Prayers and liturgical material Books
Messenger Publications Occasional Prayers for the School Year
Book SynopsisThe book is intended for busy teachers, chaplains or anyone who often reaches for a prayer or service, but finds themselves grabbing material from many different sources. The author has worked a Jesuit school for over 20 years, where school gatherings are common and are always prefaced with prayer. She has regularly searched for and written different prayers to suit moments in the school year, to suit a moment in time. Sometimes she had time to prepare and other times, she found herself running along corridors to pull something from her files or turning to the internet while the bell was ringing! She often wished she had a book under her arm that she could trust would always have something to suit. So she put her prayers together as a "go to" for people who lead prayer, who provide calm and stillness for others but may have felt frantic in ‘finding the right piece.’ She has also included a couple of poems from young people as an example of how they continue to inspire her. Trade Review‘...a godsend to school chaplains’ * Catholic South West *‘A resource such as this is so valuable and really is a must-have for busy teachers’. * The Furrow *‘A useful single source for all who are regularly or occasionally called to preside for a ceremony or event in school.’ * Intercom magazine *Table of ContentsIntroduction.......................................................................................9 SEPTEMBER Opening of the School Year....................................................11 Working Together...................................................................12 Blessings on All......................................................................13 Adaptation of Psalm 1............................................................14 Wellness Check as You Return to School................................15 OCTOBER Mission Month: Head, Heart and Hand.................................16 Mission Month: Make Friends with the Unlikely...................17 Mission Month: The Marginalised..........................................18 Mid-term Break......................................................................19 Giving Thanks........................................................................20 Be with Us Today, Lord..........................................................21 NOVEMBER A Farmer’s Reflection..............................................................22 In Thanks for the Harvest.......................................................23 Finding Comfort When There Is Loss.....................................24 For the Holy Souls..................................................................25 God Didn’t Make Death.........................................................26 DECEMBER Advent: A Time of Waiting.....................................................27 Advent Wreath.......................................................................28 Is Christmas for Holy People? Are You Holy?.........................29 Christmas Carols....................................................................30 Advent, the Pink Candle: for Joy............................................32 JANUARY A New Year: Begin Again........................................................33 Beatitudes for the Adolescent..................................................35 Catholic Schools Week: Hope................................................36 FEBRUARY St Brigid’s Day........................................................................37 A Month of Healing...............................................................38 Springtime Contemplation.....................................................39 Valentine’s Day.......................................................................40 Christian Unity......................................................................41 MARCH Seachtain na Gaeilge...............................................................42 Lent: Lenten Promises............................................................44 In Thanks for Food and Water................................................45 St Patrick’s Day.......................................................................46 APRIL Lenten Reflection...................................................................48 Holy Week with Prayers of the Faithful..................................49 On the Day of a Match..........................................................53 Slow to the Beat.....................................................................54 MAY Exam Preparations..................................................................55 Our Lady................................................................................57 Prayer in the Muslim Tradition...............................................58 In Thanks for the Experience of Transition Year......................59 The Examen...........................................................................60 JUNE God Has a Plan for You..........................................................62 JULY Past Pupils..............................................................................63 AUGUST An Adaptation of Pope Francis’s Message in Laudato Si’..........64 Prayers and Reflections For Any Time in the School Year Finding God in Nature...........................................................65 Board of Management............................................................66 When a Loved One is Sick.....................................................67 On Lighting a Candle.............................................................68 I Don't Want a Labrador........................................................69 Prayer of St Ignatius...................................................................70 A Special Introduction to the Examen........................................71
