Christian Meditation
A Pearl of Great Price Sharing the Gift of Meditation
9789810756215
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Laurence Freeman encourages meditators who appreciate the treasure they have discovered in meditation to share it with others by starting a meditation group. "All it takes to start a group," he says "is the faith to begin and the support of those who have gone before." With this reassurance, he...
9789810841683
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How is it possible that patients at the terminus of life have been known to say "This year has been the best year of my life". Death is a truth we try to constantly avoid or deny. But when confronted with the reality of it, we can only break down...
A Simple Way: The Path of Christian Meditation
9789810911669
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Meditation is a pilgrimage to your own centre, your own heart. The basic theology of meditation is that at the core of our being, in our heart, is the mind of Christ. Fr Laurence shows us a simple way of reaching that centre, a path that will take us through...
A Spiritual Practice for ...Townsville Experience DVD
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Christian Meditation has been introduced in all the 31 schools in the Catholic Diocese of Townsville, Australia. This world-first Christian Meditation programme has been created and implemented under the leadership of Dr Cathy Day, Director and Ernie Christie, Deputy Director of Townsville Catholic Education. This inspiring film interviews teachers and...
Anointing the Soul: Poetry, Meditation and Healing
9781925494518
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In this collection of poems, Paul Kraus uses many images to express how the divine anointing of our souls takes place. He illustrates how listening in silence to the Holy Spirit deep within ourselves makes us familiar with this healing unction. We begin to experience inner healing and discover in...
Aspects of the Spiritual Life CD set
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David Wood is a retired Anglican priest. most of his life, he lived and worked amongst declining industrial communities in Northern England organising and leading prayer workshops, retreats, and vigils of prayer always exploring silence and solitude. When he found John Main's teaching in 1988, after searching wilderness years, he...
9781853119958
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Retreats are increasingly popular, and in stressful and anxious times, perhaps the need to refocus our lives on what will nurture and sustain us inwardly is greater than ever. Some may find that staying at a retreat centre is unaffordable, family or work commitments make it impossible for some to...
9781848256699
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As the leader of the World Community for Christian Meditation, Laurence Freeman's calling takes him all over the world to teach and lead groups who want to practice contemplative prayer. In this spiritual travel memoir, he recounts timeless, memorable and moving stories of people, places and events in which he...
Behold the Word: 52 Visual Meditations
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This stunning collection of artwork and reflections for each week of the year pairs beautifully painted quotes by John Rowlands-Pritchard (Associate of the Royal School of Church Music and founder of musical group Opus Anglicanum) with thoughtful text by James Roose-Evans (Anglican priest, author and award-winning theatre director). Winner of...
Christian Meditation: Experiencing The Presence Of God
9780060750640
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Enter a Monastery Without Walls. Christian Meditation introduces an ancient practice to a contemporary audience. James Finley, a former monk and student of Thomas Merton, presents the fundamentals of both understanding and practicing Christian meditation. He provides simple, helpful instructions, as well as explaining the deeper connection with the divine...
Christian Meditation: Your Daily Practice
9789810817107
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This pocket-size book is Laurence Freeman's practical little manual on meditation. It is helpful for anyone seeking a deeper spiritual life, and especially useful to those exploring the basic teaching on Christian meditation as a way to depth and meaning in their life. The newcomer to meditation will be encouraged...
Come Have Breakfast: Meditations on God and the Earth
9781626985643
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In her latest work, prize-winning theologian Elizabeth Johnson views planet Earth, its beauty and threatened state, through the lens of scripture. Each luminous meditation offers a snapshot of one aspect of the holy mystery who creates, indwells, redeems, vivifies, and sanctifies the whole world. Together, they offer a panoramic view...
Contemplative Leaders: Personal Reflections by Members...
9789811810480
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This collection of personal reflections introduces leaders in the fields of business, public service, education, healthcare and other professions, who meditate. Each story is unique and tells of the challenges typically facing leaders today and how they deal with them. But in a different way each also belongs to universal...
Contemplative Prayer for Today: Christian Meditation
9781933182551
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Fr. Ernie has been described as a 'modern pioneer of Carmelite spirituality.' This book is the conclusion and fruit of many years of personal search, relating his own journey into Christian meditation. He brings the Carmelite tradition into dialogue with other contemporary spiritualities of the desert. Fr. Ernie's untimely death...
Conversations with Leaders who Meditate
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In these conversations, leaders holding responsibility at a global level speak about the practice of meditation and its place in their lives, personally and professionally. They bear witness to the need for an enlightened approach to leadership where responsibility, vision and success find meaning in the deeper dimension of personal...
Daily Meditations With The Holy Spirit - Giant Print
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This popular Spiritual Life Series title offers the complete text of the original edition for those either with limited vision or who prefer larger print as they pray every day. These minute meditations for every day of the year contain a Scripture reading, a reflection, and a prayer. Father Winkler...
9781933182537
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'DANCING WITH YOUR SHADOW deals with with the journey of meditation and what helps and what hinders us in practising this discipline. In the following chapters we will learn practical ways of arriving at stillness of body and mind to make it easier to enter this inner silence of meditation....
Door to Silence: An Anthology John Main
9781853117497
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A collection of short quotes, which are intended as springboards for contemplation, are drawn from his talks, letters, journals and other unpublished sources. They are gathered around a number of themes relating to the practice of Christian meditation including: Peace, Purity of heart, Contacting the centre, Truth, Expectations, Distractions, Union...
Essential Teaching Weekend: Handbook for Presenters
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This handbook is a step-by-step guide for conducting an Essential Teaching Weekend. The book offers all the materials necessary for running the programme including templates which can be adapted to suit particular circumstances. The guidelines methodically cover every aspect of the work from preparation to final presentation. The guidelines are...
