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These are some of the titles we have available in our store. To order these or other titles, please contact us at gtreusch@saintmarks.org or (206) 323-1040.
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An African Prayer Book
In An African Prayer Book, the great Archbishop of Capetown, South Africa, shares a collection of the spiritual riches of the vast and varied continent of Africa. We read the simple prayer of the penniless Bushman, the words of the great Church fathers, Augustine and Athanasius, the petitioning and jubilant voices from South Africa's struggle for freedom, and even the prayers from the African diasporas of North America and the Caribbean. Here too are Jesus' own encounters with Africa, which provided him refuge at the beginning of his life (from King Herod) and aid at its end (in Simon of Cyrene, who helped Jesus carry his cross). |
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All Desires Known: Third Edition
A classic and indispensable resource for public worship and private devotion that speaks to people across a range of traditions - both within and beyond the church. Composed in response to the desire for worship language that's inclusive of women's experience yet deeply rooted in the words, stories, and images of Scripture that have resonated not only with women, but with all who love the Bible and who want to pray with honesty and directness.
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All God's Creatures: the Blessing of Animal Companions
Just as God covenanted with Noah and all the animals when the flood waters receded, Debra Farrington argues in All God’s Creatures that we live in a covenantal relationship with those animals we bring into our homes, creatures that God created and called good. She examines what that means in terms of everyday care, as well as at the extraordinary moments of birth, illness, and death. Prayers and simple rituals for celebrating the animals, as well as suggestions for congregational blessings of the animals are included.
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Bead One, Pray Too: A Guide to Making and Using Prayer Breads In stories and pictures, this book shows how people of all faith traditions use prayer beads as a spiritual tool and a means of expressing their creativity. Every major world religion has a tradition of praying with beads and all are explored here, including the history and use of beads and specific prayers. Describes in detail and with diagrams how to make sets of prayer beads for personal use |
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The Bible as Prayer: A Handbook for Lectio Divina
As early as the third century, monks would take short phrases from the Scriptures and meditate on them. Out of this developed the Jesus Prayer in the east and lectio divina in the West. This book, an anthology of short phrases and passages from the Bible, aims to draw both traditions together and help 21st century people rediscover a simple form of meditation. |
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Cat Psalms: Prayers My Cats Have Taught Me
This collection of whimsical, insightful psalm—prayers is based on Brokering's observations of cats he has known throughout his life — expresses an observation about a cat's nature, written in the "voice" of the cat, followed by a prayer in which the human spirit speaks of its cat-like nature to God. Cat Psalms is for those who wish to pray more deeply and with more imagination and understanding. It offers fresh ways to see ourselves and new ways to pray. |
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Conversing with God in Scripture: A Contemporary Approach to Lectio Divina
Christians throughout the ages have entered into conversations with God using the ancient practice of lectio divina, or spiritual reading. In his book, Stephen Binz explains the elements, characteristics, and benefits of lectio divina, showing how we can read and reflect on Scripture in ways that enable us to hear God speaking to us in our thoughts and hearts. Seven examples from biblical passages show readers how to use this form of prayer with questions for reflection and discussion following each chapter. |
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The Divine Hours: Pocket Edition
In The Divine Hours: Pocket Edition ™, Phyllis Tickle has gathered one full week of fixed-hour prayers, providing an ideal companion for travelers, office-workers, people on retreat or pilgrimage, as well as newcomers to this age-old spiritual practice. Seven of these daily offices are offered for each day of the week, and each office contains the Call to Prayer, the Request for Presence, the Greeting, the Reading, the Gloria, the Psalm, the Small Verse, the Lord's Prayer, the Petition, and the Final Thanksgiving. Tickle draws her texts primarily from the Book of Common Prayer and the writings of the Church Fathers, and includes memorable devotional and meditative poems. Tickle also provides a chapter of "Traditional, Seasonal, and Occasional Prayers" in order to accommodate special dates like Advent, Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving; major life-changes such as marriage, birth, death, and illness; and moments of special petition or thanksgiving. For all those who want to carry a "small chapel" of prayers with them, The Divine Hours: Pocket Edition ™ is an edition that makes this ancient form of Christian worship compatible with the pace and mobility of modern life. |
