Osb: 110 books
Faces of Easter
Meeting the Paschal Mystery in the People Around Us
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Using vignettes set in or near his monastery in downtown Newark, New Jersey, Benedictine monk Albert Holtz helps us to see that the Easter mystery, which can often seem abstract and distant, is in fact present all around us. As we accompany him through the fifty days of the Easter season, we listen...
by Father Ralph Wright, OSB
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Seamless is an inspirational, thought-provoking poetry book with poems featuring such topics as the beauty of mother and child, war, peace, love, the soothing sound of rain, and always the glory of God.Fr. Ralph Wright, who is a poet of great distinction, pens works that reflect his knowledge of and...
No Peace Without Prayer
Encouraging Muslims and Christians to Pray Together; A Benedictine Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Abbot Timothy Wright proposes sowing a small seed from which might grow a greater respect between the world's two largest religions, Christianity and Islam. Indeed, he believes that the seed has already been planted. Christians give unique value to their revealed Scriptures as the "Word of God."...
Pilgrim Road
A Benedictine Journey through Lent: Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
• Revised edition of a classic Lenten devotional guide from Morehouse • Includes a revised introduction and questions for reflection In the view of St. Benedict of Nursia, the Lenten journey is an inner pilgrimage with Christ into the deepest parts of ourselves, to be marked not so much by external...
by Jerome Kodell OSB
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
In thirty short reflections, Abbot Jerome Kodell of Subiaco Abbey provides a lifetime of wisdom on living the Christian life. Drawing on Scripture, the Rule of St. Benedict, and other spiritual writings, Kodell helps us to realize that our common human desires and struggles make life in the monastery...
Desert Fathers and Mothers
Early Christian Wisdom Sayings—Annotated & Explained
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Timeless and contemplative sayings from the earliest Christian sages of desert spirituality can be a companion on your own spiritual journey.
The desert fathers and mothers were ordinary Christians living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Arabia who chose to renounce...
by Father Ralph Wright, OSB
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Ripples of Stillness is an inspirational, thought-provoking poetry book with poems featuring such topics as sympathy, joy, woman, darkness, patience, and always, the glory of God.Fr. Ralph Wright, who is a poet of great distinction, pens works that reflect his knowledge of and respect for the masters....
Waiting in Joyful Hope
Daily Reflections for Advent and Christmas 2018-2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Prepare spiritually for the coming of Christ with this popular and inviting annual guide. During the especially busy Advent and Christmas seasons, this book offers brief, down-to-earth reflections that bring prayer and Scripture into everyday life in a thought-provoking and lasting way. Through Sister...
The Liturgical Year
Lent, the Sacred Paschal Triduum, Easter Time (vol. 2)
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
When Adrien Nocent's The Liturgical Year was published in the 1970s, it was the very first comprehensive commentary on the three-year lectionary in relation to the Sacramentary/Missal as these were revised following the Second Vatican Council. Expressed on nearly every page was Nocent's conviction...
The Liturgical Year
Advent, Christmas, Epiphany (vol. 1)
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
When Adrien Nocent's The Liturgical Year was published in the 1970s, it was the very first comprehensive commentary on the three-year lectionary in relation to the Sacramentary/Missal as these were revised following the Second Vatican Council. Expressed on nearly every page was Nocent's conviction...
Mere Spirituality
The Spiritual Life According to Henri Nouwen
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Discover Henri Nouwen’s authentic, spacious spirituality of being deeply beloved in this insightful distillation of his vast literary legacy. Scholar and spiritual director Wil Hernandez offers an elegant synthesis of Nouwen’s main themes, inspiring us to embrace the power and vulnerability of mere spirituality.
by Mary Clare Vincent, OSB; forewords by Esther de Waal and M. Basil Pennington, OCSO
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A simple primer on prayer that gently focuses on the need of prayer in everyones life and offers some simple suggestions on getting to God
by Aidan Kavanagh OSB
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Nearly everything that theologians write on liturgy, Father Kavanagh notes, is often called liturgical theology, although on closer examination such works appear to be either dogmatic theologies about the liturgy or systematic theologies making use of liturgical data. None truly reflects how liturgy...
Getting to Know Jesus
What do Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tell us?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Christians, especially Catholics, have always shown interest in finding information about the Gospels based in biblical investigation and written in a simple language. Father Juan Alfaro provides the answers, setting his focus on the questions that are commonly brought up by the four Gospels: Matthew,...