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Men Astutely Trained: A History of the Jesuits in the American Century
by Peter Mcdonough  Synopsis The social revolution of the '60s, the exodus from ethnic neighborhoods and parishes, and the Jesuits' own success in preparing their students for mainstream middle class diluted their stern influence on this newly secularized Catholic world. McDonough...
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The Rule of St. Benedict
by St Benedict Xvi Publisher Comments Modestly described by its author as "a little rule for beginners," this masterpiece of spiritual wisdom was written in the 6th century as a handbook for aspiring monks. Today, it ranks as the preeminent monastic legislative code. Its concise guidance...
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Things of the Hidden God
by Christopher Merrill Publisher Comments “If I had learned anything during the war, it was that our walk in the sun is brief, and so I resolved to wander from monastery to monastery, a sojourner in the world of last things.” So poet and journalist Christopher Merrill tells us near...
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The Cloister Walk
by Kathleen Norris 
Publisher Comments Part memoir, part meditation, The Cloister Walk is the movingly written and thought-provoking record of a married, Protestant woman's time spent in a community of men in a traditional Benedictine monastery in Minnesota. Any reader seeking a meaningful...
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The Rule of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist
by Society Of St John The Evangelist Synopsis The book is composed of 49 short chapters that develop classical monastic themes of hospitality, poverty, celibacy, and obedience, exploring what these might mean to men and women living at the end of the millennium....
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Wisdom from the Monastery: The Rule of St. Benedict for Everyday Life
by Patrick Barry and Richard Yeo and Kathleen Norris Publisher Comments For all who are on a spiritual journey or starting out on a search for meaning in their lives, there is a vast array of competing belief systems, therapies, and guides available. Above the noise and clamor of this busy marketplace, a centuries-old voice...
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In the Spirit of Happiness: Spiritual Wisdom for Living
by Monks Of New Skete Publisher Comments "Attaining happiness is indeed the struggle of a lifetime. Yet, the difficulties and all the stumbling blocks aside, we can honestly see that we were created to be happy, that happiness arises from its very pursuit." The Monks of New Skete...
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A Time to Keep Silence
by Patrick Leigh Fermor Synopsis While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, During World War II, he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete...
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RB 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict
by Timothy Fry Synopsis For fifteen centuries Benedictine monasticism has been governed by a Rule that is strong enough to instill order and flexible enough to be relevant today. Unabridged...
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A Good Life: Benedict's Guide to Everyday Joy
by Robert Benson Synopsis Reflecting on what makes a "good life," Robert Benson offers an eloquent, warmhearted guide to enriching our lives with the wisdom of Benedict, a 6th century monk. Each chapter is shaped around a Benedictine principle: prayer, rest, community, and work...
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How To Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job
by Benet, Brother Tvedten Publisher Comments There are at least ten thousand oblates in the United States today (no one knows for sure how many), and each of them is connected in meaningful ways to a monastery or abbey. Most oblates are ordinary lay people from various Christian traditions. They...
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Thoughts Matter: The Practice of the Spiritual Life
by Mary M. Funk Synopsis Sister Mary Margaret Funk explains the theory and practice of dealing with mindless thoughts developed by the great fourth-century monk John Cassian. She interprets the techniques in a contemporary way suitable for lay persons who are serious about the...
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Journals of Thomas Merton #05: Dancing in the Water of Life
by Thomas Merton Publisher Comments The sixties were a time of restlessness, inner turmoil, and exuberance for Merton during which he closely followed the careening development of political and social activism and#150; Martin Luther King, Jr., and the March on Selma, the Catholic Worker...
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The Genesee Diary
by Henri J. M. Nouwen Publisher Comments Recorded during a seven-month stay in a Trappist monastery in Genesee, New York, Henri Nouwen's record of his spiritual journey is an insightful and compassionate inspiration to all who seek to know themselves better....
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Role play
by Gillian Porter Ladousse Publisher Comments Each book covers a key area of language teaching, followed by examples and discussion of actual classroom materials and techniques. Each book covers a key area of language teaching, followed by examples and discussion of actual classroom materials and...
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The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship
by Megan Hale Williams Publisher Comments In the West, monastic ideals and scholastic pursuits are complementary; monks are popularly imagined copying classics, preserving learning through the Middle Ages, and establishing the first universities. But this dual identity is not without its...
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Holy Wisdom or Directions for the Prayer of Contemplation 1876
by Ven Father F. Augustin Baker Synopsis Edited By R. F. Serenus Cressy And Right Reverend Abbot Sweeney. Extracted out of more than Forty Treatises....
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Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another
by Rowan Williams Synopsis The place where God happens, according to Rowan Williams's striking new reading of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, is between each other. It's a truth that we of the twenty-first century most urgently need to learn in order to heal the experience of...
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Seeking the Absolute Love: The Founders of Christian Monasticism
by Mayeul De Dreuille Publisher Comments A concise study of the teachings of those who laid the foundations for Christian monasticism, from Clement of Alexandria to St. Bernard of Clairvaux....
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Cluny: In Search of God's Lost Empire
by Edwin Mullins Publisher Comments One thousand years ago, the French abbey of Cluny was the hub of one of the most powerful empires of the Middle Ages and the spiritual heart of Europe. Cluny was a Benedictine monastery in Burgundy, its church a breathtaking structure of towers, roofs...
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