John Main Christian Meditation - WCCM

By means of the mantra we leave behind all passing images

and learn to rest in the infinity of God himself.

- John Main O.S.B.

Christian Meditation Books



A Child's Way, Jeannie Battagin
A Child's Way
Jeannie Battagin
Price $17.95
Status: Out of Stock

This book is designed to provide inspiration, support and specific resources for creating and sustaining the practice of Christian Meditation among children, from first grade through to the eighth grade. Her spiritual journey and specifically practice of Christian Meditation has been influenced by an inner calling to teach children this form of prayer. This book is particularly useful for teachers, parents and grandparents who feel the call to teach Christian Meditation to children.

A Pearl of Great Price, Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
A Pearl of Great Price
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $6.95
Status: In Stock


"This little book offers encouragement and practical suggestions about how to start a group and then, of course, how best to sustain and nurture it. I hope you will see why a small, faithful meditation group has such meaning for our time. It is a work is of great importance. By changing the people who meditate together it also helps to change the world. Our world and our children need the silent power of contemplation woven into all social institutions. We need to moderate our frenetic and wasteful lifestyles. We thirst for the healing and transforming power that only the spirit can provide." Laurence Freeman O.S.B.

A Short Span of Days, Laurence Freeman O.S.B.
A Short Span of Days
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $8.95
Status: In Stock

"How is it possible that patients at the terminus of life have been known to say: "This last year has been the best year of my life?" Death is a truth we instinctively try to avoid or deny. But when confronted with the reality of it, we can only break down and disintegrate or break through and transcend. Fr. Laurence shows how meditation opens the way to this breakthrough. In meditation, as we drop all immediate concerns and attachments and become silent, we experience loss and separation. We taste death, and our fear of it gradually loses its power over us leaving us free to see life's ultimate horizon. In that new vision we find meaning and the gift of wisdom." Laurence Freeman O.S.B.


A Simple Way
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $8.95
Status: In Stock

Meditation is a pilgrimage to your own centre, your own heart. The basic theology of meditation is that at the core of our being, in our heart, is the mind of Christ. In this book, Laurence Freeman shows us a simple way of reaching that centre, a path that will take us through the noise, distraction and agitation of the mind to the silent, still centre of the heart where we experience the transforming love of God. Fr. Freeman’s simple, clear instruction encourages us to begin this life-changing pilgrimage with confidence and conviction.


A Way in the Wilderness
James Bishop
Price $17.95
Status: In Stock

This is an entirely fresh and original interpretation of The Rule of St Benedict for people today. James Bishop was imprisoned for serious offences. While there he discovered the Rule and absorbed it into his own life. The circumstances gave him a very particular understanding of it.
This is a chapter-by-chapter commentary. The author has written it not just with prisoners in mind but for all those who feel imprisoned, emotionally, physically or in any other way. The author has found the Rule to be a source of balance and freedom and a guide to being truly human which will never leave him.

In his Foreword, Laurence Freeman writes: "Because St Benedict's Rule is so sensitive to exceptions, it might be said that it is the exceptions to the Rule that prove its value. What James found in the community of the Rule was what is essential to it - moderation, gentleness, honesty, regular prayer, unceasing mindfulness of God's presence and our vocation to holiness.

Awakening

John Main, O.S.B.
Price $9.95
Status: In Stock

In this book John Main shows how prayer is a self-transcending process which enables us to know ourselves as the presence of the living Christ in our world. He speaks of prayer as "the life of the Spirit of Jesus within the human heart". He also discusses the theology of meditation and how our twice-daily practice of meditation is a "complete turn of consciousness to the ever-present Reality." John Main's teaching is profoundly inspiring and would be helpful not only to those about to start their journey of meditation but also those well on their way.

Bede Griffiths, The Modern Spirituality Series
Bede Griffiths:
The Modern Spirituality Series
Price $4.95
Status: In Stock

Bede Griffiths is considered to be one of the greatest mystics and thinkers of the century. In this anthology we find his unique combination of Eastern insight and Christian wisdom throws light on many problems facing the world today. The Modern Spirituality Series presents selections from twentieth-century spiritual writers in a form suitable for daily reading and meditation.

Born Contemplative, Madeline Simon
Born Contemplative
Madeleine Simon
Price $11.95
Status: In Stock

This book helps adults who care for children to share in their openness and longing for God in the silence, stillness and simplicity of Christian meditation. An invitation at the end of each chapter encourages the reader to respond not only to the content but, more importantly, to the experience of sharing the prayer of silence with children. The book will help practicing meditators who are looking for a way to introduce meditation to children. It will also encourage those who have not practiced meditation to begin in the interest of children.


