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 The Seven Storey MountainBest Price: $7.98 I would strongly recommend this book - especially to individuals interested in entering to... |  The Cloister WalkBest Price: $3.98 Book Review The Cloister Walk In Kathleen Norris' book, The Cloister Walk, she invites the... |  Thoughts In SolitudeBest Price: $7.00 4.5 stars Merton's 1950s musings on the need for solitude and contemplation ring truer than... |  Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict (Second Edition)Best Price: $7.42 Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict not only explains the rule in clear terms, it shows how it... |  How to Be a Monastic And Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life (Voice from the Monastery)Best Price: $7.99 I am a convert not anywhere near a monastery and not ready for oblate life who has only known... |
 A Time to Keep Silence (New York Review Books Classics)Best Price: $7.32 I'm a big fan of Fermor's writing and this little gem of a book is a departure from the classic... |  New Monasticism: What It Has to Say to Today's ChurchBest Price: $8.83 The book brings fresh air to todays christian spirituality and ethics. I think that new monastic... |  A Monk's Confession: The Memoirs of Guibert of NogentBest Price: $23.75 Guibert (born 1055, died 1125)was born a noble, but followed his mother's lead in abandoning his... |  Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for ProtestantsBest Price: $2.49 This is a little book. If you exclude things like the Foreword, the Afterword and Notes, it's... |  Padre Pio: A Man of HopeBest Price: $6.35 Great book for anyone! A wonderful historical and spiritual look at a man who captured the... |
 The Rule of St. Benedict (Dover Books on Western Philosophy)Best Price: $2.04 There are many editions of this great spiritual classic, but Cardinal Gasquet's translation of... |  The Forgotten Desert Mothers: Sayings, Lives, and Stories of Early Christian WomenBest Price: $8.32 I would like to say I really enjoyed this book. I found it interesting to hear several... |  The Benedictine HandbookBest Price: $15.00 I bought this book on the recommendation of a friend who, with me is a Lay Cistercians of... |  The Rule of St Benedict (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $6.99 The Rule of St. Benedict is an excellent, quick read that helps the reader understand the aims... |  School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism (New Monastic Library: Resources for Radical Discipleship)Best Price: $19.19 An ancient breeze is beginning to blow in unexpected places in North America. While monastic... |
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 The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen MonasteryBest Price: $5.98 "The empty mirror," he said. "If you could really understand that, there would be... |  Thoughts Matter: The Practice of the Spiritual LifeBest Price: $6.00 This is a book that focuses on the inner journey that we all take with God. The book premise is... |  John Cassian: Conferences (Classics of Western Spirituality)Best Price: $12.99 Like many early Christian writers, the life of John Cassian (c. 360-c 435) remains shrouded in... |  Poverty and Joy: The Franciscan Tradition (Traditions of Christian Spirituality.)Best Price: $7.94 This book is written with such clarity and life giving energy that one is left with a wonderful... |  An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic OrderBest Price: $0.39 Reading "An Infinity of Little Hours," I was, somewhat to my surprise, drawn deeply... |
 In The Spirit of HappinessBest Price: $5.95 I liked the book so much I've read it about three times now. I memorized a few of the prayers... |  They Speak by SilencesBest Price: $11.65 A must read!!! Get this book and "Where silence is Praise" by the same Carthusian. ... |  Tales of A Magic Monastery (Tales Magic Monastry Ppr)Best Price: $8.74 This is a cute book with fabulous illustrations but it just doesn't make sense. Each of the... |  The InstitutesBest Price: $20.00 Saint John Cassian is best remembered for two lengthy studies of monastic life and moral... |  The Love of Learning and The Desire for God: A Study of Monastic CultureBest Price: $19.80 "Read the acts of Sts. Anthony, Macarius, Pachomius..., the Egyptian Monks, of those who... |
