Encounters With God: In Quest of the Ancient Icons of Mary SeluckySister Wendy leads us on a 'pilgrimage of desire' to view the earliest surviving Icons of Mary. 'These early images of Mary seem to me to have the power to shock us out of our complacency, to make us look anew at what the birth of Jesus meant, and means' In this compelling story of discovery and spiritual adventure, Sister Wendy Beckett, a contemplative nun and beloved art commentator, travels from England, to Rome, to Ukraine, and finally to a remote
Each topic begins with a simple excerpt from Pope Benedict's writings or teachings
marked by a marriage of scholarly thoroughness with genuine humanistic warmth
has been kidnapped from Narnia and longs to return
This book takes you back in time to some of the most ancient stories about how the world began
Thomas More is widely recognized as the good-humoured Renaissance humanist scholar who wrote Utopia and two decades later died a martyr's death in defense of papal primacy
suitable for anyone wanting to pray regularly on their own or in a group setting
and now seems to be out of print - BUT although recommended for children the stories are written and spelt with a very strong Irish brogue
makes a compelling case for the idea that the sexual revolution hasn't been entirely good for women or men
By Monastique
a city in ruins and beset by every kind of trouble
"A brilliant and panoramic picture of the events and personalities surrounding the Crucifixion
In this long-awaited fifth novel in his series
