Monasticism category: 212 books
by Charles Cummings OCSO
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
For three decades, Monastic Practices has been a valued resource for English-speaking aspirants to monastic life. In this revised edition, updated and expanded, Charles Cummings, OCSO, explores the common practices of the monastic life in order to rediscover them as viable means of leading persons...
The Life of Jesus Christ
Part One, Volume 1, Chapters 1–40
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Vita Christi of the fourteenth century Carthusian, Ludolph of Saxony, is the most comprehensive series of meditations on the life of Christ of the late Middle Ages. Ludolph assembles a wealth of commentary from the fathers of the church and the great medieval spiritual writers and weaves them...
Spirituality: An Art of Living
A Monk's Alphabet of Spiritual Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Spirituality: An Art of Living was born out of a generous impulse: to pass on lessons from the monastic tradition to lay people so as to help them achieve a more ardent and fulfilling spiritual life. In this book, Benedictine monk, teacher, and scholar Benoît Standaert provides ninety-nine entries...
by Margaret Rowe
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
St. Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart was born into a large devout family in Arezzo, Italy in 1747. From the earliest days of her childhood, Anna Maria was filled with a deep love of God, questioning the adults around her as to "Who is God"? Already she was dissatisfied with answers given...
Lectio Divina
The Medieval Experience of Reading
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
During the Middle Ages the act of reading was experienced intensively in the monastic exercise of lectio divina 'the prayerful scrutiny of passages of Scripture, savored in meditation, memorized, recited, and rediscovered in the reader's own religious life. The rich literary tradition that arose from...
Benedict Backwards
Reading the Rule in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
In Benedict Backwards, Terrence Kardong builds the case that the Rule of Benedict is best read “backwards,” that is, with emphasis on the last chapters, not the first ones. Benedict starts out dependent on the Rule of the Master, but he ends on a much more self-assured note, revealing more about...
by Hildegard of Bingen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Hildegard of Bingen (1098 '1179) describes the virtue of Fortitude teaching the other virtues in the fire of the Holy Spirit. Like Fortitude, Hildegard was enkindled by the Holy Spirit and edified many with her teaching.
Hildegard of Bingen's Homilies on the Gospels are here translated for...
I Am the Way
Stages of Prayer in Saint Bernard
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
As founding abbot of Clairvaux, Bernard's giftedness and good judgment made him an often-sought resource by both church and secular powers, and in that capacity, he was sometimes delightful and sometimes dismaying to those who encountered him.
But when it comes to prayer, says Maureen F. McCabe,...
Priesthood in Religious Life
Searching for New Ways Forward
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
This is the first book in English on priesthood in religious life to be published in twenty years. Its fourteen contributors search for new ways forward in the understanding of the distinct identity and ministry of religious men—committed to community, the prophetic lifestyle of vows or promises,...
Sermons for the Autumn Season
Sermons for the Autumn Season
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
On the anniversary of the dedication of the monastery church at Clairvaux, Saint Bernard spoke to the community to explain the meaning of the feast: “What sanctity can these stones have that we should celebrate their festival? They do indeed have sanctity, but it is because of your bodies. . . ....
The Marriage of the All and Nothing
Selected Writings of Barbara Dent
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Sequel to My Only Friend is Darkness, this new offering of Barbara Dent's writings brings together articles already published elsewhere and forty-one previously unpublished poems. The New Zealand author's intensely personal, experiential style gives "flesh and bones"...
Journey to Carith
The Sources and Story of the Discalced Carmelites
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
First published in 1966, this book chronicles a full eight centuries of the Carmelite tradition, from the order’s beginnings as a group of lay hermits on Mount Carmel through St. Teresa of Avila’s Discalced Carmelite Reform in the 16th century, to Carmel’s rich diversity today.
Since...
by Thomas Jesse Roach
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
A young men's fellowship group is formed in Joliet, IL, in 1987. The four college students and a young professor began reading Greek and Russian Orthodox books on aestheticism and plan to visit Mount Athos, a peninsula in Northern Greece devoted to monastic communities and still governed under Byzantine...
From the Tools of Good Works to the Heart of Humility
A Commentary on Chapters 4-7 of Benedict's Rule
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In a new volume of her exegetical commentary, Sr. Aquinata Böckmann explores chapters 4–7 of the Rule of St. Benedict. They contain Benedict’s instruction of how to learn and live the spiritual art of monastic life that is focused on Christ. In her close reading of the text and its sources she...