Please send any resources that you have found helpful they may help someone else.

Resources include: Poems, books, Sayings etc.

Sent in by members:

Jesus Prayer Spitiruality sent in by Rev Andrew Goodman.
http://www.anamchara.org.uk/

Greek pagan hymn c. 500 A.D.
Sent in by Sr Morag Gardham

O you who are beyond all things,
how shall we address you?
How can a word describe you?
For you are defined by no words;
You, the only unutterable,
being the begetter of all speech.
How can mind consider you?
For you are comprehended by no mind;
You, the only unknowable,
being the begetter of all thought.
Everything which speaks and which does not speak proclaims you.
Everything which thinks and does not think
honours you.
Our common yearnings, our common griefs, rise up
to seek you;
Our common joys rise up to praise you.
All things rest in you, all things unite in you,
all things seek you.
And you are the end of all:
the One, the All, the No-thing.
Nameless, how can we name you –
you, the sole undefined?
O you who are beyond all things, how shall we
address you?

Slow me down Lord

Slow me down Lord,
Ease the pounding of my heart
by the quietening of my mind,
Steady my hurried pace
with the vision of the eternal reach of time.
Give me, amid the confusion of the day,
the calmness of the everlasting hills.
Break the tension of my nerves and muscles
with the soothing music of the singing streams
that live in my memory

Slow me down Lord, and inspire me to send my roots
deep into the soil of life’s enduring values,
that I may grow towards my greater destiny.
Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift;
that there is more to life than increasing its speed.

Orin L. Grain

Bright as fire in darkness,
Sharper than the sword,
Lives throughout the ages
god’s eternal word.

Father, Son and Spirit,
Trinity of might,
compassed in your glory,
Give the world your light.

Stanbrook Abbey Hymnal

Books

IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY

A HEART FOR CREATION by Christine Polhill

This book was published recently, and has a six week lent Challenge in it with options for a group discussion. I have used the journey of the Spiritual Exercises to bring worship and environmental concerns together, so the book has five sections,

Celebrating Creation;
Lamenting the damage;
Action for Change;
The Struggle to change;
Transformation.

I hope it will make it easy for people to reflect on the issues in a prayerful way, and easy to produce services on creational themes. It has reflections, stories, poems prayers and liturgy.

Published by: Wild Goose Publishing.
ISBN 978-1-9050 10-67-7
Cost: £14.99

Images of God
YOUR GOD IS TOO SMALL J. B. Phillips
ISBN 978-0-7432-5509-7
( A Guide Believers and Skeptics Alike)

GOOD GOATS (Healing Our Image of God)
Dennis, Sheila and Matthew Linn.
ISBN 0-8091-3463-2

THE JESUIT GUIDE to (Almost Everything)
ISBN 978-0-06-143268-2

RETREATS IN DAILY LIFE (A Handbook for an Individually Guided Retreat) William V. Thompson
An Open Door Publications. ISBN 0-9551859-0-4
Highly recommended for people organising an Individually Guided Retreat

EYES TO SEE, EARS TO HEAR-David Lonsdale.
(an introduction to Ignatian Spirituality)ISBN 0-232-52198

GOD OF SURPRISES Gerard W Hughes
ISBN-10: 0232527253

GOD IN ALL THINGS, Gerard W Hughes
ISBN 0-340-86135-5

The practice of SPIRITUAL DIRECTION W-A.Barry & W. J. Connolly

THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES OF ST IGNATIUS
David L Flemming S.J.
ISBN0-912422-88-2

THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES RECLAIMED
Katherine Dyckman, Mary Gavin & Elizabeth Liebert
ISBN 0-8091-4043-8

LOOKING INTO THE WELL Maureen Conroy, R.S.M.
(Supervision of Spiritual Directors)

OTHER SPIRITUAL BOOKS

HOLY LISTENING
The art of Spiritual Direction-Margaret Guenther
ISBN 0-232-52008-9

RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON_, Henri Nouwen
ISBN-10: 0385473079

BECOMING HUMAN, Jean Vanier
ISBN-10: 0809139006

THE SOUL BIRD, Michael Snunit
ISBN-10: 0786865199

-THE INVITATION_, Oriah Mountain Dreamer
ISBN-10: 0062515845

THE SHACK, William P. Young
ISBN-10: 0964729237

SADHANA-Anthony de Mello (Christian Exercises in Eastern Form)ISBN 0-385-19614-8