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Aelred of Rievaulx
Spiritual Friendship
Marsha L. Dutton, Editor; Lawrence C. Braceland, Translator
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Spiritual Friendship is today the best known and perhaps most influential of the thirteen surviving works of Aelred, abbot of the great English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147–1167. During his abbacy he built Rievaulx into a place of spiritual... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-957-4
Cistercian Product #: CF005E
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Anselm of Havelberg
Anticimenon: On the Unity of the Faith
and the Controversies with the Greeks
Ambrose Criste, OPraem, and Carol Neel, Translators
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The Anticimenon of Anselm of Havelberg is both the outstanding medieval work on ecumenical dialogue with the Orthodox and one of the period’s most important explorations of the theology of history. This text’s author was a bishop on Christianity’s ea... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-961-1
Cistercian Product #: CS232E
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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 >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-903-1
Cistercian Product #: MW027E
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Christian de Chergé
A Theology of Hope
Christian Salenson; Translated by Nada Conic
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Christian de Chergé, prior of the Cistercian community at Tibhirine, Algeria, was assassinated with six of his fellow monks in 1996. De Chergé saw his monastic vocation as a call to be a person of prayer among persons who pray, that is, among the Mus... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-745-7
Cistercian Product #: CS247E
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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 >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-900-0
Cistercian Product #: MW026E
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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 >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-954-3
Cistercian Product #: MW022E
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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 >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-952-9
Cistercian Product #: MW023E
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Evagrius of Pontus: Talking Back
A Monastic Handbook for Combating Demons
Translated with an Introduction by David Brakke
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How did the monks of the Egyptian desert fight against the demons that attacked them with tempting thoughts? How could Christians resist the thoughts of gluttony, fornication, or pride that assailed them and obstructed their contemplation of God? Acc... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-968-0
Cistercian Product #: CS229E
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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 >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-927-7
Cistercian Product #: MW024E
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Grimlaicus
Rule for Solitaries
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Andrew Thornton
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The monk Grimlaicus (ca. 900) wrote a rule for those who, like himself, pursued the solitary life within a monastic community. Never leaving their cell yet participating in the liturgical life of the monastery through a window into the church, these ... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-830-0
Cistercian Product #: CS200E
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The Holy Workshop of Virtue
The Life of John the Little by Zacharias of Sakha
Edited by Tim Vivian, Rowan Greer, and Maged S. A. Mikhail
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Saint John the Little was a monk and hegumen of Scetis (Wadi Natrun) during the first great period of early Egyptian monasticism. The Apophthegmata preserve some fifty sayings by or about him (see CS 59, 85–96). In addition, Zacharias, eighth-century... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-935-2
Cistercian Product #: CS234E
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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 >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-476-0
Cistercian Product #: MW028E
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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 >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-964-2
Cistercian Product #: MW020E
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John of Forde
The Life of Wulfric of Haselbury, Anchorite
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Pauline Matarasso
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John of Forde’s Life of Wulfric of Haselbury—priest, healer, seer, mystic, who lived in a cell abutting a village church from 1125 until his death in 1154—is a classic of its kind. It portrays the daily life of the recluse, his austerities, the hours... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-8790-7799-0
Cistercian Product #: CF079E
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Lectio Divina
The Medieval Experience of Reading
Duncan Robertson
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During the Middle Ages the act of reading was experienced intensively in the monastic exercise of lectio divina—the prayerful scrutiny of passages of Scripture, “savored” in meditation, memorized, recited, and rediscovered in the reader’s own religio... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-204-9
Cistercian Product #: CS238E
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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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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 Maronites
The Origins of an Antiochene Church: A Historical and Geographical Study of the Fifth to Seventh Centuries
Abbot Paul Naaman
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The Maronite Church is one of twenty-two Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Pope of Rome. Her patriarch is in Lebanon. Forty-three bishops and approximately five million faithful make up her presence throughout the world.
The story of M... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-794-5
Cistercian Product #: CS243E
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Reading to Live
The Evolving Practice of Lectio Divina
Raymond Studzinski, OSB
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Lectio divina, the ancient practice of prayerful reading, is a font whose waters are waiting to quench the thirst of spiritual seekers, both beginners on the spiritual journey and experienced travelers. The art of holy reading transforms lives. Throu... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-963-5
Cistercian Product #: CS231E
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Spirituality of the Premonstratensians
The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
François Petit, O. Praem.; Translated by Victor Szczurek, O. Praem.; Edited with an Introduction by Carol Neel
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François Petit's study of the spirituality of the medieval Premonstratensians (Norbertines), published in the aftermath of the Second World War, remains the definitive treatment of the early centuries of the order of canons founded by Norbert of Xant... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-795-2
Cistercian Product #: CS242E (PTS 2)
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The Sun at Midnight
Monastic Experience of the Christian Mystery
Bernardo Olivera
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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, b... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-477-7
Cistercian Product #: MW029E
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Useful Servanthood
A Study of Spiritual Formation in the Writings of Abba Ammonas
Bernadette McNary-Zak, Nada Conic , Brother Lawrence Morey, ocso, Richard Upsher Smith, Jr.
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Useful Servanthood introduces English-speaking readers to Abba Ammonas, disciple and successor of Saint Antony of the Desert and a prominent figure of fourth-century Egyptian monasticism. As a director of souls, Ammonas's approach to spiritual format... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-922-2
Cistercian Product #: CS224E
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Words for the Journey
A Monastic Vocabulary
Edith Scholl, ocso
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In matters of religion and spirituality the simplest phrases can be the most misleading. Or, if not misleading, misunderstood. There is no doubt that this is true of the Cistercian tradition. As Sister Edith Scholl writes in the introduction to this ... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-967-3
Cistercian Product #: MW021E
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