Chants & Songs
Margaret Rizza
Price $8.95
Status: In Stock

Music for contemplative worship in simplified unison arrangements.

Christian Meditation: The Gethsemani Talks, John Main O.S.B.
Christian Meditation:
The Gethsemani Talks
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $7.95
Status: In Stock

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."

Christian Meditation: Your Daily Practice, Laurence Freeman O.S.B.
Christian Meditation:
Your Daily Practice
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $6.95
Status: In Stock

This pocket-size book is Laurence Freeman's little 'manual for beginner' on meditation. He gives the beginner an introduction to Christian Meditation and the ongoing meditator a reminder of what the basic teaching is. The topics covered are:
* What is prayer?  * How do we pray?  * How is meditation Christian?  * The practice.  * What are the fruits of meditation?  * Progress; the journey.
There is also a valuable and detailed appendix which includes John Main's favorite quotations from the New Testament.


Coming Home:
A Guide to Teaching Christian Meditation to Children
Ernie Christie
Price $15.95
Status: In Stock

This book opens up new approaches to the religious and spiritual education of children growing up in our troubled 21st century. Where modern-day culture leaves children overdependent on external stimuli, restless and confused, Ernie Christie shows how meditation can help children find balance and a sense of their own personal wholeness.

Based on the professional experience of the Catholic Education Office of the Diocese of Townsville, Australia, this book presents the results of an extended pilot project in a school system. The great discovery in this programme of teaching Christian Meditation to children from age 5 to age 17 is that children can meditate and that they like to meditate. Ernie Christie describes clearly the tradition of meditation taught by the late Benedictine monk John Main OSB and practiced by The World Community for Christian Meditation. His practical and detailed guidelines for introducing meditation to children in the classroom and in daily life will inspire and encourage anyone serious about helping children to grow to their full potential.

If the future of the world lies in our children, this book has a message that cannot be forgotten.

Common Ground: Letters to a World Community of Meditators, Laurence Freeman O.S.B.
Common Ground:
Letters to a World Community of Meditators

Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $13.95
Status: Out of Stock

This is the second collection of letters to Meditators written by Lawrence Freeman. The theme of the book is taken from the last letter, which describes the pilgrimage of two hundred Christian meditators and their Buddhist friends to Bodhgaya, India, where they shared three days of meditation and dialogue with the Dalai Lama and his community.

Community of Love (1983), John Main O.S.B.
Community of Love (
1983)
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $8.95
Status: Out of Stock


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."

Community of Love (2010), John Main O.S.B.
Community of Love (2010
)
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $13.95
Status: In Stock

This new printing combines the original Community of Love with other previous publications including; The Hunger for PrayerThe Monastic AdventureThe Other-Centredness of Mary and Death the Inner Journey.

Door to Silence, John Main O.S.B.
Door to Silence
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $12.95
Status: In Stock

This book is taken from the Door to Silence series of conferences given by Fr. John, which are also available in CD format. Like the Word Made Flesh series, it is filled with wonderful insights and teachings which Fr. John shared at similar conferences.

El Camino de la meditación (Moment of Christ), John Main O.S.B.
El Camino de la meditación
(Moment of Christ)
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $18.95
Status: In Stock

This is the Spanish translation of: Moment of Christ: The Path of Meditation including a Prologue written by Laurence Freeman O.S.B., current Director of the World Community for Christian Meditation.
See description below for Moment of Christ.

Experiencing God in a Time of Crisis, Sarah Bachelard
Experiencing God in a Time of Crisis
Sarah Bachelard
Price $13.95
Status: In Stock

Sarah Bachelard, an Anglican priest and theologian, explains that there are critical times in our lives, moments of profound loss, grief and fear in which our frameworks of sense seem to collapse and no longer enable us to convey meaning to overwhelming events or even to life itself. She suggests that the practice of meditation and contemplative living may help us endure and integrate such turning-point experiences, and bring our life and identity into a deeper wholeness.


Fire of Love
Margaret Rizza
Price $3.95
Status: In Stock

Music for contemplative worship, melody/guitar.

First Sight: The Experience of Faith, Laurence Freeman O.S.B.
First Sight:
The Experience of Faith
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $16.95
Status: In Stock

In this book Fr. Laurence shows that the basic experience of contemplation is the experience of faith and that we all need to develop this in order to become fully human. We are all capable of it - indeed we are designed for it.


