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Book Pillars Of Community

    Book Details:
  • Author : Terrence G. Kardong
  • Publisher : Liturgical Press
  • Release : 2010-03-01
  • ISBN : 0814639216
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book Pillars Of Community written by Terrence G. Kardong and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remain in me, as I remain in you. Jesus ' disciples are given this command in John's gospel, and it is a command that extends to every one of his followers, including us. We deepen this mutual indwelling 'we in Christ and Christ in us 'each Sunday through the word and at the tale. In Abiding Word, Barbara Reid, OP, takes the Sunday experience to every day with accessible weekly meditations on the lectionary readings of year. This collection of articles, which includes Scripture readings for Sundays and solemnities followed by reflections, allows readers to meditate on the connection between the sacred text and their daily lives. Living with the word day by day invites us into a closer relationship with Christ, the God who became flesh. Barbara Reid is known for her contributions to The Word, a widely read column in America magazine. Abiding Wordshowcases some of her finest entries. Barbara Reid, OP, is a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She holds a PhD in biblical studies from The Catholic University of America in Washington DC and is professor of New Testament and vice president and academic dean at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Her most recent books areTaking Up the Cross: New Testament Interpretations Through Latina and Feminist Eyes (Fortress Press, 2007), The Gospel According to Matthew (Liturgical Press, 2005), Parables for Preachers (3 volumes; Liturgical Press, 1999, 2000, 2001), Choosing the Better Part? Women in the Gospel of Luke (Liturgical Press, 1996). She has led many of CTU's Israel Study Programs and Retreats. She is general editor for Wisdom Commentary Series (forthcoming from Liturgical Press).

Book Pre benedictine Monasticism

Download or read book Pre benedictine Monasticism written by Thomas Merton and published by Cistercian Publications Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Merton's two series of Pre-Benedictine Monasticism conferences form both a supplement and a sequel to Cassian and the Fathers, the first volume of Merton's conferences for novices to be published in the Monastic Wisdom series. Part One not only includes fresh insights on such leaders of early monasticism as Anthony, Pachomius, Basil, and Cassian, but also considers long overlooked key figures like Martin of Tours, Shenoute of Atripe, Melania the Younger, and the pilgrim nun Egeria. In Part Two, Merton, writing at a time when little attention was generally given to these significant but neglected sources, extends his investigations of early monastic life to the Syriac tradition. These conferences, or lectures, edited from Merton's own typescripts, make available his keen observations on the earliest phases of Christian monasticism, and also provide important background material for a number of his essays, among them "From Pilgrimage to Crusade" and "Rain and the Rhinoceros".

Book The Rule of Saint Benedict

Download or read book The Rule of Saint Benedict written by Saint Benedict and published by Wyatt North Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 1921 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of Monasticism

Download or read book The Story of Monasticism written by Greg Peters and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some evangelicals perceive monasticism as a relic from the past, a retreat from the world, or a shirking of the call to the Great Commission. At the same time, contemporary evangelical spirituality desires historical Christian manifestations of the faith. In this accessibly written book Greg Peters, an expert in monastic studies who is a Benedictine oblate and spiritual director, offers a historical survey of monasticism from its origins to current manifestations. Peters recovers the riches of the monastic tradition for contemporary spiritual formation and devotional practice, explaining why the monastic impulse is a valid and necessary manifestation of the Christian faith for today's church.

Book Monastic Wisdom

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  • Author : Elder Joseph
  • Publisher : Saint Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery
  • Release : 1999-10
  • ISBN : 9780966700015
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Monastic Wisdom written by Elder Joseph and published by Saint Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented here for the first time in English as "Monastic Wisdom," this collection of Elder Joseph's letters makes the wealth of his wisdom and experience available to readers from all walks of life. As his struggles and lifestyle of stillness unfold, readers witness his difficult trials and battles with the demons, his profound visions and spiritual guidance, his martyric endurance in illnesses and finally his holy repose.

