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Cistercian Publications has been producing books on the Christian monastic tradition for a quarter century. The Cistercian Fathers Series, which brings the insights of formative medieval Cistercian spiritual writers to readers of English, began with two works by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Thomas Merton’s The Climate of Monastic Prayer launched the Cistercian Studies Series, which went on to produce translations of ancient and medieval monastic texts, scholarly studies of the tradition, and explorations of the theology and spirituality influenced by monasticism; as well as reflective books drawing on and sharing the monastic experience. As this treasury of monastic literature in English has grown, Christians outside the cloister have increasingly turned to the lived experience of contemporary monks and nuns to slake a growing thirst for an authentic contemplative spirituality. The Monastic Wisdom series responds to this widespread interest in contemplative spirituality by making available contemporary insights born of long monastic experience. With this new series, Cistercian Publications hopes to make theologically-sound spiritual guidance available to those whose interests are contemporary rather than historical and to help those leading busy lives `in the world’ to inculcate into their lives the tine-proven monastic values of prayer, silence, reflection, community, and discipline. The General Editor of the Monastic Wisdom Series is Brother Patrick Hart, a monk of Gethsemani Abbey long associated with Thomas Merton and his literary heritage. Collaborating with him in selecting works for the series is an Advisory Board consisting of Kathleen Norris, Michael Casey OCSO, Terrence Kardong OSB, Lawrence S. Cunningham, Bonnie Thurston, and Miriam Pollard OCSO.

At Home with Saint Benedict At Home with Saint Benedict
Monastery Talks
Mark A. Scott, OCSO; Foreword by Macrina Wiederkehr
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At Home with Saint Benedict is a selection of the author's conferences on Saint Benedict's Rule for Monasteries delivered to the monks of Assumption Abbey of Ava, Missouri, when he was abbot there. The author's intention was simply to share with his ...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-027-4
Cistercian Product #: MW027P
 

At Home with Saint Benedict At Home with Saint Benedict
Monastery Talks
Mark A. Scott, OCSO; Foreword by Macrina Wiederkehr
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At Home with Saint Benedict is a selection of the author's conferences on Saint Benedict's Rule for Monasteries delivered to the monks of Assumption Abbey of Ava, Missouri, when he was abbot there. The author's intention was simply to share with his ...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-903-1
Cistercian Product #: MW027E
 

Cassian and the Fathers Cassian and the Fathers
Initiation into the Monastic Tradition
Thomas Merton; Edited by Patrick F. O'Connell
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Cassian and the Fathers is the initial volume in the series of Novitiate Conferences of Thomas Merton, the classes he presented to young men beginning their monastic life at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. They contain Merton's insights on impor...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-001-4
Cistercian Product #: MW001
 

Centered on Christ Centered on Christ
A Guide to Monastic Profession
Augustine Roberts OCSO; Foreword by Bernardo Olivera OCSO
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Hidden in every human heart is a "monk." For men and women in the cloister and in the world, Augustine Roberts explores the inner meaning of the conversatio morum, conversion of life, that underlies Benedictine life. The first, Spanish, edition of th...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-074-8
Cistercian Product #: MW005P
 

Charles Dumont Monk-Poet Charles Dumont Monk-Poet
A Spiritual Biography
Elizabeth Connor OCSO; Foreword by Mark A. Scott OCSO
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Introduced to the spiritual theology of the twelfth-century Cistercian Fathers when he entered the abbey of Scourmont, Belgium, Charles Dumont shared his ever deepening knowledge as editor of the Order's French-language journal, Collectanea Cistercie...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-040-3
Cistercian Product #: MW010P
 

Cistercian Spirituality Cistercian Spirituality
An Ashram Perspective
Francis Acharya, OCSO; Edited with an Introduction by Michael Casey, OCSO
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Cistercian Spirituality: An Ashram Perspective is a spiritual directory written by Fr. Francis Acharya for the monastic community that he founded at Kurisumala (Kerala, India). As the editor, Fr. Michael Casey, relates in the introduction: "This bo...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-026-7
Cistercian Product #: MW026P
 

Cistercian Spirituality Cistercian Spirituality
An Ashram Perspective
Francis Acharya, OCSO; Edited with an Introduction by Michael Casey, OCSO
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Cistercian Spirituality: An Ashram Perspective is a spiritual directory written by Fr. Francis Acharya for the monastic community that he founded at Kurisumala (Kerala, India). As the editor, Fr. Michael Casey, relates in the introduction: "This bo...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-900-0
Cistercian Product #: MW026E
 

Come and See Come and See
The Monastic Way for Today
Brendan Freeman, OCSO; Foreword by Michael Casey, OCSO
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Come and See is a 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 g...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-022-9
Cistercian Product #: MW022P
 

Come and See Come and See
The Monastic Way for Today
Brendan Freeman, OCSO; Foreword by Michael Casey, OCSO
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Come and See is a 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 g...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-954-3
Cistercian Product #: MW022E
 

Dom Anselme Le Bail Dom Anselme Le Bail
Abbot of Scourmont 1913-1956:
A monk, an abbot, a community

Dieudonné Dufrasne, OSB; Elizabeth Connor, OCSO, Translator
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Those who knew him, above all monks, will find Dom Anselme Le Bail again in these pages with warm gratitude. Those who have not known him will encounter his vital and original character. Both of these will be surprised and come to admire a man and a ...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-023-6
Cistercian Product #: MW023P
 

