Joyce Rupp

This delightful blessing is the perfect birthday gift for cherished friends and family members. Its twelve expressive verses, each accompanied by an evocative image, call to mind the many ways that God's sustaining and supportive care is present each day. With the touch of a poet, Joyce Rupp calls forth a spirit of gratitude and wonder for the gift of being alive. With content appropriate for any depth of relationship, this booklet has a page for personal inscription and makes a thoughtful present for the person who seems to have everything.

Rupp's poetry and prose alongside Southard's art emphasize the kinship of all creation.

Joyce Rupp is well known for her best-selling books on spiritual growth, but she is also the author of numerous books on grief and consolation, including "Praying Our Goodbyes" and her recently published "Now That Youve Gone Home: Courage and Comfort for Times of Grief," from which this booklet is drawn. Priced no more than a sympathy card, and easy to mail or carry in a purse, "May You Find Comfort" offers an elegant prayer and meditation in a beautiful layout, expressing the deep care and concern of the faith community.

Catholic author Joyce Rupp guides readers toward a warmly personal understanding of Sophia, the feminine personification of wisdom. Rupp exploys visual metaphors for each chapter to reveal how Sophia guides us through the inner processes of spiritual growth.

Reissued on its tenth anniversary, May I Walk You Home? remains an invaluable resource for professional caregivers and loved ones assisting someone on their final journey home. Accompanied by the experience and empathy of hospice educator Joyce Hutchison and the wisdom and inspiration of best-selling author Joyce Rupp, readers will discover the courage necessary to embrace the struggles and rewards of this final companionship.

A compassionate, spiritual work about soothing the sting of any kind of loss--a job change, the end of a friendship or of youth, or the death of a loved one. This thoughtful work focuses on the spirituality of change. Sister Joyce Rupp offers topics for reflection and discussion, as well as specific prayers, to heal the hurts of everyday life and death.

The long-awaited book from best-selling spiritual guide Joyce Rupp, creatively leads readers to explore how the image of the door can guide them in a process of discovering their true self. Joyce Rupp brings new life to the ageless spiritual image of the door, weaving insights from East and West with the wisdom of contemporary spiritual writers, poets, and novelists in a practical format that is just right for contemporary readers. Structured as a daily prayer guide for everyday use over six weeks, each day offers a thematic reflection, a guided meditation, an original prayer, a thoughtful question, and a related scripture quote. A built-in guide for small groups makes this the perfect resource for groups of all kinds as well as individuals.

This revised edition of Joyce Rupp's best-selling book "May I Have This Dance?" has been updated with new guided meditations for each month of the year. Joyce Rupp invites readers to join God in the dance of life. She explores twelve themes, including "The Road to Life" and "The Playground of God," following each with prayer suggestions such as litanies, guided meditations, and journal keeping. Readers will be delighted to accept the invitation to dance with the Divine Partner - a dance of truth and wholeness - throughout the seasons of the year.

A landmark series developed by Orbis Books and Benziger, "Christ Jesus, The Way: Catholic Spirituality for Adults" is wonderful spiritual reading and ideal for use in parish education. You won't find better authors writing today on the heart of Catholic faith.

This book enables you to experience spirituality in everyday life and reflect on the world around you with the help of poems and prayers. It is a twentieth anniversary edition of a classic work, which is as popular today as ever.

This book describes the humour, heartbreak and adventure of Rupp's 47-day, 450-mile trek along the famous Spanish pilgrimage route Camino de Santiago. Photographs and a map of the route invites readers to travel along the dusty track as the pilgrims did 450 years before.

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.

In this collection of scriptural reflections and prayers, Joyce Rupp offers us the encouragement we so often require to stop and pray.

With the exquisite prose and poetry that has always graced her writing, Joyce Rupp mines the multiple meanings of important images in the Bible, in order to get us through our own rough moments. Included are: the prophecy of Simeon, the flight into Egypt, Jesus lost in the temple, Mary seeing Jesus carrying the cross, Mary at the foot of the cross, Mary receiving Jesus' dead body, and Jesus being laid in the tomb.

Joyce Rupp shares her own midlife journey—its ups and downs—with such honesty and insight that you will surely identify with and benefit from the discoveries she has made along the way. Among them we can find wisdom in the wounds we've carried from birth onward, and these wounds can heal; past regrets must be let go lest they cling to us and drain our energy for life; the loving part of us can always out-wrestle the hating part; surprises of beauty and talent in us wait to be discovered and shared; some of what we thought to be unbreakable truth is now shattered pottery and unmendable; and our struggle to name God and to find a spirituality that enlivens and enriches our existence is less complex than we first thought.

A hope-filled book that reaches into the human heart and encourages the reader to approach painful inner darkness as a help rather than a hindrance for personal growth. †