CANTERBURY PRESS

Includes general hymns; hymns for feasts, seasons and saints' days; office hymns for the liturgical year; an enlarged eucharistic section; responsorial psalms; and a new English folk mass setting

Includes general hymns; hymns for feasts, seasons and saints' days: office hymns for the liturgical year; an enlarged eucharistic section; responsorial psalms; and a new English folk mass setting

The Rule of St Benedict is the foundation of monasticism, one of the oldest continuing institutions in all of Western civilization. This first ever gender-neutral translation is true to the original text but provides an alternative to the masculine language of the original.

Reflecting on Matthew's Gospel, renowned preacher Barbara Brown Taylor takes timeless stories of seeds, weeds, doubt, risk, family fights, shame and glory, and explores how they resonate with the hopes, fears and questions of contemporary readers, enabling them to discover God's truth in their own lives.

Malcolm Guite's eagerly awaited second poetry collection offers poems that seek beauty and transfiguration in contemporary life; sonnets inspired by Francis and other outstanding saints; poems centred on love, parting and mortality; and poems searching for the life of the spirit in the midst of the modern era.

In The Vanishing Song, trans Christian poet Jay Hulme goes in search of what is all but lost in contemporary faith, the 'beautiful and holy and wild' way of the saints, and the alluring, perplexing mystery of the places they chose for themselves - forests, caves, rocky outcrops in the sea.

This landmark volume from an influential group of Anglican theologians explores baptism as the foundation for living out all forms of Christian vocation. It offers theological and pastoral perspectives on the centrality and significance of baptism for a Church that has perhaps lost a sense of the radical commitment that baptism calls for.

For the many thousands who prepare sermons on the lectionary readings each week, here are expert, wise and extremely down to earth reflections to inspire and guide you, from an outstanding preacher and Church Times columnist. A companion to the main volume, this second book covers all the principal feasts and festivals that do not fall on Sunday.