Books for Lent 2011

Barefoot Disciple: Walking the Way of Passionate Humility
by Stephen Cherry (Continuum 2010).
Our Price $21.95

The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent book for 2011

In our celebrity-obsessed culture, humility is unfashionable and too often dismissed or confused with the cringeing, false humility of Uriah Heep. When genuine humility is energised by real passion, fresh and exciting light is shone on the challenge of following Jesus Christ today and humility is rediscovered as a healthy and life-giving virtue, capable of transforming our Blame-Someone-Else society.
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Exploring God's Mercy: Five Images of Salvation
by Steven Croft (Canterbury Press 2010).
Our Price $15.95

This book aims to help you discover one simple truth: that God loves you passionately, deeply and unconditionally. Exploring the depth, strength and constancy of this love is a lifetime's journey and this short series of studies is designed to take you further on that journey. It focuses on five timeless images of God's love that Christians of all generations have experience:

• once lost, we are now found
• once captive, we are now wet free
• once sick, we are now healed
• once in danger, we are now safe
• once barren, we are now fruitful

No one can be left unchanged by this depth of love and so each session begins and ends with simple act of prayer and worship. Questions for discussion, suggestions for further reading links to short YouTube films especially made by the author are all provided.
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Wondrous Encounters: Scripture for Lent
by Richard Rohr (St Antony Messenger Press 2010)
Our Price $13.95

'During these forty days of Lent, let's allow ourselves to be known! All the way through, nothing to hide from. In ourselves, from ourselves, or from God.'

Richard Rohr, one of today's most prophetic voices, invites us to self disclosure and to enter the wondrous divine dialogue with clarity, insight an holy desire! These daily meditations for Lent are his gift to us for our transformation into our original "image and likeness", which is the very image of God.
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Transforming Power of Prayer: From Illustion to Reality
by Michael Marshall (Mobray)
This is the 2011 Mowbray Lent Book.
Our Price $19.95

"We are here that we may learn the beams of light," said Blake. This is the purpose of discipleship and our journey through Lent.

The journey from illusion to reality is a necessary journey through Lent. The greatest ally in any illusory exercise is the devil himself. Where better than in the sphere of religion can the devil promote a programme of illusiont and self deception. We need to pray at every turn in the road for the spirit of discernment, if we are to distinguish between illusion and reality. We have to shake off illusion if we are to expose ourselves to the bright beams of reality, truth and love.
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The Little Way of Lent: Meditations in the spirit of St Therese of Lisieux
by Fr Gary Caster (Servant Books 2010)
Our Price $19.95

St Thérèse emphasised the way we do things for God rather than the things we do for him. In that spirit, Lent is less about what we're offering and more about why. That insight transforms this season from one of narrow concern over what to give up into one of joyful freedom to enter into the love of Christ. The meditations in The Little Way of Lent — all coloured by St Thérèse's Little Way of Spiritual Childhood — will transform your Lenten observance and help you focus on God's redeeming love.
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Living the Days of Lent 2011
by Anita M Constance, SC (Paulist Press 2010)
Our Price $7.95

Here is a prayerbook for Lent 2011

• Tear off a page each day.
• Tack it on the bulletin board.
• Put it on the refrigerator door tape it to the mirror in the bathroom.
• Use it in the classroom or at your computer workstation.
• Read and reflect on these words from holy scripture.
• Discover how they relate to you and your world.
• Pray and take action.
• Live every day of Lent this year.

Stations of the Cross for Peace
by Matthias Neuman, OSB (Ligouri Press 2005)
Our Price $4.95

To work and pray for peace is the paramount expression of the Christian faith. This new century has already witnessed the paralysing fear of worldwide terrorism, numerous wars, increasing poverty, and untold crises for families.

These stations offer an opportunity to pray for the many innocent victims of violence of all kins as well as to ask God's help for peace. Their intent is to help us examine the many attitudes and actions in our personal lives that contribute to a failure to live peacefully. If praying these stations interrupts the cycle of violence in any way, then the power of the Cross will have taken one more step in reconciling the world to God.
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LentWise: Spiritual Essentials for Real Life
by Paula Gooder (Church House Publishing 2010).
Our Price $13.95

As we journey through life, we face challenges — both big and small. What spiritual essentials will help us survive life's storms?

LentWise is a five session course which helps us to deal with the rigors of real life. Using fresh insights from John's Gospel it explores:

• direction
• nourishment
• wisdom
• refreshment
• security

Lent and Easter: Wisdom from St Ignatius of Loyola
by James L Connor, SJ (Ligouri Press 2009)
Our Price $16.95

Take a journey through Lent with St Igtnatius of Loyola as the wisdom of this great saint deepens your passion for Christ.

