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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 >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-030-4
Cistercian Product #: MW030P
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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 >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-793-8
Cistercian Product #: MW030E
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A Life Pleasing to God
The Spirituality of the Rules of Saint Basil
Augustine Holmes OSB
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Basil the Great (330-379) is one of the most important figures in christian history and a theologian and spiritual teacher of ecumenical significance. At a time when the sources of their rich spiritual heritage are being re-appropriated by Christians... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-689-4
Cistercian Product #: CS189P
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Lives of Monastic Reformers, 1
Robert of La Chaise-Dieu and Stephen of Obazine
Introduced and Translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB,
Maureen M. O’Brien, and Ronald Pepin
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The period between 1025 and 1150 was a time of creativity and new beginnings in monastic life. Robert of La Chaise-Dieu and Stephen of Obazine established two very successful monastic families in the neighboring regions of the Auvergne and Limousin r... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-937-6
Cistercian Product #: CS222E
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The Lives of Monastic Reformers, 1
Robert of La Chaise-Dieu and Stephen of Obazine
Introduced and Translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB,
Maureen M. O’Brien, and Ronald Pepin
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The period between 1025 and 1150 was a time of creativity and new beginnings in monastic life. Robert of La Chaise-Dieu and Stephen of Obazine established two very successful monastic families in the neighboring regions of the Auvergne and Limousin r... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-322-0
Cistercian Product #: CS222P
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The Lives of Simeon Stylites
Translated by Robert Doran; Foreword by Susan Ashbrook Harvey
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In the flood of christian ascetics who left the world to seek God alone, Simeon chose a novel withdrawal. He mounted a pillar and remained there the rest of his life. To him came supplicants with all kinds of problems: personal anguish, sickness and ... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-512-5
Cistercian Product #: CS112
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The Lives of the Desert Fathers
Translated by Norman Russell, Introduction by Benedicta Ward SLG
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Eyewitness accounts of the lives and teachings of the fourth-century Desert Fathers from the Historia monachorum in Aegypto. See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-934-5
Cistercian Product #: CS034
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The Lives of the Jura Fathers
Translated, with an introduction, by Tim Vivian, Kim Vivian, and Jeffrey Burton Russell
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Price: $29.95
Sale Price: $7.49
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Around the year 435–just before the time of Saint Benedict–a middle-aged man named Romanus felt drawn to the solitary life. Leaving his family, he entered the dense forests of the rugged Jura Mountains in eastern France. There he was soon joined by h... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-778-5
Cistercian Product #: CS178P
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The Lives of the Jura Fathers
Translated, with an introduction, by Tim Vivian, Kim Vivian, and Jeffrey Burton Russell
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Price: $49.95
Sale Price: $24.98
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Around the year 435–just before the time of Saint Benedict–a middle-aged man named Romanus felt drawn to the solitary life. Leaving his family, he entered the dense forests of the rugged Jura Mountains in eastern France. There he was soon joined by h... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-678-8
Cistercian Product #: CS178H
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Living Wisdom
The Mission and Transmission of Monasticism
Cristiana Piccardo, OCSO
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Cristiana Piccardo was the long-time abbess of an unusual Cistercian community in Italy. “We have always believed,” she writes, “that the monastic charism can be a precious ‘talent’ offered to our contemporary world, and there are moments in history ... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-033-5
Cistercian Product #: MW033P
Publication Date: October 2013
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Lovers of the Place
Monasticism Loose in the Church
Francis Kline, OCSO; Foreword by Michael Downey
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The monastery has often been likened to a powerhouse of prayer, providing light and energy for the countless numbers who make up the Body of Christ. This image has inadvertently furthered the view of monasticism as separate from the rest of the Churc... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-038-0
Cistercian Product #: MW038P
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Lovers of the Place
Monasticism Loose in the Church
Francis Kline, OCSO; Foreword by Michael Downey
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The monastery has often been likened to a powerhouse of prayer, providing light and energy for the countless numbers who make up the Body of Christ. This image has inadvertently furthered the view of monasticism as separate from the rest of the Churc... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-768-6
Cistercian Product #: MW038E
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Manjava Skete
Ukrainian Monastic Writings of the XVII century
Translation and introduction by Sophia Senyk
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Price: $29.95
Sale Price: $3.00
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Anchoretism—a life of solitude and stillness—flowered in the deserts of Egypt in the fourth century and has provided a perennial model for christian monasticism. Revived in the sixteenth century the anchoretic life flourished in ruthenian lands—prese... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-792-1
Cistercian Product #: CS192P
