To bless the space between us a book of blessings
| Main Author: | O'Donohue, John, 1956-2008. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Doubleday,
c2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Beginnings
- Matins
- A morning offering
- A blessing for the new year
- In praise of fire
- For a new beginning
- For light
- For the artist at the start of day
- For a new home
- For a new position
- Desires
- For eros
- For freedom
- For love in a time of conflict
- A blessing of angels
- For longing
- In praise of air
- For the senses
- For presence
- For friendship
- For belonging
- For absence
- Thresholds
- For your birthday
- For the traveller
- For a mother to be
- For a new father
- For a friend on the arrival of illness
- At the threshold of womanhood
- At the threshold of manhood
- For the parents of one who has commited crime
- For a parent on the death of a child
- For old age
- For death
- To learn from animal being
- In praise of water
- Homecomings
- As a child enters the world
- In praise of the earth
- For a mother
- For a father
- Grace before meals
- Grace after meals
- For a brother or a sister
- On waking
- On meeting a stranger
- On passing a graveyard
- To come home to yourself
- At the end of the day : a mirror of questions
- Before sleep
- States of heart
- For courage
- For an exile
- For solitude
- For an addict
- For failure
- For grief
- For the interim time
- For beauty
- For a prisoner
- For suffering
- For one who is exhausted
- For equilibrium
- For loneliness
- Callings
- For priesthood
- For marriage
- Elemental blessing for a new home
- For the farmer
- For a nurse
- For the time of necessary decision
- For the unknown self
- For work
- For one who holds power
- For citizenship
- For a leader
- Axioms for wildness
- Beyond endings
- At the end of the year
- The inner history of a day
- For the family and friends of a suicide
- For broken trust
- For the break up of a relationship
- For retirement
- For someone awakening to the trauma of their past
- On the death of the beloved
- For someone who did you wrong
- After a destructive encounter
- For celebration
- For lost friends
- Entering death
- For the dying
- Vespers
- To retrieve the lost art of blessing
- The eyes of Jesus.