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In this edited selection from the accounts Angela dictated both of her visionary experiences and her advice and insights, Ruth Obbard has rendered into direct speech the voice of a woman from the thirteenth century, robust and passionate, constantly open to fresh perspectives.

Teresa of Avila writes engagingly and honestly, allowing us to follow her struggles with not only her health, but with the conflict between her desire for a life of prayer in a real relationship with God and her attachment to the comforts and distractions of her not- at- all strict convent.

ELIZABETH RUTH OBBARD was born into an army family and educated in England and Germany. After completing her schooling she spent a year in nursing and then entered the religious life. At present she is novice mistress at the Carmel of Our Lady of Walsingham, Langham, Norfolk. Other publications include: Lamps of Fire, daily readings with St John of the Cross, Magnificat the Journey and the Song, La Madre, the Life and Spirituality of St Teres...

Selected spiritual wiritings from 4 medieval women who have strongly impacted Christian spirituality and theology.

Walsingham is a place saturated with prayer, where pilgrims since the Middle Ages have remembered the mystery of God becoming man through the consent of a woman and where they have been invited to say their personal Yes to God as Mary did at the Annunciation. This delightful, illustrated prayer book and devotional companion will take you round all the special places in Walsingham. It can also be used in your own home, enabling you to make a sp...

Carmelite spirituality is a way of life that spells Freedom. Rooted in the experience of the desert mothers and fathers who sought God in solitude, it can accommodate many temperaments and approaches. The primary focus is on Finding the way of prayer that will bring you closest to God. This warm and engaging book introduces six great Carmelite Figures and their individual ways of prayer. Let Teresa of Avila, St John of the Cross, Brother Lawr...

A Year with ary is an invitation to live through the Christian year in the company of a woman who, through the centuries, has been like a mother, sister and friend to countless followers of Jesus. Mary is loved and honoured not or hersel, but because she draws us closer to her Son. This collection of prayers and readings - from the Bible, the classics and the present day - are arranged around the 24 Marian festivals in the Christian calendar....

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The Interior Castle, also known as the Book of Mansions, is considered Teresa of Avila's greatest and most mature explanation of the spiritual journey.

This book hones in upon the 'littleness' and 'ordinariness' of the daily routine in which God must be found. God is NOW and God is HERE, otherewise God is NOWHERE.

This book, beautifully illustrated by the author herself, introduces Julian to a wider readership.

Describing contemplative prayer, this book attempts to offer spiritual nourishment to those who find this way of praying natural for them and those who wish to discover hitherto unknown facets of the beauty of prayer.

First in a series of booklets presenting a contemporary re-writing of classic texts aiming at making their timeless message more accessible to contemporary Christians

Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity for Everyone - Simplified and illustrated by Elizabeth Ruth Obbard.

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Those who turn to spiritual classics for guidance and inspiration often find their style daunting. The original texts still have much to offer but their diction and idiom, chosen for another era and audience, pose an obstacle to many contemporary readers. The Cloud of Unknowing for Everyone is the latest in a series that aims to make some of the greatest Christian teachers accessible to all. The Cloud of Unknowing, written by an unknown fourte...