Spirituality/Celtic

Mapping your spiritual journey is a technique used in spiritual direction, on retreats and pastoral work, as a way of recognising and interpreting God’s presence in the highs and lows of your life experiences. This book offers creative ways to explore your own spiritual journey, helping you to trace your relationship with God from the beginning, whether looking at your entire life or exploring

For all seeking inspiration for living the Franciscan charism today, this lively and informed guide introduces its key figures and essential writings. The author, an Anglican Franciscan friar and theologian, draws out the movement's core teachings from its founding figures and its earliest texts:

Ordinary Christians looking to go deeper in their walk with God People interested in Celtic spirituality People looking to learn from Christian traditions beyond their own Those who use the Northumbria Community's Celtic Daily Prayer Leaders looking for a resource book on prayer

Activist, nun and spiritual guide Joan Chittister invites us to create a monastery within ourselves: to cultivate wisdom and resilience, so we can live more easily and give of ourselves more fully, no matter our circumstances.

In this beautifully-written book, Charles Moseley invites you to share with him many journeys, each in their way a kind of pilgrim quest. You can read them as a guide for you to follow, literally, in his footsteps – to Iona, Lindisfarne, Walsingham, Aran. Or you can walk alongside him in the spirit of faltering honesty, wry humour, spiritual questing, and the appreciation of landscape.

Fig Trees and Furnaces, based on the biblical books from Esther to Maccabees, is a collection of stories, scripts and reflections written by Iona Community members, associates, friends and others.

A rhythm of prayer and meditation for the eight points of the Celtic year.

Liturgical resources for May, June and July, including Eastertide and Pentecost A liturgical resource book that covers the summer months of May, June and July with prayers, stories, responses, songs, poems, reflections, monologues, liturgies and reflections for the major Christian festivals and seasons of Eastertide and Pentecost.

Here and Now is a collection of Henri Nouwen's meditations on those things that really matter to him. It is a personal stagement of faith, which serves as a series of glimpses into the Kingdom of God.

Landmarks help us find ourselves when we are lost.

The author offers a course in prayer that is ideal for either groups or individuals. She looks at techniques, ways of focusing, problems and steps for moving on. She begins from where people actually find themselves and uses examples and connections from everyday human experience.

A quarter-century after writing the acclaimed The Celtic Way, Ian Bradley, one of the foremost experts on the spiritual beliefs and practices of the indigenous Christian communities in the British Isles in the early Middle Ages, revisits the original sources and makes a substantial reappraisal of Celtic spirituality.

The Wonders Of The Beyond by David Adam is an autobiography that tells the story of David who has exercised a rich and profoundly influential ministry. The Book refers back to his earlier days where he was encouraged by those around him to use his eyes and absorb what is around him and the wonders of God's creation. In the book Davis writes -

A collection of modern prayers that recapture the Celtic Christian tradition. There are prayers for individual devotions and for corporate worship, as well as for quiet days and retreats.

Henri Nouwen's compelling spirituality of the heart is at once simple and complex, accessible but deeply profound. For this Catholic theologian, whose ecumenical writings continue to inspire Christians of all denominations and levels of involvement, spirituality is, at its most basic, simply 'attention to the life of the spirit in us'.

Writing from lived experience as much as knowledge, David Adam conveys a delight in the mystery of being that is deeply attractive.

What does sacred space mean for our inner journeying and for our relationships in the twenty-first century?

Elaine Heath brings a fresh perspective to the theory and practice of evangelism by approaching it through contemplative spirituality, offering a corrective to the contemporary American trend of programmatic and consumeristic forms of evangelism.

Exploring new pathways on our spiritual journey

The spirit, the earth and the human soul