Welcome to Medio Media
Medio Media is WCCM's bookshop. The main online facility can be found at www.mediomedia.org but everything is priced in US dollars and distribution is normally restricted to the USA and Canada.
However, Medio Media also have a branch in London which takes telephone orders and can usually deliver goods within a couple of days. The London Centre may also be able to get items from the US site posted to the UK if they are not stocked in this country. Many of the items on the USA site are available from the London branch but does not stock all of the books on contemplative prayer, meditation aids and gift items.
You can download the UK Medio Media Catalogue here and you can contact Medio Media on 020-7278-2070 Monday to Friday during normal office hours. Also see the new products available below.
New in July 2010
Meditation - The Way of Faith (2009) Laurence Freeman OSB Not just Belief . A new understanding of Faith To live in faith is to live in love. Belief, orthodoxy, morality and culture will be coloured by their faith context, but the essence of faith is selftranscendence. Faith is our capacity to go beyond the self-centred priorities of our ego and to centre in another, in God, where we find unity, love. So faith is a way of living and also a process of growth. And it requires not just time but also the will. The person of faith makes this growth process the central value in all they do and in all their relationships. Faith therefore is an important determining factor not just for our personal and spiritual lives but also for our social life, our political life, and our civilization. Meditation, Fr Laurence says, makes us see the meaning of being a faithful human being. Repeating the mantra, returning to it throughout the meditation, takes us beyond selfconsciousness to a place of union where the prayer of Christ is fulfilled: IIMay they all be one as we are one." Three audio CDs from the Fara Sabaina Retreat, Italy, 2009 Product Code: #6164 Price: £13.50 You can download a flier with full details of this product here |
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Wholeness and Holiness Fr Joe Pereira Fr Joe Pereira speaks of the body as a vessel of holiness which needs to be integrated with the mind and spirit in coming to wholeness. One cause of distractions in meditation, he says, can be due to a lack of physical conditioning. Fr Joe teaches some simple breathing and stretching exercises to prepare the body for meditation and help in sitting 'upright and still' as John Main taught. "There are two energies in the body, " Fr Joe explains, lithe energy of life which is in the spine, and the energy of intelligence which is mainly in the front brain. When the energy of life is made to move upwards, and the energy of intelligence is made to drop downwards, they meet in the heart. " Then concentration is easier. Yoga, he says, can help many meditators to let go of the ego and to welcome the Spirit of the Risen Lord dwelling in our hearts. Four audio CDs Product Code: #6165 Price: £15.50 You can download a flier with full details of this product here |
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John Main - A Biography Paul Harris This booklet tells the story of John Main through Book 88pp Product Code: #6015 Price: £6.25 You can download a flier with full details of this product here |
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When God Disappears Extracts from the 2009 John Main Seminar Robert Kennedy, the author of Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit and Zen Gifts to Christians, is one of three Jesuits in the world called ‘Roshi’ or Zen Master. He is also a psychotherapist and professor of theology at St Peter’s College in New Jersey. He is a representative of the Institute for Spiritual Consciousness in Politics at the United Nations. As a Christian Fr Kennedy has found meaning and deep reverence in the practice of Zen Buddhism. He conducts sesshins (Zen retreats) in the United States, Mexico and Ireland. They reflect the Jesuit statement on mission and inter-religious dialogue, which calls on Jesuits to be familiar with other religious traditions and even immerse with them in theological exchange and a dialogue of life, action and religious experience. While still young Fr Kennedy went to Japan to teach at the Jesuit University in Tokyo. He found himself confronted by a foreign culture indifferent to Christianity and to much that was dear to him. This incited him to enter into dialogue with Zen. In these talks given at the John Main Seminar 2009 Fr Kennedy uses the traditional Zen approach to teaching through questioning and through art. The talks are structured around twelve koans (a story, question, or statement whose meaning can't be accessed by rational thinking, yet may be understood by intuition). The koans, beautifully illustrated by Amy Yee’s paintings and by Fr Kennedy’s calligraphy, can be found in the elegant leaflet enclosed with the CDs. Four audio CDs Product Code: #6166 Price: £22.50 You can download a flier with full details of this product here |
New in February 2010
The Shape of a Wave (2009) Monte Oliveto Talks Laurence Freeman OSB "What is the meaning of life?" The universal question. In the fourth century, John Cassian travelled to the Egyptian desert to seek the answer from Abba Moses. In these talks, Fr Laurence unites ancient and modern perspectives using the metaphor of a wave - a dispersion of energy from a point of origin revealing the deep meaning caught in the flow of love itself. Meditation within the practice of love and prayer brings clarity and acceptance to the seeker. 5 CDs Product Code: #6163 Price: £18.00 |
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Community of Love John Main OSB Much of this newly republished book reveals Fr John's thoughts on a wide range of subjects, not specifically on meditation. He turns his contemplative vision to illuminate many contemporary issues, with clear, striking insights for modern people on major issues of today, which originate in the experience of God. The book includes John Main's well-known essay "Death - The Inner Journey". Book 195pp Product Code: #6009 Price: £8.00 |
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A Short Span of Days Laurence Freeman OSB Death is a reality that we instinctively try to avoid or deny. But when confronted with the reality of it, we can either break down and disintegrate, or break through and transcend. In the reprint of this groundbreaking little book, Fr Laurence shows us how meditation opens the way to this understanding. In meditation, as we drop all immediate concerns and become silent, we experience loss and separation. We taste death, and our fear of it gradually loses its power, leaving us free to see life's ultimate horizon. In that new vision we find meaning and the gift of wisdom. Book 65pp Product Code: #6025 Price: £5.25 |
David Wood, one of our former National Coordinators, has compiled a new book with a humorous note: God's hotel - Godspotting in all directions.
You can download a description of its content and ordering details here.
Updated: 13-07-2010