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 Moment of Christ:
The Path of Meditation
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $19.95
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In this 114 page book John Main encourages us to begin to meditate and to persevere on our journey of silent prayer.
The books content is taken from the Communitas series of talks which are also available on CD. |
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 The Way of Unknowing
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $6.95
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This book is not about meditation; it is for meditation. Above all it is a book dominated by the spirit of Christ - for the author believed that it was his first task to stand aside and to reveal the teachings of the Lord.
For those who already meditate this book will deepen the pilgrimage of the heart and for those who are starting out on this journey it will encourage and enable them. |
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 Word Into Silence
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $12.95
Status: In Stock
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This book is full of helpful advice, as well as deep spiritual insight, and will serve to guide anyone, or any group, wishing to grow closer to God through the practice of meditation. |
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 Letters from the Heart
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $12.95
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This collection of letters was written by Dom John Main to participants and friends of his Benedictine Community of monks and lay people in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
These letters, said Fr. John, were written to communicate the awareness that all renewal - whether personal renewal in Christ or monastic renewal in community - is born from an ultimate self-transcendence in the reality of the present moment. |
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 Christian Meditation:
The Gethsemani Talks
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $8.95
Status: In Stock
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These conferences were first given in the Abbey of Gethsemani and have since proved an excellent introduction to the way of meditation in the Christian tradition.
Dom John Main begins by describing his own spiritual journey into this way and goes on to show how it is a way open to all who wish to "open themselves fully to the wonder of God, to the enduring present." |
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 The Hunger for Prayer
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $5.95
Status: In Stock
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By discussing the Christian presence in a modern university, Dom John Main opens up an important reflection on the nature of community and the role of spiritual guides and teachers. |
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 The Joy of Being
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $5.95
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This book of daily readings draws on John Main's best writing to present the heart of his teaching in a way which will open new spiritual avenues to the reader.
"Know from your own heart, from your own experience, that you were created for infinite expansion of spirit." |
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 The Present Christ:
Further Steps in Meditation
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $12.95
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This book brings together the final teachings of Dom John Main |
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 Death, The Inner Journey
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $5.95
Status: In Stock
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This talk on death and the relation between death and meditation was the last major talk John Main gave before his
death in 1982.
It is a unique teaching on the way to prepare spiritually for the last stage of the human pilgrimage. |
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 The Christian Mysteries:
Prayer & Sacrament
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $5.95
Status: In Stock
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This booklet offers the text of six talks recorded on two cassettes also called "The Christian Mysteries: Prayer and Sacrament." |
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 Community of Love
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $8.95
Status: Not Available
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In these talks to Oblates of the Priory in Montreal, Dom John reveals how monastic silence, stillness and prayer can call out a response in the spirit of everyone who "truly seeks God." |
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 The Monastic Adventure
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $5.95
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The monk's life, as Dom John Main saw it, was an adventure - a journey beyond human limitation into the creative mystery of God. The monk has a special message to convey to the modern world - that we are all alive with infinite potential. He conveys this message most of all by his life itself.
These talks on modern monasticism strike a chord in everyone who senses the need for depth and the presence of an ultimate goal in life. |
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 Silence & Stillness in Every Season
Edited by Paul Harris
Price $22.95
Status: In Stock
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John Main wrote several books on contemplative prayer before he died in 1982, but this collection is the only one to draw the essence of all his teachings into one volume.
Paul Harris has devotedly selected the essential extracts from each of John Main's works and arranged them here in an attractive and practical daily readings format. |
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 John Main:
Modern Spirituality Series
John Main - Selected by Clare Hallward
Price $6.95
Status: In Stock
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This book draws upon Fr. Main's best writing to present the heart of his teaching in a way which will open new spiritual avenues to the reader.
The Modern Spirituality Series presents selections from twentieth-century spiritual writers in a form suitable for daily reading and meditation. |
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 John Main:
A Biography in Text and Photos
Edited by Paul Harris
Price $6.95
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This booklet is a collection of personal reminiscences by John Main's family, friends and colleagues. It adds a new dimension to the understanding of the man, the monk, and the teaching. |
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 John Main:
by those who knew him
Edited by Paul Harris
Price $11.95
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This collection of personal reminiscences and pictures by John Main's
family, friends and colleagues is often funny, sometimes touching,
always illuminating. Each one adds a new dimension to our understanding
of the man and his teaching |
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 Frequently Asked Questions about Christian Meditation:
The Path of Contemplative Prayer
Edited by Paul Harris
Price $15.95
Status: In Stock
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Exploring questions such as:
"Is meditation really prayer"?