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The Divine Hours: Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime
The Divine Hours: Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime, provides four sets of offices -- morning, midday, vespers, and compline -- for every day from October through January. Each includes prayers, psalms, and Bible readings for each day of these two festive seasons which include the Feast of All Saints, the Season of Advent, the days of Christmas, and the Epiphany. |
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The Divine Hours: Prayers for Springtime
The Divine Hours: Prayers for Springtime provides prayers, psalms, and readings for this season associated with rebirth. As a contemporary Book of Hours, this final offering in the three volume set gives those already using the first two volumes the completion they are seeking. With this edition, the series culminates with three prayer manuals encompassing the liturgical and calendar year with the offices for every day. |
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The Divine Hours: Prayers for Summertime
The first book in the set, The Divine Hours: Prayers for Summertime, filled with prayers, psalms, and readings, is one readers will turn to when making their daily summertime devotions. Compact in size, it is perfect for those seeking greater spiritual depth. As a contemporary Book of Hours, this volume heralds a renewal of the tradition of disciplined daily prayer, and will whet the hunger of a large and eager audience for the follow-up autumn/winter and spring volumes. |
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Dog Psalms: Prayers My Dogs Have Taught Me
In this companion to Cat Psalms, Herbert Brokering explores the similarities in the relationship between dogs and owners and the relationship between humans and God. His descriptions of well-loved canine attributes are followed by prayers that explore these traits in our relationship with God. Whimsical and insightful, Dog Psalms is for readers seeking creative expressions for their faith. |
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Earth Prayers from Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth
From Walt Whitman, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Black Elk, to Margaret Atwood, the Rig Veda, and the chant of a Samar fisherman, the varied voices linked here offer songs and prayers for land, sea, and air; graces for food; and invocations, poems, and passages that reveal in the common spiritual heritage of all who cherish creation. This collection seeks to heal the division that has grown between us and the rest of nature. They tell us: Pay attention. Attend to the relationships alive among all forms of life. When the human spirit is understood in this sense, as the mode of consciousness in which we are connected to the planet as a whole, it becomes clear that our entire life is an Earth Prayer. |
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Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy: Meditations on the Rosary
First published by Doubleday in 1975, J. Neville Ward's unusual collection of meditations offer an entirely new approach to the rosary for all Christians. He begins with its traditional use and then offers fifteen insights into the life of Jesus and his mother Mary that can speak to us today. Thus a meditation on the sorrowful themes reminds us of the suffering that is so much a part of our own lives, while the joyful and glorious mysteries speak of the desire for faith, hope, and love that will heal them. These reflections serve up a rich spiritual repast for Christians seeking new contemplative practices and learning to pray with the rosary. |
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Graces: Prayers and Poems for Everyday Meals and Special Occasions
Saying grace at mealtime is a time-honored tradition for many families. Graces contains 133 original, traditional and multicultural prayers, poems, and blessings that span the centuries and draw from many traditions. Whether you need a Sanskirt Salutation to the Dawn, a Gaelic Blessing, or ancient Chinese Prayer, this beautiful gift book offers fitting words for every occasion. Bring spiritual focus to your meals by bringing Graces to your table. |
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Holding Your Prayers in Your Hands: Praying the Anglican Rosary
Providing a history of the rosary in addition to instructions on how to pray the beads, the authors of Holding Your Prayers in Your Hands suggest fourteen formulas for praying the Anglican rosary and invite the reader to create his or her own prayer circle. |
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Hour by Hour
This deluxe, soft-leather edition of the four daily Offices of Morning, Noonday, Evening Prayer and Compline contains the complete offices so that you may say your prayers and worship at all times and in all places. Convenient size for purse, pocket or briefcase. |
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Lectio Divina: Renewing the Ancient Practice of Praying the Scriptures