Fountain of Life
Margaret Rizza
Price $2.95
Status: In Stock

Music for contemplative worship, melody/guitar.

Frequently Asked Questions about Christian Meditation: The Path of Contemplative Prayer, Edited by Paul Harris
Frequently Asked Questions about Christian Meditation:
The Path of Contemplative Prayer
Edited by Paul Harris
Price $15.95
Status: In Stock

One of the world's leading practitioners of Christian Meditation, Paul T. Harris has gathered together the questions he has heard most frequently asked by interested newcomers to this flourishing, rediscovered method of specifically Christian meditation. Based on his vast experience of leading workshops in Canada, Europe and the U.S., Harris has written clear, helpful answers to each of these important questions. In doing so, he has produced a comprehensive, practical handbook for beginners (and teachers of beginners) on the history, theology and practice of Christian meditation.  Among the questions addressed here: "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"?

From Anxiety to Peace, John Main O.S.B.
From Anxiety to Peace
John Main O.S.B.
Price $12.95
Status: In Stock

Spiritual awareness and growth are high priorities for many people today. Meditation is the path to growth, the way to deepen our own commitment to life. In the tradition of meditation the space for the expansion of our spirit is to be found in silence. Through contact with the Life Source we can begin to understand the mystery of our being and to realize our potential to enter into fullness of life, fullness of love, and fullness of wisdom. The practice of meditation is quite simple, but it requires discipline in repeating a mantra again and again. Once rooted, it flourishes.

Fully Alive: The Daily Path of Christian Meditation, John Main O.S.B.
Fully Alive:
The Daily Path of
Christian Meditation
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $14.95
Status: In Stock

This book's content is drawn from many of the talks that Fr. John gave to the weekly groups that used to gather at his monastery in Montreal, Canada. They were delivered to help people enter the experience of silence. The lessons gathered in this work offer a practical prayer companion for every stage of the contemplative pilgrimage.


Giving up Without Giving Up
J Green
Price $17.95
Status: In Stock

What if the suffering that we call depression contains experiences and lessons without which we cannot be fully alive?
This is one of the many startling questions that Giving Up Without Giving Up invites us to ask ourselves. Depression seems to be a contemporary epidemic, a condition understandably feared and avoided by all. Yet this book explores the possibility that we have much to learn from the desert times in our lives, when it feels as though we are losing everything, most of all any sense of who we are.


Images of Meditation
L Watson
Price $9.95
Status: In Stock

If God is beyond our understanding, impossible to describe or define and always overflowing the limits of even our most elevated thought, it might seem that we can only speak with imprecise, vague, misty ideas and concepts. But paradoxically, the best metaphors for the spiritual life, the ones that communicate most clearly and directly, are often the ones drawn from the concrete things we see around us every day, bikes, flowers, violin strings, clouds, monkeys, wavelengths, paddling a canoe, coming home. These are the sort of images Liz selects to clarify our understanding of what we are doing when we meditate.

In The Stillness Dancing: The Journey of John Main, Neill McKenty
In The Stillness Dancing:
The Journey of John Main
Neill McKenty
Price $15.95
Status: In Stock

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.

Jesus: The Teacher Within Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Jesus:
The Teacher Within
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $23.95
Status: In Stock

(From the forward by the Dalai Lama)
"Fr. Laurence has written this book, Jesus: The Teacher Within, in full Christian faith, explaining from his own experience how relating to Jesus Christ and his teaching, combined with meditation, can illuminate the spiritual life... I feel sure that readers of this book, especially those who seek personal transformation and inner peace, will find much to ponder and apply here in their own daily practice."


John Cassian:
Conferences
(Classics of Western Spirituality)
Colm Luibheld (Translator)
Price $21.95
Status: In Stock

This book was recommended by Dom John Main.

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 illumines through the achievement of love."
John Cassian (c. 365 - 435)

John Main: A Biography, Edited by Paul Harris
John Main:
A Biography
Edited by Paul Harris
Price $8.95
Status: In Stock

This booklet tells the story of John Main through letters, anecdotes, and reminiscences by family, friends and colleagues. A collection of photographs adds a personal touch to this story. The booklet gives a new dimension to our understanding of the man, the monk, and his teaching.

John Main: By those who knew him, Edited by Paul Harris
John Main:
By those who knew him
Edited by Paul Harris
Price $15.95
Status: In Stock

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.

