This is the Lectionary for the litugical year 2008-09 for use with "A Prayer Book for Australia". Full readings for Year B are listed for each day of the year.

This lectionary gives the Calendar, with readings and Psalms for Year B, suitable for use with "An Australian Prayer Book". BCP readings for Sundays and Feast Days are also listed.

Selections from the best-selling lecture on CD Preparing for Christmas with Richard Rohr now provide your daily reflection and prayer during Advent. Rohr invites readers not merely to prepare for the birth of Jesus on Christmas Day, but for the coming of the cosmic Christ, who brings the true kingdom of heaven to us on earth. Each day's scripture readings are listed, and questions for reflection are also included.

Franciscan priest Richard Rohr is founder and animator of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Author of numerous books, he gives retreats and lectures internationally.
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In the especially busy seasons of Advent and Christmas, Bishop Robert Morneau helps us pause and prepare spiritually for the coming of Christ. Waiting in Joyful Hope, though a little book, is a treasure of down-to-earth and yet deeply meaningful reflections that bring prayer and Scripture into everyday life in a thought-provoking and lasting way. Through Morneau's insightful reflections on Scripture readings from the daily Mass, readers will grow in their understanding of the word of God. Small enough to fit in a pocket or purse, this book is perfect for busy people who wish to enrich their personal prayer life during the seasons of Advent and Christmas.
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The much loved Saint Francis of Assisi discarded the trappings of wealth and found Christ in the simple life. Through daily meditations, Scripture readings, and action-based spiritual exercises written for the Advent and Christmas season, we are each invited to examine our spiritual life, to listen to the wisdom of Saint Francis, and to follow in the footsteps of Christ.

St Francis of Assisi calls us to embrace a life of radical Christian discipleship. For Francis, to live the life of a disciple of Christ meant that one had to embrace the poverty and humility of Christ as made manifest in Christ's own birth. This Advent and Christmas, let St Francis guide you in finding the great expression of God's overflowing love for each one of us through reflection and prayer.
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Beloved author and spiritual guide Joyce Rupp explores the rich image of the door as an invitation to growth and awaresness. Discovering the many ways that doors are a potent symbol for spiritual growth, she leads readers to search more deeply for their authentic selves in fuller union with God. Designed as a six-week process with a reflection for each day of the week, Open the Door is a guide to discovering one's rich potential for goodness and fulfillment.

Readers will discover that there is seemingly no end to the insights that the image of the door can yeild and that opening the door of the heart reveals the vast treasure of who we are an how the sacred is present within us. Joyce Rupp provides both encouragement and companionship for those who desire to open each new door and grow into their divine fullness.
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There are few aspects of existence to which Michael Leunig has not turned his renaissance mind, as a bemused and committed member of the human plight. From his cartoonist's sensibility comes a peculiar journalism made of parable, memoir and soliloquy, on subjects ranging from the sublime to the subhuman.

From the fragile ecosystem of the spirit to the brutalisation of the modern world. From the joy of primal epiphanies to the wretchedness of the violence we unwittingly commit against each other and our deeper selves each day.

To hypocrisy and despair in the political order. Military madness and the media. To violins, artists and newborn foals. The value of the mundane. Emotional mysteries and the night sky. Light and darkness in the national character. The wisdom of the innocent. The sadness of the brain-ridden. Humanity's redeeming pathos and our exquisite inseparability from the natural world ... The lot.
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The Biber Rosary Sonatas are played by Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin; Rosanne Hunt, cello; and Linda Kent, organ and harpsichord.

The Rosary Sonatas come in three sets: The Five Joyful Mysteries, concerning the Annunciation, Visitation, Birth and Epiphany of Jesus; The Five Sorrowful Mysteries, concerning the Agony in the garden, the Scourging, Crowning, Cross and Crucifixion of Christ; and The Five Glorious Mysteries, concerning the Resurrection, Ascension, Pentecost, and the Assumption and Coronation of the BVM.