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A sequence of beautifully crafted prayer-meditations for daily reading from Advent through to Candlemas.
By the author of the hugely successful Barefoot Disciple (2010) and Barefoot Prayers (2013) Especially helpful for people with a heavy workload - whether lay or ordained From the Introduction: 'Barefoot Ways offers the reader a poetic, prayerful meditation for every day of December and January.
It connects with the spiritual themes of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany and takes the reader from the first days of a new Christian year to the feast of Candlemas on February 2nd. These three great Christian seasons are divided into thematic areas, each of which is given a brief introduction...'The distance from Advent to Candlemas is considerable, and there are many ways across its fearful and fascinating terrain. I offer here some 'barefoot' ways - by which I mean ways that are both down to earth and yet full of spiritual aspiration and hope...'
1 The God who calls 5
2 Advent wreath 6
3 Feeder 8
4 A prayer of the poor in spirit 9
5 Friend of sinners 11
6 (St Nicholas) Generosity 12
TIME
7 Time's arrow 17
8 The joy of time 19
9 Time passes 20
10 Litany for time wisdom 22
11 Busy day 23
12 Today 25
13 (St Lucy) Lucia 26
14 Yes 27
15 Two lilies 28
PREPARATION (introducing the Great 'O' Antiphons)
16 (O Sapientia) Wise company 33
17 (O Adonai) The Moses I love 34
18 (O Radix) The wisdom of plants 36
19 (O Clavis) Three keys 38
20 (O Oriens) Slant light 40
21 (O Rex Gentium) Awkward angles 41
22 (O Emmanuel) Stuck in traffic 42
23 (O Virgo Virginum) Those feet 44
CHRISTMAS EVE
24 (Christmas Eve) And the darkness comprehended it not 47
THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
25 (Christmas Day) Feast of feasts 51
26 (St Stephen) The first stone 52
27 (St John) The world would be too small 55
28 (Holy Innocents) Imagine not 58
29 Summer in winter 60
30 Memories 61
31 Examen for the year's end 63
January
1 Beatitudes for the New Year 65
2 Laughter 67
3 A prayer for many gifts 69
4 Cross-purposes 70
5 Twelfth Night 71
SEEING
6 (Epiphany) The way of the wise 75
7 A prayer for revelation 76
8 Seeing God 77
9 Before reading 79
10 Green 80
11 Blue 81
12 Red 83
CARES
13 Winter fuel 89
14 Cold day 90
15 The hot 92
16 Before the morning watch 94
17 Stamina 96
18 Difficult people 97
19 A pastor's prayer 98
20 Operation 99
21 Treading softly 100
22 The undiagnosed 101
23 The powerless 102
24 The indebted 104
25 (Conversion of St Paul) Come, Holy Spirit 105
26 Those burdened by life itself 106
27 (Holocaust Memorial Day) Darkening the slate 107
FLOURISHING
28 Way, truth, life 111
29 The welling 112
30 Thanksgiving 113
31 Let me live well 114
February
1 Longing for light 115
2 (Candlemas) A sword 117
A prayer before ending 119