Welcom!: Prayers for New and Pregnant Parents

Religion & Spirituality

Finley, Kathleen

Worship & Devotion

Liguori Pubns

A unique and imaginative way to pray! Welcome to a different way of praying. Usually when we pray we try to shut out the outside world and focus on the interior, the spiritual, in order to be able to be with God. This book invites us instead to be with God through the very tangible, specific objects of our everyday life. We're invited to take another look, as well as another listen, taste, touch, and smell, at what is right before us and to see God there. A rock, a shoe, a pen--all offer an opportunity for entering into prayer and experiencing God's presence. Author Kathleen Finley leads us through a variety of five-part prayer exercises to help use objects in nature as well as personal and everyday objects as touchstones for prayer. Each exercise includes five parts: an opening prayer, a guided meditation on a specific object, a number of related scripture passages, a reflection on the significance of the object in our lives, and a closing section on how to put our prayer into action. Savoring God offers a unique and imaginative way to pray, allowing us to truly taste and see God's presence all around us.

Savoring God: Praying With All Our Senses

Christian Books & Bibles

Ave Maria Pr

This beautiful gift book contains a wealth of prayers for newly married couples. Each prayer contains a reflection on the daily occurrences in marriage, a Scripture passage, and then concludes with a brief but poignant prayer. Topics addressed include: sharing faith, making up after an argument, sexuality, family relations, and children. The prayers inside Prayers for the Newly Married will help new couples center their relationship in God and offers them hope and support in their journey together.

Prayers for the Newly Married

ACTA Publications

Our Family Book of Days: A Record Through the Years

St Marys Pr

Handy book to express prayers for families and children

Dear God: Prayers for Families With Children

Finley, Kevin

Twenty Third Pubns

Dear God, the world feels very alive today, with birds and flowers and many colors. Thank you for the new life we feel and see all around us, life that comes from you. Thank you for butterflies and dandelions and new leaves and bugs and kites and baseball. Thank you for life. Amen. - "On a Spring Day" This easy-to-use book of prayers provides a much-needed resource for families who want to celebrate the everyday events of their lives. From such moments as the first day of school, being in a thunderstorm, reading together, and fifty-seven other occasions, Finley attempts to help parents and children see and express the ways that God is part of their lives. In her introduction, she describes the family as the basic unit of religious formation and experience. She further argues that the role of family prayer is not to make family life holy, but rather to help families see the holiness that is already there. Line drawings by Kevin Finley, the author's son, accompany each prayer.

Dear God: Prayers for Families with Children

Resource Publications

Our Family Book of Days

Wipf & Stock Publishers

The Liturgy of Motherhood: Moments of Grace

The Liturgy of Motherhood: Moments of Grace is a unique invitation to mothers and parents to pause and reflect on the rhythms, cycles, symbols, and rituals that define who they are, both as caregivers and members of a larger community. Using the liturgical year as her framework, Kathleen Finley explores the spirituality of many kinds of mothers and the ways that various aspects of the Christian tradition―from the Advent wreath to the Beatitudes, the Paschal mystery of Christ's death and Resurrection to the daily celebration of the Sacraments―shed their light on the daily and unique holiness of motherhood.Both the actions of motherhood and the rituals of the liturgy reaffirm in our lives the communion, connection, and timeless presence in any relationship of love. In each chapter, Finley connects the themes and practices of the season to particular aspects of a mother's spirituality, a spirituality that is communal, incarnational, nurturing, patient, among other qualities. She offers to her readers the voices of real women recounting their own experiences of motherhood alongside classic and contemporary Christian models. Including passages from Scripture, questions for reflection, and suggestions for further resources, The Liturgy of Motherhood provides a way for mothers―and for all of us―to further develop the daily richness of our relationships as a "domestic church" within the Christian tradition.

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

Sheed Ward

The Liturgy of Motherhood: Moments of Grace is a unique invitation to mothers and parents to pause and reflect on the rhythms, cycles, symbols, and rituals that define who they are, both as caregivers and members of a larger community. Using the liturgical year as her framework, Kathleen Finley explores the spirituality of many kinds of mothers and the ways that various aspects of the Christian tradition―from the Advent wreath to the Beatitudes, the Paschal mystery of Christ's death and Resurrection to the daily celebration of the Sacraments―shed their light on the daily and unique holiness of motherhood. Both the actions of motherhood and the rituals of the liturgy reaffirm in our lives the communion, connection, and timeless presence in any relationship of love. In each chapter, Finley connects the themes and practices of the season to particular aspects of a mother's spirituality, a spirituality that is communal, incarnational, nurturing, patient, among other qualities. She offers to her readers the voices of real women recounting their own experiences of motherhood alongside classic and contemporary Christian models. Including passages from Scripture, questions for reflection, and suggestions for further resources, The Liturgy of Motherhood provides a way for mothers―and for all of us―to further develop the daily richness of our relationships as a 'domestic church' within the Christian tradition.

Savoring God: Praying with All Our Senses

Wipf and Stock

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