Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780872432222
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The Rule of Saint Benedict
Author: Saint Benedict
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 83
ISBN-13: 1621541851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDomestic Monastery
Author: Ronald Rolheiser
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1640603743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is a monastery? A monastery is a place set apart—a place to learn the blessings of powerlessness, and that time is not ours but God’s. Our home and our duties can, just like a monastery, teach us those things. The vocation of monastic men and women is to physically withdraw from the world. But the principle is equally valid for those of us who cannot go off to monasteries. Certain vocations offer the same kind of opportunity for contemplation, and provide a desert for reflection. These writings are beautifully presented in a special cloth packaging, hardcover edition. In ten brief and powerful chapters, Fr. Ron explores how the life of the monastery can apply to those who don't live inside the walls of the cloister: Monasticism and Family Life The Domestic Monastery Real Friendship Lessons from the Monastic Cell Ritual for Sustaining Prayer Tensions within Spirituality A Spirituality of Parenting Spirituality and the Seasons of Our Lives The Sacredness of Time Life’s Key Question
Monastic Practices
Author: Charles Cummings
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2015-12-07
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0879074841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor 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.
How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job
Author: Brother Benet Tvedten
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Published: 2006-02-01
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 1612610773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou don't have to live in a monastery in order to live like a monk. Oblates are everyday people with jobs, families, and other responsibilities. Sometimes they are Catholic, sometimes not. In today's hectic, changing world, being an oblate offers a rich spiritual connection to the stability and wisdom of an established monastic community.
Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks
Author: August Turak
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-07-09
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0231535228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAugust Turak is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award-winning author who attributes much of his success to living and working alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey for seventeen years. As a frequent monastic guest, he learned firsthand from the monks as they grew an incredibly successful portfolio of businesses. Service and selflessness are at the heart of the 1,500-year-old monastic tradition's remarkable business success. It is an ancient though immensely relevant economic model that preserves what is positive and productive about capitalism while transcending its ethical limitations and internal contradictions. Combining vivid case studies from his thirty-year business career with intimate portraits of the monks at work, Turak shows how Trappist principles can be successfully applied to a variety of secular business settings and to our personal lives as well. He demonstrates that monks and people like Warren Buffett are wildly successful not despite their high principles but because of them. Turak also introduces other "transformational organizations" that share the crucial monastic business strategies so critical for success.
Monasticism and the Arts
Author: Timothy Verdon
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Glory of Monastic Life
Author: Swami Bhajanananda
Publisher: Advaita Ashrama (A Publication House of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)
Published:
Total Pages: 61
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses the traditional modes of monasticism and compares them with the modern monastic way of life as seen in the Ramakrishna Order. With the changing times, monasticism too has to grow and assume new forms to adapt to the new situations. Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda brought about this change in the outward form of Indian monasticism without deviating from the eternal principles. Here the readers will get an overview of monasticism in general, and the Ramakrishna monasticism in particular. Published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India.
The Story of Monasticism
Author: Greg Peters
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2015-08-11
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1441227210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome evangelicals perceive monasticism as a relic from the past, a retreat from the world, or a shirking of the call to the Great Commission. At the same time, contemporary evangelical spirituality desires historical Christian manifestations of the faith. In this accessibly written book Greg Peters, an expert in monastic studies who is a Benedictine oblate and spiritual director, offers a historical survey of monasticism from its origins to current manifestations. Peters recovers the riches of the monastic tradition for contemporary spiritual formation and devotional practice, explaining why the monastic impulse is a valid and necessary manifestation of the Christian faith for today's church.
Essential Monastic Wisdom
Author: Hugh Feiss
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0060624825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor 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.
