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Prayer & Spirituality
The White Stone: The Art of Letting Go Esther De Waal Esther de Waal is one of today’s most beloved spiritual writers. In The White Stone, she reflects on the changes and losses that come with growing older. Esther reflects on solitude and, following a period of illness, saying goodbye to a family home and the Welsh border landscape she had known for decades which inspired some of her greatest writing, and adjusting to a new city environment. In her characteristic style, she sees everything as a portal into a deeper spiritual understanding. She draws on the wealth of the Christian tradition, especially scripture and the monastic and Celtic spiritualities she knows so well, to help her navigate her way through not only the inevitable sense of loss that accompanies such change, but also to embrace the new possibilities it brings. This is a book of simple, profound wisdom that will speak to many coping with change in their own lives.
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Celtic Daily Prayer: Book One:
The Journey Begins The first in a two-volume collection of liturgies, prayers and meditations from the Northumbria Community.
Hb | 848 pgs | WILLIAM COLLINS REF 4846 RRP £20.00 Aslan £14.00 Celtic Daily Prayer: Book Two:
Farther Up and Farther In Building on the foundations set down in Book One, this collection blends the voices of the early Celtic and desert saints with more contemporary sources.
Franciscan Footprint: Following Christ in the Ways of Francis and Clare Helen Julian CSF In this fascinating collection detailing how Franciscans through the centuries have lived out their faith, Helen Julian CSF explores the distinctive features of their spirituality and shows how these practices can be applied to, and become part of, our daily lives. Through these ‘examples and friends’ she encourages the reader to consider how best to be a mirror, showing Christ to the world, and to learn ‘what is yours to do’.
Pb | 144 pgs | BRF REF 3093 RRP £8.99 Aslan £7.99
In Search of Angels: Travels to the Edge of the World Alistair Moffat Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints brought the Word of God to the Hebrides and Scotland's Atlantic shore. These 'white martyrs' sought solitude, remoteness, even harshness, in places apart from the world where they could fast, pray and move closer to an understanding of God: places where they could see angels. Columba was the most wellknown of these courageous men who rowed their curraghs towards danger and uncertainty in a pagan land. In this book, Alistair Moffat journeys from the island of Eileach an Naoimh at the mouth of the Firth of Lorne to Lismore, Iona and then north to Applecross, searching for traces of these extraordinary men.
