This original and imaginative treatment of the Our Father plumbs the Scriptural depths of this prayer, so beloved of Christians.
The Biblical meditation of each chapter is further enriched by introductory pages presenting the author’s reflections and explanations, drawing on the treasures of the Church’s patrimony: her liturgy, the Fathers of the Church, popes and saints.
This is authentic spirituality, deeply rooted in the word of God: living and life-giving, nourishment for heart and soul, enlightenment for the mind. Taste and see!
“I am glad Sr Claire has written this book, and glad of its publication … Like the Seer in the book of Revelation, she has heeded the command, ‘Write what you see.’ We can be grateful for this … This is not a book to rush through. Its wine is for savouring, chapter by chapter, its bread for thoughtful digestion. Put simply, this is good, wholesome stuff. May it find many readers.”
From the Foreword by Bishop Hugh Gilbert of Aberdeen.
Published by Gracewing at £12.99 (US price $17.95). 190 pages.
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Joy of God by Sr Mary David Totah. This is a collection of Sr Mary David’s writings, both notes to novices or sisters, and from her teaching on the Monastic Life. It also has her thoughts on a variety of subjects and has been lightly annotated by the Sister who cared for her in her last and final illness.
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Art, Truth and Time by Sr Anselma Scollard is a book of essays endeavouring to show that artistic creation depends just as much upon the body as it does upon the soul. These essays are a consideration of the nature of art and how the truth of art transcends time and that the unity of soul and body in the artistic effort is profoundly creative.
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A DIVINE GIFT
THE CONSECRATED LIFE
By Sister Mary David Totah OSB
(CTS) Paperback, 72 pp. £2.50
This book offers a unique little catechesis on the theology of the consecrated life. Drawing on the documents of Vatican II as well as more recent documents of the Church’s magisterium and ancient teaching especially that of St Thomas Aquinas, this book gives a complete, concise, and up-to-date synthesis on the consecrated life and the vows, its place in the Church, and its relationship to other states of life. This synthesis fills an important gap in literature on the religious life. The book also includes an inspiring collection of texts from the saints.
Christ gave this form of life to the Church, where, thanks to the Spirit, it lives on in Religious life is a gift: a gift of God, a gift that has its source in God; a gift of the one who is consecrated, who joins himself to Christ by the gift of his whole life; a gift from the Church and to the Church.
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A DAY IN THE CLOISTER
Life at St. Cecilia’s Abbey, Ryde
by Sr Gertrude Quayle, OSB
32 pp Pamphlet with nearly 50 full colour illustrations. £4.00
A Day in the Cloister takes the reader from rising bell at 4.45 to Compline, describing with much humour the rhythm of worship, work, reading, prayer and recreation that makes up a typical monastic day. One reader warns ‘Once you pick it up, you can’t put it down!’
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Walled About With God
The History and Spirituality of Enclosure for Cloistered Nuns by Dom Jean Prou, OSB and the Benedictine Nuns of the Congregation of Solesemes. Gracewing: 2005. Paperback, 294 pp £13.00
Drawing on the riches of Christian tradition, this unique book, written by cloistered nuns themselves, examines enclosure of nuns from a biblical, historical, spiritual and theological perspective, showing how it aids the prayer-life and mission of cloistered nuns. The book tackles many of the questions often asked of nuns today: what are the origins of the cloistered life?
Why is the enclosure of nuns stricter than that of monks?
What is the nature of the contemplative apostolate in the Church and the world?
This book has proved popular with those interested in monastic spirituality and those seeking to deepen their understanding of the contemplative life and prayer.
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Deepening Prayer:
Life Defined by Prayer
by Sr Mary David Totah, OSB (CTS) Paperback, 64 pp. £1.95
This little book explores the environment of prayer in the Bible and Liturgy, as well as some of the main methods of Christian prayer such as Arrow prayers, the Jesus Prayer, the Rosary and the Our Father. It also devotes much space to trials in prayer- absence, lack of feelings, dryness, distractions-and offers a reflection on the relationship between action and contemplation.
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IN THE HEART OF CHRIST
An illustrated history of the Benedictine nuns of Ryde.
St Michael’s Abbey Press, 224 pp. sewn softcover £15
With 224 pages and illustrated throughout with high quality archive and contemporary images, In the Heart of Christ traces the story of the Benedictine nuns of St Cecilia’s Abbey from its early 17th century roots through the vicissitudes of revolution and war to the present day. Designed and printed to the highest production standard, it provides a fascinating window into the cloister, with insights into the life, work, joy, and humour of an enclosed monastic community.
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A Deep and Subtle Joy
Life at Quarr Abbey by Luke Bell, OSB (HiddenSpring books) Paperback, 153 pp. £7.99
A Deep and Subtle Joy is an introduction to Benedictine – and indeed Christian – spirituality. It takes the reader on a 24 hour personal tour of Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight, England, inviting us to share in the lives of the monks and entering into their rhythm of worship, work, prayer and recreation. Taking illustrations from both nature and Scripture, each chapter brings the reader to a different location, and the subtitle speaks of the spiritual lesson to be learnt there, for example: ‘The Trees: Spiritual Growth and How It Happens’; ‘The Pigs: Sin, Repentance, and the Advantages of Not Being a Swine’; ‘The Tea Room: Community Life and its Spiritual Aspect.’ This book will be of value not only to those curious about life in a monastery but to anyone journeying on the path to God.
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