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Two Medieval English Saints: Cuthbert and Alban

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

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Two Medieval English Saints: Cuthbert and Alban

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

Fairacres Publications 217 In his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the Venerable Bede (673–735) recorded not simply the biographies of the early saints of Britain, but the stories and myths about them, deliberately passed down from those who knew them, describing the impact they had on those close to them. Bede gave a very full account of Alban, despite the chronological distance separating them, but his sources for information about St Cuthbert were those who had known the saint personally, giving Bede’s account considerable authority. His texts are first-rate hagiographies, providing us with compelling prose images of the enduring power of genuine, selfless holiness in the early church. From Bede and other sources, Sister Benedicta is able to paint a picture of the spirituality of these two saints who are so crucial to understanding early Christianity in Britain.

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In Company with Christ

Through Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter to Pentecost

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

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In Company with Christ

Through Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter to Pentecost

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

Fairacres Publications 180 Through the processions traditionally associated with Holy Week and Easter, Sister Benedicta explores the power, the theology and the spirituality of procession and pilgrimage. She investigates how the simple human act of walking, whether alone or in company, reveals the truth that Christ is available to all. Processions are a tangible expression of our progress with Jesus towards the Father, of savouring the journey and our time with him and with our fellow travellers.

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Our Deepest Desire: Prayer, Fasting & Almsgiving in the Writings of Augustine of Hippo

By: Sister Susan SLG

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Our Deepest Desire: Prayer, Fasting & Almsgiving in the Writings of Augustine of Hippo

By: Sister Susan SLG

Fairacres Publication 193 This is a book about the practices of prayer, fasting and almsgiving as we meet them in the teaching of St Augustine of Hippo. He is generally acclaimed as someone who has had enormous influence on Christian theology and much has been written about him by scholars. However, apart from a number of translations of the Confessions, few of his writings are accessible to the ordinary reader, even though, as Bishop of Hippo, he constantly wrote and preached for his people. The first part of this book presents Augustine’s teaching on three central practices of Christian living—prayer, fasting and almsgiving—with reference to his sermons and his commentaries on the Psalms. The second part places it alongside some recent authors who demonstrate how this triad continues to be of value to Christians today. Although it has been conceived as a Lent book, this text provides a reflective introduction to these ways of Christian living in whatever season of the Church’s year a reader picks it up.

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Anselm of Canterbury

Teacher of Prayer

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

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Anselm of Canterbury

Teacher of Prayer

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

For those who study St Anselm, his prayers provide an intimate personal introduction to his thinking and his spirituality. For Anselm, who never considered himself a teacher of prayer, his prayers were simply personal devotions that he occasionally shared with others to encourage them to develop their own devotional style. Anselm would probably have been surprised to discover not only how widely his words were disseminated, but also the ways in which their translation and interpretation changed over the centuries. This brief study, by one of the leading scholars of early monastic life and thought, examines Anselm’s prayers as models and inspiration for mystics, saints and writers up to the present day.

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Solitude and Communion: Papers on the Hermit Life

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG,Kallistos Ware,Mother Mary Clare SLG,Roland Walls,Dom André Louf, OCSO

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Solitude and Communion: Papers on the Hermit Life

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG,Kallistos Ware,Mother Mary Clare SLG,Roland Walls,Dom André Louf, OCSO

Fairacres Publications 176 These essays were first published to mark the revival of the hermit life in the Church. Prepared for a meeting of solitaries at St David’s in Wales in 1975, both their historical and contemporary content continue to speak to and encourage those called to the eremitic life. For anyone who doubts its validity, they give a compelling and lucid explanation of this way of following Christ. The love of God shines through them; all readers may sense something of the attractive power of that love, whether or not they aspire to such a life. The contributors include Canon A. M. Allchin, Dom Andre Louf OCSO, Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Father Roland Walls, Sister Benedicta Ward SLG and Mother Mary Clare SLG.

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0728302519

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The Monastic Hours of Prayer

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

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The Monastic Hours of Prayer

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

Fairacres Publications 178 The heart of monastic prayer is based in the psalms. In these essays, Sister Benedicta Ward examines the origin and development of the use of the Psalter in the daily worship of monks. She demonstrates that the traditional description of this activity as Opus Dei should be understood as God’s work in us, not our ‘work’ of prayer. The Psalter offers both monk and non-monk prayers of great intimacy and, in the context of the Offices, a way to reorder our understanding of time. She presents ‘an example of the possibility of a unity of life and prayer here and now in time’. This study makes a noteworthy contribution to the literature on monastic history and spirituality and the Christian life of prayer.

