Monasticism category: 212 books
by St. Athanasius, Wyatt North
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This edition comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents. Most of what is known about the life of Anthony comes from the Life of Anthony. Written in Greek around 360 by Athanasius of Alexandria, it depicts Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who through his existence in a primordial landscape...
How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life
An Invitation to Oblate Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
You don't have to live in a monastery in order to live like a monk. Oblates are everyday people with jobs, families, and other responsibilities. Sometimes they are Catholic, sometimes not. In today's hectic, changing world, being an oblate offers a rich spiritual connection to the stability and wisdom of an established monastic community.
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 Francis of Assisi, Ignatius Loyola, Saint Benedict
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
SEVEN RULES AND EXERCISES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH brings together some of the greatest writings on discipline and the monastic life ever penned. These writings have inspired countless believers to holiness, humility and self-discipline and have helped shape the life and witness of the Church....
Top 7 Catholic Classics: On Loving God, The Cloud of Unknowing, Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena, The Imitation of Christ, Interior Castle, Dark Night of the Soul, Practice of the Presence of God
Featuring Brother Lawrence, Thomas Kempis, Teresa Avila, John of the Cross, Catherine of Siena
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The TOP 7 CATHOLIC CLASSICS is a wonderful collection of the very best of Catholic devotional writing. These works have lasted centuries and continue to inspire millions around the world even today! Each book has been spell-checked and is fully searchable. Included in this collection are the full...
by St Benedict
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Founder of a monastery at Monte Cassino, between Rome and Naples, in the sixth century, St Benedict intended his Rule to be a practical guide to Christian monastic life. Based on the key precepts of humility, obedience and love, its aim is to create a harmonious and efficient religious community in...
by Mike Aquilina
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
Unlock the knowledge of our Church Fathers. They fought the first culture wars. They died for our faith. Honor their memory as we walk in their footsteps.Long established as an indispensable reference tool for clergy, seminarians, RCIA candidates, and lay Catholics, The Fathers of the Church has...
by Mike Aquilina
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
We hear the voices of the early Church Fathers even today. Their teachings, their guidance, their insights, and their sacrifice shaped the Catholic Church. They defined the canon of Scripture. They developed our creeds and forms of worship. They defined Christianity's distinctive moral sense.But...
The Cistercian World
Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
The Cistercian Order was born in Burgundy at the start of the twelfth century as a movement of radical renewal - an Order that survives to this day with the greater part of its written heritage preserved. This volume brings together a selection of its finest works, which speak powerfully across the...
by James O. Hannay
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The Wisdom of the Desert - by James O. Hannay.
Includes: -- NCX Navigation with links to all chapters and sections. -- Interactive Table of Contents. -- Interactive Index of Passages.
During the 4th and 5th centuries, thousands of Christian men and women withdrew to the deserts of...
Lives Of Monastic Reformers, 1
Robert of La Chaise-Dieu and Stephen of Obazine
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The period between 1025 and 1150 was a time of creativity and new beginnings in monastic life. Robert of La Chaise-Dieu and Stephen of Obazine established two very successful monastic families in the neighboring regions of the Auvergne and Limousin respectively. La Chaise-Dieu became the head of a...
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."...
Anticimenon
On the Unity of the Faith and the Controversies with the Greeks
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The Anticimenon of Anselm of Havelberg is both the outstanding medieval work on ecumenical dialogue with the Orthodox and one of the period's most important explorations of the theology of history. This text's author was a bishop on Christianity's eastern frontier and companion to Norbert of Xanten,...
by David N. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
First published in 1989, A Cloud of Witnesses has been completely rewritten to incorporate a multitude of minor amendments and a considerable amount of additional information. Like the first edition, it is intended as an introduction to the formative first five hundred years of the Christian theological...