This paperbook is in very good condition with minimal shelf wear to the covers. The binding remains sound and the contents are clean and bright. Includes a CD Rom. "This book provides the ideas and resources for creating and leading retreat programmes throughout the Christian year. It uses the seasons of the church year as a way of exploring a wide variety of themes including: Advent: Beginning again, Christmas: Finding God, Epiphany: Seeing glory, Lent: Finding acceptance, Passiontide: Growing in compassion, Easter: Growing in faith, Ascensiontide: Making sense of it all, Pentecost: Sensing the Spirit, Ordinary Time: Visions of the whole. The resources draw on scripture, writers from the Christian tradition and on contemporary spiritual insights and practice.