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• Theology and Unity
• Theology and Unity concerns
• Study Guide - The Church: Towards a Common Vision
• World War I commemoration
• Lent 2015
• Lent 2014
• Lent 2013
• Lent 2012
• Lent 2011:
  The Unreconciled
• Lent 2010
• Lent 2009:
  Sense Making Faith
• Introduction and resources
• How to use the resources
• Week 1:
  Seeing
• Week 2: Imagination
• Week 3:
  Smell
• Week 4:
  Touching
• Week 5:
  Taste
• Week 6:
  Hearing
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  Pathways of Prayer
• Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
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lent 2009

sense making faith

Week 1: Journey into Seeing

Step out on this spiritual journey which aims to help you see God, the world and yourself with new eyes.

Study guides

There's a choice this week - you can download the main resource for the week and/or the one for Saint David's Day.

Week 1 - Journey into Seeing (PDF)

Week 1 - Journey into Seeing for Saint David's Day (PDF)

Welsh translation (PDF):
Taith i mewn i Weld
Taith i mewn i Weld - Dydd Gŵyl Dewi

For help with downloads look at this guide.

Extra

Digital photography artist, Chris Jordan looks at issues of environment and consumption in a different way:

Listen to some stories of visually impaired people at Action for Blind People

Continuing the journey

• The course is based on a beautifully illustrated CTBI publication Sense Making Faith, written by Anne Richards. There is more material in the book in the 'Journey into Seeing' chapter.
• Explore the section called 'See' at http://www.spiritualjourneys.org.uk/ 
• Look at http://www.chrisjordan.com/  for more material on consumption and waste.
• Look at Professor John Hull's On Sight and Insight, a Journey into the World of Blindness, Oxford, One World Books 1997 and In the Beginning there was Darkness, a Blind Person's Conversations with the Bible, SCM 2001. There is more on Professor Hull's website .

• Other links and more information for finding out about the lives of visually impaired people, see the Royal National Institute of Blind People

• John Davies, A History of Wales/Hanes Cymru, published in both English and Welsh editions, Penguin 1994, revised edition 2007.

• Rhygyvarch, Life of St David, Rhymbooks, 2001.

• Rowan Williams, Silence and Honey Cakes, Lion Publishing 2004.

• Find out more about the cathedral that stands on the site of St David's monastery at http://www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/
• The Daily Service on Radio 4, from 2 - 5 March, offers more readings and refl ections for you to listen to about people whose spiritual journeys were changed by the encounter with Jesus.