Fr Connor SJ, offers a selection of reading from St Ignatius, illuminated by Scripture and his own insight into Ignatian spirituality for the modern Christian. Each day provides you with words from the saint, a Scripture passage, a short reflection, and an action that will aid you in discerning God's will in your life.
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A Season for the Spirit: Readings for the Days of Lent
by Martin L Smith (Seabury Classic 2004)
Our Price $22.95

Since its first appearance as the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book, A Season for the Spirit has accompanied many Christians of different traditions on a forty-day pilgrimage of self-discovery as they seek to become closer to God in prayer. These deeply personal meditations focus on themes of compassion, self-knowledge, wholeness, and reconciliation of the conflicting forces within us.

Drawn from a wide variety of sources, both scriptural and classical, each day's reading consists of a theological reflection, a prayer to the Holy Spirit to bring us deeper into prayer, and a suggestion for further meditation: a passage of Scripture, a quotation from Christian literature, or a spiritual exercise. A Season for the Spirit also contains suggestions for using the book in groups and guidelines for praying with the Bible.

'The Spirit's work in the heart is not a matter of a few adjustments here and there, a little polishing and refining. There has to be a breaking-up of the present order. Jesus proclaims to each the acceptable year of the Lord in which all the banished and excluded sides of ourselves can now be welcomed for healing and empowerment.'
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Lent and Holy Week: Bridges to contemplative living with Thomas Merton
Ed by Jonathan Montaldo and Robert G Toth (Ave Maria Press 2009)
Our Price $11.95

Lent and Holy Week opens the writings of Thomas Merton in easily digestible piece and eloquently pairs them with the words of other great spiritual thinkers. Designed for use in new or existing small groups between Ash Wednesday and Easter, this booklet offers readers an accessible introduction to contemplative dialogue and is built around eight compelling Lenten themes:

• Week of Ash Wednesday: Where do we Turn for Forgiveness?
• First Week of Lent: Living More Deeply in Christ
• Second Week of Lent: A Season for Compunction and Tears
• Third Week of Lent: In All Things, Always Seeking God
• Fourth Week of Lent: Choosing With Christ to Love the World
• Fifth Week of Lent: In the Service of Peace through Humility
• Prayerbook Holy Week: Returning to the Source of Our Unity in Christ
• The Resurrection of the Lord: Liberated to Redeem the World.

Not by Bread Alone: Daily Reflections for Lent 2011
by Bishopp Morneau
Our Price $3.95

These are Bp Morneau's reflections on the daily mass readings.

The Art of Faith: A Lent and Easter Journey Through Duccio's Maesta
by Sr Wendy Beckett (Redemptorist Publications 2007)
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In this inspiring series of reflections on episodes from the life of Jesus, Sr Wendy Beckett guides us around a selection of panels from the Maesta altarpiece. Duccio completed his great masterpiece for the high altar of Siena Cathedral in 1311, but rather than seeing these paintings as something from a bygone age, Sr Wendy challenges us to examine how Duccio's representations offer us new meaning in our lives today.
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Lent and Easter: Reflections for the Younger Crowd
by John Behnke, SCP (Paulist Press 2010)
Our Price $24.95

This book of meditations for the Lenten and Easter liturgical seasons is an ideal resource guide for the young person (high school, college, or young adult) who is ready to start on a journey of daily reflective prayer.

Each daily meditation consists of four parts:

• re-telling of the Sunday, special day, or weekday Scripture readings
• thoughts for further reflections
• "Unfinished Prayer" for the reader to complete
• closing reflections.

I Can Make Things for Easter
Lion 2011
Our Price $13.00

Children's Easter Activities
Easter is all about life springing up new and fresh and joyful.This book shows you how to make loads of things to help you celebrate the season.
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My Very First Easter Story: Sticker Activity Book
Lion 2011
Our Price $8.00

Come with Jesus' friends to the Easter garden. Learn to tell the story, and play your way through the activities. Hours of fun little hands.
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The Three Trees: Traditional Folktale
by Elena Pasquali, Illustrated by Sophie Windham (Lion 2010)
Our Price $15.00

Long ago, on a hill, three trees reached up to the sky and dreamed of the wonderful things they would do. All were cut down, and each in turn believed that their dreams had come to nothing. Then, when their rough timber played its part in the life of Jesus, everything changed. A tale of hope and faith for Christmas, Easter and always.
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