Dom Anselme Le Bail Dom Anselme Le Bail
Abbot of Scourmont 1913-1956:
A monk, an abbot, a community

Dieudonné Dufrasne, OSB; Elizabeth Connor, OCSO, Translator
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Those who knew him, above all monks, will find Dom Anselme Le Bail again in these pages with warm gratitude. Those who have not known him will encounter his vital and original character. Both of these will be surprised and come to admire a man and a ...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-952-9
Cistercian Product #: MW023E
 

Dom Gabriel Sortais Dom Gabriel Sortais
An Amazing Abbot in Turbulent Times
Fr Guy Oury OSB
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Dom Gabriel Sortais: An Amazing Abbot in Turbulent Times is an engaging biography of one of the most colorful Abbot Generals among the Trappists. Dom Gabriel put his stamp on the order in a very personal way, a form that remains with us today despite...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-007-6
Cistercian Product #: MW007P
 

Finding the Treasure Finding the Treasure
Letters from a Global Monk
Augustine Roberts, OCSO
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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 an...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-034-2
Cistercian Product #: MW034P
 

Finding the Treasure Finding the Treasure
Letters from a Global Monk
Augustine Roberts, OCSO
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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 an...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-206-3
Cistercian Product #: MW034P
 

Four Ways of Holiness for the Universal Church Four Ways of Holiness for the Universal Church
Drawn from the Monastic Tradition
Francis Kline OCSO
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We find the essence of holiness deep in the Scriptures, in the teaching and imitation of Jesus. When a Christian lives a particular way of holiness back to its scriptural source, we see in the person the Church as it waits for the Saviour, beyond all...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-012-0
Cistercian Product #: MW012
 

Gethsemani Homilies Gethsemani Homilies
Revised and Enlarged Edition
Matthew Kelty; Edited by William O. Paulsell
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Matthew Kelty, a native of Boston, has been a monk of Gethsemani since 1960. Before that he served as an active priest in the Society of the Divine Word, both in the States, and in Papua New Guinea. His previous books include Flute Solo (Sheed, Andre...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-024-3
Cistercian Product #: MW024P
 

Gethsemani Homilies Gethsemani Homilies
Revised and Enlarged Edition
Matthew Kelty; Edited by William O. Paulsell
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Matthew Kelty, a native of Boston, has been a monk of Gethsemani since 1960. Before that he served as an active priest in the Society of the Divine Word, both in the States, and in Papua New Guinea. His previous books include Flute Solo (Sheed, Andre...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-927-7
Cistercian Product #: MW024E
 

God Alone God Alone
A Spiritual Biography of Blessed Rafael Arnaiz Baron
By Gonzalo Maria Fernández OCSO; Translated by Hugh McCaffery OCSO; Preface by Patricio Peman
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Set amid the tumult of the Spanish Civil War, this spiritual biography recounts the efforts of a fervent young Spanish aristocrat to come to grips with his artistic talent, his intense personality and, above all, his unquenchable passion for God. Tra...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-014-4
Cistercian Product #: MW014P
 

I Am the Way I Am the Way
Stages of Prayer in Saint Bernard
Maureen McCabe, OCSO
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As founding abbot of Clairvaux, Bernard’s giftedness and good judgment made him an often-sought resource by both church and secular powers, and in that capacity, he was sometimes delightful and sometimes dismaying to those who encountered him. But ...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-476-0
Cistercian Product #: MW028E
 

I Am the Way I Am the Way
Stages of Prayer in Saint Bernard
Maureen McCabe, OCSO
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As founding abbot of Clairvaux, Bernard’s giftedness and good judgment made him an often-sought resource by both church and secular powers, and in that capacity, he was sometimes delightful and sometimes dismaying to those who encountered him. But ...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-028-1
Cistercian Product #: MW028P
 

Inside the Psalms Inside the Psalms
Reflections for Novices
Maureen McCabe OCSO
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The psalms are at the very heart of monastic prayer. Recited seven times a day in the liturgy and reflected upon in the mind through the day during work and lectio divina, they provide those who recite them regularly with a privileged way into contin...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-009-0
Cistercian Product #: MW003P
 

Inside the School of Charity Inside the School of Charity
Lessons from the Monastery
Trisha Day
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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 a monastic associate, she was startled by the unexpected challenges and insights...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-020-5
Cistercian Product #: MW020P
 

Inside the School of Charity Inside the School of Charity
Lessons from the Monastery
Trisha Day
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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 a monastic associate, she was startled by the unexpected challenges and insights...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-964-2
Cistercian Product #: MW020E
 

Introduction to Christian Mysticism An Introduction to Christian Mysticism
Initiation into the Monastic Tradition, 3
Thomas Merton; Edited by Patrick F. O’Connell
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In these conferences, originally given to novices, Thomas Merton provides an overview of major themes and figures in the Christian mystical tradition. From Fathers of the Church through important medieval theologians to the great Spanish Carmelites, ...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-013-7
Cistercian Product #: MW013P
 

Life of the Vows The Life of the Vows
Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 6
Thomas Merton; Edited by Patrick F. O’Connell
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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 t...   See More >>
ISBN: 978-0-87907-030-4
Cistercian Product #: MW030P
 


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