Pauline Book Centre, Sydney

07/05/2025

SPIRITUALITY
Discerning with the Heart: Praying for Guidance and Vision
by GUNILLA NORRIS

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“Discerning with the Heart” is a reflective guide to seeking spiritual clarity and direction through prayer. Drawing from her background as a psychotherapist, Norris combines psychological insight with spiritual wisdom to help readers engage in the process of discernment. The book emphasises listening to the heart, cultivating inner stillness, and discerning God’s guidance in daily life. With practical exercises, meditations, and prayers, Norris invites readers to trust in their intuition and the transformative power of prayer. “Discerning with the Heart” offers a compassionate approach to seeking vision and guidance in times of uncertainty.

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05/05/2025

CLASSICS
Healed by Love: Contemplation as a Path of Healing According to St. John of the Cross
by DANIEL CHOWNING

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Find healing through the path of contemplative prayer, which is God’s self-communication in love and awakens within us our own need for transformation.
God has planted in our hearts an insatiable longing to love and be loved, that is, to love God, others, and creation with the very love of God. We know, however, from our human experience, that we fail to love as we desire with all our hearts. In “Healed by Love”, Carmelite Friar Daniel Chowning urges those in need of healing to seek refuge in the spiritual doctrine of St. John of the Cross.

03/05/2025

PSYCHOLOGY
8 Ways to Hope: Charting a Path through Uncertain Times
by WILLIAM R. MILLER

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You can’t take a leap of faith without it. It lets you dream of a brighter future. And, in a world worn down by political conflict, climate change, war, and other perils, many fear losing it. Pioneering psychologist William R. Miller takes a fresh look at hope and its transformative potential in this concise, compassionate book. He identifies eight different facets of hope that even die-hard pessimists can cultivate in order to clarify their goals, envision new possibilities, find purpose, enhance motivation, and persevere against tough odds. Vivid personal stories, historical examples, and cutting-edge scientific findings reveal how choosing hope over fear can be a powerful force for change.

02/05/2025

SPIRITUALITY
Sunflower Seeds of Hope: Reflections and Prayers to Nourish Your Faith
by MELANNIE SVOBODA

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Melannie Svoboda intends this book for people who are curious about God, the natural world, daily life, spirituality – and the inter-play among them. It's for people who are drawn to prayer as well as those who struggle with prayer. As well as people who are trying to find God in the events and circumstances they see in the world today, desiring to experience God in their everyday life.

Spirituality

01/05/2025

SPIRITUALTY
Hanging onto Hope: Reflections and Prayers for Finding Good in an Imperfect World
by MELANNIE SVOBODA

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A purple petunia growing through a crack in the sidewalk...two small sparrows perched on a roof... Our world is yearning for signs of hope, and with images like these, Melannie Svoboda helps us open our hearts to hope, even in the darkest of times. Here, she explores the relationships between hope and faith, love, courage, prayer, pain, and sorrow. She also offers short prayers and questions for personal reflection or group sharing. This beautiful, touching book is perfect for prayerful meditation. With all the demands of our contemporary world, this enlightening book offers an opportunity to pause, rest, and renew our trust in God.

Spirituality

30/04/2025

GIFTS
Have Hope: 365 Encouraging Poems, Prayers, and Meditations for Daily Inspiration
by MAGGIE OMAN SHANNON

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In the twenty-first century, the need for hope is more compelling and crucial than ever before as we collectively navigate such unforeseen challenges as a global pandemic that effectively stopped the busyness of life as we have known it, and much more.
This collection offers:
- wisdom from people of every era, faith and identity
- 365 inspirational readings that reference actual events that have been the result of, and a source of, hope.

29/04/2025

THEOLOGY
Questioning God
by TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE & LUCASZ POPKO

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“Questioning God” explores Biblical conversations with God - and there is no genuine conversation without true questions. Our God questions us, from the first conversation of God and humanity in the Bible, where God asks Adam, “Where are you?,” to the Risen Lord's question to Peter on the beach: “Do you love me more than these others?” But humanity questions God too, as in the audacious questioning of Jesus by the Samaritan woman at the well. In this process of mutual questioning, humanity is drawn ever deeper into the life of God, the eternal conversation of the Trinity. Insights into these transformative conversations are helpful as the Church questions how to be faithful to God in these uncertain times.

28/04/2025

BIOGRAPHIES
While I Breathe, I Hope: A Mystagogy of Dying
by RICHARD R GAILLARDETZ

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Diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, theologian Dr. Richard R. Gaillardetz started sharing his thoughts and reflections on the website CaringBridge and signed off each entry with the Latin phrase "dum spiro, spero" ("While I breathe, I hope"). In his chronologically compiled essays, Richard moves through his final season of life seeking insight from his Christian faith, while discovering new meaning in the signs and symbols that mark familiar liturgical seasons and celebrations. He explores fears and doubts, joys and sufferings, and the graces and blessings he encounters along his final journey. With shots of humour, a few sports analogies, and a sprinkling of quotes from Karl Rahner, Richard offers wisdom for all in his poignant exploration of what it means to be a person of faith, entering the paschal mystery, ever hopeful for the life to come.

22/04/2025

In gratitude for Pope Francis' extraordinary leadership, for his witness to holiness, and for his unwavering commitment to the Gospel.
Through our ministry in our Pauline Book Centres, we have witnessed the incredible influence of Pope Francis' teaching on the life and thinking of the Church, at every level and throughout his papacy.

19/04/2025