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  • 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

    by Brother Lawrence, Teresa Avila, Thomas Kempis ...
    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 texts of:• ON LOVING GOD – by Bernard of Clairvaux (12th Century)• THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING – unknown ... Read more

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  • Contemplative Prayer

    by Thomas Merton ...
    In this classic text, Thomas Merton offers valuable guidance for prayer. He brings together a wealth of meditative and mystical influences–from John of the Cross to Eastern desert monasticism–to create a spiritual path for today. Most important, he shows how the peace contacted through meditation should not be sought in order to evade the problems of contemporary life, but can instead be directed ... Read more

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  • Practice of The Presence of God, The

    by Brother Lawrence ...
    Brother Lawrence was a man of humble beginnings who discovered the greatest secret of living in the kingdom of God here on earth. It is the art of "practicing the presence of God in one single act that does not end." He often stated that it is God who paints Himself in the depths of our soul. We must merely open our hearts to receive Him and His loving presence. For nearly 300 years this ... Read more

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  • To Love and To Serve: Selected Essays

    Exploring the Ignatian Tradition

    by Brian O'Leary ...
    Brian O’Leary, an Irish Jesuit, has been researching and writing on Ignatian spirituality since the 1970s. Over that period he has authored five books, the last of which (God Ever Greater, 2018) was a selection of his lectures and talks. His new offering, To Love and To Serve, is also a selection – this time of essays that have appeared in spirituality journals in a number of countries. Since ... Read more

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  • The Joy of God

    Collected Writings

    by Mary David, St Cecilia's Abbey ...
    A journey from where we are to achieving true happiness.Sister Mary David Totah was a nun of the Benedictine contemplative community of St Cecilia's Abbey on the Isle of Wight. American by birth, she was educated at Loyola University, the University of Virginia and Christ Church, Oxford. After a distinguished teaching career, she entered religious life in 1985. For 22 years until her early death ... Read more

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  • The Way of the Heart

    The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers

    by Henri J. M. Nouwen ...
    Did you know that noise is scientifically proven to stress you out? Noise triggers a stress response in a region of your brainstem causing a release of cortisol (a stress hormone). Now think about how the constant noise of modern hustle culture impacts you and why we need silence.Distinguished theologian, spiritual thinker and author Henri Nouwen writes about the importance of silence for ... Read more

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  • RB 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict

    In Latin and English with Notes

    For fifteen centuries Benedictine monasticism has been governed by a Rule that is at once strong enough to instill order and yet flexible enough to have relevance fifteen hundred years later. This unabridged edition includes the Latin and English translation with commentary. The paperback version has facing page translation. ... Read more

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  • Life of St. Anthony (Vita S. Antoni)

    by St. Athanasius, Wyatt North ...
    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 has an absolute connection to the divine truth, which always is in harmony with that of ... Read more

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  • The Waters of Siloe

    by Thomas Merton ...
    From the author of The Seven Storey Mountain, this book looks at an order of Catholic monks dating back to eleventh-century France."The word 'Trappist' has become synonymous with 'ascetic' and definitely indicates a monk who leads a very hard life. But . . . Penance and asceticism are not ends in themselves. If monks never succeeded in being more than pious athletes, they do not fulfill their ... Read more

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  • Happiness in God

    Memories and Reflections of the Father Abbot of La Trappe

    by Dom Marie-Gérard Dubois, Dom Guerric Reitz Séjotte ...
    Translated by Georges Hoffmann, Jean Truax ...
    Series Book 58 - Monastic Wisdom Series
    This is a rich collection of memories and reflections from the long-time abbot of La Trappe, Dom Marie-Gérard Dubois, OCSO. Starting with his entry into monastic life, he walks the reader through the dramatic changes in the Strict Observance of the Cistercian Order, including its liturgical reform and developments in the role of lay brothers. Dom Dubois also shares stories about the diverse group ... Read more

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  • Top 7 Rules and Exercises of the Christian Faith: Didache, Rule of St Augustine, Rule of St Benedict, Book of Pastoral Rule, Rule of St Francis, Exercises of St Ignatius, Way of Perfection

    by Francis of Assisi, Ignatius Loyola, Saint Benedict ...
    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.Besides the more well-known rules such as the Rule of St. Benedict, the Rule of St. Francis and the ... Read more

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  • Saint Columban

    His Life, Rule, and Legacy

    by Terrence G. Kardong OSB ...
    Series Book 270 - Cistercian Studies Series
    Saint Columban: His Life, Rule, and Legacy contains a new English translation of a commentary on the entire Rule of Columban. Columban was a sixth-century Irish monk who compiled a written rule of life for the three monasteries he founded in France: Anegray, Luxeuil, and Fontaines. This volume also includes the first English translation of the Regula cuiusdam Patris ad Virgines, or the Rule of ... Read more

