Child In Winter

Author: Thomas Hoffman
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780722017517
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
Shaped around the writings of Caryll Houselander, A Child in Winter is a daybook for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. If you are familiar with Houselander's poetic grace, you will recognize her spirit of awe and abandonment to God. If you are new to her legacy, you will be drawn to her heart and eye for God's goodness and beauty that is artfully captured here.A Child in Winter is a faithful companion as you watch in Advent and grow large with the presence of God through Christmas and Epiphany.You will enter these holy seasons with an increased faith, renewed joy, and the promise of transformation and fulfillment.

Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany in the Domestic Church

Author: Catherine Fournier
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 0898708591
Category : Advent
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
"This is an illustrated book full of wonderful activities for children and families to help them better understand and celebrate the Advent, Christmas and Epiphany seasons. Family activities include making an advent wreath, a Jesse Tree with all its symbols, cloth Nativity figures, words for singing 21 Advent and Christmas songs, recipes for special cakes and breads and more. Also included are stories of special saints for the season with activities and prayers" -- Back cover.

Waiting on the Word

Author: Malcolm Guite
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848258003
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Advent. Among the classic writers he includes are: George Herbert, John Donne, Milton, Tennyson,and Christina Rossetti,as well as contemporary poets like Scott Cairns, Luci Shaw, and Grevel Lindop. He also includes a selection of his own highly praised work.

Living with Hope

Author: J. C. Polkinghorne
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664227494
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 118

Book Description
In these refreshingly unconventional meditations, scientist John Polkinghorne connects the perspectives of science and religion in honest and thoughtful reflections for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. Giving new meaning to the penitence of Advent and the hope of the Christian faith, he considers God's ultimate purposes along with scientific knowledge of the fate of the universe. Complete with Scriptural references and prayers,Living With Hopeencourages Christians to think about the beginning and end of the world and to come to discover what it means to truly affirm God's purpose in creation.

What the Land Already Knows

Author: Phyllis Tickle
Publisher: Loyola Press
ISBN: 9780829417661
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
This is the first in a series of three books based on the liturgical year. In this memoir about winters on her family's farm, Tickle offers glimpses of rural family life while exploring the mysteries of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. Advertising.

The Art of Advent

Author: Jane Williams
Publisher: SPCK
ISBN: 0281071705
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
Join Jane Williams on a journey from Advent to Epiphany, and discover the timeless wisdom to be found in some of the world’s greatest paintings. Illustrated in full colour with nearly forty famous and lesser-known masterpieces of Western art, this beautiful book will lead you into a deeply prayerful response to all that these paintings convey to the discerning eye.

Advent to Epiphany

Author: Liena Apsukrapsa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781946889492
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
This devotional is composed of the authors' letters and designed to draw others into an intimate engagement with Jesus Christ, from Advent through the Epiphany.

Cloth for the Cradle

Author:
Publisher: Wild Goose Publications
ISBN: 9781901557015
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
This rediscovery of the stories of Christ's birth through adult eyes is for use in group and worship situations. The material is drawn from the work of the Wild Goose Worship Group who have an innovative style of worship.

Responding to the Light

Author: Michael Mayne
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848259832
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 149

Book Description
Responding to the Light draws together a collection of profound and beautiful seasonal reflections from the beginning of Advent to the end of Epiphany, by one of the finest voices in Anglican spirituality. Michael Mayne was one of Anglicanism’s most compelling and attractive voices, a gifted preacher and writer whose works have remained popular. These unpublished writings come from a large archive and are offered as an inspirational resource for preaching at a time of the year when many preachers seek fresh ways of opening up familiar texts. They are also suitable for individual devotional reading. Mark Oakley provides a forward to the collection.

Christ Is Coming

Author: Theresa Cotter
Publisher: Franciscan Media
ISBN: 9780867161571
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Christ is Coming is a treasury of prayers, celebrations, reflections, Scripture readings and projects for the Incarnation seasons of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany.