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Our God is a God of faith, and it takes faith to please Him. It is easy to have faith in the little things, and many Christians exercise their faith by what they can see, hear and or feel; but omit to realise that God revealed Himself through Jesus, and...

Concisely written and richly illustrated this is the most accessible and informative book on the occult history and graphic origins of the signs, symbols, scripts and ciphers of Western Occultism.The occult art of magical writing begins in pre-history...

Sigils are symbolic icons designed for a specific magical purpose. The Christian church acknowledged the sigil as an occult device originating in astrology. Traditionally, Sigils are line diagrams representing the signature of a planetary, angelic or...

Shouldering the Lamb offers eleven meditations revolving around the ancient figure of the shepherd carrying a lamb across his shoulders. Viewing this image from many angles enables Archbishop Richard Clarke to reflect on how any carrying of another in...

Introducing a gentle but powerful and enduring spiritual pathway reconnecting humanity with Great Nature and affirming all aspects of life.

Richard Harries was serving as a soldier in Germany when he suddenly had an overwhelming sense that God was calling him to be ordained. He had virtually no religious background, but like Martin Luther, he could do no other. The Shaping of a Soul is the...

Despite modern Paganism being one of the fastest growing new religious movements in Britain and the USA, there is no up-to-date straightforward and informed introduction to modern Paganism from a Christian perspective. The Shaken Path addresses that gap.

In the turbulent 4th Century, Emperor Constantine adopted Christianity as the faith of the Empire. The Secular Gospel of Sophia examines what was lost as a result. Sophia is an accidental traveller and keen observer on the road to Nicaea and of the...

Intended as an aid to understanding the Scripture readings at Mass. The editorial team includes Wilfrid Harrington and Brendan McConvery. It appears four times a year.

Zarathushtra's Gathas & the Old Avestan canon are the central texts of Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest continuously practiced religions in the world that has had a vast influence on the development of many other religions, philosophies, global ethics...

Claire shows us the techniques which place the emphasis upon invoking the quality and energy of the different runes for magical purposes by making their shapes with our bodies, accompanied by chanting. She has been studying and working with the Runic...

You might think, what possible relevance can the runes, a system in use in the Dark Ages, have for the modern pagan as he sits trawling his smartphone for information online to help him with day-to-day situations? Surely the use of those funny little...

Harry Clarke's Geneva Window of 1929 with the lines from Yeats' play, The Countess Cathleen, evokes a sense of the wonder and beauty of redemptive love, with all its latent power to transform. Does love of this kind make a difference as to how we should...

The classic Christological formulations of the 4th and 5th Centuries are basically meaningless today. Questioning the Incarnation offers a new approach to Christology based on modern biblical, scientific and philosophical studies. Whilst using different...

In 'Qi Gong: Learning the Way', both the theory and practice of this remarkable treasure of Chinese culture are presented. Simon Bastian, a member of the British Taoist Association and an experienced instructor, provides an introduction to this ancient...

Praying with the psalms is a privileged way of becoming attuned to God's presence in today's world and in the life of the person at prayer. They enable us to bring our sense of puzzlement or of frustration into the presence God. They express trust; they...

In some religious traditions the contemplative life is seen to demand an almost complete turning away from the world. But, within the Dominican tradition, the preacher of the living Word is someone possessed not only by a vision of God but also by a...

Practically Pagan - An Alternative Guide to Gardening takes the spooky out of alternative and keeps the magic. Elen Sentier brings together, and expands on, recent scientific discoveries, and shows how close they are to the old ways that were labelled as...

The Persuasion of Love examines the implications of believing that ‘the meaning of the universe is love’. It is axiomatic that the Christian faith is about the love of God, but John Blakely seeks to delve behind this easy assertion by proposing that all...

The idea that anyone might try to take out a patent on life or on THE any component of life, fills most people with horror. Yet such developments are now facing the world, as transnational corporations extend the control which, over the past fifty years,...

Stories for the Songs of the Year is a collection of new children's stories which celebrate the festivals and seasons. The tales follow the adventures of Attila and Meg, a know-it-all rabbit and a cat with half a tail, who generally cause chaos and...

A unique perspective on working with Baba Yaga, Slavic Earth Goddess of mystery, intrigue and ambiguity, through apprenticing into her magic. In this introductory work Baba Yaga is re-defined outside of the dogmatic portrayals and becomes one of the most...

A lifelong student and teacher of Scripture responds to the Year of Mercy and to the document by Pope Francis, The Face of Mercy, by looking closely at the theme of mercy in the Bible. He sketches the graciousness of God, our loving Parent, so full of...

The Hebrew Old Testament, which contains some of the world s most ancient religious texts, was written and repeatedly re-edited over the course of several centuries from about 1000 BCE. It reached its final form at the hands of editors who were...

