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Thomas Merton wrote The Silent Life a decade after he took orders. In his Prologue, Merton describes the book as "a meditation on the monastic life by one who, without any merit of his own, is privileged to know that life on the inside ... who seeks only to speak as the mouthpiece of a tradition centuries old." It is a remarkable work-one that combines a lucid and informative description of the nature and forms of monasticism, communal and solitary,...
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Para poder amar hay que derribar murallas divisorias: antipatías, agresividades y toda violencia compensadora; liberarse de la imagen inflada de sí mismo, de narcisismos y de cualquier apropiación. Es necesario superar la ansiedad, la angustia y las depresiones, e imponer las convicciones de fe sobre las reacciones primarias. Redimidos los impulsos, la vía oblativa nos llevará a la Pascua fraterna. Amar es respetarse, adaptarse, perdonarse, comprenderse,...
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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.
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This study follows the transmission and reception of Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum (1219—1223), one of the most compelling and successful Cistercian collections of miracles and memorable events, from the Middle Ages to the present day. It ranges across different media and within different interpretive communities and includes brief summaries of a number of the exempla.
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¿Ha perdido la vida consagrada su «encanto» y, por eso, no ejerce su atractivo sobre las nuevas generaciones? ¿O lo tiene y es necesario visibilizarlo? A estas preguntas quiere responder este libro, y lo hace analizando el significado de la alianza (la promesa de fidelidad y de la búsqueda del reino de Dios y de su justicia), y de los votos evangélicos. Lejos de entender la obediencia, la castidad y la pobreza como mandatos, obligaciones o exigencias,...
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Michael Casey, a monk and scholar who has been publishing his wise teachings on the Rule of St. Benedict for decades, turns to the particular Benedictine values that he considers most urgent for Christians to incorporate into their lives today. Eloquent and incisive, Casey invites readers to accept that gospel living - seen in the light of the Rule - involves accepting the challenge of being different from the secular culture around us. He encourages...
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Discover the rich spirituality of monastic life on Mount Athos a place like no other on earth. Twenty-five years ago, M. Basil Pennington, OCSO, was the first Western monk to live on Mount Athos for more than the usually permitted overnight visit. The Monks of Mount Athos chronicles his extraordinary stay, his experiences of the East, and lively conversations with his hosts about theological differences and unfamiliar spiritual practices. Listen in...
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A young men's fellowship group is formed in Joliet, IL, in 1987. The four college students and a young professor began reading Greek and Russian Orthodox books on aestheticism and plan to visit Mount Athos, a peninsula in Northern Greece devoted to monastic communities and still governed under Byzantine law. The first half of the book describes the misadventures of the boys as they perform clean-up operations at Greek food festivals in the Chicago...
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"The Great Controversy" is the detailed and fascinating history of the conflict between Jesus Christ and Satan by Ellen G. White, one of the founders of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. White was a prolific author, as well as an important religious leader, and her works have been translated into over one hundred languages and continue to be read the world over. Published in multiple editions and expanded several times over many decades, "The Great...
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If Christians and Muslims are to live in peace, encouraging one another to grow in holiness and working together for the good of all God's creation, they must move beyond politicized and often negative images of one another. Monastic/Muslim dialogue, issuing from friendship and focused on revelation, prayer, and witness, is an important component in this effort. Indeed, it is essential. Monastic Interreligious Dialogue is a commission of the Benedictine...
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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 the very simple secret of monastic life, a secret she shows to be an inseparable combination of mindfulness and fidelity. It is continual mindfulness of God's...
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En el Prólogo de la Colección Sistemática griega se nos dice que "se encuentran transcritas en este libro: la ascesis, la vida y las palabras de los santos padres"; todo lo cual ellos no lo hicieron por ostentación, sino que "recorrieron el camino de Cristo", es decir, quisieron imitar al Señor Jesús, ocultando por humildad sus acciones. Y la intención de reunir estos admirables ejemplos y palabras es una sola: "el provecho de muchos".
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This new book by Sister Aquinata Böckmann discusses the Prologue and chapters 1, 2, and 3 of the Rule of St. Benedict. In a lectio regulae, she plumbs the depths of Benedict's vision. Listen, the first word of the Prologue, is a keyword that describes the main stance of the individual monastic, the superior, and the entire community. Listening to the Scriptures and in them to Christ guides individuals and the community on how to 'run on the way...
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This volume brings together texts of the twelfth-century Hildegard of Bingen and the early-thirteenth-century Francis of Assisi to represent religious spirituality after the Gregorian Reform and just prior to or simultaneous with the formation of universities in Western Europe. In an extraordinary way, Hildegard embodies monastic theology and spirituality and provides a contrast to the new thing that would be created with the study of theology in...
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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 succeeding generations. Smaragdus intended The Crown of Monks as a daily resource for monastic communities, to be read at the evening chapter. He sought...
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The Sun at Midnight offers a splendid, easily accessible summary of mystical theology in the Cistercian school. Bernardo Olivera, a master of both the theology and the practice of the spiritual life, analyzes this tradition first in its rich human, biblical, and doctrinal connotations, and then according to its most typical expressions as they are lived among Cistercian mystics, with reference also to other Christian men and women. Olivera explores...
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