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    Giving Attention: Becoming what we truly are
    Giving Attention: Becoming what we truly are
    Giving Attention: Becoming what we truly are
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    Giving Attention: Becoming what we truly are

    By Michael Mayne

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    This collection of exquisite meditations is vintage Michael Mayne. Originally given as a series of retreat addresses, it focuses on timeless aspects of spiritual experience and means of growth:



    • Discovering the gifts of silence

    • Redemption at work in human life

    • Seeing with the heart

    • Cultivating a true and proper self-regard



    All who enjoy Michael Mayne’s writing will delight in these previously unpublished reflections.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCanterbury Press
    Release dateJan 30, 2019
    ISBN9781786221025
    Giving Attention: Becoming what we truly are
    Author

    Michael Mayne

    Michael Mayne remains one of the Church of England's most gifted and influential voices a decade after his death. Previously Head of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC, he served as Dean of Westminster Abbey until his retirement.

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      Giving Attention - Michael Mayne

      To John and Ann Woody

      Acclaim for Michael Mayne

      Responding to the Light: Reflections on Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

      These brief, humane and inclusive homilies, peppered with dry humour, unfold the paradox of a Christ-like God who stoops to heal his wounded creatures and wash their feet.  Church Times

      Dust that Dreams of Glory: Reflections on Lent and Holy Week

      Marked by his characteristic economy of language, and an enviable ability to convey theological insight and pastoral wisdom with humanity, clarity and unshowy learning, and an utter lack of preacherly condescension. This is not theology incorporated into preaching, but theology that is formed in the act of preaching, and every word counts.  Church Times

      Alleluia is Our Song: Reflections on Easter and Pentecost

      As always and enviably, Mayne speaks with a hard-won simplicity of what he has found to be the central truths of the faith.  Church Times

      Contents

      Title

      Dedication

      Acclaim for Michael Mayne

      Acknowledgements

      Foreword by Terry Waite

      Introduction

      1  A Golden Thread of Silence

      2  Redemption

      3  Seeing with the Heart

      4  A True and Proper Self-Regard

      Index of Scripture References

      Index of Names

      Copyright

      Acknowledgements

      A warm note of thanks to Alison Mayne for her gracious support of my work on her husband’s unpublished papers, and for our friendship.

      Martyn Percy and Christopher Collingwood were most helpful in the early stages of this project.

      Thanks to Christine Smith and the team at Canterbury Press for sharing my passion for bringing more of Michael Mayne’s unpublished work into print.

      The people of St Luke’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland, Tennessee, have been wonderfully supportive of sabbaticals in 2009 and 2016, during which much of my research on Michael Mayne’s unpublished papers has taken place.

      Debbie Huffstetler has partnered with me at every stage of this project. Thank you, my love.

      The royalties from this book are donated to Emmaus UK in honour of Alison Mayne and in memory of Michael Mayne.

      Joel W. Huffstetler

      4 July 2018

      Foreword

      Terry Waite

      It is most appropriate that royalties from this book will be given to Emmaus, the charity for the homeless founded by a French priest the Abbé Pierre. The following poem sums up in a few words the man himself:

      I see him now,

      Striding forth

      Along Parisian streets.

      Unmistakably a cleric.

      Beret,

      White beard,

      Cassock,

      Eyes that pierced indifference

      And warmed

      With compassion.

      No altar chained this man,

      No Church controlled his life.

      He was poor with the poor,

      Sad with the sad,

      Hopeful with the despairing.

      He walked the Parisian streets

      As Christ walked to Emmaus.

      Michael Mayne in this eloquent series of four short reflections sums up exactly what lay at the heart of the Abbé’s spirituality, which is to give attention to ourselves, to God and to other people.

      In founding Emmaus, following World War Two, the Abbé gave practical expression to his beliefs. Central to the philosophy of Emmaus lies the understanding that all men and women, regardless of their culture, creed or ethnic identity, have their dignity as children of God. In his wisdom, the Abbé did not found a religious organization. It was never his intention to preach to the homeless. Rather he chose to walk alongside them and in so doing to enable

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