After sixty years of living in a Cistercian community, Michael Casey combines his down-to-earth o...

This second volume on Eastern Christian spirituality amplifies in depth the final two chapters of...

Always a vigorous champion of papal reforms, Bernard of Clairvaux toward the end of his life saw ...

A commonly held impression is that Pope Francis is a compassionate shepherd and determined leader...

The psalms are at the very heart of monastic prayer. Recited seven times a day in the liturgy and...

Sebastian Brock is Reader in Syriac Studies in the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fello...

The distinctive prophetic quality of Thomas Merton's spirituality, shaped byfigures ranging from ...

Educated at the abbeys of Bonnevaux and Cluny and at the court of his kinsman, Conrad of Hohensta...

For many Christian leaders, the experience of ministry includes enough conflict and disappointmen...

As master of novices for ten years (1955-1965) at the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani ...

Cristiana Piccardo was the long-time abbess of an unusual Cisterciancommunity in Italy. 'We have ...

Saint Bernard was born in 1090 near Dijon, France. He joined the fifteen-year-old monastery of Ci...

Richard Methley (ca. 1450-1527 8), a Carthusian of Mount Grace, was the last great mystic before ...

On Grace and Free Choice came early from the pen of the young abbot of Clairvaux, in response to ...

Taking up Saint Bernard's unfinished sermon-commentary, Gilbert ruminates on verse 3:1-5:10 in fo...

Gertrud the Great (1256-1302) entered the monastery of Helfta in eastern Germany as a child oblat...

For those outside the cloister Norvene Vest sets the elements of the Rule-regular prayer and pray...

Spiritual accompaniment -- patient listening and honest openness has become widespread among Chri...

Descriptions of Pachomian monastic communities from a variety of ancient sources, including the L...

Aelred entered the newly founded abbey of Rievaulx in 1133, after serving at the Scottish royal c...

For most people, fundamentalism in the modern world has become synonymous with a radical form of ...

This guide is designed to help readers work through Pope Francis'sapostolic exhortation by provid...

Isaac of Stella was an English-born Cistercian who studied in the schools before entering monasti...

Preached to monks and edited for publication by a pastor, these sermons are applicable generally ...

In the year 394 seven monks from Palestine made a difficult journey through the Egyptian desert, ...

A sketch of the unique tradition of the 'white monks' as they have sought-men and women alike-to ...

Gregory of Narek (c. 945-1003), a monk and a priest, is best known for his poetic works, and one ...

Two great institutions sprang from the self-confident ground of twelfth-century Europe: the Unive...

Sparkling in the ancient texts of the Fathers of the Church 'the bishop, monks and theologians wh...

The remarkable success of the book A Pastor's Toolbox:Management Skills for Parish Leadership has...

Gregory the Great (+604) was a master of the art of exegesis. His interpretations are theological...

Scripture brings the Word of God to us when we read and welcome it in faith as the Word which com...

Calm and spirituality-the true hallmarks of Carthusian writings-distinguish this book. The first ...

In the flood of christian ascetics who left the world to seek God alone, Simeon chose a novel wit...

These eighty-six sermons are among the most famous and most beautiful examples of medieval script...

William of Saint Thierry left all things in his search for God. He left his home in Liage (modern...

In the early part of the fourth century, a few Christians, mostly men and some women, began to wi...

Founded 900 years ago by St. Bruno, the Carthusians are the most completely enclosed religious or...

RCIA teams often struggle with getting catechumens and candidates to participate regularly in the...

Lectio divina,the ancient practice of prayerful reading, is a font whose waters are waiting to qu...

A panorama of Russian Christian spirituality, richly illustrated with passages from formative wor...

'One of the more comprehensive and balanced books on Merton to appear lately...'-The Louisville C...

Born in Galatia in the 360s, Palladius enrolled as a monk on the Mount of Olives in his early twe...

In the theological skies of both the Greek and the Latin Church between the seventh and the fourt...

Light in the Shoe Shop offers readers a unique and intimate glance into the day-to-day experience...

This book places the life of Aelred of Rievaulx, third abbot of the English Cistercian abbey of R...

In about 679, Bede, a boy of seven, was presented by his family as an oblate to the monastery of ...

In these homilies Matthew Kelty speaks to his brothers in community, challenging them 'to remove ...