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Focusing on Durham Cathedral, this book offers explorations of prayer in the context of the idea of holy places and would appeal to anyone interested in using places known to them to help develop their own experience of prayer. 'A holy place...is a place that becomes a 'gateway to heaven', writes Chris Cook, 'a place in which we are aware of the presence of God.' These places may be geographical or architectural, or they may be metaphorical: places of loss, or achievement, or transition. This book explores prayer in holy spaces: physical places where we can go to be nearer to God. It is focused on one particular place - Durham Cathedral (voted the country's best-loved building) - but it is designed to enable the reader to explore prayer in other holy places also. It is a practical guide to prayer which takes into account different personality types as well as the physical environment, and uses all of these to help the reader to draw closer to God.
Contents
Preface: How this book came to be written; Chapter One; Introduction: Finding God in a holy place; Chapter Two; Finding a holy place: Durham Cathedral; Chapter Three; An invitation to pray: The nave and the body of the church; Chapter Four; Daily prayer: The Quire and Sanctuary; Chapter Five; Praying on the margins: The Galilee Chapel; Chapter Six; Pilgrim prayer: The Chapel of the Nine Altars; Chapter Seven; Contemplative prayer: The Feretory; Chapter Eight; Reflections on place, prayer and personality; Bibliography.
