Gethsemani Homilies

Matthew Kelty

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 24
• 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 Wo... Lees meer

Partnership with Christ

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 16
• 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 A... Lees meer

Medieval Cistercian History

Thomas Merton

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 43
• Thomas Merton's deep roots in his own Cistercian tradition are on display in the two sets of conferences on the early days of the Order included in th... Lees meer

The Art of Winning Souls

Michael Casey

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 35
• In his chapter on the procedure for the reception of new brothers, Saint Benedict makes provision for entrusting them to the care of "a senior who is ... Lees meer

In the School of Contemplation

André Louf

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 48
• Dom André Louf (+2010) was abbot of the Trappist-Cistercian monastery of Mont-des-Cats in northern France from 1963 to 1997. This book brings together... Lees meer

DOM Gabriel Sortais

Guy Oury

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 7
• 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 ... Lees meer

DOM Anselme Le Bail

Dieudonne Dufrasne

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 23
• 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 encount... Lees meer

I Am the Way

Maureen McCabe

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 28
• As founding abbot of Clairvaux, Bernard's giftedness and good judgment made him an often-sought resource by both church and secular powers, and in tha... Lees meer

Four Ways of Holiness for the Universal Church

Francis Kline

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 12
• 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 ba... Lees meer

Coenobium

Michael Casey

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 64
• After sixty years of living in a Cistercian community, Michael Casey combines his down-to-earth observations about the joys and challenges of living i... Lees meer

Singing for the Kingdom

Matthew Kelty

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 15
• For almost half a century Trappist monk Matthew Kelty has delivered homilies to monks and retreatants in his unique style. Visitors at his monastery h... Lees meer

Saint Bernard's Three Course Banquet

Bernard Bonowitz

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 39
• Saint Bernard's famous work, The Steps of Humility and Pride (in Latin, De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae ), is a short book consisting of a mere f... Lees meer

Inside the School of Charity

Trisha Day

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 20
• In 2003 Trisha Day spent three months living inside the enclosure of Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey, a community of twenty Cistercian nuns. Althoug... Lees meer

The Way of Simplicity

Esther De Waal

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 31
• In The Way of Simplicity Esther de Waal reveals the riches of the Cistercian (Trappist) tradition and its relevance for today's world. The book draws ... Lees meer

The Letters of Blessed Maria Gabriella with the Notebooks of Mother Pia Gullini

Gabriella Sagheddu

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 57
• During her short life as a Cistercian nun in the Italian monastery of Grottaferrata, Blessed Maria Gabriella Sagheddu wrote detailed letters about her... Lees meer

The Sun at Midnight

Bernardo Olivera

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 29
• The Sun at Midnight offers a splendid, easily accessible summary of mystical theology in the Cistercian school. Bernardo Olivera, a master of both the... Lees meer

The Rule of Saint Benedict

Thomas Merton

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 19
• In his novitiate conferences on the Rule of Saint Benedict, Thomas Merton introduces young men embarking on monastic life to the guiding document of t... Lees meer

Cistercian Fathers and Their Monastic Theology

Thomas Merton

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 42
• These conferences, presented by Thomas Merton to the novices at the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1963 1964, focus mainly on the life and writings of his gre... Lees meer

Monastic Observances

Thomas Merton

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 25
• In this set of novitiate conferences from the late 1950s, Thomas Merton provides a vivid and detailed introduction to the traditional pattern and prac... Lees meer

Charles Dumont Monk-Poet

Elizabeth Connor

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 10
• Introduced to the spiritual theology of the twelfth-century Cistercian Fathers when he entered the abbey of Scourmont, Belgium, Charles Dumont shared ... Lees meer

At Home with Saint Benedict

Mark A Scott

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 27
• At Home with Saint Benedict is a selection of the author's conferences on Saint Benedict's Rule for Monasteries delivered to the monks of Assumption A... Lees meer

Survival or Prophecy?

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 17
• The twenty-year correspondence between Jean Leclercq, a French Benedictine monk and scholar, and Thomas Merton, an American Cistercian monk, provides ... Lees meer

An Elemental Life

Louis A Ruprecht

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 56
• Father Matthew Kelty was an especially beloved monk at the historic Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. Perhaps best known as Thomas Merton's colleague a... Lees meer

Come and See

Brendan Freeman

• Paperback | Engels | Monastic Wisdom | nr. 22
• Come and See is 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 ... Lees meer