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  • On Vainglory

    by Elder Cleopas the Romanian, St George Monastery ...
    Vainglory is a passion that manifests earlier than all the other passions. ... Read more

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  • The Memorial of the Abundance of the Divine Sweetness

    by Gertrud the Great of Helfta ...
    Translated by Alexandra Barratt ...
    Series Book 88 - Cistercian Fathers Series
    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, some of which she recorded in Latin “with her own hand,” in what became Book Two of The Herald of God’s Loving-Kindness, the standard version of her revelations. The other four bookswere written down ... Read more

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  • A Simplified Life

    A Contemporary Hermit's Experience of Solitude and Silence

    by Schiller ...
    What makes a young, Cambridge educated woman first join a religious order and then, if that were not demanding enough, seek a hermit vocation, literally on the edge of the world with only a simple hut as protection against Atlantic winds and storms? This title tells the author's story. ... Read more

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  • Demythologizing Celibacy

    Practical Wisdom from Christian and Buddhist Monasticism

    by William Skudlarek OSB ...
    When St. Benedict compiled his Rule for Monasteries in the early decades of the sixth century, the Buddhist monastic code had already been in existence for about nine hundred years. Since monastic life is shaped by spiritual practices that are very similar across different religious traditions, it should not be too much of a stretch to suggest that Christians can learn from the accumulated wisdom ... Read more

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  • The Cistercians in the Middle Ages

    by Janet Burton, Julie Kerr ...
    The Cistercians (White Monks) were the most successful monastic experiment to emerge from the tumultuous intellectual and religious fervour of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. By around 1150 they had established houses the length and breadth of Western Christendom and were internationally renowned. They sought to return to a simple form of monastic life, as set down in the Rule of St Benedict, ... Read more

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  • Studies in Coptic Culture

    Transmission and Interaction

    Edited by Mariam Ayad ...
    Coptic contributions to the formative theological debates of Christianity have long been recognized. Less well known are other, equally valuable, Coptic contributions to the transmission and preservation of technical and scientific knowledge, and a full understanding of how Egypt's Copts survived and interacted with the country's majority population over the centuries. Studies in Coptic Culture ... Read more

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  • On the Types of Witchcraft

    St George Monastery

    by Elder Cleopas the Romanian ...
    By witchcraft, we understand the invocation of demonic power, instead of God, to help people fulfill certain human wishes. ... Read more

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  • Resonating Faith

    Resonation Realm

    by Omnipion Publishing, Rinzen Joye ...
    Series series Resonation Realm
    Mathew 10:16"Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among the wolves, so be as wise/ shrewd as snakes/serpents and harmless/innocent as doves"What does this mean?It firstly shows how cunning you have to be to discover the codes hidden in scripture, to see through the veils. It also means there will be challenges from situations circumstances upbringing and even evil people who wish to do you harm ... Read more

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  • Homilies on the Gospels

    by Hildegard of Bingen ...
    Translated by Beverly Mayne Kienzle ...
    Series Book 241 - Cistercian Studies Series
    Hildegard of Bingen (1098 '1179) describes the virtue of Fortitude teaching the other virtues in the fire of the Holy Spirit. Like Fortitude, Hildegard was enkindled by the Holy Spirit and edified many with her teaching.Hildegard of Bingen's Homilies on the Gospels are here translated for the first time from Latin into English. Hildegard's sisters recorded and preserved her informal preaching in ... Read more

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  • The Third Desert

    The Story of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue

    by Fabrice Blee ...
    Translated by William Skudlarek OSB ...
    Series series Monastic Interreligi
    Over the course of its history the Christian monastic tradition has developed a desert spirituality" of solitude, silence, and self-knowledge that fosters openness to the divine presence and its transformative power. Today the divine presence is manifesting itself anew in the "desert of otherness," that sacred space in which we encounter the other as one whose difference, even of religion and ... Read more

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  • 100 éclats de lumière

    Commentaires de la Règle de saint Benoît

    by Nicolas Dayez, Bernard Lorent, Loyse Morard ...
    Les commentaires de Dom Nicolas Dayez, ancien abbé de Maredsous, sont comme autant d’« éclats de lumière »,autour d'un texte du Ve siècle dont l'actualité est plus que jamais nécessaire à nos contemporains.. Elles sont l’œuvre d’un artiste, penseur, musicien et poète, moine aussi pendant plus de soixante ans et, qui plus est, à la tête de son monastère durant une trentaine d’années. C’est dire qu ... Read more

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  • Light in the Shoe Shop

    A Cobbler's Contemplations

    by Agnes Day OCSO ...
    Series Book 36 - Monastic Wisdom Series
    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 ... Read more

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