Notes from a Eucharistic Life
Published on 5. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
70 pages
978-1-78864-984-1 (ISBN)
Description
How do we relate the different parts of our lives, our identities and roles? In Notes from a Eucharistic Life, Manon Ceridwen James explores the range of stories we tell about ourselves and the stories others tell about us-mother, woman, Welsh, priest, lecturer, sports fan, consumer... Each call for attention, sometimes integrating, sometimes competing for space.
There is a sense of movement in the service of the Eucharist that is captured in these poems-from welcome, through confession and listening to the 'Word', to the final dismissal-and these elements are not only present in a religious life. Confession, in the poetry of Notes from a Eucharistic Life, becomes a tool for exploring truth, with humour as well as precision; the 'Word' opens up questions of voice and language...
Above all, what unites the pieces in this collection is the sense that all of it can be given thanks for, all of it is sacred.
There is a sense of movement in the service of the Eucharist that is captured in these poems-from welcome, through confession and listening to the 'Word', to the final dismissal-and these elements are not only present in a religious life. Confession, in the poetry of Notes from a Eucharistic Life, becomes a tool for exploring truth, with humour as well as precision; the 'Word' opens up questions of voice and language...
Above all, what unites the pieces in this collection is the sense that all of it can be given thanks for, all of it is sacred.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Blaenau Ffestiniog
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
99 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78864-984-1 (9781788649841)
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Manon Ceridwen James has been published in a variety of magazines including Poetry Wales, Poetry Scotland, Envoi and Under the Radar. A former parish priest, she was one of the first women to be ordained in the Church in Wales. She is Dean (for Initial Ministerial Training) at the St Padarn's Institute, Cardiff, Canon Theologian at Newport Cathedral, and is poetry editor of Practical Theology. She gained a PhD researching Welsh women's identity in 2015 from the University of Birmingham and published her book Women, Identity and Religion in Wales: Theology, Story, Poetry with the University of Wales Press in 2018. She teaches Theology and Popular Culture for the St Padarn's Institute, is an amateur stand-up comedian and a proud member of the Red Wall, the Wales / Cymru's football team's fans. Her daughters, Miriam and Catrin, have now left home and she lives in Abergele with her husband, Dylan.