Finding God in the Mess: Meditations for Mindful Living
9781788126045
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Finding God in the Mess: Meditations for Mindful Living. Modern lives can be very busy, saturated with technology and media. However, it is the time out and the ability to look back and understand life events that bring about deeper, more satisfying living. Meditation and mindfulness are very useful tools...
Fully Alive: The Daily Path of Christian Meditation
9781848255593
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A modern spiritual master offers a simple guide to the ancient practice of Christian mediation. Fully Alive is a previously unpublished book by John Main (1926-1982), the Benedictine monk who was one of the twentieth century's most influential spiritual teachers. He helped popularize the practice of contemplative prayer - a...
Good Work: Meditation for Personal & Organisational ...
9789811401664
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Laurence Freeman deï¬nes good work as ”˜work that brings out the best in the people who do it, and brings enduring beneï¬t to those who are influenced by it'. This book is about how meditation helps to make work good work, while transforming the workplace environment through more humanly rich...
Homely Love: Prayers and Reflections Using the Words of...
9781853117336
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A striking book of contemporary spirituality based on the medieval writings of a woman ahead of her time, Julian of Norwich. An anchorite who lived in a monastic cell attached to a parish church, she found inspiration in the simple domestic detail of her life and used it as a...
9781916095939
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Laurence Freeman gave a talk at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. He invited those present - and all of us reading his words here - into the Presence which is contemplative consciousness, our true identity and the basis for any meaningful collective action in response to...
Into The Silent Land: The Practice of Contemplation
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An instant classic of contemporary spirituality, bringing together an engaging introduction to the Christian contemplative tradition for people inside or on the margins of the churches who feel drawn to the world of silent prayer. Martin Laird shows how silence and meditation can offer a remedy to many contemporary dilemmas...
9781593253332
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Is your life running out of control? Work, sports, picking up the kids, getting to Mass, doing the shopping...every day you are barraged with responsibilities. With such a busy schedule, you may struggle to put God first in your life, while distractions of various kinds can take you off track....
John Main: By Those Who Knew Him
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This collection of personal reminiscences by John Main's family, friends and colleagues is often funny, sometimes touching, always illuminating. Each one adds a new dimension to our understanding of the man and his teaching. The significance of the book is summed up by Father Laurence Freeman, John Main's spiritual successor....
Just Turn Up! The Meditator’s Companion: A Practical Guide
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This book is a walk with an aspiring meditator who has begun the journey of meditation at an introductory programme and is now encountering roadblocks along the way. First, there are doubts and uncertainties that stem from a lifetime of conditioning. Then there are challenges that arise from life situations....
9781853118678
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The Benedictine monk and writer, Laurence Freeman, took over the mantle of John Main after his death in 1982 and continues the work that he began, teaching Christians from all traditions the simplest way of prayer - meditation. It is simple in that it requires no words, yet encountering God...
Living with the Mind of Christ
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Living with the Mind of Christ - introduced by Fr Laurence Freeman OSB - is a book based around the practice of 'Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction' (MBSR) combined with the teachings on contemplative prayer from the Christian mystic tradition. MBSR has its origins in Buddhist meditation practices and is to...
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Eileen's last writings capture the distilled wisdom of a woman who has been seeking God all her life and who had come to know the God who is also seeking her within her seeking. They posses the clarity precision even terseness of a teacher skilled at ther craft. They carry...
9781782183549
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This book is a means of connecting with our spiritual selves through the practice of Maranatha Yoga and meditation, which has been developed by the author through the experience of teaching yoga for over 30 years. The physicality of the postures with the mindful, meditative qualities of the Christian reflections...
Meditation and Dying: A Personal Reflection
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Meditation & Dying is a personal reflection by Anne McDonnell who is a teacher in The World Community for Christian Meditation. With deep, moving insight she speaks from personal experience of terminal illness and of her discoveries about the meaning and fullness of life that have come through it. For...
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This booklet is a guide for those who are interested in the spiritual dimension of mental health, wellbeing and meditation. It provides information and encouragement for people experiencing mental and emotional distress as well as for those who have the opportunity to offer friendship and support.
9781847308009
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Children today are living in a fast-paced world where one solitary voice can easily get lost amid the din. Regular meditation helps children to relax, generate energy and confidence, become aware of their innate goodness and engage more compassionately with their peers. Meditation with Children: A Resource for Teachers and...
9781934996539
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Beautifully presented French fold small book that is part of the Meditatio series. Meditation with Children focuses on teaching meditation to children, who can be naturally and totally present in the moment and are thus capable of pure prayer, prayer of the heart. Meditation can be a powerful way to...
Meditations from the Iona Community 35
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Biblical meditations from a former leader of the Iona Community, published to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Community in 1998. Ian Reid died before this project was completed so this book is also an expression of the Community's love and thanksgiving for his life. A large format book with...
Meditators on Meditation & Marriage
9781916095878
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The contributors to this volume are people who follow a contemplative practice and have also entered into relationships of deep commitment with another person. They speak of the challenges and the sometimes difficult lessons that both of these pilgrimages can bring, as well as the surprises and inexpressible joy. What...
Memento Mori (Pb): Prayers on the Last Things
9780819850089
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A prayer book to help you to meditate on your death and all the Last Things in order to live for heaven. Memento mori - Latin for "remember you will die" - refers to the practice of meditation on one's inevitable death and the afterlife. Encouraged by Scripture and the...
Milestones: Stages of Life in Light of Meditation 2 CD
9789810987190
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Childhood adulthood, old age, and eventually death are stages we go through in uniquely personal ways. How do we understand this journey? Fr Laurence explains how meditation can help us to experience these milestones as stages of maturing in Christian faith. Meditation allows the ego to develop naturally, moving us...