LATEST C.T.S. PAMPHLETS

Prayer, history and thought
Open to God by Peter Knott S.J. (35p). Reflections on the many ways of praying: asking God for something, thanking Him, praising Him, or just being with Him in silence.
Fr Peter Knott is Superior and Parish Priest of the Jesuit church in Farm Street.
The Virgin of (he Poor: The Apparitions at Banneux by Damien Walne and Joan Flory (40p). Fifty years ago this month on January 15, 1933, Our Lady appeared eight times to a young Belgian girl in the small village of Banneux. She came as "The Virgin of the PoOr", the special friend of the poor, the unemployed and the sick, and the message she gave to us was, "Pray a lot".
The Story of Glastonbury by Dom Aelred Watkin OSB (50p). Glastonbury has been described as the cradle of Christianity in this country. In this pamphlet Dom Aelred Welkin, Titular Abbot of
Glastonbury, tells the colourful story of this holy and mysterious place.
The Bishop of Clifton and the Anglican Bishop of Bath and Wells have contributed a joint Preface to this revised edition of Dom Aelred's pamphlet, first published in 1960.
Blessed Gabriella of Unity by Herbert Keldany (25p). Fr
Herbert Keldany has represented the Westminster Diocese on the Ecumenical Commission of the Bishops' Conference since the Commission's foundation in 1967. Ile has had generous co-operation in preparing the text from the Abbot of Nunraw and Bro Jonathan, the archivist at Mount St Bernard Abbey, Leicester, as it was in the Cistercian Trappist tradition that Sr Gabriella found her vocation.
John the Baptist by Francis Fenn S.J. (30p). We have it from our Lord himself that "amongst those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist." In this pamphlet, Father Francis Fenn introduces us to this great gospel figure, who prepared the way for Jesus by his preaching and pointed Him out when He came.
Jacques Maritain by Marie and Tony Shannon (35p). Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was a French philosopher who brought the thought of the great medieval theologian, St Thomas Aquinas, to a new generation of Catholics.
This booklet introduces us to his teaching, and describes his long and eventful life, which included conversion as a Young Man, many years teaching at the Institut Catholique in Paris, a spell after the war as French Ambassador to the Vatican, and a visit to the second Vatican Council.