The Unicorn: Meditations on the Love of God PDF Download

Author: Harry Galbraith Miller
Publisher: SLG Press
ISBN: 0728301245
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 65

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Fairacres Publications 108 What has the mythical creature, the unicorn, to do with great days in the Church’s calendar, such as Christmas, Easter and Pentecost? Starting from a handful of scriptural texts, and inspired by some remarkable medieval tapestries, the author weaves his own answer in a series of richly textured meditations on the love of God.

Author: Gabrielle de Coignard
Publisher: SLG Press
ISBN: 0728303310
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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SLG Press Contemplative Poetry 6 Like private prayers, the sacred sonnets of Gabrielle de Coignard (c. 1550–1586) and Vittoria Colonna (1492–1547) have long been soft utterances in a quiet corner of devotional literature. Bright expressions of faith amongst the problems and businesses of writing as women in sixteenth-century France and Italy, of illnesses, long widowhoods, personal grief and politics, these sonnets speak both passionately and practically about the trials and triumphs of living, and of living with faith.

Author: Kallistos Ware
Publisher: SLG Press
ISBN: 0728303345
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Fairacres Publications 43 Re-printed many times since it was first published, and translated into numerous languages, this book by METROPOLITAN KALLISTOS WARE OF DIOKLEIA, is an invaluable guide at every stage of spiritual pilgrimage. It is a classic exposition of the Jesus Prayer and its use in the Hesychast Orthodox tradition of the prayer of stillness, and the author shows how anyone who prays can apply this teaching to themselves.

Author: Tony Dickinson
Publisher: SLG Press
ISBN: 0728303302
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Fairacres Publications 195 Most of us live, in our prayers and our worship, and in our understanding of Christian discipleship, with one Passion story. We take incidents from the four Gospel accounts of the suffering and death of Jesus and weave them into a single ‘harmonized’ whole. In this essay, Tony Dickinson unravels these four narrative strands to reveal an understanding of the events that shape each one. He also examines how each account is influenced by the sacred writings of Israel, especially the Psalms.

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Publisher: SLG Press
ISBN: 072830323X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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SLG Press Contemplative Poetry 2 This anthology of Old English poetry brings together sacred texts from two of the great surviving Anglo-Saxon poetic codices: the Vercelli Book, including one of the most famous of medieval texts, the Vision of the Rood, and the Exeter Book, source of the Advent Lyrics, Riddles and Physiologus. The Venerable Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum is the source for the only surviving work by the poet Cædmon. John Gallas, has not simply translated these texts but has crafted beautiful and accessible contemporary poetry, retaining the half-line alliteration of Old English poetic structure, while transmitting the joy in God and exuberant imaginative style of the original authors.

Author: Derwas Chitty
Publisher: SLG Press
ISBN: 0728303116
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Fairacres Publications 50 These seven letters were addressed by St Antony (251-356 AD) to his disciples. This hermit of the Egyptian desert draws our attention to those things which are essential in the spiritual life. Among the main themes are the witness of the Holy Spirit in the conscience of each person, the need for self-knowledge, the call to follow Christ, the unity of the Church, and our mutual co-inherence as members of the Body of Christ.

Author: Amado Nervo
Publisher: SLG Press
ISBN: 0728303183
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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SLG Press Contemplative Poetry 1 This translation has sought to reproduce the plain, rhymed forms of Nervo’s poems to convey the direct, yet complex, ideas of faith and doubt of the original texts. Nervo believed each of his poems—a prayer, an expression of comfort, praise or questioning—to be an act of love: the job of the translator is to hand on, undimmed, that belief to the reader. ‘Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones’ (Proverbs 16:24).

Author: Alexander Ryrie
Publisher: SLG Press
ISBN: 0728303132
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Fairacres Publications 190 None of us need reminding that terrible situations exist and horrific events happen in the world around us. We need only to open our newspapers or turn on our televisions to hear of war and violence, or situations of injustice and oppression, or acts of crime or terrorism. When we are confronted by such things, the word ‘evil’ comes readily to our lips. We sense that events and situations of this kind are not just unfortunate and regrettable: they have a different character which we can only describe as evil. Such evil deeds and situations have been a part of human life throughout history, and we seem to be unable to do anything about them. We can, and indeed should act, however, and we can pray. This book asks us to confront the reality of evil in the world and use our ability to change the world around us with the power of prayer.

Author: Andy Lord
Publisher: SLG Press
ISBN: 0728303124
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Fairacres Publications 189 In this study of the spirituality of one of the Anglican Church’s great spiritual leaders the author considers the ways in which spirituality can represent our patterns of life with God that merge experience, prayer, community, theology and mission. Each chapter focuses on aspects of the great Easter and liturgical themes of life, death, resurrection and outpoured Holy Spirit. The image of the river of the Spirit provides a practical way into living with Christ, shaped by His passion, for the transformation of the world. It is a way that draws together different traditions in a world embracing spirituality embodied in, and beyond, the Jesus Prayer.

Author: Aelred Partridge
Publisher: SLG Press
ISBN: 0728303035
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Fairacres Publications 187 Early Christians read the Bible somewhat differently from their modern counterparts. For example, St Ephraem’s layered approach to interpreting Sacred Scripture, especially the Old Testament, led him to delve below the literal words of the texts to uncover the rich vein of symbolic allusions that lay within them. Woven together, they formed a tapestry of spiritual wisdom. Ephraem transformed this tapestry into vibrant poetry in hymns, homilies and biblical commentaries that gesture towards the unfathomable mystery of God revealed in Christ. This brief essay examines the principles that guided Ephraem’s manner of biblical interpretation (his hermeneutics) and reveals why he is a Poet of the Word.