Seasonal Books

Recommended in November 2023 by Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves at Diocesan Convention for the Diocese of Florida. Created by Pádraig Ó Tuama five years ago, the Spirituality of Conflict website is...

Explore Advent’s rich themes through Biblical reflection, art, poetry and music. In this pack there are four maps each dealing with one of Advent’s many rich themes: Watching and waiting...

Why is it 'good news' to say that 'Jesus is risen'? What has the resurrection to do with our idea of salvation? This book sets out to show how the...

A devotional resource for the forgotten post-Easter season. American Christians have forgotten the Easter season. We celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus on one day and then return to ordinary time....

Advent for Everyone: A Journey with the Apostles provides readers with an inspirational guide through the Advent season, from the first Sunday in Advent through the Saturday after the Fourth Sunday...

Advent―the season in which we prepare for the coming of the Savior―provokes a certain ambivalence among modern believers. We know that Christ has come in the historical person of Jesus...

BISHOP INSTITUE RECOMMENDED BOOK FOR ADVENT 2024 -Join Jane Williams on a reflective journey from Advent to Epiphany, and discover the timeless wisdom to be found in some of the...

In Light of the World: A Beginner's Guide to Advent, author, professor, and biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine explores the biblical texts surrounding the story of the birth of Jesus. Join...

An anthology of inspired readings from cherished writers to enrich you every day of the seasonFrom the first day of Advent through Christmas Eve to the Epiphany, these 45 readings...

Darkness Yielding is an imaginative and engaging collection of ready-to-use liturgies, prayers and reflections for the richest seasons of the Christian year - Advent and Christmas, Holy Week and Easter. For...

Lent is an ideal time to step back and reflect on the deeper movements of the spirit, and Elizabeth Caldwell helps readers do this through a simple but profound approach. Pause:...

Bishop's Institute Recommended Books for Advent 2024 Christmas is one of the most joyful times of year, and it can also be one of the most stressful. It comes laden...

BISHOP INSTITUTE RECOMMENDATION FOR ADVENT 2024-Pray and meditate along with mystics and saints through this luminous collection of more than one hundred block prints by artist Kreg Yingst, curator of the beloved...

Carol Bird, a Christmas-born child, who as a young girl is unusually loving and generous, having a positive effect on everyone with whom she comes into contact. The book is...

Embark on a Global Journey through the Season of Advent Advent is celebrated differently throughout the world. Some cultures barely observe the waiting and focus on the Christmas celebration. Others...

Clarify your true hungers--and nourish your soul. Fasting is not just the physical practice of giving up food. Fasting can also be a way to combat our culture of endless...

In these Lenten meditations, Kate Moorehead Carroll devotes each of the seven weeks to a theme that Jesus addressed frequently, particularly through Earth-centered parables of planting. Each day of the...

Bishop Institute's Recommended Books for Advent 2024, Diocese of Florida 'Waiting can be beautiful and, at least sometimes, it takes us to the heart of the Holy.' As much at...

Bless your Advent journey with these inspiring daily devotions exploring the Sunday psalms of Advent. Join four women authors offering diverse perspectives on psalms of adoration, lament, repentance, and thanks....

BISHOP INSITUTE RECOMMENDED BOOK FOR ADVENT 2024 "Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus," Richard Rohr asserts. Advent is a time to focus our expectations and...

Each year, the Christmas double issue of the Church Times offers a feast of seasonal reading. News of Great Joy draws together the best Christmas writing by outstanding authors and...

Christmas poems by the Nobel Laureate   To Him, all things seemed enormous: His mother's breast, thesteam outof the ox's nostrils, Caspar, Balthazar, Melchior, the teamof Magi, the presents heaped...

'Almost before I had begun this wonderful book, I was hooked' STEPHEN COTTRELL 'Robyn Wrigley-Carr has produced a masterpiece of insight and wisdom' CLARION JOURNAL 'Nourishment for the soul on...

Reflections on the wonder of Christmas by Christianity's most beloved writers.   A Light Has Dawned recovers the best Advent and Christmas articles from half a century of Christianity Today. Guiding the...

"As Lauren Winner says "Maybe it's not right to think of feasting during the somewhat penitential season of Advent, but that is what this book is: a sumptuous feast."  In...

Bring Christ back to Christmas by giving your children a devotional experience that adorns your tree with Christian symbols. The Advent Jesse Tree offers 25 devotions for each day from...

Lent has traditionally been a time for self-denial and penitence, a time to examine the baser aspects of human nature. But the church increasingly recognizes that this negative focus does...

The Joy of Advent is an easy, guided celebration of Advent and Christmas for any family that hopes to bring richness and meaning into the holiday season. From Advent through Epiphany,...

A Lenten reader to awaken your spirit, and help you encounter anew the richly woven fabric of the story of Jesus's Passion. Twenty-five profound meditations accompanied by beautiful illustrations--like a...

The Crucified Life Study Guide is a seven-session small group curriculum designed to transform individuals and groups through a considered call to follow Jesus in the way of Christian discipleship....

Place yourself as a witness of the cross and determine what your own testimony will be! Experience Holy Friday from the perspective of those who watched Jesus die: Mary his mother;...

WORDS ARE POWERFUL. THE WORDS OF JESUS, ESPECIALLY SO. The Crucified Life Devotional by Rev. Charlie Holt provides a daily space in which we can meditate on Jesus' final words...