CANTERBURY PRESS

A unique collection of prayers and reflections, helping you to see God's presence in your daily life. Whether at home, in church or around familiar landmarks in your local community, it will help you create 'waymarks' to remind you every day that wherever you go, you walk on holy ground.

Ordinary Time is the longest stretch of the Christian year, but it receives the least attention. Yet 'the ordinary' is the very essence of life. This wise guide shows how to live ordinary life in an extraordinary way, with biblical examples of how God breaks into everyday life.

Sam Wells reflects theologically and pastorally on twenty pastoral encounters that were both hugely challenging and hugely instructive for him. The result is a book of profound practical wisdom and understanding that will inform and enrich pastoral ministry for all who read it.

All churches have had to learn to do things differently during closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. None has been more imaginative or inventive than London's St Martin in the Fields. Here the St Martin's team reflects theologically and share its newly found pastoral and practical wisdom in many areas, developed through its HeartEdge programme.

What does it really mean to be a parish priest in today's pressurised and changing church? A range of contributors explore first-hand the contradictions and paradoxes of a priest's daily life, focusing on presence and prayer. Urgent yet optimistic, they seek a renewed understanding of ministry and mission in our current cultural landscape.

Taking the famous Gerard Manley Hopkins poem on vocation 'As Kingfishers Catch Fire', the Lord's Prayer and Jesus' teachings as its framework, Wyn Beynon offers seventy reflections on priesthood. An ideal gift for ordination or for exhausted priests and ministers looking to renew their original vision.

Every day we hear stories of people caught up in conflict, violence, trauma and abuse. Each of us needs to offer forgiveness as well as receive it, but how? Designed to accompany everyone on a personal or communal journey of forgiveness, this companion offers an important resource for all engaged in listening, reconciliation and pastoral care.

For every Sunday of Years A, B and C, as well as Principal Holy Days, feasts and festivals, Rosalind Brown offers informed reflections and commentary on the Lectionary readings for all who preach week by week, taken from her original Church Times columns.