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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 >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-001-4
Cistercian Product #: MW001
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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 >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-074-8
Cistercian Product #: MW005P
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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: 978-0-87907-022-9
Cistercian Product #: MW022
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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 #: MW022
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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: 978-0-87907-023-6
Cistercian Product #: MW023
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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 #: MW023
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Dom Gabriel Sortais
An Amazing Abbot in Turbulent Times
Fr Guy Oury OSB
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Price: $34.95
Sale Price: $8.74
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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 >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-007-6
Cistercian Product #: MW007
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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 >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-012-0
Cistercian Product #: MW012
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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: 978-0-87907-024-3
Cistercian Product #: MW024P
Publication Date: November 2010
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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 >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-014-4
Cistercian Product #: MW014
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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 >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-009-0
Cistercian Product #: MW003P
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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: 978-0-87907-020-5
Cistercian Product #: MW020P
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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 #: MW020P
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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 >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-013-7
Cistercian Product #: MW013
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Light for My Path
Spiritual Accompaniment
Dom Bernardo Olivera
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Both a reflection and a practical guidebook on spiritual accompaniment, or direction, Light for My Path does not sidestep such delicate issues as: the relationship between authority and spiritual direction, how to discern the vocation of a person wit... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-018-2
Cistercian Product #: MW018P
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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
Publication Date: November 2010
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A Monastic Vision for the Twenty-first Century
Where Do We Go From Here?
Edited with a Foreword by Patrick Hart OCSO
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An ancient lifestyle which has been adapted, renewed, and is still being followed today, monasticism appears to some outside it as a quaint anachronism and to others as the sanest of all ways of living. Can it survive in the post post-modern world? A... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-057-1
Cistercian Product #: MW008P
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Partnership with Christ
A Cistercian Retreat
Edited by Chaminade Crabtree OCSO; Introduction by Nivard Kinsella OCSO
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"This is the best retreat we ever had at Gethsemani," commented Thomas Merton of the talks reproduced in this volume. Recorded in 1958 at Holy Spirit Abbey in Conyers, Georgia, transcribed, and now printed, Dom Eugene's meditations include stories of... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-016-8
Cistercian Product #: MW016
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Passing from Self to God
A Cistercian Retreat
Robert Thomas ocso; Translated by Martha Krieg
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Those seeking to deepen their spiritual lives by visiting monasteries rarely have enough time to absorb as much as they would like. In this book an experienced spiritual master provides an intensive directed retreat which relies heavily on the rich C... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-006-9
Cistercian Product #: MW006P
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Pre-Benedictine Monasticism
Initiation into the Monastic Tradition
Thomas Merton; Edited, with an Introduction, by Patrick F. O’Connell
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Charged with training young monks at Gethsemani Abbey, Thomas Merton combined his literary genius and his love of the monastic tradition to produce Monastic Orientation Notes as the bases of his classes. In this volume, he treats the many and varied... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-073-1
Cistercian Product #: MW009P
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The Rule of Saint Benedict
Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 4
Thomas Merton; Edited by Patrick F. O’Connell, Editor
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In his novitiate conferences on the Rule of Saint Benedict, Thomas Merton introduces young men embarking on monastic life to the guiding document of that life. He emphasizes the importance of considering the Rule from a perspective that is neither na... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-019-9
Cistercian Product #: MW019P
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Secret of the Heart
Spiritual Being
Jean-Marie Howe OCSO
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"The Secret" shared by Jean-Marie Howe, retired Cistercian Abbess of the Abbey of the Assumption in New Brunswick, is that through immersion in monastic life men and women enter into contact with the Mystery of Christ, a contact which takes place at ... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-002-1
Cistercian Product #: MW002P
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Singing for the Kingdom
The Last of the Homilies
By Matthew Kelty; Edited, with an Introduction, by William O. Paulsell
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For almost half a century Trappist monk Matthew Kelty has delivered homilies to monks and retreatants in his unique style. Visitors at his monastery have been inspired, and challenged by his talks, given after Compline each evening, and monks have co... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-015-1
Cistercian Product #: MW015
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Survival or Prophecy?
The Correspondence of Jean Leclercq and Thomas Merton
Edited, with an Introduction, by Patrick Hart OCSO; Foreword by Rembert Weakland OSB; Afterword by Michael Casey OCSO
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The twenty-year correspondence between Jean Leclercq, a French Benedictine monk and scholar, and Thomas Merton, an American Cistercian monk, provides a fascinating record of their common yearnings. "What is a monk?" is the question at the center of t... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-017-5
Cistercian Product #: MW017
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Thomas Merton
Prophet of Renewal
John Eudes Bamberger OCSO
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Like Bernard of Clairvaux, whose last act was to leave his cloister to mediate—successfully—between two nobles and prevent bloodshed, Thomas Merton found in the monastic life of prayer a source of strength, empathy, and understanding. To understand M... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-010-6
Cistercian Product #: MW004
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