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A Different Kind of Fast

Christine Valters Paintner

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…

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A Different Kind of Fast

Christine Valters Paintner

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…

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A Different Kind of Fast

Christine Valters Paintner

Contemplative author Christine Valters Paintner explores seven unique fasts tied to spiritual practices--for Lent or a time of focus--to discover our truest hungers and our deepest spiritual reserves. Drawing on…

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Eyes of the Heart: Photography as a Christian Contemplative Practice

Christine Valters Paintner

In this first book to explore photography as a spiritual practice from a Christian perspective, Christine Valters Paintner builds on the process of contemplative creativity introduced on her popular website…

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Desert Fathers and Mothers: Early Christian Wisdom Sayings Annotated & Explained

Christine Valters Paintner

Be inspired by the writings of ordinary Christians who chose to renounce the world in order to individually follow God’s call. Insightful commentary and historical background illustrates how you can…

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The Lectio Divina-the Sacred Art: Transforming Words & Images into Heart-Centered Prayer

Christine Valters Paintner

Nurture your inner monk & surrender to the natural grace & rhythm of your heart’s deepest longings. The whole world is, in fact, a text of sacred revelation. All experience…

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The Wisdom of the Body: A Contemplative Journey to Wholeness for Women

Christine Valters Paintner

In The Wisdom of the Body, Christine Valters Paintner focuses on the true meaning of the Incarnation-God became flesh- and points to the spiritual importance of appreciating the bodies God…

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Lectio Divina - The Sacred Art: Transforming Words & Images Into Heart-Centered Prayer

Christine Valters Paintner

Lectio divina, which means sacred reading, is an ancient contemplative practice of listening deeply to the voice of God in sacred texts. Drawing on her own experience as a monk…

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Breath Prayer: An Ancient Practice for the Everyday Sacred

Christine Valters Paintner

Christine Valters Paintner, abbess of Abbey of the Arts, introduces us to the spiritual practice of breath prayer and offers beautiful poem-prayers for walking, working, dressing, cleaning, sitting in silence…

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Earth, Our Original Monastery: Cultivating Wonder and Gratitude Through Intimacy with Nature

Christine Valters Paintner

How can we meet God in our everyday lives? In Earth, Our Original Monastery, Christine Valters Paintner, bestselling author and online abbess for Abbey of the Arts, shares how living…

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Sacred Time: Embracing an Intentional Way of Life

Christine Valters Paintner

In this book, Christine Valters Paintner guides readers in moving beyond their own lives and invites them to embrace the natural world and its rhythms that urge them toward rest…

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Lectio Divina-The Sacred Art: Transforming Words & Images into Heart-Centered Prayer

Christine Valters Paintner

Whether you want to start a contemplative prayer practice or deepen your experience of lectio divina in new ways, you are invited to savor the gifts lectio divina has to…

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The Wisdom of Wild Grace: Poems

Christine Valters Paintner

A doorway to intimacy with our inner wilderness, a call to sit and be present to what we discover beyond the borders of our neatly controlled worlds.

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Illuminating the Way: Embracing the Wisdom of Monks and Mystics

Christine Valters Paintner

Popular author of eight books and abbess of the online retreat center Abbey of the Arts, Christine Valters Paintner explores how the lives and spirituality of twelve monks and mystics…

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The Soul’s Slow Ripening: 12 Celtic Practices for Seeking the Sacred

Christine Valters Paintner

A bestselling Catholic author and online abbess for Abbey of the Arts uses reflections, stories, guided activities, prayer experiences, and a variety of creative arts to help readers patiently and…

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The Love of Thousands

Christine Valters Paintner

Is it possible that angels, saints, and even our departed ancestors support and inspire us throughout our lives? How can we connect with them in a real way?

Christine Valters…

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The Soul of a Pilgrim: Eight Practices for the Journey Within

Christine Valters Paintner

As she did in The Artist’s Rule and Eyes of the Heart, Christine Valters Paintner once again helps readers travel to the frontiers of their souls to discover the hidden…

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Dreaming of Stones: Poems

Christine Valters Paintner

The poems in Dreaming of Stones are about what endures: hope and desire, changing seasons, wild places, love, and the wisdom of mystics. Inspired by the poet’s time living in…

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Love Holds You: Poems and Devotions for Times of Uncertainty

Christine Valters Paintner

From Christine Valters Painter comes poetry and meditations on the many ways love comes into our lives, to help in dark and troubled times –

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Desert Fathers and Mothers: Early Christian Wisdom Sayings-Annotated & Explained

Be inspired by the writings of ordinary Christians who chose to renounce the world in order to individually follow God’s call. Insightful commentary and historical background illustrates how you can…

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Lectio Divina-The Sacred Art: Transforming Words & Images into Heart-Centered Prayer

Christine Valters Paintner

Whether you want to start a contemplative prayer practice or deepen your experience of lectio divina in new ways, you are invited to savor the gifts lectio divina has to…

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A Different Kind of Fast Lib/E

Christine Valters Paintner

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…

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The Artist’s Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom

Christine Valters Paintner

Summarized in the phrase pray and work, The Rule of St. Benedict provides the inspiration for Christine Valters Paintners newest exploration of the mutually nourishing relationship between contemplative practices and…

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Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal

Christine Valters Paintner

In this book Christine Valters Paintner, abbess of the online Abbey of the Arts, invites readers to better understand Mary and her heart through meditations based on thirty Marian titles…

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Awakening the Creative Spirit: Bringing the Arts to Spiritual Direction

Christine Valters Paintner,Betsey Beckman,Christine Valters Paintner

Designed to help spiritual directors and others use expressive arts in the context of spiritual direction

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