Letting go of what we cherish is one of the hardest things we ever have to do. And that includes letting go of jobs, homes, relationships, good health, illusions, self-importance, and even loved ones. But unless we learn to say goodbye as well as hello, we are crippled by our suffering. This tender and realistic book can be your personal guide to accepting our inevitable goodbyes even as it reminds us that when we are suffering most deeply, the seed of hope still lives within us. Discover the emotions that goodbyes awaken and turn to the twenty-four specific prayers designed to help you deal with nearly every imaginable kind of loss. PRAYING OUR GOODBYES should not be kept for special occasions, however, for its poetic wisdom offers the means of enriching every day, of saying hello and goodbye to every precious moment of life.

Praying Our Goodbyes

Joyce Rupp

Religion & Spirituality

Ave Maria Press

Readers will find here a unique invitation to join with God in the dance of life, an invitation to experience God in the daily and seasonal rhythms of life.

May I Have This Dance?

Worship & Devotion

Ave Maria Pr

Joyce Rupp's bestselling contemporary classic has sold over 200,000 copies. This new edition continues a fifteen-year tradition of helping individuals and groups pray. Now with a new preface and fresh design, The Cup of Our Life is available to anyone seeking a more intimate and disciplined life of prayer. Joyce Rupp, the bestselling Catholic woman writer today, illustrates how the ordinary cups used each day can become sacred vessels that connect readers with life and bring them into closer union with the Divine. She explores how the cup is a rich symbol of life, with its emptiness and fullness, its brokenness and flaws, and its many blessings. With daily devotions for six weeks, this book is ideal for individual usage as well as group usage in parish settings, religious communities, and small Christian communities.

The Cup of Our Life: A Guide to Spiritual Growth

Christian Books & Bibles

Mission Audio

These prayerful chants are a wonderful companion to individual or group prayer. The simple, evocative melodies are easily memorized and sung. The rich texts express the various movements of our hearts in prayer, encouraging us to open ourselves to God in silent and "come a little deeper, a little further."Tracks include:Singing Our Souls Back HomeSalutationShelter MeLet God Come inI Open to YouBeautiful BelovedLead Me in Your LoveLooking Down the RoadDarkness, SilenceAt Home in My HeartCome a Little FurtherIn God We Live I Am on My Way

I Open to You: Chants

Twelve new guided meditations, created for the new edition of May I Have This Dance?, read by Joyce Rupp.

May I Have This Dance?: Guided Meditations

Self-Help

Stress Management

With 250,000 copies sold, this new edition of Joyce Rupp's most popular book offers a fresh opportunity for readers to reflect, ritualize, and reorient themselves as they navigate life's inevitable changes. Everyone has unique goodbyes--times of losing someone or something that has given life meaning and value. With the touch of a poet, Joyce Rupp offers her wisdom on "these experiences of leaving behind and moving on, the stories of union and separation that are written in all our hearts." Praying Our Goodbyes, Rupp says, is about the spirituality of change. It is a book for anyone who has experienced loss, whether a job change, the end of a relationship, the death of a loved one, a financial struggle, a mid-life crisis, or an extended illness. It is designed to help readers reflect, ritualize, and re-orient themselves--to help heal the hurts caused by goodbyes and the anxieties encountered when one season of life ends and another begins.

Relationships

We are meant to be hope-filled people, says noted spiritual writer and Living Faith contributor Joyce Rupp, but how do we keep an enduring sense of hope in a society where divisiveness and hostility doggedly work against it? In this beautiful and profound book, Rupp helps us follow the only path that leads to real hope: the path of building our relationship with the Holy One who dwells within us. 
 Based on the seasons of the liturgical year, and suffused with real-life wisdom, Joyce Rupp s Constant Hope will be an invaluable companion on your journey of faith, leading you to the One who has been encouraging and wooing you to enter more fully into relationship, and helping you respond in hope and joy to the love that God constantly offers.

Constant Hope Constant Hope: Reflections and Meditations to Strengthen the Spirit Reflections and Meditations to Strengthen the Spirit

Twenty-Third Publications

God's Enduring Presence: Strength for the Spiritual Journey

Columba Press

Now in a beautiful new companion book, Joyce courageously offers fifty prayers from her personal journal. Rather than presenting an intellectual study or theological debate on the subject of Sophia, her words share a relationship with Sophia that is steeped in life experience and enriched with poetic metaphor. The added touches of quotations from the Wisdom literature, questions for personal reflection, and suggestions for journaling combine to gently nudge seekers toward the discovery of new riches on their spiritual journey.

Prayers to Sophia

Innisfree Pr

We long for connections in the midst of disconnected lives--connections to ourselves, to others, to the world we live in. Most of all we yearn to connect with the sacred. In The Circle of Life Joyce Rupp and Macrina Wiederkehr invite us to listen carefully and closely to the wisdom of each season. Using reflections, poems, prayers, and meditations, they explore the relationship between the seasons of the earth and the seasons of our lives. The Circle of Life encourages readers to connect their experience of the unfolding seasons with inner spiritual growth and movement, and to know that the presence of God is within and around us all.

The Circle of Life: The Heart's Journey Through the Seasons

Macrina Wiederkehr

Sorin Books

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Praying Our Goodbyes

May I Have This Dance?

The Cup of Our Life: A Guide to Spiritual Growth

I Open to You: Chants

May I Have This Dance?: Guided Meditations

Praying Our Goodbyes

Constant Hope Constant Hope: Reflections and Meditations to Strengthen the Spirit Reflections and Meditations to Strengthen the Spirit

God's Enduring Presence: Strength for the Spiritual Journey

Prayers to Sophia

The Circle of Life: The Heart's Journey Through the Seasons