Ocso: 29 books
by M. Basil Pennington ocso, Thomas Keating ocso, Thomas E. Clarke SJ
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
A new edition of the classic that helped launch the Centering Prayer movement.Centering Prayer is a precious part of the ancient spiritual traditions of the West. When Finding Grace at the Center was first published in 1978, people all over the world welcomed this practical guide to a simple and beautiful...
Finding The Treasure
Letters from a Global Monk
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Augustine Roberts is a New England Yankee, transplanted by circumstance first to Argentina and then to Rome, from where frequent travel took him to nearly every part of the globe. The historical era into which he was born, so fraught with personal and communal soul-searching, also made him wrestle...
Light in the Shoe Shop
A Cobbler's Contemplations
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Light in the Shoe Shop offers readers a unique and intimate glance into the day-to-day experience of living the cloistered life in feminine mode. In her “cobbler’s contemplations”—no metaphor here: the author did indeed make and mend her sisters’ shoes for many years—Mother Agnes reveals...
At Home With Saint Benedict
Monastery Talks
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
At Home with Saint Benedict is a selection of the author's conferences on Saint Benedict's Rule for Monasteries delivered to the monks of Assumption Abbey of Ava, Missouri, when he was abbot there. The author's intention was simply to share with his brother monks what Saint Benedict through his sixth-century...
In the Valley of Wormwood
Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Shortly after entering the monastic life in December 1941, a relatively unknown Trappist monk called Frater Louis-who would later be known to the world by his given name, Thomas Merton-began to pen biographical sketches of early Cistercian blessed and saints. These were initially collected, printed,...
Useful Servanthood
A Study of Spiritual Formation in the Writings of Abba Ammonas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Useful Servanthood introduces English-speaking readers to Abba Ammonas, disciple and successor of Saint Antony of the Desert and a prominent figure of fourth-century Egyptian monasticism. As a director of souls, Ammonas's approach to spiritual formation was a creative example of the spiritual gift...
The Road to Eternal Life
Reflections on the Prologue of Benedict's Rule
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In the Prologue of his Rule, St. Benedict maps out the road that leads to heaven; he lays the foundation for life in a community that seeks God. The themes that are present throughout the Rule - obedience, humility, prayer, fear of the Lord, eternal life - are grounded in the Prologue.
By reflecting...
Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians
Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 7
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
As master of novices for ten years (1955–1965) at the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky, Thomas Merton was responsible for the spiritual formation of young men preparing for monastic profession. In this volume, three related sets of Merton’s conferences on ancient and contemporary...
Lovers of the Place
Monasticism Loose in the Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In Lovers of the Place, Abbot Francis Kline provided a fresh vision of the monastic life as one form of the Christian vocation that must find its place alongside other expressions of Christian life. He firmly believed that as monasticism renews itself for the church, it will in turn renew the church....
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...
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,...
Cistercian Spirituality
An Ashram Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Cistercian Spirituality: An Ashram Perspective is a spiritual directory written by Fr. Francis Acharya for the monastic community that he founded at Kurisumala (Kerala, India). As the editor, Fr. Michael Casey, relates in the introduction:
This book is offered to a wider world in the hope that it...
The Art of Winning Souls
Pastoral Care of Novices
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
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 Winning Souls: Pastoral Care of Novices,...
Gethsemani Homilies
Revised and Enlarged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Matthew Kelty, a native of Boston, has been a monk of Gethsemani since 1960. Before that he served as an active priest in the Society of the Divine Word, both in the States, and in Papua New Guinea. His previous books include Flute Solo (Sheed, Andrews & McMeel), Sermons in the Monastery, Call...