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A True Easter
The Synod of Whitby 664 AD
Benedicta Ward
Often presented as a clash between Irish and Roman missionaries representing two different kinds of Christianity, the Synod of Whitby held in 664 decided the date of Easter in the English church. Yet Benedicta Ward shows that in fact the traditions w...
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ISBN:
978-0-72830-170-2
Price:
$5.95
Publication Date: June 2008
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As We Knew Him
Reflections on M. Basil Pennington
Michael Moran and Ann Overton, Editors
M. Basil Pennington lived more than fifty years as a Cistercian monk and priest, called to a life of solitude and silence, prayer and contemplation. During that half century, he also traveled the world teaching, wrote dozens of books, and was a found...
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ISBN:
978-0-8146-1866-0
Price:
$29.95
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The Benedict of Aniane
The Emperor’s Monk
Ardo's Life translated by Allen Cabaniss
Foreword by Clemens Radl and Annette Grabowsky
Given the task of reviving monasticism and imposing uniformity throughout the Carolingian Empire, Witiza, a Visigothic lord became monk with the name Benedict, and read and compared all the existing monastic rules he could. Despite his own preference...
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ISBN:
978-0-87907-320-6
Price:
$13.95
Publication Date: June 2008
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The Blessing of Blessings
Gregory of Narek’s Commentary on the Song of Songs
Translated by Roberta Ervine
Gregory of Narek (c. 945-1003), a monk and a priest, is best known for his poetic works, and one of the few commentators on the Song of Songs, which was so great a focus among western monastic writers of the patristic and medieval periods. Living dur...
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ISBN:
978-0-87907-215-5
Price:
$21.95
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Christ Is Risen, Truly Risen!
Easter Chants and Anthems
Chrysogonus Waddell, OCSO
Performed by the William Ferris Chorale; Paul French, Music Director
The Easter texts set to music by Chrysogonus Waddell, a monk of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky, span some three thousand years. The musical forms are many. Some will be familiar, others are entirely new. Some incorporate Gregorian chant tunes, others a...
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ISBN:
978-1-58459-358-4
Price:
$17.00
Publication Date: June 2008
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Christ Within Me
Prayers and Meditations from the Anglo-Saxon Tradition
Compiled, with an Introduction, by Benedicta Ward SLG
From the rich tradition of the Anglo-Saxon Church of the sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries, Benedicta Ward has selected prayers and passages for meditation from both Latin and Anglo-Saxon sources. The mixture of Latin and Celtic Christian cultures...
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ISBN:
978-0-87907-213-1
Price:
$9.95
Publication Date: June 2008
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For Your Own People
Aelred of Rievaulx’s Pastoral Prayer
Translated by Mark DelCogliano;
Edition and Introduction by Marsha L. Dutton
Responsible before God for the members of his monastic community, the abbot guides, protects, and serves his monks. Aelred of Rievaulx, a twelfth-century Cistercian abbot renown for pastoral care, in this prayer, suitable for all pastors, entreats Je...
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ISBN:
978-0-87907-273-5
Price:
$11.95
Publication Date: June 2008
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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
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...
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ISBN:
978-0-87907-014-4
Price:
$16.95
Publication Date: June 2008
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An Introduction to Christian Mysticism
Initiation into the Monastic Tradition, 3
Thomas Merton; Edited by Patrick F. O’Connell
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, ...
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ISBN:
978-0-87907-013-7
Price:
$39.95
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Kurisumala
Francis Mahieu Acharya
A Pioneer of Christian Monasticism in India
Marthe Mahieu-De Praetere; Foreword by Marthe Mahieu; Preface by Armand Veilleux
Francis Mahieu, a middle-aged Trappist monk, arrived in India in 1955, intent, like his companions Jules Monchanin, Henri Le Saux, and Bede Griffiths, on living a Christian monastic life in the land where the monastic tradition had first taken root...
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ISBN:
978-0-87907-614-6
Price:
$79.95
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Nil Sorsky
The Authentic Writings
Translated, with an Introduction, by David Goldfrank.
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...
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ISBN:
978-0-87907-321-3
Price:
$39.95
Publication Date: June 2008
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Singing for the Kingdom
The Last of the Homilies
By Matthew Kelty; Edited, with an Introduction, by William O. Paulsell
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...
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ISBN:
978-0-87907-015-1
Price:
$13.95
Publication Date: June 2008
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Smaragdus of Saint Mihiel: Commentary on the Rule of Saint Benedict
Translated by David Barry OSB
A ninth-century monk of Saint Mihiel near Verdun, Smaragdus composed his Commentary after the 816 Council of Aachen imposed the Rule of Saint Benedict on all monasteries in the vast Carolingian Empire. His deep devotion to Christ and great reverence ...
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ISBN:
978-0-87907-212-4
Price:
$49.95
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The Wisdom of the Pearlers
An Anthology of Syriac Christian Mysticism
Translated by Brian E. Colless
The pearlers we meet in this book were early monks of Syria, Mesopotamia (Iraq), and Persia (Iran). They saw themselves as pearl-divers and pearl-merchants searching, through asceticism and prayer, for the precious pearls of mystical experience. Thei...
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ISBN:
978-0-87907-316-9
Price:
$34.95
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Witness to Holiness
Abba Daniel of Scetis
Edited, with an Introduction, by Tim Vivian
Abba Daniel, priest and monastic superior of Scetis, lived in the sixth century. Some dozen stories about him, and a few sayings attributed to him, survive in Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Coptic, and Ethiopic. Here for the first time are translations of al...
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ISBN:
978-0-87907-419-7
Price:
$39.95
Publication Date: June 2008
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