John Main: Essential Writings, Modern Spiritual Masters Series
John Main:
Essential Writings
Modern Spiritual Masters Series
Price $19.95
Status: In Stock

This book draws from a selection of 13 of Fr. John's books with one chapter providing 100 sayings from Fr. John on Prayer, God and Love. The Modern Spiritual Masters Series introduces the writing and visions of some of the great spiritual masters of the twentieth century.

John Main, Arranged for daily readings, The Modern Spirituality Series
John Main
Arranged for daily readings
The Modern Spirituality Series
Price $6.95
Status: In Stock

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 selection of writings is made by Clare Hallward.
The Modern Spirituality Series presents selections from twentieth-century spiritual writers in a form suitable for daily reading and meditation.


John Main: The Expanding Vision
John Main:
The Expanding Vision
Price $16.95
Status: In Stock

This book is a compilation of talks given at the 2007, John Main Seminar. They include: Charles Taylor, the leading contemporary philosopher, who considers the place of religion and spirituality in human society, Laurence Freeman, John Main's successor, who reflects on spirituality in a globalised world, Sarah Bachelard, an Anglican priest and lecturer in theology in Australia, on the contemplative dimension in theology, Yvon Theroux, Professor of Religion in Montreal, who asks whether John Main is a prophet for our times.


La Meditación Christiana
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $4.95
Status: In Stock

La Meditación Christiana, Tu práctica diaria
Este libro es para la persona que busca por sí misma llenarse con entendimiento y profundidad dentro de su ser sobre la vida spiritual. Aquí pueden encontrar una práctica esencial que lleva al lector a la meditación, llevando la oración hacia el centro, o a "la consciencia humana de Jesús en oración, alavando a Dios en el espíritu."

Laurence Freeman es un monje de la orden de San Benedicto, sucesor de John Main. Desde 1992, él ha dirigido la Comunidad Mundial para la Meditación Cristiana, compartiendo este tipo de meditación en muchas partes del mundo y en cooperación con otra tradiciones similares de la fé. Sus otros libros incluyen aquellos titulados en inglés como Light Within, Selfless Self, A Short Span of Days, Common Ground, and Jesus: The Teacher Within.


Letters From The Heart
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $19.95
Status: In Stock

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. Fr. John is the founder of this experiment in community renewal, which attempts to bring the depth of Benedictine monastic life to a modern urban center. "These letters", he says, "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."

Light Within, Laurence Freeman O.S.B.
Light Within
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $14.95
Status: In Stock

From the forward by Yehudi Menuhin:
"May I, as a Jew by birth and background, comment on this guide to meditation? Perhaps I can best describe it as a guide for the reader to himself...
I would like of think of this book as a guide for those of all religions and even for those not claiming any particular religious label but apprehending and recognizing the ultimate Unknowable in the unity, the continuity, the interdependence within all creation."



Meditación Christiana
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $7.95
Status: In Stock

Meditación Christiana, Tu práctica diara
Este libro es para la persona que busca por sí misma llenarse con entendimiento y profundidad dentro de su ser sobre la vida spiritual. Aquí pueden encontrar una práctica esencial que lleva al lector a la meditación, llevando la oración hacia el centro, o a "la consciencia humana de Jesús en oración, alavando a Dios en el espíritu."

Laurence Freeman es un monje de la orden de San Benedicto, sucesor de John Main. Desde 1992, él ha dirigido la Comunidad Mundial para la Meditación Cristiana, compartiendo este tipo de meditación en muchas partes del mundo y en cooperación con otra tradiciones similares de la fé. Sus otros libros incluyen aquellos titulados en inglés como Light Within, Selfless Self, A Short Span of Days, Common Ground, and Jesus: The Teacher Within.


Meditation & Dying
Price $4.95
Status: In Stock

Meditation & Dying is a personal reflection by Anne McDonnell who is a teacher in The World Community for Christian Meditation. With deep, moving insight she speaks from personal experience of terminal illness and of her discoveries about the meaning and fullness of life that have come through it. For all facing their mortality or suffering bereavement her words will bring inspiration and hope. She selected the photos by Laurence Freeman which illustrate the text.


Meditation & Earth
Price $3.95
Status: In Stock

This booklet helps us to engage with the growing crisis of environmental destruction and climate emergency faced by the entire world. At its heart is the recognition that - collectively and individually - we need to change our habits. In a reality forever transformed by the experience of pandemic, we are invited to look again, with increased urgency, at how meditation can help us to save the planet.

Meditation & Education
Meditation & Education
Price $3.95
Status: In Stock

This booklet is a guide for those - especially teachers - who want to introduce primary/elementary school children to a daily meditation practice. It offers a practical way to follow the teaching of Jesus who knew how much we can learn with children: for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.