£11.95
Messenger Publications Our Wounded God: Beyond, Beside and Within Us
Book SynopsisThe Stations of the Cross etch a story of pain and humiliation in the life of Jesus. There are parallels closer to home as well as across our world, be it in Ukraine, Nicaragua, Iraq or Pakistan that are ‘twinned’ with Gethsemane and Golgotha. This book invites us on a journey as we discern and dialogue for new horizons of gospel service as a church on a Synod path. We are part of a body that is greater than our own individual bodies. We have hearts and souls. Through Baptism, the Eucharist, the shared commitment of our resources, the living out of radical forgiveness, the inclusive service of compassion to all and the willingness to make sacrifices with the lowest, the least and the lost will lead us to be called the ‘body of Christ.’ This book invites you to consider, if as a church, we are part of the un-noticed, the un-recognised and the forgotten that makes us feel their pain and humiliation. This book helps us to discover the paschal (‘pass over’) significance of the cross as a response to the suffering that sears many lives today. Here we can embody the words of Jesus: ‘This is my body given for you.’ Through this proclamation, we can call ourselves the Church. This book sees Jesus as the guardian of the wounded and the tortured. It invites us, like Simon of Cyrene and Veronica to embrace and caress the open wounds that scar innocent lives. The Stations of the Cross lead us, like the Centurion who pierces the side of Christ, to recognise divinity at the heart of humanity.Trade Review‘a rich, if eclectic, source of rare sensitivity, astute insight and hope-filled companionship...’ * The Pastoral Review *
£6.95
Four Courts Press Ltd Latin Psalter Manuscripts in Trinity College
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£56.96
Christian Focus Publications Ltd A Mighty Fortress: Meditations on the Sufficency
Book Synopsis God writes a lyric through our life. Through the means of praise and worship we can express our spiritual yearnings in ways that we would find difficult in everyday words or conversation.Yet lyrics to hymns and songs become dry on our tongues. What once seemed to express our joy with incandescence, now glows feebly - a token remembrance of our heart's desire. We move on to new songs, only for the pattern to repeat itself.The problem is not the song, the problem is OUR song.Using the verses from Luther's great hymn 'A Mighty Fortress is our God', written from his meditations on psalm 46, T M Moore helps us recapture our song, written by God's hand in our life. We can rekindle the flames of our spiritual lives and be set upon a firmer footing to face the future - bloodied, unbowed, undismayed.At trying times Luther would turn to his closest friend and say 'Come Philip, let us sing the 46th.' May your life be turned by singing in harmony with one who loves you closer than a brother.
£12.12
Oasis House Exploring Worship Third Edition: A Practical
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£19.00
New Growth Press Reformation Worship: Liturgies from the Past for
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£44.79
Guideposts Finding God in the Garden
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£17.95
Guideposts Walking with Jesus Devotions for Lent Easter
£15.75
Brepols N.V. De Sion Exibit Lex Et Verbum Domini De Hierusalem
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£38.20
Brepols N.V. The Appearances of Medieval Rituals: The Play of
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£86.76
Brepols N.V. Carmelite Liturgy and Spiritual Identity: The
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£109.88
Brepols N.V. Laus Angelica: Poetry in the Medieval Mass
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£119.25
Brepols N.V. The Litany in Arts and Cultures
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£90.25
Kohlhammer Liturgik
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£35.20
Kohlhammer Predigen Heute
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£31.00
Kohlhammer Die Wort-Gottes-Feier ALS Sacra Celebratio: Ein
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£53.19
Theologischer Verlag Lebensgrund: Die St. Galler Singtaglieder
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£13.09
Theologischer Verlag Du Weisst, Wer Wir Sind: Basler Gebetbuch,
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£28.00
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Mehr Gott wagen: Predigten und Reden zur
Book SynopsisEinander ins Bild setzen. Darum gehe es beim Predigen, sagte 2002 Martin Nicol, Praktischer Theologe in Erlangen, und begründete mit diesem Leitbild die Dramaturgische Homiletik. Mehr Gott wagen. Das sei die Herausforderung angesichts religiöser Indifferenz, sagt Nicol nun, nach vielen Jahren pastoraler Fortbildung im Predigen, und öffnet seine eigene Predigtwerkstatt zur Besichtigung. Zehn Predigten werden präsentiert, kommentiert, jeweils einem aktuellen Thema der Homiletik zugeordnet und dieses Thema in der offenen Form von Reden entfaltet. Dabei gibt Nicol eine Fülle handwerklicher Anregungen für die laufende Predigtarbeit. Zugleich zeichnet er an den Konturen künftiger Predigt, die sich als Kunst unter Künsten von Gustav Mahler ebenso inspirieren lässt wie von Udo Jürgens, die dem leidigen Kanzelpathos mit Humor begegnet, die mit Lust an Sprache ins Ungesagte springt, die dem Bibelwort traut, Verheißungen der Tradition in die Zukunft wirft und in alledem auf spezifische Resonanz hofft: Aufmerksamkeit bei den Menschen und Gehör bei Gott.
