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A True Easter
The Synod of Whitby 664 AD
Benedicta Ward
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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... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-72830-170-2
Cistercian Product #: SG151P
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Aelred of Rievaulx
Lives of the Northern Saints
Translated by Jane Patricia Freeland, Introduction and annotations by Marsha L. Dutton
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A saintly twelfth-century abbot, born to a family of hereditary priests family in Hexham, Northumbria, and raised at the Scottish royal court, recounts the deeds of his saintly forebears in the North. He tells of flawed and foolish men—and women—on t... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-471-5
Cistercian Product #: CF071P
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Becoming Fire
Through the Year with the Desert Fathers and Mothers
Edited by Tim Vivian; Foreword by Aelred Glidden OSB
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The insights of the desert monks of the fifth and sixth centuries amaze, and startle, readers by their wisdom. Among other things, they teach "that the first step in overcoming our sinfulness is an honest perception of things as they are." By arrangi... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-525-5
Cistercian Product #: CS225
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The Call of Wild Geese
More Sermons in a Monastery
by Matthew Kelty OCSO; Edited by William O. Paulsell
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The brief, unforgettable homilies in this second collection of monastic homilies speak of the human realities and are no less applicable to persons in the parish than they are to monks. A profound devotion to Christ underlies them all. Some are start... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-736-5
Cistercian Product #: CS136P
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Christ Within Me
Prayers and Meditations from the Anglo-Saxon Tradition
Compiled, with an Introduction, by Benedicta Ward SLG
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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... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-213-1
Cistercian Product #: CS213P
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The Cistercian Way
André Louf OCSO
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A sketch of the unique tradition of the 'white monks' as they have sought—men and women alike—to leave all things to follow the Gospel. See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-976-5
Cistercian Product #: CS076
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A Cloud of Witnesses
An Introductory History of the Development of Christian Doctrine to AD 500
New Revised Edition
David N. Bell
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First published in 1989, A Cloud of Witnesses has been completely rewritten to incorporate a multitude of minor amendments and a considerable amount of additional information. Like the first edition, it is intended as an introduction to the formative... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-218-6
Cistercian Product #: CS218P
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The Contemplative Path
Rediscovering a Lost Tradition
Edited by E. Rozanne Elder; Foreword by Robert Lehman
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In the frenetic modern world, many practising Christians have never been introduced to contemplative Christianity. Some have looked East for a treasure which has been integral to Christianity since the beginning. Christians in the Orthodox, Roman Cat... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-547-7
Cistercian Product #: CS147
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Delayed by Rough Seas
David Hodges OCSO
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This third collection of poetry by monk-poet David Hodges reflects the life of prayer at his monastery on an island off the coast of Wales. Seascapes, wilderness, the flight of bird, Celtic sailor saints, medieval mystics and modern martyrs provide m... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-95332-224-4
Cistercian Product #: CZ021
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Drinking from the Hidden Fountain
A Patristic Breviary. Ancient Wisdom for Today's World
Thomas Spidlík; Translated by Paul Drake
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Sparkling in the ancient texts of the Fathers of the Church—the bishop, monks and theologians who wrote during the first formative six christian centuries—is a fountain of wisdom overflowing with spiritual nourishment for the world today. By presenti... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-348-0
Cistercian Product #: CS148
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Echoes from a Far Shore
David Hodges
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A fifth collection of poetry reflecting the monastic life of prayer in an island setting. Seascapes, the island flora and fauna, the flight of birds, liturgy, and contemporary issues all provide material for the poet’s pen.
David Hodges is a monk ... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-973-4
Cistercian Product #: CZ025
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Entirely for God
The Life of Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi
Elizabeth Isichei
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Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi 'was a small frail man with a blind eye. . . What made him remarkable was the iron strength and tenacity of his will, which was, from his boyhood, directed entirely towards God.'
He spent thirteen years in parish minis... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-843-0
Cistercian Product #: CS043
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Eros and Allegory
Medieval Exegesis of the Song of Songs
Denys Turner
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For centuries male celibates have described, expressed, and celebrated their love of God in the language of sex, most prolifically and characteristically in a thousand years' commentarial tradition on the Song of Songs. After analysing the tradition,... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-956-7
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Following the Footsteps of the Invisible
The Complete Works of Diadochus of Photikë
Cliff Ermatinger
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Fifth-century Christianity was a theological battlefield. With the Messalian heretics and their experientialist spirituality on the one side and the intellectualist school on the other, representatives of both extremes found themselves condemned by t... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-239-1
Cistercian Product #: CS239P
Publication Date: October 2010
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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
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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 renowned for pastoral care, in this prayer, suitable for all pastors, entreats ... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-273-5
Cistercian Product #: CF073P
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The Freedom of Obedience
Carthusian Novice Conferences
A Carthusian
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'The spiritual centre of the human person, the self', writes the author, 'maintains its fundamental identity for the whole of life on earth and is destined for participation in the eternal life of God... The person is not a succession of separate poi... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-772-3
Cistercian Product #: CS172
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From Advent to Pentecost
Carthusian Novice Conferences
A Carthusian
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The author writes with warmth, with learning, with passion and with humor. The reader can enter into something of the accumulated wisdom of an Order whose members 'have carried out the same little series of exercises since the eleventh century'. Each... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-788-4
Cistercian Product #: CS188
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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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Grace Can Do More
Spiritual Accompaniment and Spiritual Growth
André Louf OCSO
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Spiritual accompaniment-patient listening and honest openness has become widespread among Christians ofmany traditions in recent years. Is this modern application of an ancient 'discernment of spirits' the best way for individual persons and groups o... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-695-5
Cistercian Product #: CS195
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The Hermitage Within
Spirituality of the Desert by a Monk
Translated by Alan Neame
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A new edition of a treasured contemplative classic. The author takes readers on a journey based on biblical themes and urges them to seek a personal inner hermitage in which to seek and to reach God. 'Not everyone, obviously, can and should live as a... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-780-8
Cistercian Product #: CS180
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High King of Heaven
Aspects of Early English Spirituality
Benedicta Ward SLG
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In the seventh and eighth centuries, missionaries from Rome and Ireland brought Christianity to England. The English piety which developed, resulted from the rich mingling of Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon influences.
In High King of Heaven, Benedict... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-581-1
Cistercian Product #: CS181H
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High King of Heaven
Aspects of Early English Spirituality
Benedicta Ward SLG
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Price: $26.95
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In the seventh and eighth centuries, missionaries from Rome and Ireland brought Christianity to England. The English piety which developed, resulted from the rich mingling of Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon influences.
In High King of Heaven, Benedi... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-781-5
Cistercian Product #: CS181P
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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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Price: $39.95
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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: 978-0-87907-234-6
Cistercian Product #: CS234P
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How Far to Follow
The Martyrs of Atlas
Bernardo Olivera OCSO
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The Abbot General of the Trappist Order (Cistercians of the Strict Observance) reflects on the martyrdom in 1996 of seven of his monks, kidnapped from the Algerian monastery of Our Lady of Atlas and executed by a radical faction of the Groupe Islamiq... See More >>
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ISBN: 978-0-87907-697-9
Cistercian Product #: CS197
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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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