Meditation & Inter-faith Dialogue
Price $3.95
Status: In Stock

In this book Laurence Freeman, Director of The World Community for Christian Meditation, describes a contemporary way forward for those committed to friendship between religious traditions: a new kind of dialogue nourished equally by silence and by words.


Meditation & Mental Health
Price $4.95
Status: In Stock

This booklet is a guide for those who are interested in the spiritual dimension of mental health, wellbeing and meditation. It provides information and encouragement for people experiencing mental and emotional distress as well as for those who have the opportunity to offer friendship and support.

Meditation with Children, Laurence Freeman O.S.B.
Meditation with Children
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $12.95
Status: In Stock

This book focuses on teaching meditation to children, who can be naturally and totally present in the moment and are thus capable of pure prayer, prayer of the heart. Meditation can be a powerful way to allow their spirit the deepest possible contact with the Life Source and the space within which to expand.

Meditation with Children:
A Resource for Teachers and Parents
Noel Keating
Price $22.95
Status: In Stock

This book is a helpful guide to Christian meditation for children. The book encourages adults to experience meditation for themselves and equips them with the tools to introduce the practice to children, including simple lesson plans that can be implemented at home, in the classroom or on a whole-school basis.

Noel Keating explores what the wisdom traditions and religions of the world say about meditation and identifies the practical rewards and spiritual fruits that arise from regular meditation. Featuring excerpts from interviews with Irish primary school children who have practised meditation regularly in the classroom, the book also gives voice to their first-hand experiences of its benefits, both psychological and spiritual.

Moment of Christ: The Path of Meditation, John Main O.S.B.
Moment of Christ:
The Path of Meditation
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $19.95
Status: In Stock

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.

Monastery Without Walls, John Main O.S.B.
Monastery Without Walls
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $29.95
Status: In Stock

In this 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.


Music For
Eucharistic Prayer 2
Price $13.95
Status: In Stock

This musical setting of Eucharistic Prayer 2 is prayerful, melodic and easily sung The Celebrant's part is printed separately for ease of use. There is a CD containing both a demonstration performance for learning purposes and a backing track only for those occasions when no accompaniment is available.

My Happy Heart: Prayer of the Heart, Gregory Ryan
My Happy Heart:
Prayer of the Heart
Gregory Ryan
Price $14.95
Status: In Stock

This beautiful and valuable book can open the treasures of the tradition of contemplative prayer to the young, the very people we must be concerned about for the future of our world. There is nothing more important to teach them than how to find and enter and stay in tune with their own heart. To live with a spiritual vision. To sense the sacredness of life, to see God in and behind everyday appearances.


Oneing, The Future of Christianity
Price $15.95
Status: In Stock

“I would suggest that most of the contributors to this edition of Oneing would agree with Diarmuid O'Murchu, as he states in "Christianity's Future: An Evolutionary Perspective," that "Christianity is undergoing a huge evolutionary shift, marking the decline-and eventual death--of the imperial paradigm." However, each brings a surprising perspective, in the spirit of the CAC's vision and mission statements, to the challenging concept of engaging an unknowable future for a church with a very long history.” - Vanessa Guerin, Editor.

Our Hearts Burned Within Us: Reading the New Testament with John Main, John Main O.S.B.
Our Hearts Burned Within Us:
Reading the New Testament with John Main
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $9.95
Status: In Stock

After his death in 1982, John Main's personal copy of the New Testament was found to have many passages marked by him. He had highlighted words of inspiration that he used as the basis of his own teaching on meditation. These passages nourished his insight into the Christian meaning of meditation as wordless, image-less prayer. In this book, Gregory Ryan matches these passages of Scripture with extracts from John Main's own writings on the same verses.
This book is edited by Gregory Ryan, with an introduction by Laurence Freeman OSB.


Prayer and the Priest
Price $12.95
Status: In Stock

Priests around the world share very personally how they found their zeal worn down by overwork, tensions in communities, and the social climate. They tell how they faced the challenges and found the spiritual depth they needed in the practice of Christian meditation as taught by John Main OSB. Their experience shows how necessary it is for the priestly ministry, especially in the modern world, to be grounded in contemplation.

Radical Simplicity: Meditation for Everyone, John Main O.S.B.
Radical Simplicity:
Meditation for Everyone
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $14.99
Status: In Stock

This is a Book & accompanying CD set in which John Main advises us that all we have to do is to begin, and keep on beginning. There are no difficult theories to master or techniques to perfect. Perfectionism and the idea of success are the first things we need to let go of.

