The Carthusian
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Published: 1839
Total Pages: 496
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Saint Bruno
Author: Andre Ravier
Publisher: Gracewing
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780852449240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSt Bruno is revered as the Founder of the Carthusian Order in the 11th century. While the model for the men and women whom God calls to the Carthusian ideal, all Christians can receive inspiration from Bruno. He reflects the contemplative life in its original purity. This classic biography provides a perfect introduction to his life and charism.
Report from Calabria
Author: A Priest
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2017-08-15
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1621641309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDevoted to a life of intense contemplative prayer, the Carthusian monks guard their solitude jealously and rarely allow visitors to live with them. The author of this book, an American priest, was privileged to spend four months with the Carthusian community in Calabria, Italy, the resting place of the founder of their order, Saint Bruno. He followed the daily regimen of the monks and wrote home to family and friends to share his experiences. The priest's journal allows readers to get a deep sense of what this life of prayer feels like: he describes distinctive features of the Carthusian vocation and offers insights gained by a life devoted to silence and solitude. There are books that explore the Carthusian way of life, but what makes Report from Calabria different and unique is that it is more like a series of short notes sent home from a foreign land, a sketch book rather than a finished canvas. But sketches have an appeal of their own: they offer a freshness of impressions and can entice us to study their subject more deeply. The text is accompanied with beautiful photographs of the daily life followed by the monks of Serra San Bruno. The contemplative vocation - bracing and yet deeply human - comes alive in this account of four months in which very little happened but yet a lot was going on. It is an invitation to readers to not only gain an insight into monastic life, but to clear some space in our busy lives to encounter God more deeply.
Carthusian Spirituality
Author: Dennis D. Martin
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780809136643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, the Carthusians filled the role played in the tenth and eleventh centuries by the Cluniac network, in the Twelfth century by the Cistercians, and in the thirteenth century by the Franciscans and Dominicans: Western Christendom's most outstanding professional intercessors before God's throne. Founded in the late eleventh century, a few years before the Cistercians, the Carthusians grew very slowly during their first two centuries but were highly respected from the beginning.
When Silence Speaks
Author: Tim Peeters
Publisher: Darton Longman and Todd
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780232532029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Carthusian monks perceive silence and solitude as ideals, the source of their happiness and their way towards God. When Silence Speaks is an accessible and remarkable history of the Carthusian Order that traces the inception of the movement from the letters of its founder, Saint Bruno, the writings of Denis the Carthusian, through to the present day. It has been written for all readers who are fascinated with the Carthusian way of life.
The Wound of Love
Author: A. Carthusian
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Published: 2006-03
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780852446706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides background information on the Carthusian Order, including letters from St. Bruno, its founder, and a reflection on Bruno's continuing significance today. (Catholic)
Petrarch's Humanist Writing and Carthusian Monasticism
Author: Demetrio S. Yocum
Publisher: Brepols Pub
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9782503544199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf the long line of renowned and anti-scholastic intellectuals who were attracted to Carthusian circles, Petrarch was undoubtedly the first. By revealing the Carthusian imprint on Petrarch's thought as well as elements of Carthusian spirituality present in his texts, this book argues that Carthusianism was an essential component of Petrarch's Christian humanism and hermeneutics of the self.
The Carthusian, a Miscellany in Prose and Verse
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Published: 1839
Total Pages: 548
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Author: P. Kauffmann
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey Speak by Silences
Author: A. Carthusian
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Published: 2006-03
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780852446720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe thoughts contained in this book were from the pen of one who, in the silence of the Charterhouse, had already arrived at the summits of the spiritual heights, and dwelt there unceasingly. Souls who have reached such perfection in this life are rare; not so rare, however, are those who ardently aspire thereto. It is chiefly for such as these - to encourage and help them to arrive at those same heights - that these thoughts have been preserved and collected. They Speak by Silences was first published in French in 1948, and has since allowed Carthusian wisdom and spirituality to reach the widest possible audience. This new, and widely requested edition carries on the tradition. It will provide material for daily reading and reflection for newcomers to Carthusian spirituality and, equally, for those who have already discovered the riches it has to offer. Not everyone can experience that same recollection that exists in a Charterhouse, but they must not be afraid to set aside as far as possible at least some moments, however short, for recollection and to give some time to Him Who is within them. It is in that silence that He speaks to us, and bids us listen to Him. Other books of classic Carthusian spirituality published by Gracewing include The Call of Silent Love, The Prayer of Love and Silence and The Wound of Love.
