Come & See Inspirations

On this weeks podcast excerpt we are delighted to chat to Br Simon Sleeman OSB from Glenstal about one of the latest additions to the Glenstal repertoire, the Glenstal Prayer Book. Simon Sleeman is a Benedictine monk, beekeeper, naturalist and presenter of the ‘Mindful Monk’ series of videos on nature, psychology and spirituality. He joins John  and Shane this week to introduce the new Glenstal Prayer Book. The Prayer Book is a new iteration of the  publishing phenomenon of 2001 which was the Glenstal Book of Prayer but with a changed focus and a deeper invitation into prayer.As Br Simon says in the introduction, "Prayer is our attempt to get love and God straight.  This book provides prayers to help with this life long project - prayers to answer God in love......It is not a, ‘how to’ book. ‘How to pray’ in never the first question. The first question is, ‘To whom do we pray?’ We pray to the living God, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. The God ‘alive and active’ and revealed to