The 14 talks have been compiled from original recordings, so some parts may not be of high quality.


Reconciled Being Love In Chaos
Mary McAleese
Price $11.95
Status: In Stock

Mary McAleese shares her deepest beliefs about the way to lasting peace. She opens an original and fresh perspective on the origins of violence and also the painful cure for it. She writes with the authority of a woman who has herself suffered from sectarian violence but who has been actively involved for many years in the search for peace in Northern Ireland..

Return to the Center, Bede Griffiths
Return to the Center
Bede Griffiths
Price $18.95
Status: In Stock

Here Bede Griffiths offers the fruits of a lifetime spent in prayer and meditation. Griffiths is convinced that modern man has lost touch with the center of his own life and therefore with life itself. We must return to the center, "the place of meeting where the different religious traditions of the world have their source," so that we may live again. He harmonizes Hindu and Buddhist insight with the Christian vision of the Word made flesh through the Spirit of God's love.

Sacrament: The Christian Mysteries, John Main O.S.B.
Sacrament:
The Christian Mysteries
John Main, O.S.B.
Price $9.95
Status: In Stock

For John Main the sacraments in the modern age can only be rediscovered through deep prayer. Deeply rooted in theological tradition, he also sees the sacraments freshly as healing, enlightening mysteries of the mystical dimension. In this simple book he offers a new way of describing these ancient truths.
"John Main often stressed that meditation helps the Christian to better appreciate the truths of the faith. His reflections on the sacraments show how that appreciation first springs not so much from the head as from the heart. It is depth of spiritual experience that awakens the sense of the sacred in one's own body as well as in the physical universe." - Fr. Laurence Freeman

Saccidananda: A Christian Approach to Advatic Experience, Abhishiktananda
Saccidananda:
A Christian Approach to Advatic Experience
Abhishiktananda
Price $20.95
Status: Out of Stock

This book was recommended by Dom John Main.

Abhishiktananda was born as Henri Le Saux in 1910 in France. He entered the Benedictine Abbey of Sainte Anne de Kergonan at age 19, until his departure for India nineteen years later. He felt called to establish a contemplative foundation in the Indian Church or at least to live as a contemplative there.

In 1948, Le Saux joined another French priest in India, Jules Monchanin, in founding a contemplative community that they envisioned as both fully Indian and fully Christian. This is Saccidananda Ashram or the Hermitage of the Most Holy Trinity at Shantivanam in Tamil Nadu.

Sensing God: Learning to Meditate During Lent, Laurence Freemen O.S.B.
Sensing God:
Learning to Meditate During Lent
Laurence Freemen, O.S.B.
Price $12.95
Status: In Stock

"Laurence Freeman has the ability to say profound and revelatory things in simple sentences... This is a rich feast that will not just feed but might just transform the reader." - Richard Rohr OF


September 11th, Hope Beyond
Laurence Freemen, O.S.B.
Price $4.95
Status: In Stock

Where do we find the goodness buried in the lost or ruined lives of thousands in New York, in the blow to the western sense of superiority and invulnerability, in the unleashing of the dogs of war and the pestilence of fear that now invades all public space?

To find good in this tragedy we must turn our attention to the deepest questions it raises.
The abyss between good and evil is vast.

In these two essays Laurence Freeman encourages us to look within and find the bridge across, deep within our own being. It is the bridge of compassion and forgiveness, the mysterious generosity of the human spirit. We have only to find it to walk across.


Sharing the Gift
Price $14.95
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This Resources Book contains a wealth of articles to support you in sharing the gift of Christian Meditation with others at all levels. The range of contributions allows you a great choice and covers all the aspects of the Essential Teaching of the tradition as taught by The World Community for Christian Meditation. These resources could be used for deepening your own knowledge, nurturing a group you are leading, or as inspiration for giving a talk or organising a meditation event. We trust you will enjoy this book with all its gifts.

Silence and Stillness in Every Season, Edited by Paul Harris
Silence and Stillness in Every Season
Edited by Paul Harris
Price $19.95
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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.

Silence into Service, Fr. Gerry Pierse
Silence into Service
Fr. Gerry Pierse
Price $12.95
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In this book, Fr Gerry Pierse shows the further movement from the silence of meditation into enriched and meaningful service. Starting with John Main's very simple instruction on how to Meditate, Fr. Pierse offers a sries of insights into the Christian tradition of meditation and how meditation relates to other traditions and methods of prayer. He then turns to a series of reflective pieces on meditation itself, how it is done and how it relates to many of the major issues and concern of today's Christians. Finally, he shows how sustained meditation leads one to a more active, productive and enriching ministry as a member of the People of God.