£34.19
Peeters Publishers Liturgical Catechesis of Sunday Celebrations in
Book SynopsisThe number of Catholic communities with no priest available to celebrate Sunday Eucharist has increased steadily over 60 years. For many, other forms of Sunday celebration are the statistical norm. This dramatic development coincides with Vatican II's insistence on liturgical catechesis: for the baptised the main source of their Christian spirit comes from active participation in the liturgy, especially the Sunday Eucharist. Celebrating the liturgy in all its symbolic fullness leads to inner participation in the mystery. A more profound appropriation of this living relationship with Christ comes about through well-celebrated rites and reflection on personal experience of the rites. Yet, liturgical catechesis is largely ignored or dismissed because it is not understood. Liturgical celebrations frequently lack the vitality capable of leading people into the depth of the sacred mysteries they celebrate. Sunday celebrations in the absence of a priest are no exception. This book presents a systematic treatment of the modern church's teaching on liturgical catechesis. It proposes ten general principles of liturgical catechesis. These principles are used to explore and criticize the "Directory for Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest" (1988), as well as the rituals prepared from the "Directory" by the USA, and Canada. Even when there can be no Sunday Mass in parishes, hospitals and nursing homes, navy ships and jails, liturgical prayer is to be a privileged place of evangelisation, catechesis, spirituality and discipleship in Christ.
£59.33
Peeters Publishers Albert Deblaere, S.J. (1916-1994). Essays on
Book SynopsisAlbert Deblaere, S.J. (1916-1994) was an erudite scholar with an original intellectual and spiritual profile. After having been for a short time a member of the Ruusbroec Society (Antwerp), he taught for many years at the Jesuit Theologicum in Heverlee (Louvain) and at the Gregorian University (Rome). He has had a remarkable impact on his disciples and on the scientific research of mystical literature. This volume offers a selection of his articles, in various languages, dealing with the history of mystical literature and the methodology of the study of those texts, with the specific mystical terminology and some major spiritual writers, such as e.g. John of Ruusbroec, Gerlach Peters, Thomas a Kempis and Maria Petyt. The second part of this volume consists of contributions in memory of Albert Deblaere by a number of scholars who have been inspired by him: Joseph Alaerts, Herwig Arts, Johan Bonny, Alvaro Cacciotti, Rob Faesen, Paul van Geest, Max Huot de Longchamp, Paul Mommaers and Paul Verdeyen.
£82.08
Peeters Publishers Tradition and Innovation in Late- and
Book SynopsisWhat is the relation between the Greek ecclesiastical chant traditions of today and Byzantine chant? That question can only be answered through a meticulous study of the transmission and transformation of both the melodies, the genres, and the whole musical culture of Late Byzantium and the subsequent centuries. This book presents a handful of studies focussing on both the development of new musical styles, such as the ornamented Kalofonia ('Beautiful sound'), and on the education of the cantors, the psaltai. The role of the master cantors, the maistores, their teachings, treatises, traditions, innovations, compositions, and the various modes of interpretation (exegesis) are among the topics covered by this collection of papers, written by specialist scholars of Byantine chant history.
£71.25
Peeters Publishers Studies on the Liturgies of the Christian East:
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of seventeen selected papers from the Third International Congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgy, held in Volos, Greece, in 2010. The Society is a non-confessional association of scholars dealing with the liturgical traditions (and related disciplines) of the Eastern Christian Churches. These papers reflect studies on the Ethiopian, Georgian, Hagiopolite, Greek, Bulgarian, Slavonic, early Patristic, East Syriac, and West Syriac liturgies across a wide range of countries and cultures. Among other topics, the authors study the texts of liturgical services (including the critical question of translations), archaeology, liturgical music, iconography, mystagogical commentary, and liturgical theology. The papers deal with both the historical practice of the Churches and their present-day usages. The authors examine not only what has been the liturgical usage of the Eastern Churches in their countries of origin, but also how these liturgies are adapted and celebrated in the diaspora.
