Books and Films
May 25, 2021
Brendan McManus’ experience of the Ignatian Camino, is a delightful read in which he draws on his own experience of the Ignatian journey, introduces other characters he meets along the way and holds everything together […]
May 10, 2021
by Teresa of Avila, Mirabai Starr (translator). Over the past ten weeks Faber has been presenting a course which involved reading the sixteenth century spiritual classic, The Interior Castle by St Teresa of Avila. After […]
March 31, 2021
The comfort of Water by Maya Ward (Melbourne: Transit Lounge, 2011) “I don’t like much being in cars. The smell, the speed, the sense of being away from the ground, cut off from interaction. Cars are just […]
March 3, 2021
JISA Canisius Spiritual Director, Sally Longley launches her new book Conversations with Silence to much acclaim. “Part memoir and part spiritual instruction guide, Conversations with Silence is a poetically powerful invitation to transform our lives and authenticate […]
February 8, 2021
Teilhard’s Mysticism: Seeing the Inner Face of Evolution by Kathleen Duffy, SSJ Written in 2014 by Kathleen Duffy, SSJ, PhD, who is currently the President of the American Teilhard Association and is also Professor Emerita of […]
October 26, 2020
This is a film that will hold you enthralled even though it involves only two characters over the course of one year. Craig Foster has left his stressful job and returned to a place of […]
September 14, 2020
Cosmic Sparks by Margie Abbott rsm This book of prayer services is an amazing collection of quotations, song, litanies, prayers, video clips and rituals that encourages us to explore and express our relationship with Mother Earth. Margie […]
August 13, 2020
Peter Saunders, founder of the JISA Being with God in Nature Ministry reviews Brian Grogan’s new book, Finding God in a Leaf. Pope Francis’ in his encyclical, Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home (2015) says, […]