Six-Week Introductory Course: A Handbook for Presenters, Laurence Freemen O.S.B.
Six-Week Introductory Course:
A Handbook for Presenters
Laurence Freemen, O.S.B.
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This book offers a step-by-step guide for an introductory course on Christian meditation, covering the following six topics: What is Christian meditation?,  John Main,  The Roots of Meditation in the Christian Tradition,  The Wheel of Prayer: meditation and other ways of prayer,  Leaving Self Behind  and  The Fruits of Meditation. The book offers a plan for the course with all the necessary materials including simple and precise instructions, templates, and links to online audio recordings.

The Art of Allowing: The Breath in Meditation & in Life, Louis Hughes O.P.
The Art of Allowing:
The Breath in Meditation & in Life
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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.

The Business of Spirit, Peter Ng, Kok Song, Laurence Freeman & Sean Hagan
The Business of Spirit
Peter Ng, Kok Song, Laurence Freeman & Sean Hagan
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Two successful leaders from the financial world share their insights on leadership and in particular how the practice of meditation has helped them form and apply these insights both in their work and across their lives. Peter Ng Kok Song, Chief Investment Officer at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, speaks on the attributes of leadership and how meditation bears fruit in self-transcending leadership. Sean Hagan, General Counsel of the International Monetary Fund, speaks about how the practice of meditation has made him a better decision maker and manager.

The Cloud of Unknowing & The Book of Privy Counseling, Edited by William Johnston
The Cloud of Unknowing
The Book of Privy Counseling
Edited by William Johnston
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This book was recommended by Dom John Main.

William Johnston, an authority on fourteenth century spirituality and specifically on the writings of this unknown author, provides a substantive and accessible introduction detailing what is known about the history of this text and its relevance throughout the ages. Also included here is the author's other principal work, The Book of Privy Counseling, a short and moving text on the way to enlightenment through a total loss of self and consciousness only of the divine.


The Cloud of Unknowing
Graeme Watson
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The teaching of the 14th century spiritual classic The Cloud of Unknowing is presented by Graeme Watson in a lively and contemporary form. He explains the significance of approaching God through a one-word prayer as advocated by the anonymous author of The Cloud. He explains the meaning of 'the cloud of unknowing' and 'the cloud of forgetting', reflects on humility and charity as virtues fundamental to human living and explains how contemplative prayer deals with the roots of sin.

He does this from his own deep experience of contemplative prayer making it come alive for the reader. This is a great introduction to both the book, The Cloud of Unknowing and contemplative prayer. It will be of interest to anyone wishing to start their journey of meditation or indeed deepen their understanding of the mystical tradition.

The Goal of Life, Laurence Freeman O.S.B.
The Goal of Life
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
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Fr. Laurence Freeman shares insights into understanding Jesus in order to better understand ourselves. He teaches that the goal of life is to know fully who we are, and that self-transcendence is the way to self-knowledge.
In this state, the center of consciousness no longer resides in the ego. Individual identity is not lost but it is transcended. The practice of meditation harmonizes and integrates in the spirit all that we think and feel and say and do. Meditation, the simplifying practice of silence and stillness, inaugurates a whole new way of being. It is a way of life.

The Heart of Creation, John Main O.S.B.
The Heart of Creation
John Main, O.S.B.
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This book is taken from the Last Conferences series of conferences given by Fr. John, which are also available in CD format.  Like the Word Made Flesh and Door to Silence series, it is also filled with wonderful insights and teachings which Fr. John shared at similar conferences.

The Hunger for Depth and Meaning, John Main O.S.B.
The Hunger for Depth and Meaning
John Main, O.S.B.
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This book is taken from the The Hunger for Depth and Meaning series of conferences given by Fr. John, which are also available in CD format.  Like the recorded series, it is filled with wonderful insights and teachings which Fr. John shared at similar conferences.

The New Creation in Christ: Christian Meditation and Community, Bede Griffiths
The New Creation in Christ:
Christian Meditation and Community
Bede Griffiths
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This book explores the tradition of Christian meditation and shows how new forms of community arise out of the inner journey which so many are now seeking and following. Bede reveals what this means to the Church and its place in the world family of religions. "We have our own unique way through revelation in Christ and through the Church," Bede Griffiths says. "We try to share that with others, but we recognize that God has revealed himself in other ways to other people, and so we try to recognize their values. Respect for other people's religion and culture is the crucial thing and, I think, on the whole this is the way the Church is moving today."

