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