searching For Our Lost Treasures
4. Meeting Our Pain
5. Standing Beneath The Cross
6. Embracing Our Loss
7. Laying Our Sorrows To Rest
176 PagesAdditional Info
With the exquisite prose and poetry that has always graced her writing, Joyce Rupp mines the multiple meanings of important images in the Bible, in order to get us through our own rough moments. Included are: the prophecy of Simeon, the flight into Egypt, Jesus lost in the temple, Mary seeing Jesus carrying the cross, Mary at the foot of the cross, Mary receiving Jesus’ dead body, and Jesus being laid in the tomb. -
Lectio Divina : Renewing The Ancient Practice Of Praying The Scriptures
$19.95Add to cartLectio Divina, a spiritual discipline practiced for more than a thousand years, has undergone a recent resurgence in popularity. Father Pennington introduces the method of contemplative listening that opens us to an experience of God’s presence through the sacred scriptures.
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Prayer Of Love And Silence
$24.95Add to cartCalm and spirituality-the true hallmarks of Carthusian writings-distinguish this book. The first part sets out the principles of the interior life; the second works out a method of prayer. There follow eleven sermons, originally given to monks in chapter, which illustrate this approach. The final portion discusses the complex doctrine of the Trinity: the extraordinary clarity. Broken into short chapters, the book is designed for personal reflection and meditation.
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Essays On Early Eastern Eucharistic Prayers
$29.95Add to cartA companion to Prayers of the Eucharist: Early and Reformed
The Churches of the East possess a sometimes bewildering array of Eucharistic prayers. Essays on Early Eastern Eucharistic Prayer offers a guide to the exploration of the principal prayers, and presents in a simple and succinct manner the current scholarship on the origins, development, and relationship of these particular prayers to other ancient prayers.
As well as summarizing the state of research and suggesting directions for future study, these essays explain the history of these prayers, their relationship to one another, and reveal how and why early Christian prayers developed as they did. In this way Essays on Early Eastern Eucharistic Prayers produces a clear picture of the way early Eucharistic prayers emerged and grew in the Eastern Churches.
Essays on Early Eastern Eucharistic Prayers serves as a companion to-and provides an extended commentary on the texts of early eastern Eucharistic prayers that are published in R. C. D. Jasper and G. J. Cuming’s Prayers of the Eucharist: Early and Reformed. Essays on Early Eastern Eucharistic Prayers also offers more detail than is available in the introductions to either text or in other general histories of liturgy or early liturgical practice.
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To Live Is To Pray
$15.99Add to cartCarmelite spirituality is a way of life that spells Freedom. Rooted in the experience of the desert mothers and fathers who sought God in solitude, it can accommodate many temperaments and approaches. The primary focus is on Finding the way of prayer that will bring you closest to God. This warm and engaging book introduces six great Carmelite Figures and their individual ways of prayer. Let Teresa of Avila, St John of the Cross, Brother Lawrence, Therese of Lisieux and others help you discover the pathway to authentic spiritual growth.
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Need And Blessing Of Prayer
$24.95Add to cartA new translation of Father Rahner’s book on prayer.
Karl Rahner stands in a long line of great Christian theologians who were likewise great teachers of prayer. He has been called the voice of Vatican II, and is acknowledged as the rare theologian whose writings speak to the “ordinary” Christian.
In The Need and the Blessing of Prayer , Father Rahner views the human person as essentially one called to prayer. He also highlights prayer as the act of human existence, the great religious act. By encouraging people to “pray in the everyday”-to pray regardless of the desire or mood of the moment-Rahner’s theology of the prayer of everyday life challenges us to surrender ourselves to God so that God dwells at the very center of our lives.
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Daily We Touch Him
$16.95Add to cartPrayer of the Heart, an early Christian form of contemplative prayer, has once again become commonplace in the Christian community thanks to the efforts of Trappist monks. Father Basil Pennington, one of the pioneer leaders in this movement, here tells the story of this recovery of contemplative prayer as it was experienced, first in the United States and then in different parts of the world.
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Interior Prayer : Carthusian Novice Conferences
$26.95Add to cart‘Prayer is a journey, sometimes a combat
There are trials, purifications, passages.
It is at once the most simple
and the most profound of human activities.
May these pages help someone
to discover its hidden joy.’Interior Prayer contains the Carthusians’ traditional doctrine on prayer-from its very beginnings to the simplicity of its highest forms. Far from being abstract and theorectical, we learn about the prayer process by sharing in the novices’ concrete spiritual journey. Their problems and difficulties, and the many pitfalls they encounter on the way, are expressed in an ongoing dialogue with their guide who relates to each one individually.
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Lord Hear Our Prayer
$69.95Add to cartThis collection of texts for the Prayers of the Faithful covers Sundays and major feasts for all three cycles of the liturgical year as well as Prayers of the Faithful for ritual Masses. Reflecting the themes and language of the Sunday or feast’s Lectionary readings, each prayer text includes an introduction for the presider; petitions for both the universal and local Church, for those who lead and serve the Church, the nation, and the community, for the special needs of others (e.g., families, the poor, and the sick), and for the faithful departed; and the celebrant’s closing collect. As prayers of the faithful belong to the community of faithful, this book can also be used as a guide by leaders and planners of worship to write and offer their own community’s prayers “for the coming of your kingdom, where you live and reign forever.”
Several features have been added to assist in reading: The text is broken into sense lines. In some places key words that should be emphasized appear in italics. The year (A, B, or C), week or feast (such as the First Sunday of Advent), and Reading references for that day (with a verse that captures the theme) head the prayers. The type is large and readable. A ribbon marker allows you to mark your page. The book’s design makes it appropriate for use in the sanctuary.