Since it first appeared, Flor McCarthy listened closely to the comments and advice of priests who used this book. As a result, this new revision of New Sunday & Holy Day Liturgies contains a lot of new material, including new homilies. There are two...

Since it first appeared, Flor McCarthy has listened closely to the comments and advice of priests who used this book. As a result, this new revision of New Sunday & Holy Day Liturgies contains a lot of new material, including new homilies. There are two...

Since it first appeared, Flor McCarthy listened closely to the comments and advice of priests who used this book. As a result, this new version of New Sunday and Holy Day Liturgies contains a lot of new material, including new homilies. There are two...

In a sacramental ecology, divine grace is to be found in the evolutionary emergence of life. The ‘Epic of Evolution’ is the scientific story that reveals that we live in an approximately 14 billion year old universe on a planet that is approximately 4.6...

How does one discuss liturgical matters in the Church of today? Doing so as part of a culture war between conservatives and liberals leads to Stalemate and divisiveness. What is needed, Liam G. Walsh believes, is to see liturgy, first and foremost, as...

Liturgies For Weekdays: Lent Is Designed To Help Towards Celebrating Lent Fruitfully. Its Reflections And Prayers Enter Into The Baptismal And Penitential Character Of The Season. They Provide Pathways To A Deeper Appreciation Of The Mystery Of Christ's...

Liturgies for Weddings is intended not just for the use of celebrants, though it is will be great help to them. It is also offered to the bride and groom. Its main purpose is to help them plan their wedding ceremony. But it might do more. Alongside the...

Like Father, Like Son sets out to indicate how, when we try to express the truth of who God is and how God acts, we need to think the unthinkable – that God is fully revealed in a human life. In Jesus of Nazareth God has come to walk with us. In him God...

A Light Undimmed tells the story of one of the oldest Irish convents in the world. The convent of Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso, (Our Lady of Good Success) owes its origin to the fact that religious life in Ireland had become impossible in the aftermath...

The definitive guide to Ley Lines

We all have ideas about what we think life will be like - ideas we pick up from books, films, music videos, the adults around us, and even church. We think we have a roadmap that will guide us towards success. But it isn’t long before life throws some...

Kabbalah Center, Christian Kabbalah, Kabbalistic Tree of Life, Judaism, Spirituality, Mysticism, Lurianic tradition, Golden Dawn, Toledano Tradition, Jacob's Ladder, Mind body spirit, Meditation, Hebrew tradition, Religious wisdom, Spiritual...

What Maggy Whitehouse has discovered, over more than a quarter of a century of studying, teaching and writing books on Kabbalah, is that, used as a tool for inspiration, Kabbalah is a magical loom on which we can weave our healing, and from that healing,...

Among the many images which the New Testament writers use to describe discipleship, that is the life of Jesus' followers, one of the images which speaks to me most is that the life of a disciple is a journey. It is actually the image behind Jesus' call...

This small volume contains a powerful message for these times of global capitalism, environmental destruction, and religious intolerance. In his first title, this controversial author focuses on achieving spirituality without the dogma and control of...

Many contexts have shaped Benedict XVI during his life, but how did Joseph Ratzinger come to be such a great theologian with, as Corkery puts it, "his polemical bent and his keen eye for where the Gospel and the world diverge"? Corkery's insightful book...

Irish Church Architecture in the Era of Vatican II Richard Hurley. This book reviews the historical evolution of church buildings in Ireland by examining the best known churches built in the country between the 1960s and the 1980s. The first initiative...

Henry VIII's Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, is credited with a pivotal role in the English Reformation. As well as playing a leading part, together with Henry's Chancellor, Thomas Cromwell, in securing the separation of the Church in England...

Death remains the one gateway through which every human being must pass, the one experience nobody can avoid. In our thoughts we may treat it like an unwelcome guest, someone whom we do not want to know. And so, we need to discover how to look at death...

Are you ready for the Truth? Citing historical evidence, including a secret mathematical code in the Gospel of John, John Koerner makes a compelling case that in the mysterious forty days after Jesus rose from the dead he was hunted down, executed, and...

Human Dignity and Spirituality in a Globalised World is the fruit of a Conference organised by the Justice Commission of the Confer- ence of Religious of Ireland (CORI). This book is the second in a series under the general theme of Spirituality for...

Our screens and newsfeeds are full of violent images; our world is full of poverty, inequality and injustice. We find it hard to live together, in our families, communities, or in the world at large. At the same time, we are surrounded by the beauty of...

What help does the Christian tradition give us towards understanding the environmental concerns so prominent today? How can it be a source of ener- gy among people who band together to solve these problems? These are some of the questions Seán McDonagh...

To come to a full understanding of the depths of the lectionary for Sundays and Holy Days, one needs an array of tools. And that's exactly what Wilfrid Harrington op and Philip Gleeson or provide in this work. Wilfrid Harrington, lecturer in Scripture...