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Weekly Anglican prayer bead meditations to deepen your relationship with saintly Christians.
“In a time when we are increasingly bombarded by noise and disconnected from one another, this wonderfully practical book provides a loving, liberating, and life-giving way to enhance our personal prayer life, grounded in the wisdom of old friends and new across the Jesus Movement."—Bishop Michael Curry, renowned preacher and author of Love is the Way and Songs My Grandma Sang
Have you ever wondered what the saints would say if they could speak to you? Saints have long been a source of inspiration and solace for Christians—from Ambrose of Milan of the early Church, to Hildegard of Bingen of the medieval period, to Frederick Douglass of nineteenth-century abolitionist renown—but few would say they truly know these sources of timeless wisdom. The prayers in Song of the Saints, intended for use in conjunction with Anglican prayer beads, offer a remedy: a tried and tested prayer practice designed to bring readers into a deeper communion with the saints throughout the liturgical year.
Selected from various Christian liturgical calendars, the featured saints are accompanied by an icon-like image, an original prayer, and a brief spiritual biography, which offers readers a window into the context in which the saint lived. Ultimately, readers aren’t just learning about the saints—they’re engaging with them, actively exploring their lives, their teachings, and most of all, their heart.
“Cathy Gotschall’s Song of the Saints emerges as an antidote of profundity, beauty, and devotion. From her hands to your hands, the rhythm of a weekly meditation is amplified in the rhythm of the beads, resulting in a contemplative work that can be entered, lived and breathed by Christians of both East and West, but especially so for Anglicans. By offering seven days and nights of living prayer with each exemplar, many of whom will be new to readers, the author presents the possibility of a transformative and regenerative spiritual praxis. Fully illustrated and accompanied by several helpful resources at the end, these pages shimmer a much-needed glory on the metanoic role of a renewal of prayer.”