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The Monastery Of The Heart - 23 Sacred Art
The Monastery Of The Heart - 23 Sacred Art
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Sacred Art “They are to practice their craft with all humility.” The bond between Benedictine spirituality and art goes deep. Medieval monasteries were centres of the arts and patrons of the arts because art, as a reflection of beauty- which is itself an attribute of God- came to…
The Monastery Of The Heart - 26 Epilogue
The Monastery Of The Heart - 26 Epilogue
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Epilogue As we progress in this way of life and in faith, we shall run on the path of God’s commandments, our hearts overflowing with the inexpressible delight of love.” Benedictine spirituality is not a spiritual practice that waxes and wanes, comes and goes, as we grow and chan…
Great Christian Thinkers - 65 St. Thomas Aquinas
Great Christian Thinkers - 65 St. Thomas Aquinas
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
St. Thomas Aquinas His Life and Context We continue our meditation on some of the great thinkers of the Middle Ages. We recently looked at the great figure of St. Bonaventure, a Franciscan, and here I discuss the one whom the Church calls the Doctor Communis, namely, St. Thomas A…
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 24 Food Offered to Idols
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 24 Food Offered to Idols
by SPCK-Kenneth E. Bailey
Food Offered to Idols Freedom and Responsibility (A Final Word) The text of Paul’s final homily in this third essay is displayed in figure 3.6(1). Paul opened this essay with a discussion of food offered to idols, and following the pattern he established in the first two essays, …
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 29 Spiritual Gifts and the Upbuilding of the Body
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 29 Spiritual Gifts and the Upbuilding of the Body
by SPCK-Kenneth E. Bailey
Spiritual Gifts and the Upbuilding of the Body Paul includes two homilies (14:1-12, 13-25) in this section of the larger essay and displays the text of the first of the two. Taken from Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey
Letters to London - A friendship to be grateful for: Bonhoeffer’s letters to Ernst Cromwell
Letters to London - A friendship to be grateful for: Bonhoeffer’s letters to Ernst Cromwell
by SPCK - Stephen J.Plant and Toni Burrowes-Cromwell
A friendship to be grateful for: Bonhoeffer’s letters to Ernst Cromwell That I got to know your father and mother and all of you has become very important to me, especially in these times…
The Minister as Entrepreneur - 21 Conclusion: What has been said and what do we do next?
The Minister as Entrepreneur - 21 Conclusion: What has been said and what do we do next?
by SPCK - Michael Volland
Conclusion: What has been said and what do we do next? I began this book by saying that I was an entrepreneurial Christian minister. I went on, in my Introduction, to explain that I was using the term ‘entrepreneur’ to refer to a way of being in the world that is characterized by…
The Minister as Entrepreneur - 18 What factors help entrepreneurship to happen?
The Minister as Entrepreneur - 18 What factors help entrepreneurship to happen?
by SPCK - Michael Volland
What factors help entrepreneurship to happen? When asked about what he felt would aid the exercise of entrepreneurship in his situation as a minister, Roger responded by talking about the need to strengthen and renew faith in congregations and said that he felt that if this happe…
Lectio Divina the Sacred Art - 1 Introduction
Lectio Divina the Sacred Art - 1 Introduction
by Christine Valters Painter
INTRODUCTION They can be like a sun, words. They can do for the heart what light can for a field. —John of the Cross, Love Poems from God In October 2009 I was on pilgrimage in Ireland. We were visiting Glendalough, the ruins of an ancient Celtic monastic community founded by St.…
Lectio Divina the Sacred Art - 4 THE ROLE OF SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
Lectio Divina the Sacred Art - 4 THE ROLE OF SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
by Christine Valters Painter
THE ROLE OF SPIRITUAL PRACTICE In his book Worship and Spirituality, theologian Don Saliers describes spirituality as “our embodied humanity fully alive before God and neighbour, stretched by story, stretched by touch, stretched by song, stretched by eating and drinking, bathing,…
Celtic Christian Spirituality - 4 Creation (Chapter 1)
Celtic Christian Spirituality - 4 Creation (Chapter 1)
by Skylight- Mary C.Earle
1 Creation The Celtic Christian tradition distinctively regards the creation as intimately related to humankind. We all come from the same Source, and therefore have a shared origin in God, who speaks all that exists into being. This sense of the natural world being full of kith …
Celtic Christian Spirituality - 7 Daily Life and Work (Chapter 4)
Celtic Christian Spirituality - 7 Daily Life and Work (Chapter 4)
by Skylight- Mary C.Earle
Daily Life and Work The Celtic tradition perceives God’s presence in and through all of the minutiae of daily life. No moment in the daily round is so small that it cannot be an occasion of being encountered by God. No domestic chore is beyond adaptation to a means of prayer. The…
Celtic Christian Spirituality - 5 Prayer (Chapter 2)
Celtic Christian Spirituality - 5 Prayer (Chapter 2)
by Skylight- Mary C.Earle
Prayer The Celtic Christian tradition, both historical and contemporary, leads us to see that every aspect of life may be brought to speech in prayer. This is a vision of life as ongoing prayer, and of prayer as all of life… Taken from Celtic Christian Spirituality by Annotation …
Meeting God in Paul - Introduction
Meeting God in Paul - Introduction
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Introduction Trying to write a very short book about St Paul feels a bit risky: from the early centuries of the Christian Church until now, the great minds of Christianity have worked out their thoughts in lengthy and impassioned dialogue with Paul’s letters, and the quantity and…
The Pastoral Letters - Conditions of Service