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'To die well we need to live life to the full.' Helpful suggestions inspiring us to think about and prepare for the end of our lives when we are young. A version of this book published by Kevin Mayhew is also available.

Monk in the Market Place … and the Simpsons is a memoir like no other. Ray Simpson, Founding Guardian of the international new monastic Community of Aidan and Hilda, recalls the story of a unique life in which he has followed faithfully a calling to live monastically beyond the traditional enclosures of monastery or shrine.

A soul friend is someone further along the journey of life who commits to helping another discover his or her true self and path through life. Each chapter of this book includes practical exercises and suggestions for further study. A shorter version of this book published for the American market is also available under the title 'Soul Friendship in the Celtic Tradition'.

New Celtic Monasticism for Everyday People offers ancient roots for future routes. Christendom is over. The expressions of Christianity many of us grew up with belong to a receding past. The great emergence of new monasticisms is the future, but...

A New American Dream. Indigenous, Post-colonial, and Celtic Theology, outlining ways in which, in these fading decades of Western supremacy, and despite polarization, indigenous, settler, and immigrant peoples may journey together as modern followers of the Way. Those who rise to this challenge undertake a new Brendan's Voyage and create a new American dream.

Exploring Celtic Christianity through some of its key concepts—and some of the criticisms raised against it. Showing how the Celtic affirmation of creation and of equality and love among human beings holds the key for the future of the whole planet.

Every hour is holy, every day is sacred.

Tree of Life: Celtic Prayers to the Universal Christ, is a selection of already published and new prayers by Ray Simpson.

Fast living and excess noise can distract us from nurturing our inner life. For such reasons, people search for soul friends; someone to help in their relationship with God. This book looks at the meaning of being a soul friend and what people should be soul friends, before looking at some of the great soul friends of the world.

A versatile worship resource or a personal prayer guide inspired by one of the world’s most sacred places and drawing on the Island’s Celtic heritage

Seventh-century Ireland is becoming a land of saints, scholars, and spiritual foster mothers as well as warriors. The boy Aidan, a descendant of Saint Brigid, is formed by all of these as well as by a pilgrimage, aborted by an...

The combination of Fresh Expressions and the explosion of interest in monastic spirituality is resulting in the emergence of new monastic communities inspired by historic patterns of religious life, but reframed for the contemporary world.

To live well requires us to die well. We cannot run away from death, but we can influence the spirit in which we approach it. We need to prepare for it, make peace with it and embrace it, not just in the later years of our life but from a young age. A signed copy of the HarperCollins version of this book is also available.

Want a study that brings you back to the heart of Advent? Bethlehem's Road is a journey through the ways we can prepare our hearts for Jesus You'll reignite a love of the real Christmas

Bowthorpe, the holistically designed community on the outskirts of Norwich, with one church for all Christians, is attracting a new flurry of interest. People want to read Ray Simpson’s out-of-print survey of its ancient origins, and its eco-friendly re-launch as three linked urban villages from the 1970’s.

Ray Simpson draws deeply from the rich Celtic tradition to compile a collection of blessings that celebrate God's truth in our day-to-day lives.

The world of the long-ago Celts appeals to many of us in the twenty-first century. This book is also available to the non-American market under the title 'Exploring Celtic Spirituality'.

The great wealth of Celtic literature and the revival in popularity of the Celtic tradition, offer a very positive source of inspiring and deeply spiritual yet practical material for daily use. An equivalent of this book published for the American market is available under the title 'The Celtic Book of Days'.

This is a comprehensive collection of 255 of the finest Celtic spiritual songs, both ancient and modern.

An accessible resource to deepen your experience of prayer.

Drawing on the enduring and profound spirituality of the Celtic tradition, Ray Simpson offers over 700 prayers and blessings suitable for a wide range of needs and circumstances. This new and substantial collection is fully indexed to help you find the prayer or blessing you need, when you need it.

Celtic Spirituality in the Australian Landscape is a truly magnificent book. Its foundation is in Celtic spirituality but its quality lies in connecting with Australian indigenous spirituality in a way that reflects a gentle, appreciative weaving of insights.

There is something peculiarly attractive about the Christianity of the early Celtic-speaking peoples. In a world that is drained and fragmented by materialism and rationalism, Celtic Christianity offers the hope of a natural and holistic faith.

Essential reading still ahead of its time ..for those engaged in the emerging church in Britain and Ireland. This book taps into the current hunger for spirituality, the death pains of obsolete church forms, and the rising tide of hope felt...

In the prayers collected in this book, Ray Simpson asks us to “hear the cry of the earth and work together to ‘choose life’” (Deuteronomy 30:19). He reminds us that Divine life courses through Earth’s rivers, breathes through her winds, and sings in each life form she nourishes, and he invites us to celebrate Earth’s beauty as we learn from her deep wisdom.

This taps into the current hunger for spirituality, the death pains of various obsolete church forms, and the rising tide of hope felt by many Christians. It suggests that the fragmented church needs to reconnect both with its roots and with the contemporary environment, providing practical examples of church that bring praying, eating, learning and hospitality together in one place.

Having first emerged from Europe's heartlands, the Celts retreated under the Roman Empire to its western fringes, and from the fifth to the twelfth centuries the early church flourished in Gaul, Britain and Ireland, leaving us an important legacy from which to learn and draw fresh inspiration. This book is also available to the American market under the title 'Celtic Christianity: Deep Roots for Modern Faith'.

