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Spend a month in the company of St Teresa of Avila, with sixty-two reflections to enrich your mornings and evenings. ‘To be a "contemplative" . . . as she saw it, was essentially a matter of the sustained awareness of living within the movement of God’s love.’ - Rowan Williams, Teresa of Avila Praise for the A Month with series: ‘This series helps us to be properly nurtured by the living, radical Christian tradition of faith.’ - Mark Oakley, author and Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral, London Teresa of Avila lived in sixteenth-century Spain. She is known for her writings and for reforming the Carmelite Order.

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Spend a month in the company of St Francis, with sixty-two reflections to enrich your mornings and evenings. ‘[Francis received] the unhealed everlasting wounds that heal the world.’ - G. K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi Praise for the A Month with series: ‘This series helps us to be properly nurtured by the living, radical Christian tradition of faith.’ - Mark Oakley, author and Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral, London St Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan Order, lived in early thirteenth-century Italy and is known as the patron saint of animals.

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Spend a month in the company of St Augustine, with sixty-two reflections to enrich your mornings and evenings. ‘[The Confessions] has a perennial power to speak, even though written virtually sixteen centuries ago.’ - Henry Chadwick, translator of The Confessions (Oxford World’s Classics) Praise for the A Month with series: ‘This series helps us to be properly nurtured by the living, radical Christian tradition of faith.’ - Mark Oakley, author and Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral, London St Augustine of Hippo was a Father of the Church. His fourth-century autobiographical work, The Confessions, continues to inspire many people.

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Spend a month in the company of Julian of Norwich, with sixty-two reflections to enrich your mornings and evenings. ‘According to her vision of God, he . . . has always been imparting unconditional love.’ - Janina Ramirez, from Julian of Norwich: A very brief history Praise for the A Month with series: ‘This series helps us to be properly nurtured by the living, radical Christian tradition of faith.’ - Mark Oakley, author and Dean of St John's College, Cambridge Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century mystic whose writings vividly convey the love of God and his presence in suffering.

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