Cistercian Publications imprint: 72 books
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...
Can a Seamless Garment Be Truly Torn?
Questions Surrounding the Jewish-Catholic Löb Family, 1881–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The conversion of Lutz Löb and Jenny van Gelder from Judaism to Roman Catholicism dramatically changed the lives of the extended Löb family. This scientific-historical study traces the personal and spiritual journey of Lutz and Jenny from their baptisms in 1907 through the lives of their children....
Come and See
The Monastic Way for Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Come and See is look inside the mind of a monk. The Vision of monastic life proposed here is not new; it is a Vision going back to the Desert Fathers of the fourth century. And yet, it is new because it is rooted in a place in the soul that never grows old. Come and see where I live, Jesus said to...
Reading To Live
The Evolving Practice of Lectio Divina
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Lectio divina, the ancient practice of prayerful reading, is a font whose waters are waiting to quench the thirst of spiritual seekers, both beginners on the spiritual journey and experienced travelers. The art of holy reading transforms lives. Through the practice of lectio individuals and communities...
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...
The World of Medieval Monasticism
Its History and Forms of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
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 the later Middle Ages. Throughout that story...
The Discourses of Philoxenos of Mabbug
A New Translation and Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
The thirteen Discourses of Philoxenos of Mabbug (445-523) were delivered to new monks at a monastery under his episcopal care. Written in elegant Syriac, the Discourses deal with the fundamentals of the monastic and ascetic life-faith, simplicity, fear of God, renunciation, and the struggle against...
The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict
with Related Old English Texts
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Awarded 2019 Best Edition or Translation of an Anglo-Saxon (or Anglo-Latin) Text by the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
St. Æthelwold (904/9 –984), abbot of Abingdon and bishop of Winchester, made the first translation of the Rule of Saint Benedict into English (or, indeed, into...
by Naaman Paul
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
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, a fifth-century hermit-priest, and the...
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...
Following The Footsteps Of The Invisible
The Complete Works of Diadochus of Photikë
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Fifth-century Christianity was a theological battlefield. With the Messalian heretics and their experientialist spirituality on the one side and the intellectualist school on the other, representatives of both extremes found themselves condemned by the Church. In this milieu of subjectivist notions...
by Gertrud the Great of Helfta
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Gertrud the Great (1256–1302) entered the monastery of Helfta in eastern Germany as a child oblate. At the age of twenty-five she underwent a conversion that led to a series of visionary experiences. These centered on “the divine loving-kindness,” which she perceived as expressed through and...
by Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Smaragdus was a monk and abbot of considerable standing in the early ninth century church. His Diadema Monachorum (The Crown of Monks), together with a later commentary on the Rule of Saint Benedict, established him as one of the most significant interpreters of Benedict's Rule in his day and for...
Spirituality Of The Premonstratensians
The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Frana§ois Petit's study of the spirituality of the medieval Premonstratensians (Norbertines), published in the aftermath of the Second World War, remains the definitive treatment of the early centuries of the order of canons founded by Norbert of Xanten in 1121. Petit's attention to the texts, community...