Reminiscent of Malcolm Guite’s bestselling Sounding the Seasons, this
beautiful collection offers scripture-inspired poems for each of the
major seasons of the Christian year. It includes:↵
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• The Call to Prayer (with poetry on the nature of prayer);↵
• Advent, Christmas and Epiphany;↵
• Lent, Easter and Pentecost (including Wings of Wounded Glory, a sequence for Holy Week);↵
• Transforming Ordinary Time (including some feasts which fall outside the major seasons);↵
• In the School of Mary (poetic reflections on Mary, see as a model for prayer, contemplation and prophecy).↵
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An
introduction considers the relationship between prayer and poetry and
offers suggestions for using the book in public and private worship
settings, and a closing sequence contemplates Mary as a figure of
prayers and witness.
Steven Shakespeare is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Liverpool Hope
University, where he was previously Anglican Chaplain, and is editor of
Modern Believing. He is a member of the Sodality of Mary, an inclusive
association for Anglo-Catholic clergy whose Patron is the Archbishop of
York.