Lectio divina is "letting our Divine Friend speak to us through his inspired and inspiring Word," according to M. Basil Pennington, the late priest, retreat master, and prominent lecturer in the Centering Prayer movement. This ancient Christian practice requires faith, humility, openness, and fidelity. Father Pennington sets the process of praying the Scriptures in the context of meditation, contemplation, compassion, and action. He calls it "a way of friendship" wherein we pay attention to "the love letters from the Lord." Lectio, as a satisfying mental and emotional experience, can be enhanced by reading different translations of the Bible, using commentaries, participating in Bible study groups, and using the resources of Scripture-oriented websites. |
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Life Prayers from Around the World: 365 Prayers, Blessings, and Affirmations to Celebrate the Human Journey
The mysteries and delights of life on earth are illuminated in this richly eclectic collection of poetry, wisdom, prayers, and blessings from thinkers and writers around the world. Here you will find the poetry of Hildgard of Bingen and Gary Snyder; the political wisdom of Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, Jr.; a treasury of women's prayers, classical verse from China and Japan; and beautiful chants and prayers by Native Americans. An eloquent anthology honoring the wonders and challenges of life on earth and celebrating the seasons of our lives. |
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The Night Offices: Prayers for the Hours from Sunset to Sunrise
Easy to use, poetically rich, with a superb sampling of devotional works, The Night Offices is the perfect complement to The Divine Hours ™, bringing together prayers, psalms, hymn texts, religious poetry and other readings for the offices for the hours from late evening (Compline) to early morning (Prime). Fans of the Divine Hours ™ will recognize Tickle's simple, elegant format, her use of a modern calendar rather than a liturgical one, and the single ribbon in the binding, to track one's progress through the year. As in the trilogy, Tickle makes primary use of the Book of Common Prayer and the writings of the Church Fathers, and she draws all the scriptural readings from the Revised Standard Version . The book includes a set of Matins, Lauds, and Prime specific to each day of the week and varied only by month. Thus, the Monday reading for January would be used every Monday in January, but Monday in February would have new offices for it. The cumulative total, being 84 Matins, 84 Lauds, and 84 Prime (252 offices), fits neatly into a single, nightstand edition, a small, compact book that can be comfortably held in the hand. |
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One Hundred Graces: Mealtime Blessings
Featuring 100 ways of giving thanks for the daily repast, this small-format paperback edition contains a glorious collection of ancient and contemporary graces from many traditions, including Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Native American. |
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Praying with Beads: Daily Prayers for the Christian Year
The use of prayer beads, which has a long history in practical spirituality, is now becoming more widespread among Protestants. Doerr and Owens here show readers how to use what have become known as Anglican or Christian prayer beads. Readers can then use the basic prayer structure provided by the beads to pray their way through each day — morning, noon, and night — and through the church year. These prayers — a thoughtfully chosen combination of quotations from Scripture and gleanings from the Book of Common Prayer — can be enhanced and enriched by the mindful and meditative practice of using beads. |
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The Rosary for Episcopalians/Anglicans, 2nd Edition
The new Second Edition includes helpful information about praying using the rosary with an Episcopalian emphasis. It includes diagrams to help in the use of a rosary, suggested prayers, and a discussion of praying to Mary. |
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The Rosary Handbook: A Guide for Newcomers, Old-Timers, and Those in Between
The rosary is perfect for those times when words can’t express our feelings, when we want to contemplate the basic truths of our faith, or when we simply want to enter into God’s presence. Author Mitch Finley includes a brief history of the rosary, explains why it is a Christ-centered prayer, and provides background on the individual prayers of the rosary and a short commentary on each of the twenty mysteries. This book will help Catholics who have prayed the rosary all their lives but want to know more about it - as well as those who want to begin anew or try it for the first time. |
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Sacred Reading: The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina
For those seeking to return to the sources of ancient Christian spiritual wisdom, Sacred Reading offers an examination of the Western tradition of lectio divina , the contemplative approach to sacred writings, notably the Bible and the spiritual classics. Casey’s insights show how these meditative practices lead to a deeper sense of the presence of God by expanding prayer into a comprehensive spiritual approach to living. |
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Too Deep for Words: Rediscovering Lectio Divina with 500 Scripture Texts for Prayer
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