Books

My Soul Feels Lean

Poems of Loss and Restoration

Joyce Rupp

“In My Soul Feels Lean, Joyce Rupp offers us a key to the soul’s deep places of loss and restoration.  Open the door to her poetry and come on in: there will be rugged lands and flowering meadows – luring you into prayer and reflection.”       –   Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B. author of Seven Sacred Pauses

 “Full of lived experience, Joyce Rupp shows how loss is the teacher and acceptance the friend that opens the door to ‘peace with questions that have no answers.’ “
–    Gunilla Norris, author of Simple Ways

Let All God's Glory Through

Peter G. van Breemen, S.J.

The link between faith and daily life consists mainly in transparency.  The separation of the two troubles many Christians and impoverishes the world.  It will be overcome in the measure that we let “all God’s glory through,” in the words of the great Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins.  The meditations in this book focus on various ways to make us more transparent for God’s glory, and thus to render our lives more faith-filled and our faith more lively.

Peter G. van Breemen, S.J. is a member of the Friedrich-Spee Centre of Spirituality at Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany.  He has advanced degrees in philosophy, theology and nuclear physics.
His numerous publications include the popular books, ‘As Bread That is Broken’ and ‘Called By Name’.

The Road To Peace

Edited by John Dear

Throughout his life, in his work and in his writings, Henri Nouwen strove to maintain the connection between an intimate relationship with Christ and a true solidarity with the world in all its imperfections.  In his support for the Civil Rights Movement, his work as a peace campaigner, and his life with the handicapped members of the L’Arche community, he immersed himself in the social, as well as the spiritual, dimensions of the Gospel.
In this new book, John Dear has brought together the best of Nouwen’s writings on social spirituality, amplifying his call to all of us to become true peacemakers.  The Road to Peace includes previously unpublished material, and Nouwen’s thoughts on the legacies of Thomas Merton and Oscar Romero, the presence of Christ amongst the poor, his participation in the great Civil Rights march in Selma, and the lessons of the heart which he took from his experiences at L’Arche, are as powerful as the best of his work published elsewhere.  The final chapters include his thoughts on what it means to be compassionate in the time of AIDS, and how all of us can be called to recognise our solidarity with the human family.
For all who have read and treasured the writings of Henri Nouwen, The Road to Peace will open a new chapter in our understanding of one of the seminal spiritual teachers of our time.

A Passion for Life

Fragments of the Face of God

Devotional Edition: Joan Chittister with Icons by Robert Lentz

“Offers the sort of soul-nourishing meditation found only in the encounter with beauty.” (- U.S. Catholic )

Through the icons of Robert Lentz and the reflections of Joan Chittister, A Passion for Life presents the lives of over two dozen saints, prophets, and witnesses who speak to the urgent spiritual questions of our time.  The icons in this book are male and female , Christian and non-Christian, married and unmarried, religious and lay.  They are people like us.  With one exception, perhaps: “In their eyes burn the eyes of a God who sees injustice and decries it, sees poverty and condemns it, sees inequality and refuses it, sees wrong and demands that it be set right.  These are people who gave themselves entirely to the impulses of God for the sake of the world.”

Love the World

Author: David Adam

Love the World opens by looking at the beginning of the universe, then moves on to the earth’s atmosphere, the miracle of water, and things that we often take for granted but are essential for our health and happiness. It focuses on our relationship with the world and encourages us to reflect on what really matters.

Prayers for Public Worship

Advent and the Season of Christmas

This book brings together over 300 beautiful prayers for Advent and the Season of Christmas written by four of the best-loved and most distinguished Christian writers: David Adam, Nick Fawcett, Susan Sayers, and Ray Simpson. It is an invaluable resource for all those who prepare public worship.