Alongside the traditional Church comes a new wave of committed Christianity. High Street Monasteries explorers this incoming tide, illustrating how new monasticism is becoming the heart of our global village, focusing on community, peace and beauty, and the fact that...

In the dark and turbulent centuries after the Roman occupation of Britain, and during the Anglo-Saxon colonisation, the light of heaven still shone through the work and witness of the monastic communities, 'villages of God', which dotted the land. This book explores the Hilda's life and ministry.

Christianity began in the intimacy of people’s homes. Early churches often met in houses but when Christianity became large scale, and linked to empire, many churches ceased to be homely. Now, as Sunday-only churches are in sharp decline and...

This inspirational four week course, intended for groups, but equally suited to individuals, offers four extra sessions to coincide with All Saints and Remembrance-tide, drawing on the ancient wisdom of the Celtic year which began on November 1st.

A daily worship book for individuals, new monastic groups and churches. It reconnects the world with the seasons and the soil, the saints and the streets, the struggles, senses and silence as well as the Spirit and the Scriptures. It provides...

Our society often assumes that “justice” has to do with punishment. We think it means we make criminals pay for their crimes. The biblical meaning of the word “justice,” however, means “to make right.” This concept of justice has to do with healthy relationships based on equity and kindness; it refers to a society based on life-giving relationships between God, human beings, and the natural world.

A book for those who wish to fill their days with prayer. For each day Ray Simpson provides four 'prayer stops': morning, midday, evening and night. Although laid out for group use, it may be used as a personal prayer book.

Prepare the Way: Celtic Prayers for the Season of Light, is a selection of already published and new prayers by Ray Simpson.

Here is a comprehensive collection of contemporary Celtic Prayers for use in worship. These prayers reconnect us with the seasons and the streets, the scriptures and the saints, the struggles and the silence; all created life is included.

Complete services for Ash Wednesday to Easter including meditations, Scripture readings, suggestions for hymns and music to listen to, dialogues and creative activities.

“If Church leaders get these out to post modern non-church goers it could mark a turning point” Presented as a dialogue between the Seeker and the Guide, this book answers questions asked by many people who are interested in joining...

A challenging and thought-provoking book, in which Ray briefly unpacks 49 probing and uncomfortable questions and shows a way of remaining true to fundamentals whilst being at ease with people from diverse, or opposing backgrounds. This book is helpful for...

The special friend who accompanies a person through life’s journey is more precious than gold. An older, longer version of this book is also available under the title Soul Friendship: Celtic Insights into Spiritual Mentoring.

Surveying the life and times of Aidan of Lindisfarne, this book draws insights into missional approaches to inspire both outreach and discipleship for today's Church.

The ancient Celts found God's presence in each ordinary moment of the day. Everything they encountered revealed to them the presence of the sacred; each day was deep with meaning. This book is the American market equivalent of 'Celtic Daily Light'.

Patterns of worship which reflect the belief that as we reconnect prayer to the varied rhythms of our daily life, we will be drawn more fully into God’s purposes.

Chronicles the lives of early Celtic and other Christians in a calendar of saints (Anglican, Orthodox, and Roman Catholic), with a daily introduction to each, a short prayer and Bible readings.

Healing the Land draws on diverse sources to provide profoundly prayerful and healing patterns of worship. Utilising the Celtic Christian tradition of constant renewal and its sense of the unity of all creation, it reconnects prayer to the rhythms of our daily life.

Drawing its primary inspiration from Celtic saints, Great Celtic Christians is suitable for use by churches as an alternative to regular services, individuals who want to follow a daily pattern of prayer, or by groups who want to organise an event around a saint or particular theme.

Capitalism is in crisis. It has been become divorced from moral norms....... What is the way forward? Ray suggests it lies in an increase of Downwardly Mobile people - able Christians who lay down their lives for the common good.

Ray Simpson's Lent group study offers us the opportunity to walk with Christ through his desert - not just the wilderness of Judea, but also the city of Jerusalem, where he was tried and tested. By walking with him we shall confront our own weaknesses and strengths as well as his.

Most fitness programmes concentrate on physical fitness - they start from the outside and stop there. To achieve total fitness of the mind, body and soul we need to start on the inside and work outwards. Beginning with a spiritual...

In this book, Ray Simpson navigates through various traditions – Irish, Pictish, Saxon, Roman, Coptic and Byzantine, weaving together the story and significance of the Lindisfarne Gospels with contemporary user-friendly reflections and resources.

This book contains short, daily devotions, selected from thirty-five different titles published by Anamchara Books. Included here are prayers and insights from authors Lynne Bundesen, Jeff Campbell, David Cole, Marietta Della Penna, Bruce Epperly, Sharon Grussendorff, Rich Lewis, Kenneth McIntosh, Bill Palmer, Melina Rudman, Patrick Saint-Jean, Ellyn Sanna, Marc Thomas Shaw, Ray Simpson, Bruce Stanley, and Lilly Weichberger.

A collection of material to enable transformation of churches and communities– a vibrant whole church experience! There is a guide book for leaders and mentors; log books for adults, young people and children; the Little Meditation Book, the Little Prayer Book,...

"I am the way, the truth and the life" Jesus did not call people to join an organisation, but to follow a way of life. Under the guidance of Ray Simpson, renowned for his expertise in Celtic spirituality, this daily prayer book is structured according to the way of life adopted by the Community of Aidan and Hilda.