Monasticism


The Rule of Saint Benedict
The Seven Storey Mountain
The Cloister Walk
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)
John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture
New Seeds of Contemplation
Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict
The Practice of the Presence of God
In This House of Brede
The Life of St. Anthony
Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus
The Name of the Rose
My God and My All by Elizabeth GoudgeBrother Sun, Sister Moon by Katherine PatersonSt. Francis of Assisi by Omer EnglebertFrancis of Assisi by André VauchezSurrounded by Love by Murray Bodo
Saint Francis of Assisi
107 books — 8 voters
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers by Benedicta WardThe Forgotten Desert Mothers by Laura   SwanPoems for a Peaceful Soul by James-Patrick GeocarisWalking the Bible by Bruce FeilerDesert Fathers and Mothers by Christine Valters Paintner
Desert Spirituality
51 books — 16 voters

Siddhartha by Hermann HesseWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe You Beyond You by Ramzi NajjarThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun Ether
Books for the Contemplative Life
461 books — 236 voters
Seeking God by Esther de WaalThe Rule of Saint Benedict by Benedict of NursiaA Life-Giving Way by Esther de WaalRB 1980 by Benedict of NursiaThe Benedictine Handbook by Anthony Marett-Crosby
Benedictine Spirituality
25 books — 12 voters

Medieval Monasticism by C.H. LawrenceThe Forest Monks of Sri Lanka by Michael CarrithersGathering Leaves and Lifting Words by Justin Thomas McDanielPseudo-Macarius by George A. Maloney SJBuddhist Learning and Textual Practice in Eighteenth-Century ... by Anne M. Blackburn
Monasticism
18 books — 5 voters

Elizabeth P. Fitzgerald
“ We must be careful not to judge - extremely careful! It is so terrible that it is beyond words! "Judge not, that ye be not judged." Have we kept this? Even if we have no virtue but we don't judge, Christ will save us and take us to Paradise. ...more ”
― Elizabeth P. Fitzgerald, Daily Quotes from "Words of the Heart" by Gerondissa Makrina Vassopoulou

“ I have no cares and no interests. The fussy business of the world I would not give a glance to. The one thing I wish for is to be alone, and all by myself to pray, to pray without ceasing; and doing this, I am filled with joy. ”
― Anonymous

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