Benedictine Liturgy Books in American Benedictine Libraries
Author: Oliver Leonard Kapsner
Publisher:
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13:
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Benedictine Options
Author: Patrick Henry
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2021-09-15
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 081466685X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou want insights for living? Look to people whose understandings have been practiced for fifteen hundred years. Saint Benedict and Saint Scholastica, his twin sister, established a flexible pattern that has adopted, adapted, challenged—and outlived—myriad cultures. Their sons and daughters today, who devote their time and talents to the “school for the Lord’s service” launched by the Rule of Benedict, demonstrate a whole range of options that are accessible to anyone. It is a mistake to think that “forsaking the world” is the Benedictine option. Options (plural) are, instead, “for the sake of the world.”
Prayer and Community
Author: Columba Stewart
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis exploration of Benedictine spirituality provides the perfect introduction to Saint Bendict and his Rule. Each chapter begins with the teaching of Benedict himself, understood in historical and cultural context. Columba Stewart then traces the way communities have interpreted and practiced Benedict's teaching since he first wrote his Rule in the sixth century.
The Work of God
Author: Judith Sutera
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780814624319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKpeople beyond those who dwell in monasteries. For those looking for an everyday grounding in Benedictine spirituality and who wish to pray according to the Benedictine style of liturgy of the hours, "The Work of God" is an ideal resource. Beautifully bound with gilt-edged pages and one ribbon marker, it is a handsome addition to any book shelf.
The Care of Nuns
Author: Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-04-01
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0190851309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn her ground-breaking new study, Katie Bugyis offers a new history of communities of Benedictine nuns in England from 900 to 1225. By applying innovative paleographical, codicological, and textual analyses to their surviving liturgical books, Bugyis recovers a treasure trove of unexamined evidence for understanding these women's lives and the liturgical and pastoral ministries they performed. She examines the duties and responsibilities of their chief monastic officers--abbesses, prioresses, cantors, and sacristans--highlighting three of the ministries vital to their practice-liturgically reading the gospel, hearing confessions, and offering intercessory prayers for others. Where previous scholarship has argued that the various reforms of the central Middle Ages effectively relegated nuns to complete dependency on the sacramental ministrations of priests, Bugyis shows that, in fact, these women continued to exercise primary control over their spiritual care. Essential to this argument is the discovery that the production of the liturgical books used in these communities was carried out by female scribes, copyists, correctors, and creators of texts, attesting to the agency and creativity that nuns exercised in the care they extended to themselves and those who sought their hospitality, counsel, instruction, healing, forgiveness, and intercession.
Benedictine Maledictions
Author: Lester K. Little
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1501727702
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"'May they be cursed in town and cursed in the fields. May their barns be cursed and may their bones be cursed. May the fruit of their loins be cursed as well as the fruit of their lands.' French monks of the Middle Ages hurled curses like these at their enemies, seeking supernatural assistance when no secular judge could help them. In a long-awaited book written with elegance and erudition, Lester Little undertakes the first full-length study of these maledictions.... The book's focus is the way that religious communities—especially the monks who followed Benedict's Rule and hence were known by his name—used liturgical cursing to safeguard their integrity and their possessions, against both laymen and other ecclesiastics." —Journal of Social History
Praying the Psalms in Christ
Author: Laurence Kriegshauser O.S.B.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Published: 2009-03-15
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0268084521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten centuries before Christ, the Psalms of the Hebrew Bible have been prayed by Christians since the founding of the Church. The early church fathers expounded the psalms in the light of the mystery of Christ, his death and resurrection, and his saving redemption. In this book, a Benedictine monk examines the Christian praying of the Psalms, taking into account modern and contemporary research on the Psalms. Working from the Hebrew text, Fr. Laurence Kriegshauser offers a verse-by-verse commentary on each of the one hundred and fifty psalms, highlighting poetic features such as imagery, rhythm, structure, and vocabulary, as well as theological and spiritual dimensions and the relation of psalms to each other in the smaller collections that make up the whole. The book attempts to integrate modern scholarship on the Psalms with the act of prayer and help Christians pray the psalms with greater understanding of their Christological meaning. The book contains an introduction, a glossary of terms, an index of topics, a table of English renderings of selected Hebrew words, and an index of biblical citations. Praying the Psalms in Christ will be welcomed by students of theology and liturgy, by priests, religious, and laypeople who pray the Liturgy of the Hours, and by all Christians who seek to pray the Psalms with greater profit and fervor.
Perspectives on the Rule of St. Benedict
Author: Aquinata Böckmann
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780814630419
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A commentary on parts of the Rule of St. Benedict (prologue and chapters 53, 58, 72, and 73)"--Provided by publisher.
Truly Seeking God
Author: Bernard Bonowitz
Publisher: Cistercian Publications Books
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0879072628
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Recounts the ways in which monks actively seek God in all the practices and places of the monastic life and describes the gradual growth and transformation from novice to young solemnly professed to elder monk"--
The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West
Author: Alison I. Beach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-09
Total Pages: 1244
ISBN-13: 1108770630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.