Book Cassian and the Fathers

Download or read book Cassian and the Fathers written by Thomas Merton and published by Cistercian Publications Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 important Patristic and monastic figures preceding the time of St. Benedict, above all John Cassian, the most significant bridge between the early desert fathers and the development of monastic life in the West, and they reveal the continuing relevance of their teachings for contemporary monastics and other Christians. Much of the value and interest of Cassian and the Fathers, as of the novitiate conferences in general, lies in the light it casts on Merton himself as teacher, novice master and monk. These notes provide a privileged standpoint for observing Merton functioning as an integral and important member of his monastic community. The 'public' Merton has long been visible in his works written for publication, and has more recently been complemented by the 'interpersonal' Merton disclosed in his correspondence and the 'intimate' Merton revealed in his complete journals. While the novitiate conferences may not equal in significance these other sources, they do allow access to yet another stratum of Merton's wide-ranging and immensely productive engagement with his world from the distinctive standpoint he had chosen within a tradition dating back more than sixteen centuries. While these lectures need to be used critically and carefully in evaluating Merton's own perspectives and commitments, nevertheless they do need to be used. The dialectical relationship between Merton's private and more public statements, including those made to his novice classes, makes possible a more complex and thus a richer picture of his monastic identity and so of his personal identity. In learning about Cassian and the Fathers from Merton, one learns as well about Merton as monk, as heir to the great monastic teachers, and as teacher of a new generation of monks, an easily overlooked and undervalued, yet integral, even central component of his vocation for more than half his monastic life. Thus the publication of the novitiate conferences will fill a significant lacuna in Merton studies and contribute to a balanced, holistic comprehension and appreciation of Thomas Merton's life and work. This edition includes an extensive introduction situating these conferences and Merton's years as novice master in the context of his broader life as monk and writer, an extensively annotated edition of the text of the conferences based on Merton's own typescript, and helpful appendices indicating changes Merton made to his text, correlating the written text with taped versions of the actual classes, and providing suggestions for further reading both in Merton's other works and in more recent studies of the figures he discusses here.

Book The Benedict Option

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  • Author : Rod Dreher
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2017-03-14
  • ISBN : 0735213313
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book The Benedict Option written by Rod Dreher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Already the most discussed and most important religious book of the decade." —David Brooks In this controversial bestseller, Rod Dreher calls on American Christians to prepare for the coming Dark Age by embracing an ancient Christian way of life. From the inside, American churches have been hollowed out by the departure of young people and by an insipid pseudo–Christianity. From the outside, they are beset by challenges to religious liberty in a rapidly secularizing culture. Keeping Hillary Clinton out of the White House may have bought a brief reprieve from the state’s assault, but it will not stop the West’s slide into decadence and dissolution. Rod Dreher argues that the way forward is actu­ally the way back—all the way to St. Benedict of Nur­sia. This sixth-century monk, horrified by the moral chaos following Rome’s fall, retreated to the forest and created a new way of life for Christians. He built enduring communities based on principles of order, hospitality, stability, and prayer. His spiritual centers of hope were strongholds of light throughout the Dark Ages, and saved not just Christianity but Western civilization. Today, a new form of barbarism reigns. Many believers are blind to it, and their churches are too weak to resist. Politics offers little help in this spiritual crisis. What is needed is the Benedict Option, a strategy that draws on the authority of Scripture and the wisdom of the ancient church. The goal: to embrace exile from mainstream culture and construct a resilient counterculture. The Benedict Option is both manifesto and rallying cry for Christians who, if they are not to be conquered, must learn how to fight on culture war battlefields like none the West has seen for fifteen hundred years. It's for all mere Chris­tians—Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox—who can read the signs of the times. Neither false optimism nor fatalistic despair will do. Only faith, hope, and love, embodied in a renewed church, can sustain believers in the dark age that has overtaken us. These are the days for building strong arks for the long journey across a sea of night.

Book The Monastic Diurnal

Download or read book The Monastic Diurnal written by Church of England and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Benedict s Rule

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  • Author : Terrence G. Kardong
  • Publisher : Liturgical Press
  • Release : 2016-03-25
  • ISBN : 081463978X
  • Pages : 676 pages

Download or read book Benedict s Rule written by Terrence G. Kardong and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benedict's Rule: A Translation and Commentary is the first line-by-line exegesis of the entire Rule of Benedict written originally in English. This full commentary - predominately a literary and historical criticism - is based on and includes a new translation and is accompanied by essays on Benedict's spiritual doctrine. A monk who has striven to live according to the Rule of Benedict for thirty-five years, Father Kardong relates it to modern monastic life while examining the sources (Cassian, Augustine, and Basil) Benedict used to establish his Rule. Overviews - summaries of notes, source criticism, or structural criticism - follow some chapters, and a large bibliography of the current scholarship and source references are also included. Benedict's Rule: A Translation and Commentary also includes the Latin text of the Regula Benedicti. This reference work is invaluable to libraries and to those who are called to interpret the Rule. It will be opened again and again. Indexed.

