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The Monastery Of The Heart - 19 Conversion of Heart
The Monastery Of The Heart - 19 Conversion of Heart
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Conversion of Heart “It is high time for us to arise from sleep.” Every life is one long list of defining moments: At one moment, we discover that what we have done with our lives to this point is not really what we are meant to do… Taken from The Monastery Of The Heart by Joan C…
Great Christian Thinkers - 39 John Damascene
Great Christian Thinkers - 39 John Damascene
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
John Damascene John Damascene was a personage of prime importance in the history of Byzantine theology and a great doctor in the history of the universal Church. Above all, he was an eyewitness of the passage from the Greek and Syrian Christian cultures shared by the Eastern part…
Great Christian Thinkers - 46 Symeon The New Theologian
Great Christian Thinkers - 46 Symeon The New Theologian
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
Symeon The New Theologian Also bearing reflection from this period is an Eastern monk, Symeon the New Theologian, whose writings have had a notable influence on the theology and spirituality of the East, in particular with regard to the experience of mystical union with God… Take…
Great Christian Thinkers - 61 St. Matilda of Hackeborn
Great Christian Thinkers - 61 St. Matilda of Hackeborn
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
St. Matilda of Hackeborn Saint Matilda of Hackeborn, one of the great figures of the convent of Helfta, lived in the thirteenth century. Her sister, St. Gertrude the Great, tells of the special graces that God granted to St. Matilda in the sixth book of Liber specialis gratiae (B…
The Minister as Entrepreneur - 22 What do we do next?
The Minister as Entrepreneur - 22 What do we do next?
by SPCK - Michael Volland
What do we do next? I am now going to share with you a number of suggestions for what the Church might do next. But before that it is worth reminding ourselves that the only worthwhile starting place for anything in life – including, and perhaps especially, entrepreneurial approa…
The Monastery Of The Heart - 14 Co-Creation
The Monastery Of The Heart - 14 Co-Creation
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Co-Creation “Regard all utensils and goods of the monastery as sacred vessels of the altar.” Benedictine spirituality is a sacramental spirituality. It holds all things-the earth and all its goods-as sacred… Taken from The Monastery Of The Heart by Joan Chittister
Boy and balloon
Boy and balloon
by Don Stott
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- • Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
Made in God's image (Pixelated)
Made in God's image (Pixelated)
by Don Stott
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) Insert as Picture in the normal way. If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in the t…
Psalms for Everyone - There Is No God Here
Psalms for Everyone - There Is No God Here
by SPCK - John Goldingay
There Is No God Here Psalm 53 Yesterday, my wife and I walked through crowds of people whose faces seemed to say, “There is no God here.” They were crowds walking up and down the pier at Santa Monica among the stands selling ice cream and sunhats and hotdogs. They should have bee…
Times and Seasons - Prayers:After Communion
Times and Seasons - Prayers:After Communion
by Jan Berry
PRAYERS AFTER COMMUNION Advent God, we thank you that you have welcomed us at your table and fed us with your gifts of bread and wine. Remain with us in our waiting and our hoping, as we travel on towards the celebration of your birth amongst us. Amen Continues... ©Jan Berry
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 23 March 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 23 March 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 23 MARCH 1930 You and you and you and I do experience fine fresh contact with God sometimes, and do carry out His will sometimes. One question now to be put to the test is this: Can we have that contact with God all the time? All the time awake, fall asleep in His arm…
Psalm 10:6, 12, 14
Psalm 10:6, 12, 14
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 10:6, 12, 14 For he hath said in his heart, Tush, I shall never be cast down: there shall no harm happen unto me. He hath said in his heart, Tush, God hath forgotten: he hideth away his face, and he will never see it. Wherefore should the wicked blaspheme God: while he doth…
Romans 5:1-2
Romans 5:1-2
by BigBible
Created by Jo Brown. Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,through whom we have gained access by faith…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The Letters 22 June 1930