Osb: 110 books
A Listening Community
A Commentary on the Prologue and Chapters 1-3 of Benedict's Rule
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
This new book by Sister Aquinata Böckmann discusses the Prologue and chapters 1, 2, and 3 of the Rule of St. Benedict. In a lectio regulae she plumbs the depths of Benedict’s vision. Listen, the first word of the Prologue, is a keyword that describes the main stance of the individual monastic,...
The Prayers of the New Missal
A Homiletic and Catechetical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
After the publication of The Roman Missal, Third Edition, much attention was given to the catechesis of the clergy and the faithful on the Order of Mass, which contains the chief theological and spiritual elements of the eucharistic celebration. In The Prayers of the New Missal, Anscar J. Chupungco...
by Jerome Kodell OSB
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Among the leaders of the early church, Barnabas is not as well-known as the likes of Peter or Paul. However, Barnabas vouched for Paul before the other apostles, traveled with him as an evangelizer, and then stepped aside when circumstances and Divine Providence demanded. Explore three fascinating...
The Gospel According To Luke
Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Luke continues to challenge our lives. Focusing on Jesus and his earthly ministry among the early church, Michael, F. Patella, OSB, opens the Gospel of Luke to the 21st-century reader.
Patella presents literary, textual, and historical criticism in a readable manner to give readers a solid...
Sauntering Through Scripture
A Book of Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The Bible presents a landscape rich with characters whose stories and prophecies, wisdom and woes, parables and prayers describe our very human struggle to know and respond to the love of God. Repeated reading and retelling make these texts familiar, and yet we encounter them anew in these fresh,...
Christ the Ideal of the Monk
Spiritual Conferences on the Monastic and Religious Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Columba Marmion believes that Christian discipleship means imitating Christ the Monk no matter your walk or way of life. Christ is the divine model presented by God himself , the ideal of all holiness. By faith, we accept this holiness into our lives—but we must also allow Christ Jesus to become...
Running with Expanding Heart
Meeting God in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Mary Reuter recalls how as a child taking piano lessons she often skipped practicing scales and thought her teacher would not notice. Reuter admits she never did advance to the level of a skilled pianist. But in Running with Expanding Heart readers will discover that she is well practiced, and thus...
Demythologizing Celibacy
Practical Wisdom from Christian and Buddhist Monasticism
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
When St. Benedict compiled his Rule for Monasteries in the early decades of the sixth century, the Buddhist monastic code had already been in existence for about nine hundred years. Since monastic life is shaped by spiritual practices that are very similar across different religious traditions, it...
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...
by Fumon Nakagawa, P. Emmanuel Jungclaussen OSB, Abt von Niederaltaich
Language: German
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: June 28, 2017
In "ZEN - weil wir Menschen sind" zeigt der japanische Zen-Meister Fumon S. Nakagawa, welche Bedeutung Zen in unserer heutigen Zeit haben kann. Und er beschreibt, wie die Missverständnisse westlicher Menschen im Umgang mit der für sie zunächst fremden Kultur und Spiritualität zu überwinden sind....
Angels and Demons
A Christian Primer of the Spiritual World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The supernatural world is prominent in many of today's movies, television shows, novels, and the popular imagination. But some of what is presented as grounded in a Christian worldview is in fact far from that. In Angels and Demons, Michael Patella, OSB, offers an accessible and fascinating look...
Thomas Merton's Encounter with Buddhism and Beyond
His Interreligious Dialogue, Inter-monastic Exchanges, and Their Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Thomas Merton recognized the value and possibility of contemplative dialogue between monastics and contemplatives of other religious traditions and hoped that, through such dialogue, monastics would strive for ‘inter-monastic communion’ and a bonding of the broader ‘spiritual family.’ He held...
by Sigrid Hodel-Hoenes, Robert Rollinger, Manfred Oeming
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Das »Wörterbuch alttestamentlicher Motive« erleichtert das Verständnis der alttestamentlichen Texte und erschließt die Bedeutung ihrer Themen und Motive. Rund 120 Artikel beschreiben die altorientalischen Wurzeln zu jedem Motiv und erwähnen die Wirkungsgeschichte, die zumeist über das Neue...
Kiemcellen
van klooster naar wereld
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Monniken zijn vreemdelingen, om met de Trappist Michael Casey te spreken, ze zijn 'vreemd in de stad' (strangers to the city). De gemeenschappen die ze vormen, evenals andere gemeenschappen die monastiek geïnspireerd zijn, zou je als kiemcellen kunnen opvatten. Kiemcellen zijn afgezonderde organismen...