For This I Came
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For This I Came

Spiritual wisdom for priesthood and ministry

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

For This I Came

Spiritual wisdom for priesthood and ministry

About this book

Taking the famous Gerard Manley Hopkins poem on vocation 'As Kingfishers Catch Fire' and the Lord's Prayer as its framework, For This I Came offers seventy reflections on the spirituality of priesthood to encourage and sustain all in ministry. Wyn Beynon brings a depth of wisdom and tools for reflection in the form of short poetic and prayerful aphorisms. Memorable, profound, challenging and assuring, his writing is a rich source for meditation and for growth in character and ministry. Eschewing measures of success and failure and affirming the nature of the priestly calling, he brings a countercultural voice shaped by forty years of ministry and helping to train priests. This is an ideal gift for ordination or for those beginning their training, or for exhausted priests looking to renew their original vision.

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Table of contents

  1. Copyright information
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Introduction
  5. As Kingfishers Catch Fire
  6. The Priest
  7. Prayer
  8. What I do is me: for this I came
  9. 1 Holiness, wisdom and mercy
  10. 2 Stuck in the middle
  11. 3 The scandal of the particular
  12. 4 Doing into being
  13. 5 Love and the image of God
  14. 6 This-ness
  15. 7 Hiraeth, lament and joy: hope
  16. 8 Discipleship
  17. 9 Mercy triumphs over judgement
  18. 10 No longer ego
  19. 11 Humility and humiliation
  20. 12 Holiness
  21. For Christ plays in ten thousand places
  22. 13 The kingdom is not
  23. 14 Godly wisdom
  24. 15 Patience
  25. 16 The body and its weight
  26. 17 Virtually valueless
  27. 18 The power of keys
  28. 19 Prayer
  29. 20 The end of all things is at hand
  30. 21 ‘If you wish, you can be all flame’
  31. 22 Anamnesis
  32. 23 Remembering who we are
  33. 24 The great thanksgiving
  34. Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
  35. 25 The church does not have a mission
  36. 26 When our bodies lie in the dust
  37. 27 Speaking
  38. 28 Pzazz
  39. 29 ‘Tell all the truth, but tell it slant’
  40. 30 Beware of the dogs, the cutters
  41. 31 Union
  42. 32 Wrath
  43. 33 From glory to glory
  44. 34 Stewards of the mysteries of God
  45. 35 No longer ego
  46. 36 The last laugh
  47. For thine is the kingdom, power and the glory
  48. 37 Power and control
  49. 38 The God delusion
  50. 39 Things to come
  51. Now abide: faith, hope and love, these three
  52. 40 Faith, hope and love
  53. 41 Faith is love asserting itself
  54. 42 Hope is love seeing beyond the inevitable death of all things
  55. 43 Love is not an emotion
  56. 44 This triad is not a linear progression
  57. 45 Let hope keep you joyful
  58. 46 Faith is knowing we are loved
  59. Joyful, simple and merciful, according to the gospel
  60. 47 Joyful
  61. 48 Simple
  62. 49 Merciful
  63. This, here, now
  64. 50 This, here, now
  65. The anatomy of apathy
  66. 51 Heart
  67. 52 Breath
  68. 53 Blood
  69. The marks of a Jesus-shaped mission
  70. 54 The cross
  71. 55 The Christ child
  72. 56 The man Christ Jesus
  73. 57 Cock crow
  74. 58 The purple robe
  75. 59 The nail-pierced hands and feet and the spear-pierced side
  76. 60 The crown of thorns