 St. Benedict: Hero of the Hills (Vision Books)Best Price: $5.88 Note: This is the same book that is published by TAN books, except "Hero of the... |  St Benedicts Rule for MonasteriesBest Price: $1.86 |  Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages (3rd Edition) (The Medieval World)Best Price: $32.40 C.H. Lawrence's MEDIEVAL MONASTICISM is a good summary of the origins of monasticism from c. 500... |  Finding the Monk Within: Great Monastic Values for TodayBest Price: $14.99 This book is absolutely wonderful. The title caught my attention, and I hoped that the book... |  The American Jesuits: A HistoryBest Price: $18.87 If you, as I, graduated from a Jesuit university (in my case, Fordham), you simply have to add... |
 Dancing in the Water of Life (Merton, Thomas//Journal of Thomas Merton)Best Price: $10.59 This book illustrates vividly the calms and the storms of living out a life of commitment.There... |  The Rule of Benedict for Beginners: Spirituality for Daily LifeBest Price: $5.11 This slender book is the most important one I've read in the past 25 years. It truly is. It has... |  Elizabeth of the Trinity THE COMPLETE WORKS, I have found GOD, Vol 1Best Price: $5.00 This centenary series of the Complete Works is a major accomplishment. Volume I ('I Have Found... |  Padre Pio the StigmatistBest Price: $8.99 I have only read parts of this book, but the sections that I did read seemed somewhat... |  Silence, Solitude, Simplicity: A Hermit's Love Affair with a Noisy, Crowded, and Complicated WorldBest Price: $6.39 Sister Jeremy Hall defines spirituality as "our being-before-God and how this works out in... |
 Punk Monk: New Monasticism and the Ancient Art of BreathingBest Price: $5.66 Like most of us, I have shelves groaning with books purporting to give me this tip or that key... |  The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits (Cambridge Companions to Religion)Best Price: $19.74 Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) obtained papal approval in 1540 for a new international religious... |  Interior PrayerBest Price: $16.15 Mere words are insufficient, as it must be experienced. This is for those who are into a prayer... |  The Inner Room: A Journey into Lay MonasticismBest Price: $5.30 The beginning of the book is one man's story from religious beginnings as a child, to... |  Trappist: Living in the Land of DesireBest Price: $19.99 Right off I want to comment that the book is well written and shows the proper respect to the... |
 A Good Life: Benedict's Guide to Everyday JoyBest Price: $7.86 Unpretentious, straight forward, and inspirational, this little volume (85 pages) makes an... |  Engaging Benedict: What The Rule Can Teach Us TodayBest Price: $8.69 Laura Swan is a Benedictine sister, acquainted with the Rule of Benedict not only through... |  Essential Monastic Wisdom: Writings on the Contemplative LifeBest Price: $14.89 This is a beautiful book that will help the reader (Catholic or not) retreat into that world of... |  Preferring Christ: A Devotional Commentary on the Rule of St. BenedictBest Price: $12.38 Though targeted for an audience of Benedictine oblates, or lay associates of Benedictine... |  Coptic Monasteries: Egypt's Monastic Art and ArchitectureBest Price: $23.63 Gawdat came to my college this summer and taught about Coptic Art History using this book. The... |
 Journey in a Holy Land: A Spiritual JournalBest Price: $5.99 |  Cluny: In Search of God's Lost EmpireBest Price: $11.21 This book was a tremendous pleasure to read. Scholarship of this quality is seldom wed with... |  Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early ChristianityBest Price: $41.20 Demons--whether in embodied form or as inward temptation--make vivid appearances in early... |  Athanasius and AsceticismBest Price: $25.00 This book is a reworking of Brakke's doctoral dissertation. As such, it is steeped in scholarly... |  Letters (Fathers of the Church)Best Price: $33.96 "Do not seek to be regarded as somebody, don't compare yourself to others in anything.... |
 The Wound of LoveBest Price: $17.93 What is Carthusian life really like? What actually goes on in a Charterhouse? Is the Order's... |  Day By Day With Saint BenedictBest Price: $3.62 I feel that this book helps me relate the rule to my life. It is my evening reading. | |||
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