by Philip Roderick, founder-director of the The Quiet Garden Movement

Henri Nouwen, who died in 1996,was one of the most outstanding spiritual leaders of recent times. A priest, academic and author of over forty books, many of which remain in print, his ministry found a new depth of expression when he joined L’Arche, the community founded by Jean Vanier for people with profound learning disabilities. Living and working among them, the themes he had explored in his writing and speaking took on a deeper resonance.

This book and CD package is created from an interview he gave some fifteen years ago. Never previously broadcast or transcribed, we hear Henri Nouwen.s distinctive voice in conversation about the themes that inspired most of his writing. The book shows this conversation to be studded with gems of spiritual wisdom that merit slow, contemplative reading. With suggestions for reflection or discussion, Beloved is a perfect accompaniment for an individual or group retreat as well as for personal listening and reading.

This book and CD is available from bookshops  at £9.99 or online from Amazon or 

byJoyce Worsfold 

"Joyce is writing from personal experience of running a Quiet Garden and her story is written with warmth, humour and deep compassion. She relates her work to the nurturing and challenging path of Jesus and to the guidance and goodness of God the Holy Spirit.

Evocative personal reminiscences and heart-warming anecdotes of those who visit Joyce's Quiet Garden interweave with biblical passages and easy-to-follow meditations and prayers. Join Joyce on her journey into Christ through the everyday delights and gifts of her own garden of grace."
Philip D Roderick, Founder-director of The Quiet Garden Movement

About the Author
Joyce Worsfold has been a `Quiet Garden' Host for 10 years. A former head teacher, lay-preacher, poet and popular speaker. She is married to a farmer and enjoys music, painting, gardens and grandchildren.

ISBN: 978-0-9539342-1-8

Price £6.99.  Please add £1 for post and packing.

This book is available directly from The Administrator, Lenacre, Lenacre Lane, Emley Moor, Huddersfield, HD8 9TW joyceworsfold@yahoo.co.uk  

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In a Quiet Garden: Meditations and Prayerful Reflections

by Brigid Boardman and Philip Jebb

Dom Philip Jebb, and before her untimely death Dr Brigid Boardman, have been much involved with the worldwide Quiet Garden Movement.  They collaborated in creating this imaginative little book of meditations and prayerful reflections which sprang from their experience of helping people to use gardens in a more effective and spiritual way.

Both well established authors, they share spiritual roots in the Christian, contemplative and monastic tradition, profoundly appreciative of God's creation. Yet there is nothing here that is not easily accessible to those of any religion or none so long as they simply love a time to be quiet and yearn to raise their minds, even for a short time, above the level of all that is clamorous in our pressured lives. 

It is a book for garden-lovers, for nature-lovers and for God-lovers. It is a book to keep or to give to friends. It is a book for indoors and especially for outdoors. It is a book for us all.

In a Quiet Garden is now offered at £6.00 or US$10 and is available from The Quiet Garden Trust, at £2 extra (£3 or US$5 overseas) for post and packing.  If paying in US$, please add $8 per order to cover extra bank charges.  Other rates available on request.

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Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place: 
a handbook for contemplative prayer

by Christine Claydon

Christine Claydon uses Jesus’ invitation from Mark 6:31- Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place as the title of her "handbook for contemplative prayer". It is not, she says "a book of meditations", but rather "an enabler" to help the reader embark on a spiritual life which includes times of listening to God or contemplative prayer. She suggests that the book be used as an aid when on retreat or during periods of personal quiet reflection, and that it should be read chapter by chapter before every designated quiet time. 

Each short chapter explores a theme or aspect of contemplative prayer, helping the beginner, or the more experienced, to focus and to be led into silent, listening prayer that draws us closer to God. As well as scriptural suggestions, Christine also includes a number of sacred poems and line drawings of Israel for the reader to meditate upon. 

Cost £4.50. Please add £1 for post and packing.

To obtain copies please contact The Quiet Garden Trust

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"Pressing on towards the goal": 
a handbook for spiritual exercise

by Christine Claydon

Christine's second book is a short guide to the Ignatian exercises.  She writes from her own experience and offers an introduction to this way of prayer.  She begins with a brief biography of Ignatius and then goes on to explain the principle of Ignatian spirituality .  

The following chapters are devoted to the four weeks of the exercises; each ends practical suggestions on ways of responding.  The text is illustrated with a number of photographs and some of her poetry.  

Cost £4.50. Please add £1 for post and packing.

To obtain copies please contact The Quiet Garden Trust