Osb: 110 books
Uncommon Gratitude
Alleluia for All That Is
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams often says that, no matter what, the proper stance of the Christian in the world is one of gratitude. In this book, Sister Joan Chittister, OSB, and Archbishop Rowan Williams offer us a sweeping set of things and circumstances to be grateful for 'things for...
Seasons of Faith
Religious and Spiritual Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
"Seasons of Faith: Religious and Spiritual Poetry" By Peter Menkin, Obl Cam OSB MILL VALLEY, Calif. (Release Date TBD) Poetry, on the other hand, offers us deep riches of meaning with a remarkable economy of words. This was an art of wisdom often chosen by the mystics of the West and popularized...
Reaching for God
The Benedictine Oblate Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Reaching for God is a compendium of Benedictine life and prayer for oblates. It brings together in one volume the essence of Benedictine spirituality-its history, its relevance through the ages and in the present, and a summary of the most fundamental gifts and values it offers for living a meaningful...
Reading To Live
The Evolving Practice of Lectio Divina
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Lectio divina, the ancient practice of prayerful reading, is a font whose waters are waiting to quench the thirst of spiritual seekers, both beginners on the spiritual journey and experienced travelers. The art of holy reading transforms lives. Through the practice of lectio individuals and communities...
Conversation With Saint Benedict
The Rule in Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The Rule of Saint Benedict meets contemporary culture-the connection points and the sticking points between the two are the focus of Conversation with Saint Benedict. Renowned Benedictine scholar Terrence Kardong considers various aspects of modern culture that he considers worrisome and the light...
by David W. Cotter OSB
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The central thesis underlying this study of Genesis is that the God who is revealed as a character in Genesis is always a savior. In Genesis, David Cotter, OSB, helps readers discern a structure in the book whereby the least and the weakest are the object of God's saving help.
Genesis begins...
by Father Ralph Wright, OSB
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
In The Eloquence of Truth, Ralph Wright, OSB uses poetry, prose and authoritative teaching to address such egregious issues as abortion, euthanasia, and slavery. Using these art forms, he make readers aware of Truth and how that truth affects our freedom in every day life. Truth alone, he stresses,...
Word and Image
The Hermeneutics of The Saint John's Bible
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In Word and Image, Michael Patella explores the principles, intentions, and aims of The Saint John's Bible - the first handwritten and hand-illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine abbey since the invention of the printing press. Patella focuses not on how it was made but on how it can be read,...
Rejoice and Be Glad
Daily Reflections for Easter 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
There is no better season to renew one’s relationship with God than Easter, the most joyful days of the church’s year. Rejoice with these inspiring reflections on the daily Mass readings. In just minutes per day, the insightful meditations of Rejoice and Be Glad can help you embrace, live, and...
by Irene Nowell OSB
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The women in the Old Testament, too long invisible, have rich stories that are vital to the on-going revelation of God's relationship with a covenant people. Women in the Old Testament introduces readers to some biblical women. Here, readers meet mothers and wives, queens and slaves, prophets and...
Waiting in Joyful Hope 2015-16
Daily Reflections for Advent and Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Prepare spiritually for the coming of Christ with this popular, easy-to-use annual guide. During the especially busy Advent and Christmas seasons, this little treasure offers brief, down-to-earth reflections that bring prayer and Scripture into everyday life in a thought-provoking and lasting way....
by Maria Boulding OSB, Bruno Webb OSB, Jean Cardinal Daniélou SJ
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Maria Boulding was a highly-respected spiritual writer and translator, notably of St Augustine. Her testimony, as a contemplative nun, is eloquent and forceful: “love is the mightiest source of power in the world, and because of the solidarity of mankind contemplatives believe that lives handed...
Spirit, Soul, Body
Toward an Integral Christian Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
A perennial problem for spiritual traditions of all sorts is dualism—either a positing of a false distance between the Divine and the created or a rejection of creation and the human body. Many contemporary spiritual seekers have sensed this problem and sought to remedy it through myriad solutions...
The Other Hand of God
The Holy Spirit as the Universal Touch and Goal
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
If the Spirit is not equal to the Father and the Son, can the Trinity survive? Is the role of the Spirit in salvation as important as that of the Son? Why was the divinity of the Spirit problematic in the early Church? If the Son, Jesus Christ, is the way the truth and the life," what role does...