Books by Dom David Foster

Offering practical guidance for an increasingly busy world, this book of prayers for the third Christian millennium is useful to young people and the parents and teachers who want to help them learn to pray in the living tradition of the Church. Helpful introductions and a pattern of daily prayers make it a course in Christian spirituality.

Explores various ways of praying and how these lead into a deeper, quieter form of prayer. This book describes how to understand petitionary prayer, unanswered prayer, the idea of God speaking to us in prayer, and of making His will known to us. It helps people to remain focused.

David Foster is a Benedictine Monk of Downside Abbey and chaplain to Downside School. He has always been concerned to bring the riches of the monastic tradition to lay people as they struggle to live the Christian life in the modern world. Lectio Divina or the art of spiritual reading is an art which is all but lost outside monastic communities. But following St Benedict's opening command in his Rule to 'listen', attending to the word of God through the printed text is an art which needs to be rediscovered in a world in which we are surrounded by a cacophony of sound and noise. David Foster has written a masterly guide to this art.