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The Desert of the Heart: Daily Readings with the Desert Fathers

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG,The Desert Fathers

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The Desert of the Heart: Daily Readings with the Desert Fathers

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG,The Desert Fathers

Fairacres Publications 179 The way of life of the fourth-century Desert Fathers, with its emphasis on solitude, silence and unceasing prayer, has inspired many modern spiritual writers. Why do the Desert Fathers have so much to say to us? To answer this question, Sister Benedicta presents some of the best and most illuminating stories and sayings from the desert. Readers will find spiritual wisdom, along with sharp humour and startling insight into human nature.

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A True Easter: The Synod of Whitby 664 AD

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

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A True Easter: The Synod of Whitby 664 AD

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

Fairacres Publications 151 Sister Benedicta gives an illuminating account of the Synod of Whitby 664 AD, held to discuss the date on which Easter should be celebrated. The Synod has been presented as a clash between Irish and Roman missionaries representing two different kinds of Christianity, yet the two traditions mingled with no clear-cut nationalistic divisions. All participants were agreed upon the centrality of Easter as the feast of the Resurrection, and through looking together towards Jesus as the risen Lord, they resolved their difficulties.

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Julian of Norwich

By: Arthur MacDonald Allchin,Sister Benedicta Ward SLG,Sister Eileen Mary SLG

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Julian of Norwich

By: Arthur MacDonald Allchin,Sister Benedicta Ward SLG,Sister Eileen Mary SLG

Fairacres Publication 28 Julian of Norwich: Four Studies to Commemorate the Sixth Centenary of the Revelations of Divine Love This book of four essays, first published in 1973, provides an introduction and companion to the study of the fourteenth-century ‘Revelations of Divine Love’ by Julian of Norwich. The meaning of the Revelations for those who are living a contemplative life today is explored through reflections on Julian’s place in English literature and the tradition of Christian prayer.

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Anselm of Canterbury – A Monastic Scholar

Fifth revised and corrected edition

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

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Anselm of Canterbury – A Monastic Scholar

Fifth revised and corrected edition

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

Fairacres Publications 62 Saint Anselm (1033–1109) was abbot of the Norman monastery of Bec, and later Archbishop of Canterbury under William Rufus and Henry I. In this short study of one of the most original thinkers of the earlier Middle Ages, Sister Benedicta discusses the relationship between Anselm’s scholarship and his life as a monk, showing how the one grew naturally out of the other. Anselm’s understanding of the inter-connections of reason and faith, thought and prayer, which can be traced throughout his writings, both theological and devotional, remains significant for Christian scholarship in any age. At the same time he was one of the most attractive, loving and compassionate of men. Simplicity, humanity and gentleness are joined in Anselm to the clear and sane mind of a great scholar.

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The Our Father

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

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The Our Father

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

Fairacres Publications 169 The Our Father, or Lord’s Prayer, is Jesus’ own teaching on prayer. Many commentaries have been written on this central prayer of Christianity, from the early Church to the present day. Sister Benedicta Ward chooses five writers from the third to the sixteenth centuries: Origen, John Cassian, the Venerable Bede, Alcuin of York and Teresa of Avila. She allows them to shed light on the Our Father in their own words, in a scholarly, yet accessible, book which affirms the Christian journey as one of pilgrimage, of being and becoming. Although our humanity is redeemed through the death and resurrection of Christ, each of us has to appropriate this fact entirely personally, in our prayer and in our lives.

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Julian Reconsidered

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG,Kenneth Leech

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Julian Reconsidered

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG,Kenneth Leech

Fairacres Publications 106 Sometimes the message of optimism and hope of the fourteenth-century writer Julian of Norwich is understood rather superficially. Two lectures, given at her Shrine in Norwich, which can assist our understanding of her theology are reproduced here. Kenneth Leech shows how Julian can help us to recover a sense of the goodness of creation, and he challenges superficial interpretations of her saying that ‘all shall be well’. Sister Benedicta reconsiders Julian in the light of the solitary tradition and contemporary medieval documents, suggesting that Julian may have been a widow who had borne a child.

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The Spirituality of Saint Cuthbert

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

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The Spirituality of Saint Cuthbert

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

Fairacres Publications 117 Sister Benedicta bases this essay upon the life of one of the Celtic saints who first lived the Christian faith in the British isles, namely Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (634-87 AD). Using two early hagiographies, she explores the meaning of ‘spirituality’ in the life of Cuthbert with reference to the gospel. We are given a picture of the compelling and enduring power of love and holiness.

