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This stunning collection of prayers from women throughout the Anglican Communion is organized according to themes of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals.

It makes direct connections between women’s personal lives and global concerns of women everywhere, showing the interrelatedness, for example, between a woman’s prayer for her infant in America and the plight of child laborers in developing countries.

The prayer selections are representative of women from of all parts of the Anglican world. Members of the editorial board include Jane Williams, Phoebe Griswold, plus women from Asia, South America, and the Middle East

Covita Moroney of SAVAE with Mary Earle

Tracing one woman’s rediscovery of her personal, inner connection to the Divine, the songs from Sofia’s Table echo experiences of many women on this path.

Covita Moroney’s open-hearted vocals, soaring melodies, and rich instrumentations invite the listener into a sacred space of unconditional acceptance, where everyone has a place. All are welcome to partake of– Sofia’s– banquet.

The vivid imagery of Mary Earle’s poetry is woven into this recording. Read by the author, these works complement a musical journey of discovery and wholeness.

These meditations on living with illness are enriched with the music of Ben Bowen King’s “The Laying on of Songs”, available from Amazon.com or CD Baby.

“This rich, wise, and comforting guide for those living with illness is a handbook of deep knowledge gleaned through lived experience. It is a blend of realism and humility, of questions and mystery – all delivered with Mary’s simple yet elegant style. She unmasks many illusions and reminds us that though our lives are “short and uncertain,” there is unfathomable power each time we realize that we have another day.”

Paula D’Arcy, author of Gift of the Red Bird and Waking Up to This Day (2009). [Read more...]

Spiritual Practices from Women of the Wilderness

“The Desert Mothers can lead us to see our daily lives as ‘the very habitat of God,’ and show us ‘ways of becoming new.’”

Deborah Smith Douglas, author of The Praying Life: Seeking God in All Things.

“The Desert Mothers are often overshadowed by the better known Desert Fathers, but these women who went to the wilderness to pursue deep prayer deserve to be heard. Mary Earle has taken nine concise sayings from the Desert Mothers and explored them in original ways.” [Read more...]

Celtic spirituality, with its rich history, sense of wonder, reverence for nature and colorful personalities, has an enduring appeal. The Celtic prayer tradition is practical, down-to-earth, and thoroughly sacramental. Theirs is a way of prayer that remains living and vital for the new millennium.

In Praying With The Celtic Saints, Mary Earle and Sylvia Maddox introduce fifteen unique prayer companions–mail, female, heroic, holy, gentle, visionary–who accompany us into a tradition deeply grounded in the Trinity and the Incarnation.

This is not so much a book about these saints as it is a method of being with these saints on your journey. It is a book to be used, and in using, awakening a deep sense of God’s near presence in daily life.

This book is out of print but currently available at Viva Books.

Journey along with eighteen Celtic saints in Holy Companions, and explore how the lives they lived long ago can shed light on twenty-first century living. Discover how their spiritual practices, or practices inspired by their writings and teachings, help us become aware of human needs and God’s gracious presence in the face of those needs. These saints of long ago offer us much that is healing and strengthening as we walk with Christ into an unknown future.

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Kaleidoscope: “an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical patterns by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.”(p. 1043, Random House Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd edition, 1987) This is the initial image author Mary Earle uses when she describes what serious or chronic illness does to a person’s life; as an image it works extremely well because she is right when she says that “illness turns the lens whether we want it turned or not.”

The Reverend Mary C. Earle is an Episcopalian cleric whose personal life, parish ministry, and graduate studies were intruded upon rudely in 1995 by an initial attack of pancreatitis. Occasional bouts since, of what is now a chronic condition, have required that she make adjustments in her life, in the way she opts to cope with most everything. So whatever creative and lovely patterns existed in her personal kaleidoscope up to that date, the shifting bits of glass of illness brought unwanted new designs, but ones that have had their own intrigue and beauty. How so? [Read more...]