Book Prayer and Community

Download or read book Prayer and Community written by Columba Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of Benedictine spirituality provides the perfect introduction to Saint Bendict and his Rule. Each chapter begins with the teaching of Benedict himself, understood in historical and cultural context. Columba Stewart then traces the way communities have interpreted and practiced Benedict's teaching since he first wrote his Rule in the sixth century.

Book Praying with Benedict

    Book Details:
  • Author : Korneel Vermeiren
  • Publisher : Cistercian Publications Books
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Praying with Benedict written by Korneel Vermeiren and published by Cistercian Publications Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praying with Benedict explores the spirituality of the monastic tradition and draws out the essence of a way of praying that embraces the whole of the Christian's life. Korneel Vermeiren begins by examining the spirituality of the early monastic tradition from the fourth to the sixth centuries. He looks at the central place of prayer in the Rule of St Benedict and the tradition of continuous prayer, exploring the teaching of such formative figures as Basil the Great. He then reflects on the Benedictine precept: 'nothing is to be preferred to the work of God'. Praying with Benedict looks in practical terms at the how, when, and where of prayer; at bodily postures, various types of prayer, and the importance of emotional and spiritual readiness. Finally, the place of the Eucharist in the life of prayer is discussed with reference to Benedict's teaching and the Eucharistic practices of pre-Benedictine monasticism. This book offers a clear presentation of monastic spirituality and opens it to persons outside monastery walls. It links St Benedict's teaching to earlier spiritual traditions and shows how various elements of monastic life complement each other. Common prayer, reading, personal prayer, and the Eucharist are not isolated from one another or from daily life, but are integral and essential elements of living in the spirit of St Benedict.

Book Conversation with Saint Benedict

Download or read book Conversation with Saint Benedict written by Terrence Kardong and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conversations with Saint Benedict, renowned Benedictine scholar Terrence Kardong considers the interface between the Rule of Benedict and contemporary culture. In several of the chapters, Kardong considers several aspects of modern culture that he considers worrisome, and he tries to look at them in the light of the Rule. In other chapters, he takes up specific aspects of the Rule itself that he finds difficult to deal with. The book, then, is a kind of dialectic, which does not shrink from criticizing both our culture and Benedict's own ideas.

Book The Benedictines in the Middle Ages

Download or read book The Benedictines in the Middle Ages written by James G. Clark and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men and women that followed the 6th-century customs of Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) formed the most enduring, influential, numerous and widespread religious order of the Latin Middle Ages. This text follows the Benedictine Order over 11 centuries, from their early diaspora to the challenge of continental reformation.

Book The Letters of St  Jerome

Download or read book The Letters of St Jerome written by Saint Jerome and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other source gives such an intimate portrait of this brilliant and strong minded individual, one of the four great doctors of the West and generally regarded as the most learned of the Latin fathers.

Book RB 1980  The Rule of St  Benedict

Download or read book RB 1980 The Rule of St Benedict written by and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Unabridged Edition

Book Cherish Christ Above All

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  • Author : Demetrius Dumm
  • Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780852443637
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book Cherish Christ Above All written by Demetrius Dumm and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible in the Rule of Benedict, Demetrius Dumm, OSB. A noted scholar and spiritual writer explores the rich scriptural roots of the Rule of Benedict, which, while primarily monastic, has much value for any Christian who wants to live more fully in the presence of God and in union with Christ.

Book Opening the Bible

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  • Author : Thomas Merton
  • Publisher : Liturgical Press
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780814604083
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book Opening the Bible written by Thomas Merton and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is to consider some of the special ques-tions and problems which surround the Bible itself--a book for which all blurbs are impossible.