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Here, all image-backed quotes from the Calendar will gradually display one after another so that you can follow their invitational narrative flow. |
1st December
Bieke Vandekerckhove, The Taste of Silence: How I Came to be At Home with Myself (Liturgical Press, 2015), 138.
Image: Diogo Nunes, Purtugal, unsplash.com/@dialex
2nd December, 2024
Henri Nouwen, With Open Hands (Ave Maria Press, 1994 [1972]), 29.
Image: The New York Public Library, unsplash.com/@nypl
3rd December, 2024
Rachel Muers, Keeping God's Silence: Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication (Blackwell Publishing, 2004), 4.
Image: Harald Pleissnig, Klangenfurt, Austria, unsplash.com/@pliessnig
4th December, 2024
Richard Rohr, Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation (Franciscan Media, 2014), 2.
Image: Nathan Anderson, Tennessee, USA, unsplash.com/@nathananderso
5th December, 2024
Andrew Norman, Silence in God (SPCK, 1990), 34.
Image: Daniel Schwarz, unsplash.com/@danieljschwarz
6th December, 2024
Richard Rohr, Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation (Franciscan Media, 2014), 25.
Image: Alison Woolley, Scotland, unsplash.com/@dralisonwoolley
7th December, 2024
Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Poustinia: Christian Spirituality of the East for Western Man (Madonna House Publications, 1993 [1974]), 29.
Image: Etienne Boulanger, Lyons, unsplash.com/@etienneblg
8th December, 2024
John Main, Word Into Silence (Darton, Longman & Todd, 1980), 51.
Image: Nat, Wales, unsplash.com/@nattgw
9th December, 2024
Rachel Muers, Keeping God's Silence: Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication (Blackwell Publishing, 2004), 4.
Image: Danielle-Claude Bélanger, Quebec, Canada, unsplash.com/@dcbelanger
10th December, 2024
Andrew Norman, Silence in God (SPCK, 1990), 126.
Image: Alexander Milo, Edmonton, Canada, unsplash.com/@lexmilo
11th December, 2024
Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Poustinia: Christian Spirituality of the East for Western Man (Madonna House Publications, 1993 [1974]), 32.
Image: Rodrigo Gonzalez, Mexico City, unsplash.com/@eneasmx
12th December, 2024
Ruth Haley Barton, Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence (SPCK, 2021 [2004]), 11.
Image: Andrew Gloor, Denver, Colorado, unsplash.com/andrewgloor
13th December, 2024
John Main, Word Into Silence (Darton, Longman & Todd, 1980), 71.
Image: Joshua Earle, UK, unsplash.com/@joshuaearle
14th December, 2024
Kerrie Hide, Love’s Oneing: A Book About Contemplation (London: Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd, 2022), 27.
Image: Michael Milverton, Esperance, Western Australia, unsplash.com/@milverton
15th December, 2024
Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography (Mariner Books, 2001), 183.
Image: Greg Sellentin, Arkansas, USA, unsplash.com/@sailorgreg123
16th December, 2024
Andrew Norman, Silence in God (SPCK, 1990), 123.
Image: Selvan B, unsplash.com/@selvan548
17th December, 2024
Richard Rohr, Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation (Franciscan Media, 2014), 26.
Image: Erez Attias, unsplash.com/@erezattias
18th December, 2024
Kerrie Hide, Love's Oneing: A Book About Contemplation (Austin Macauley Publishers, 2022), 17.
Images: Woman - Danie Franco, Mexico, unsplash.com/@dani_franco
Man – Moaz Tobok, Algeria, unsplash.com/@moaztobok
Man – Moaz Tobok, Algeria, unsplash.com/@moaztobok
19th December, 2024
Henri Nouwen, With Open Hands (Ave Maria Press, 1994 [1972]), 43.
Image: Anja Bauerman, Germany, unsplash.com/@anja_hb
20th December, 2024
Belden Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality (Oxford University Press, 1998), 68.
Image: Anders Harbo, flickr.com/photos/anders_3/1432220412,
Anthony Gormley’s ‘Another Place’, at Sola, Norway, prior to Crosby Beach.
Anthony Gormley’s ‘Another Place’, at Sola, Norway, prior to Crosby Beach.
21st December, 2024
Maria Harris, Proclaim Jubilee!: A Spirituality for the Twenty-First Century (Westminster John Knox Press, 1996), 106.
Image: Taize facebook page, 24th March, 2018
22nd December, 2024
Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography (Mariner Books, 2001), 16.
Image: Azzedine Rouichi, Zurich, unsplash.com/@rouichi
23rd December, 2024
Kerrie Hide, Love's Oneing: A Book About Contemplation (Austin Macauley Publishers, 2022), 225.
Image: Fernando Captu,Verancuz, Mexico, unsplash.com/@fernandocaptu
24th December, 2024: Christmas Eve
Maria Harris, Proclaim Jubilee!: A Spirituality for the Twenty-First Century (Westminster John Knox Press, 1996), 106.
Image: Grayson Joralemon, unsplash.com/@graysonjoralemon
Christmas Day
Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Poustinia: Christian Spirituality of the East for Western Man (Madonna House Publications, 1993 [1974]), 117.
Image: Kyle Cleveland, Iowa, USA, unsplash.com/@kyleclevelandphoto
New Year's Day
Ruth Haley Barton, Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence (SPCK, 2021 [2004]), 90.
Image: Ricardo Rocha, unsplash.com/@rcrazy