£83.60
Peeters Publishers Mediating Mysteries, Understanding Liturgies: On
Book Synopsis“The liturgist is a general practitioner who sees a lot in his practice and for whom virtually everything is important”. The phrase from the Introduction to the book offers a useful starting point for understanding what the authors essentially want to convey. While much may be important, this volume addresses specifically the relation between liturgy and mystery. Many of the contributing authors recognise the bodied reality of mystery as crucial to the “health” of liturgical relationship. The contributors acknowledge that neither the “practitioner” as liturgist, nor the theologian alone can provide the necessary “life-giving connections” that help mediate between liturgy and mystery. Thus, the skills and knowledge from various liturgical traditions and denominations are utilised to explore: (1) the gospels and Christ event, (2) the ongoing process of tradition through verbal and non-verbal means, (3) the transparency of mystery itself, (4) the partaking in the Mystery through the links with other areas and commitments of life, and (5) the revision of the classical approach to the relationship between liturgy and systematic theology. This paired liturgical and theological investigation ultimately opens ways for understanding what liturgy itself is, and what theology maybe should be.
£78.00
Peeters Publishers Robert Rypon, Selected Sermons. Volume 1: Feast
Book SynopsisThe fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are considered the golden age of preaching in medieval England. The Latin sermons edited and translated in this volume, preached by Robert Rypon (c. 1350–1421/22) and collected in a single manuscript, are both representative and exceptional instances of the preaching during this period. Rypon was an English Benedictine monk educated at Oxford and a member of Durham priory, where he served a number of important roles. He preached regularly not only to his monastic community but to lay and clerical audiences at Durham cathedral and in parishes around Durham and Northumbria. Many of his analogies, metaphors, and exempla are original or distinctive in their development, but he applies all of them to traditional homiletic concerns, such as the seven deadly sins, the acts of mercy, the theological virtues, the Ten Commandments, prayer, and penance. He also artfully employs the complex scholastic sermon form popular with preachers trained at the universities. His sermons open a window onto the world of preaching and the religious culture of late medieval England. This volume includes a selection of sermons preached on various Sundays and other feast days during the liturgical year, along with seven sermons preached on saints’ days, which include the feasts for John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, and Oswald, the seventh-century king of Northumbria. The second volume will include a selection of sermons preached during Lent.
£79.04
Peeters Publishers Gregory of Tours, 'The Book of the Miracles of
Book SynopsisThe Book of the Miracles of the Blessed Andrew the Apostle (Liber de miraculis beati Andreae apostoli), long regarded as a sixth-century reworking of an earlier apocryphal work by an anonymous author, has often been ignored or used by scholars as a vehicle for recovering that now mostly lost work, The Acts of Andrew. Yet in recent years there has emerged a growing consensus that The Book of the Miracles of the Blessed Andrew the Apostle (hereafter noted as the MA) was authored by Gregory of Tours (538–594), the preeminent historical source for the sixth-century West. While Gregory and his hagiographical works have been studied with increasing vigor by scholars, the MA has only recently figured into that effort and, consequently, has not yet been fully translated into English. This volume attempts to fill this void by offering the first full English translation of the MA, alongside Max Bonnet’s Latin edition, and by setting the work in its rightful place in Gregory’s canon. With an introduction, glossary, notes, and a map of places mentioned in the text, this volume provides an accessible entry point to both the study of the legacy of the apostles as well as Gregory of Tours’s interpretation of it. The MA is valuable for the study of early Christianity, late antiquity, and religious culture in the Merovingian Kingdom of the Franks.
£64.22
What to Say When You Dont Know What to Say
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£13.95
Dayspring Bible Promises for Women
£13.60
Dayspring NIV Illustrating Bible ActsEphesians
£24.40
£25.92
Messianic Jewish Publishers Budoff Siddur: 5th Edition
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£35.84
