Come Holy Gift - Prayer Poems for the Christian Year

Reminiscent of Malcolm Guite's bestselling Sounding the Seasons, this beautiful collection offers scripture-inspired poems for each of the major seasons of the Christian year. It includes:

¿ The Call to Prayer (with poetry on the nature of prayer);
¿ Advent, Christmas and Epiphany;
¿ Lent, Easter and Pentecost (including Wings of Wounded Glory, a sequence for Holy Week);
¿ Transforming Ordinary Time (including some feasts which fall outside the major seasons);
¿ In the School of Mary (poetic reflections on Mary, see as a model for prayer, contemplation and prophecy).

An introduction considers the relationship between prayer and poetry and offers suggestions for using the book in public and private worship settings, and a closing sequence contemplates Mary as a figure of prayers and witness.

About the author

Steven Shakespeare is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Liverpool Hope University, where he was previously Anglican Chaplain, and is editor of Modern Believing. He is a member of the Sodality of Mary, an inclusive association for Anglo-Catholic clergy whose Patron is the Archbishop of York.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Shakespeare
• Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781786224125
• ISBN: 978-1-78622-412-5
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 162 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations