'These prayers help me to pray... All prayer is talking to God as to a friend, and it is God's closest friends who can teach me how to do that best.' Timothy Radcliffe OPThis treasury of prayers for the Third Christian Millennium offers practical spiritual guidance for an increasingly busy world.The late Cardinal Basil Hume, in his Introduction, writes that "the need for us to be people of prayer has never been more urgent. We know that unless we are deeply rooted in a sense of God's presence and able to refer all things to God, then our pilgrimage into the future will be marked more by uncertainty than by the peace which is God's gift."The book's extensive range includes favourite Catholic prayers such as the Rosary and the Stations of the Cross, along with others that may be less familiar, organized under many different themes and topics. Helpful introductions and a pattern of daily prayers make this book nothing less than a course in Christian spirituality.The book is for people approaching Christian prayer for the first time, and also for those who want to begin afresh. It will be especially helpful to young people, and the parents and teachers who want to help them learn to pray in the living tradition of the Church.
'These prayers help me to pray... All prayer is talking to God as to a friend, and it is God's closest friends who can teach me how to do that best.' Timothy Radcliffe OPThis treasury of prayers for the Third Christian Millennium offers practical spiritual guidance for an increasingly busy world.The late Cardinal Basil Hume, in his Introduction, writes that "the need for us to be people of prayer has never been more urgent. We know that unless we are deeply rooted in a sense of God's presence and able to refer all things to God, then our pilgrimage into the future will be marked more by uncertainty than by the peace which is God's gift."The book's extensive range includes favourite Catholic prayers such as the Rosary and the Stations of the Cross, along with others that may be less familiar, organized under many different themes and topics. Helpful introductions and a pattern of daily prayers make this book nothing less than a course in Christian spirituality.The book is for people approaching Christian prayer for the first time, and also for those who want to begin afresh. It will be especially helpful to young people, and the parents and teachers who want to help them learn to pray in the living tradition of the Church.
Dom David Foster is a Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey, where he was Prior and Novice Master, as well as Chaplain of Downside School. He now teaches in the Benedictine College of Sant’ Anselmo in Rome.
'Most prayerbooks leave the reader to get on with the praying
himself. Rather different is The Catholic Prayerbook from Downside
Abbey. The editor, Dom David Foster, draws on the great saints of
west and east as well as King Charles I and even anonymous boys at
Downside School. Its great value for a pitifully inadequate praying
man, such as myself, lies in his thoughtful introductions to the
major prayers and discussion of the best way to go about the
exercise. Sometimes one can stick to established texts, at other
just use their opening words to launch into our own. If this goes
badly, switch back to somebody else's prayer, he counsels.' David
Twiston Davies, The Catholic Herald
'I welcome the publication of this Prayerbook. It is indeed a
treasury. I am sure that all those reponsible for leading prayer in
our Catholic schools will benefit from it. I think it would make a
wonderful present for many youngsters at the time of their
Confirmation. It could become their treasured companion on the
pilgrimage of life.' Bishop Vincent Nichols, Department for
Catholic Education and Formation
'This book should provide a treasure-trove for anyone who has to
improvise services, prayer-meetings or assemblies, and above all
for the ordinary Christian who needs a focus, a text, or perhaps
even a point of departure for prayer.' John Sullivan, Priests and
People
Appeared in article in Church Times, September 2009.
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