The Prayer of the Priest: Christian Meditation for Priestly Ministry
The Prayer of the Priest:
Christian Meditation for Priestly Ministry
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Priests in all churches and ministries face great challenges today. Overwork, tensions in communities, and the social climate often wear down their zeal. Never has it been more necessary for the priestly ministry to be grounded in contemplation. Fr. Bill Eckert and many other contributors explain how they have faced this challenge and found the spiritual depth they needed in the practice of Christian meditation as taught by John Main. Priests, those training for ministry, and lay people concerned for their pastors and churches will find this book a source of hope, inspiration, and practical wisdom.
Forewords by Bishop Michael E. Putney and Bishop Richard Chartres.

The Prayer that Jesus Taught, Fr. Gerry Pierse
The Prayer that Jesus Taught
Fr. Gerry Pierse
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Fr. Gerry Pierse offers reflections that encourage readers to engage in daily meditation by surrendering all thought and repeating a prayer word, called a mantra. Such meditation is a discipline to be followed every day as we attempt to create a space for God in which we grasp nothing and want nothing. We do not pray to be successful; we pray to be faithful.


The School Journey
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A photo book expressing the simplicity and beauty of Christian meditation with children.

The Selfless Self, Laurence Freeman O.S.B.
The Selfless Self
Laurence Freeman O.S.B.
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Many people have a spiritual thirst and hunger that is as urgent as the material needs of developing nations. Unless affluent societies escape the addiction to materialism, they will be unable to feel the depth of compassion from which works of mercy and justice spring. This work presents a way to spiritual health that is both ancient and new.


The Transformative Experience of Meditation
Kim Nataraja
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"If we are changed by interaction with others on the surface level of our being, how much more will we be changed in the silence of meditation, when we enter the sphere of influence of our true self in Christ?" Kim Nataraja explains that in leaving thoughts and images behind and paying attention to the word in meditation, we transcend the ego and enter the Presence of God. It is a communion in love, in the depth of our being, and it changes us in a profound way. All we need to do is to be faithful to the daily practice of meditation, open to love, and to allow the Spirit of the Risen Christ to do its work of transformation.

The Way of Unknowing, John Main O.S.B.
The Way of Unknowing
John Main O.S.B.
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A new revised edition of John Main's spiritual letters. This edition brings together in one volume a freshly edited version of Letters from the Heart and The Present Christ - classics of their kind which have inspired many individuals and communities around the world for more than twenty years. The new edition by Laurence Freeman assures a new generation of readers will share these powerful insights into why 'meditation creates community'.

Thomas Merton, The Modern Spirituality Series
Thomas Merton
The Modern Spirituality Series
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With an introduction by Monica Furlong.
Throughout his life Thomas Merton sought for the shining God and found it in the wilderness of solitude and silence. Yet few other religious writers have written so relevantly of the problems of the contemporary world and touched the lives of so many. This book is a unique introduction to Merton's vast body of writing, ideal both for those who have met Thomas Merton before and for those reading him for the first time.


Web of Silence

Laurence Freeman O.S.B.
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This book contains 12 letters written by Laurence Freeman, John Main's spiritual successor, to Christian meditators around the world. In these letters, Freeman gives practical inspirational advice on prayer, meditation, and seeking God.

Why Are We Here, Laurence Freeman O.S.B.
Why Are We Here
Laurence Freeman O.S.B.
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Fr. Freeman examines the radical question of our being in the world.  We are here, he reflects, to come to continuous prayer, to a constant openness to the prayer of Christ in our hearts. Continuous prayer, he says, must not be understood as saying prayers all the time but as the living in a childlike state of simplicity, in which our ego concern are left behind, opening the way to interior silence, communion with God, and greater power of attention to others. Freeman examines the teachings of John Cassian to show that meditation, with the aid of the ancient Christian tradition of the continuous saying of a mantra, is a path and discipline to reach this state of simplicity and poverty of spirit of pure prayer called for by the Lord.

Word Into Silence, John Main O.S.B.
Word Into Silence
John Main O.S.B.
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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. It includes the two 4, and one 12, recorded introduction talks on Christian Meditation, which are also available in CD format.


Word Made Flesh
John Main O.S.B.
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This book is taken from the Word Made Flesh series of conferences given by Fr. John, which are also available in CD format.  It is filled with more wonderful insights and teachings which Fr. John so often shared at similar conferences.

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for reflections from Fr. John Main, and others, about this wonderful Christian tradition.