Monasticism category: 212 books
The Wisdom of the Cloister
365 Daily Readings from the Greatest Monastic Writings
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
A collection of monastic readings are drawn from a full range of writings from the early and contemporary monastics of various orders and from differing denominations, and includes background information on each author.
Inside The School Of Charity
Lessons from the Monastery
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In 2003 Trisha Day spent three months living inside the enclosure of Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey, a community of twenty Cistercian nuns. Although she had long been monastic associate, she was startled by the unexpected challenges and insights that emerged as the weeks went by, and began a process...
by Andre Louf OCSO
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Dom André Louf (+2010) was abbot of the Trappist-Cistercian monastery of Mont-des-Cats in northern France from 1963 to 1997. This book brings together talks given to a variety of audiences in which he shared his spiritual experience from both his life of prayer and his life in community.
Each...
Befriending Silence
Discovering the Gifts of Cistercian Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Winner of the 2016 Georgia Author of the Year: Inspirational-religious books.
Respected speaker, author, and Patheos blogger Carl McColman introduces Cistercian spirituality as "the hidden jewel of the Church," presenting a surprisingly contemporary path grounded in monastic tradition....
Another World
A Retreat in the Ozarks
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Another World explores day to day life in a small Trappist monastery tucked away in the Ozark foothills. Interweaving memoir with conversations with the monks, observations of community life, and relationships with other visitors, Claassen provides a window into contemporary monastic life. Each chapter...
The Taste of Silence
How I Came to Be at Home with Myself
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
At nineteen Bieke Vandekerckhove fell ill. The diagnosis was devastating: the fatal motor neuron disease ALS. Life expectancy: two to five years. So what did she do with the paltry bit of life that was left?
By force of circumstance she was led to Saint Lioba Convent in Egmond-Binnen. There...
The Life of the Vows
Initiation into the Monastic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
As novice master of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky, Thomas Merton presented weekly conferences to familiarize his charges with the meaning and purpose of the vows they aspired to undertake. In this setting, he offered a thorough exposition of the theological, canonical,...
by Martin Luther, Wyatt North
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
95 Theses comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section. The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences commonly known as The Ninety-Five Theses, was written by Martin Luther, 1517 and is widely regarded as the primary catalyst for the Protestant Reformation....
How to Live
What the Rule of St. Benedict Teaches Us About Happiness, Meaning, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The Rule of St. Benedict arose from an era when a great civilization was threatened by violence, economic forces that favored the wealthy, political leaders that lacked the trust of the public, and rampant xenophobia. Similar to the anxieties and frustrations of the 6th century, we are living in a...
San Benito, Padre de Europa
Colección Santos, #9
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Este libro contiene uno de los secretos mejor guardados de nuestro tiempo: para entender Europa, es imprescindible conocer la vida de San Benito y la Regla monástica que escribió. Quizá, más que un secreto, podría considerarse un olvido intencionado por parte de una época que idolatra la acción...
The Great Beginning of Citeaux
A Narrative of the Beginning of the Cistercian Order
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In the closing decades of the twelfth century, the Cistercian Order had become an important ecclesiastical and economic power in Europe. Yet it had lost its influential spokesman, Bernard of Clairvaux, and as the century drew to a close, religious sensibilities were changing. The new mendicant orders,...
Grace
On the Journey to God
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Benedictine monastic spirituality has emerged as an antidote to the spiritual and cultural challenges facing people of faith today. In this book, the author focuses specifically on GRACE, and the benevolence of God as it expresses itself in many different ways along our spiritual journey. What is...
A Not-So-Unexciting Life
Essays on Benedictine History and Spirituality in Honor of Michael Casey, OCSO
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
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 most significant writers in the Benedictine...
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...