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.
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 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. 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. 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. |
 AwakeningJohn 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 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Price $13.95 Status: In Stock | This new printing combines the original Community of Love with other previous publications including; The Hunger for Prayer, The Monastic Adventure, The Other-Centredness of Mary and Death the Inner Journey. |
 Door to SilenceJohn 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. 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 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. |
