Monasticism

A sketch of the unique tradition of the 'white monks' as they have sought 'men and women alike' to leave all things to follow the Gospel.About the AuthorAndre Louf, OCSO, (1929-2010), served as abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Mont-des-Cats for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911175230Author Hugh AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 529Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications

The Maronite Church is one of twenty-two Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Pope of Rome. Her patriarch is in Lebanon. Forty-three bishops and approximately five million faithful make up her presence throughout the world.The story of Maron,...

In this book, William Harmless provides an accessible introduction to early Christian monastic literature from Egypt and beyond. He introduces the reader to the major figures and literary texts, as well offering an up-to-date survey of current questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557256430Author Padre PioFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete Press

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...

"Should do much to open up his hidden source of spiritual richness." George Malone, S.J. Fordham University Gregory Palamas: The Triads edited with an introduction by John Meyendorff translated by Nicholas Gendle preface by Jaroslav Pelikan ...

Aelred of Rievaulx possessed a personal charm which drew friends and disciples naturally to him. His own experience of human weakness in a worldly life at the court of King David of Scotland made him sensitive to the doctrine of charity which he found...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879072315Author Raymond StudzinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Cistercian Publications IncPublisher Cistercian Publications IncWeight(grams) 340g

Nil Sorsky (1433/34-1508), founder of the Sora Hermitage and initiator of 'scete ' life in among Russian Christians, is closely identified with the Orthodox contemplative prayer known as hesychasm, 'stillness. ' In these translations, Nil's own voice...

The remarkable monastery of Helfta was a 'place where learning and art, courtesy and holiness flowered in a dark season' of interregnal warfare.* The nuns drew their inspiration from the twin roots of Citeaux: the Rule of Saint Benedict and the...

Andre Louf's probing essay on the nature of humility revisions this fundamental Christian virtue away from the misunderstandings of both the scholastic tradition and its modern counterparts to locate humility in the ancient sources of the monastic...

In his monastery in a remote corner of Europe, the grandson of Anglo-Saxon pagans quietly spent his life studying and writing, passing the wisdom of christian antiquity on to generations of latin readers. And in the process, this most learned and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879070335Author Cristiana PiccardoFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Cistercian Publications IncPublisher Cistercian Publications IncWeight(grams) 249g

A scholar turned monk, Isaac combined the increasingly technical vocabulary of the cathedral schools with the spiritual tradition of the monastery. Dialectic is here combined with meditative reflection.ReviewsIsaac's moral-mystical exposition of...

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...

Discovered in a secret Vatican archive, this is the true, never-before-told story of poison, murder, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth century convent. In 1858, Katherina von Hohenzollern, a German princess recently inducted into the...

This is the most useful survey of medieval Franciscan history available. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW St Francis of Assisi is one of the most admired figures of the Middle Ages - and one of the most important in the Christian church, modelling his life...

This volume, written by eighteen monks, nuns, and lay scholars from seven countries and four continents, aims to recognize the contribution that Michael Casey has made to Cistercian and Benedictine life over the past forty years. Acclaimed as one of the...

After sixty years of living in a Cistercian community, Michael Casey combines his down-to-earth observations about the joys and challenges of living in community with an appreciation of the deeper meanings of cenobitic life, taking into account the...

At the dividing line between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, scholar-diplomat-pastor-writer-pope Gregory the Great drew on his profound knowledge of Scripture and his personal experience to preach the Gospel. These forty homilies show the practical...

Oneness considers the role monastic life plays within the life of the contemporary church. Using a focus on the life, practice and history of the Shepherds Law community as a starting point, the book broadens the discussion to consider how such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898709278Author Ida Friederike GoerresFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Founded 900 years ago by St Bruno, the Carthusians are the most completely enclosed religious order in the Catholic Church. Living alone and in silence in almost perpetual prayer, the monks are the spiritual heirs to the early Christians, the Desert...

Although we think of early monks as master concentrators, a life of mindfulness did not, in fact, come to them easily. As historian Jamie Kreiner demonstrates in The Wandering Mind, their attempts to stretch the mind out to God-to continuously...

The monk Grimlaicus (ca. 900) wrote a rule for those who, like himself, pursued the solitary life within a monastic community. Never leaving their cell yet participating in the liturgical life of the monastery through a window into the church, these...

'I have spent all my life in this monastery', wrote Bede from his isolated Northumbrian cell, 'applying myself entirely to the study of the Scriptures...I have made it my business, for my own benefit and that of my brothers, to make brief extracts from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872292328Author Robin AmisFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Praxis Research InstitutePublisher Praxis Research InstituteWeight(grams)...

This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt and the Frankish monasteries of early medieval Europe to the religious ruptures of the eleventh and twelfth centuries and the reforms of...

2022 Catholic Media Association first place award in mysticismThis book invites the reader to a spiritual odyssey. It opens before the reader an itinerary for venturing forth with God, aided by the astonishing writings of seventh-century Isaac the Syrian...

In the year 394 seven monks from Palestine made a difficult journey through the Egyptian desert, drawn there by stories of remarkable men. What they found in the communities living far up the Nile Valley fully accorded with their expectations, and in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640321991Author Brother LawrenceFormat HardbackPage Count 26Imprint Innovative Eggz LLCPublisher Innovative Eggz LLCWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm)...

Intentionally anonymous and lacking concrete details of historical and cultural setting-and for many years suspected of messalianism-this collection of thirty memre [discourses] has been long recognized as an important, yet understudied, work of the...

Christophe Lebreton, aged forty-six, was the youngest of the seven Trappist monks assassinated in Algeria by terrorists in 1996. He was also the poet of the group. Anyone who was enthralled by the recent film Of Gods and Men should find in Brother...

Emphasises the formative place of the Rule in any understanding of Carmelite spirituality and considers key figures including John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila.Book InformationISBN 9780232522655Author Wilfrid McGrealFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Spiritual accompaniment-patient listening and honest openness has become widespread among Christians of many traditions in recent years. Is this modern application of an ancient 'discernment of spirits' the best way for individual persons and groups of...

In his chapter on the procedure for the reception of new brothers, Saint Benedict makes provision for entrusting them to the care of "a senior who is skilled in winning souls who will diligently pay attention to them in everything" (58.6). In The Art of...

A panorama of Russian Christian spirituality, richlyillustrated with passages from formative works.About the AuthorThomas Merton (1915-1968), Catholic convert, Cistercian monk and hermit, poet, contemplative, social critic, and pioneer of interreligious...

2022 Catholic Media Association first place award in biographyHow Catholic was Thomas Merton? Since his death in 1968, Merton's Catholic identity has been regularly questioned, both by those who doubt the authenticity of his Catholicism given his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641891684Author Helen J. NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press