Monastic Wisdom
Title | Monastic Wisdom PDF eBook |
Author | Elder Joseph |
Publisher | Saint Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999-10 |
Genre | Christian life |
ISBN | 9780966700015 |
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.
Beyond the Walls
Title | Beyond the Walls PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Wilkes |
Publisher | Doubleday Religion |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780385494359 |
In this searingly personal spiritual exploration, Wilkes treads a pilgrim's path that takes him behind the walls of a monastery and back into the everyday world as a changed man.
Essential Monastic Wisdom
Title | Essential Monastic Wisdom PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Feiss |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780060624828 |
For everyone seeking to experience some of the deep tranquility of contemplative life, this artfully crafted guide brings together concise selections from the great writings of the tradition, from Saint Benedict to Thomas Merton. It explores all the essential ingredients of monastic life in brief chapters on such themes as speech, humility, discernment, patience, longing, and love. By providing a brief account of how monastic life evolved and the best examples of monastic writing through the centuries, from the desert fathers to the medieval nuns Julian and Hildegard to John Chittister today, Father Hugh Feiss offers a rich treasury of monastic wisdom on living a full life.
The Monastic Way
Title | The Monastic Way PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Ward |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2007-02-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0802840450 |
This collection offers inspirational daily readings drawn from the writings of monastics in all the major spiritual traditions of the Eastern and Western churches. Covering a year's time, the readings link the qualities of everyday monastic life to the practical in all human life.
Elder Joseph the Hesychast
Title | Elder Joseph the Hesychast PDF eBook |
Author | Iōsēph (ho Hēsychastēs.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Hesychasm |
ISBN |
Illuminated Life
Title | Illuminated Life PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Chittister |
Publisher | Orbis Books |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1570758786 |
In this little dictionary of monastic wisdom, Joan Chittister offers an A-Z of how to 'be in the workd, but not of the world.' In her inimitable style, she eschews the quick fix in favor of a solid spiritual direction that has stood the test of time. Each chapter is devoted to a letter that illuminates a spiritual quality to be cultivated, from Awareness to Zeal, Community to Interiority, Enlightenment to Yearning--and many more. Every illumination opens with a story from the desert mystics, then seques into a practical application of that value to our tumultuous times.
Monastic Practices
Title | Monastic Practices PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Cummings |
Publisher | Liturgical Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2015-12-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0879074841 |
For three decades, Monastic Practices has been a valued resource for English-speaking aspirants to monastic life. In this revised edition, updated and expanded, Charles Cummings, OCSO, explores the common practices of the monastic life in order to rediscover them as viable means of leading persons to a deeper encounter with God. How do monks and nuns occupy themselves throughout the day? Have they modernized their lifestyle or is it still cluttered with medieval customs? Could any of the monastic practices be of use to those outside the monastery? A certain wisdom is necessary to know how to use such practices and how to give oneself to them until they lead one to God. After long monastic experience, Cummings shows us how the ordinary things we do constitute our path to God. In the art of living life, he argues, we are always beginners, searching for God through our concrete circumstances and actions.