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Medieval Images of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
James France
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Price: $49.95
Sale Price: $12.49
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From his own day—he died in 1153—throughout the Middle Ages Bernard has been portrayed in paintings, manuscript illuminations, wooden and stone carvings, and stained glass windows. Both Bernard's reputation and the characteristic piety of the artists... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-310-7
Cistercian Product #: CS210P
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Mena of Nikiou
The Life of Isaac of Alexandria & The Martyrdom of Saint Macrobius
Translated and annotated by David N. Bell
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Separated by schism from greek and latin Christians and surviving under arab-islamic suzerainty, the Church of Egypt produced insightful saints and heroic martyrs in a chapter in church history now opened to readers of English for the first time. See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-607-8
Cistercian Product #: CS107P
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Monastic Observances
Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 5
Thomas Merton; Edited by Patrick F. O’Connell
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In this set of novitiate conferences from the late 1950s, Thomas Merton provides a vivid and detailed introduction to the traditional pattern and practices of the monastic day during the period immediately preceding the momentous changes that would b... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-025-0
Cistercian Product #: MW025P
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Monastic Observances
Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 5
Thomas Merton; Edited by Patrick F. O’Connell
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In this set of novitiate conferences from the late 1950s, Thomas Merton provides a vivid and detailed introduction to the traditional pattern and practices of the monastic day during the period immediately preceding the momentous changes that would b... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-921-5
Cistercian Product #: MW025P
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Monastic Practices
Charles Cummings OCSO
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Monks and nuns have preserved courtesies, devotions, and contemplative disciplines which the rest of the christian world has lost. In this introduction to the world of the cloister, Fr Cummings explains the origins, and the continuing value, of monas... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-975-8
Cistercian Product #: CS075
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The Monastic Rule of Iosif Volotsky
New Revised Edition
Edited and Translated by David M. Goldfrank
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Price: $39.95
Sale Price: $19.98
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The life and Rule of Iosif Volotsky (1439/1440-1515) reveal many of the contradictory forces at work within the medieval muscovite church and russian monasticism: social reform amid noble privilege, monastic austerity bounded by a despotic social str... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-336-7
Cistercian Product #: CS036
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Mystagogy
A Monastic Reading of Dionysius Areopagita
Alexander Golitzin; Edited by Bogdan G. Bucur
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Mystagogy proposes an interpretation of the Pseudo-Dionysian corpus in light of the liturgical and ascetic tradition that defined the author and his audience. Characterized by both striking originality and remarkable fidelity to the patristic and lat... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-250-6
Cistercian Product #: CS250P
Publication Date: November 2013
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Nil Sorsky
The Authentic Writings
Translated, with an Introduction, by David Goldfrank.
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Price: $39.95
Sale Price: $25.97
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Nil Sorsky (1433/34-1508), founder of the Sora Hermitage and initiator of ‘scete’ life in among Russian Christians, is closely identified with the Orthodox contemplative prayer known as hesychasm, ‘stillness.’ In these translations, Nil’s own voice s... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-321-3
Cistercian Product #: CS221P
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No Moment Too Small
Rhythms of Silence, Prayer, and Holy Reading
Norvene Vest
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For those outside the cloister Norvene Vest sets the elements of the Rule—regular prayer and prayerful attention to work—within the silence which enables us to listen to, reflect on, and respond to God's call. See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-653-5
Cistercian Product #: CS153
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Orthodoxy
Evolving Tradition
By David N. Bell
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Orthodox Christianity—divided into two main groups: Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox—is now a world-wide phenomenon and one of the fastest growing Christian traditions in the United States. In this introduction to the tradition, the author pres... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-228-5
Cistercian Product #: CS228P
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Other Writings of Saint Pachomius and his Disciples
Volume 3
Translated and annotated by Armand Veilleux OCSO, Foreword by Adalbert de Vogüé OSB
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A translation of all existing documents from the cenobitic monasteries of Pachomius (292-346).
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-947-5
Cistercian Product #: CS047
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Pachomian Chronicles and Rules
Volume 2
Translated and annotated by Armand Veilleux OCSO, Foreword by Adalbert de Vogüé OSB
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Price: $24.95
Sale Price: $12.48
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Descriptions of Pachomian monastic communities from a variety of ancient sources, including the Lausiac History and A History of the Monks in
Egypt, and full translations of the Rule of Saint Pachomius and the Regulation of his successor, Horsiesi... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-946-8
Cistercian Product #: CS046
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