"How can I set aside an hour a day to meditate"?
"What if I fall asleep during meditation?"
"Does God speak to us in meditation"? |
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 In The Stillness Dancing:
The Journey of John Main
Neil McKenty
Price $12.95
Status: In Stock
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Why would the Prior of an established Monastery in London give it all up to go off and set up shop in an old house in Montreal, Quebec? And how was it so many people, seeking a new dimension in their lives, journeyed to the Priory he founded in Montreal, discovered John Main and were forever changed by the discovery? The answer lay in John Main's own journey. |
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 Wellness, Spirituality and Sports
Thomas Ryan
Price $8.95
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"Those who are ready for new adventure of travel and learning, who know the exhilaration of a refreshing swim, a downhill flight on skis, or an early morning run - those are precisely the ones most suited to be intimate with the Lord of Life," declares Thomas Ryan.
This book presents a holistic spirituality that will enable active people to prize their sporting experiences as integral to their life of faith. |
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 John Cassian:
Conferences (Classics of Western Spirituality)
Colm Luibheid (Translator)
Price $21.95
Status: In Stock
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This book includes modern translations of Cassian's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 10th, 11th, 14th, 15th and 18th Conferences.
"If you wish to achieve true knowledge of scripture you must hurry to achieve unshakeable humility of heart. This is what will lead you not to the knowledge that puffs a man up but to the love which illuminres through the achievement of love"
John Cassian (c. 365-c. 435) |
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Other Books of Interest
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 The Art of Allowing:
The Breath in Meditation and in Life
Louis Hughes, O.P.
Price $21.95
Status: In Stock
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Breathing is not something that we ever need to do - we need only allow it to happen inside us. The breath is never "my breath" - it does not belong to us. It is in some way greater than us, and it brings us life. This is a conviction that has slowly grown on the author through almost forty years of practicing body prayer and meditation. As well as offering a series of exercises in deepening your skills in breathing, this book covers the constructive use of breathing in movement, healing, stillness and general well being. |
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 The Way of the Dreamcatcher,
Spirit Lessons with Robert Lax:
Poet, Peacemaker, Sage
Steve Georgiou
Price $16.95
Status: In Stock
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A disillusioned young man journies to a remote
Greek island in search of renewal. By chance he meets an elderly hermit
who helps him in his quest. The sage turns out to be none other than
Robert Lax, a major minimalist poet and close friend of Thomas Merton,
the famed Trappist Monk, and Ad Reinhardt, the abstract Expressionist.
Their conversations offer an unprecedented and
revealing description of the man Thomas Merton said "was born with the
deepest sense of who God was" and Jack Kerouac once described as "a
strange, wonderful laughing Buddha." |
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 Mystic Street:
Meditations on a Spiritual Path
Steve Georgiou
Price $24.95
Status: In Stock
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Life is a journey of faith and wonder, an odyssey
of the heart. Join author S.T. Georgiou for a walk along Mystic Street
as he shares spiritual and contemplative experiences that reveal the
power of grace in our everyday lives. Deeply inspirational and
renewing, these Christian-based meditations recharge the soul and
illuminate our passage in an increasingly complex world.
Mystic Street centers on the author's spiritual
experiences while pursuing his graduate degrees in theology. He
demonstrates how lessons of the heart are not only learned inside the
classroom, but especially outside. In these uplifting vignettes, both
the ordinary and the extraordinary, the visible and invisible
intersect. A fascinating book filled with hope, life, light, and a
marvelous sense of serendipity. |
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 The Isle of Monte Cristo:
Finding the Inner Treasure
Steve Georgiou
Price $24.95
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The Isle of Monte Cristo is S.T. Georgiou's third book of spiritual reflections grounded in the life and work of Robert Lax (1915-2000), poet, mystic and friend of Thomas Merton. The meditations continue to explore his understanding of the divine Presence in everyday life.
Drawing from his wide range of scholastic and creative experiences that highlight his faith journey, Georgiou imparts how life is an inner pilgrimage that ultimately leads to the treasure of the Christ, hidden in our hearts.
Georgiou's interior trek began on Patmos where St. John experienced the Revelation. There Georgiou serendipitously met Lax, the much-beloved poet and hermit, who became his mentor. In this book a circle of love completes itself. As Br. Patrick Hart, last secretary to Thomas Merton, makes evident: "Like his mentor, Georgiou is a teacher whose lesson-plan focuses on agape, the highest and purest form of love."
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