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Bede and the Psalter

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

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Bede and the Psalter

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

Fairacres Publications 141 The Psalter has always held a central place in Christian worship, and most especially in the monastic tradition. Sister Benedicta shows how the Venerable Bede made an innovative contribution to the devotional use of the psalms with his ‘Abbreviated Psalter’ (included in her text). Bede knew the psalms not only as a monk, but also as scholar and historian, and he was concerned with the application of the psalms to the whole range of human experience. Through his use of the psalms, he helps us to express our own inarticulate experiences and to discover that hope which is beyond our understanding.

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Pilgrimage of the Heart

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

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Pilgrimage of the Heart

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

Fairacres Publications 137 From the earliest times pilgrimage has provided an image of the inner life of Christians. In its external aspect it became an ever more popular form of devotion throughout the Middle Ages. The two concepts were not simple alternatives, for the several strands within each were constantly interwoven. With a wealth of illustration, Sister Benedicta Ward demonstrates that while countless Christians sought to improve their material lot by undertaking pilgrimages to the shrines of the saints, they could also find in the monastic ideal the pattern for their own inner journey to the heavenly Jerusalem. She shows, finally, how the two major conceptions of pilgrimage were given a new direction in the sixteenth century when, in the wake of the Reformation which abolished the custom, Lancelot Andrewes and John Bunyan would portray the Christian pilgrimage as ‘life itself, the end indeed death and the way the way of the cross’. This remains true for all of us who today go on pilgrimage in whatever guise … but ‘however severe and demanding the life of pilgrimage might be’, arrival at the goal is ‘delight, pleasure, wonder and love’.

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Two Medieval English Saints: Cuthbert and Alban

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

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Doors

By: Sister Raphael SLG

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Doors

By: Sister Raphael SLG

Fairacres Publications 199 Through writing gathered over a lifetime of meditation on doors as ways into the understanding and fulfilment of a Christian life, Sister Raphael SLG guides us gently to an understanding that every aspect of life can be a door into the Love of God, and an opportunity for prayer, reflection and spiritual growth. This is a collection of thoughts and quotations for every situation, for everyone who is looking for a sympathetic and thoughtful support for their daily spiritual life, or for a series of meditations to use on retreat.

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0728303469

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Conflict & Concord

By: Bishop Humphrey Southern,Sister Susan SLG,Sister Rosemary SLG,Bronwen Neil,Sister Clare-Louise SLG

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Conflict & Concord

By: Bishop Humphrey Southern,Sister Susan SLG,Sister Rosemary SLG,Bronwen Neil,Sister Clare-Louise SLG

Fairacres Publications 219 Anger, revenge, evildoing, bitterness, aggression and recrimination seem to be everywhere in the world. Through writers and thinkers ranging from the early Fathers of the Church to the modern day, this book examines how we can understand and govern ourselves and our passions; how we can hold back from giving in to the temptations of anger and a desire for revenge, and how we can understand and forgive those passions in others and in ourselves.

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A True Easter: The Synod of Whitby 664 AD

By: Sister Benedicta Ward SLG

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Julian of Norwich

Four Essays

By: Sister Elizabeth Ruth Obbard,Father Colin ,The Right Revd Graham Usher,Mother Hilary Crupi

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Four Essays

By: Sister Elizabeth Ruth Obbard,Father Colin ,The Right Revd Graham Usher,Mother Hilary Crupi

Fairacres Publications 207 This book contains four papers read at a conference held on 2-3 February 2023 to mark 650 years of Revelations of Divine Love. They show the breadth and reach of Julian's inspiration in today's world, from personal issues such as impatience and despair (Mother Hilary Crupi) to the great questions of climate change and biodiversity loss (Bishop Graham Usher). The essays also examine the place of compassion in today's increasingly cruel world (Sister Elizabeth Ruth Obbard) and what the monastic tradition as it is lived today might reveal about Julian presence (Father Colin).

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Expectations

Five Addresses for Those Beginning Ministry

By: Sister Edmée SLG

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Five Addresses for Those Beginning Ministry

By: Sister Edmée SLG

Fairacres Publications 130 In these addresses, the expectations – true and false – of newly-ordained clergy are identified. Stressing the need for constant thanksgiving as the bedrock of a pastor’s life, the author examines the role of the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience, in providing practical and spiritual support to ministry.

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