6,019円 Achtzehn neue Klöster, darunter zwei für Männer, gegründet von einer Frau - für die damalige Zeit eine unerhörte Anmaßung. In den Berichten über ihre Klostergründungen zeigt sich die bedeutende Mystikerin Teresa von Ávila von ihrer lebenspraktischen Seite: klug im Umgang mit Hindernissen, hartnäc...

10,347円 Saint Rafael Arnaiz was born in Burgos, Spain, on April 9, 1911. When he was twenty-one years old, he left behind the comforts of his wealthy family and an unfinished degree in architecture to join the Trappist-Cistercian abbey of San Isidro de Dueñas. A sudden onset of diabetes and the beginning...

200円 The Practice of the Presence of God is a text compiled by Father Joseph de Beaufort of the wisdom and teachings of Brother Lawrence, a 17th century Carmelite monk. It is a collection of his letters, and records made, by other participants in them, of his conversations. A constant theme is the dev...

1,983円 Enduring lessons from the desert soundscapes that shaped the Christian monastic tradition For the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God. But these monks discovered something surprisi...

4,510円 Drawing on insights from the training practices of the English medieval craft guilds, a global survey of 500 church planters, interviews with artists and church planting trainers and the authors 30 years of ministry experience, 'The Craft of Church Planting' offers a distinctive and imaginative p...

1,459円 "Angels and Visitors" encompasses diverse angels revealed in their spirituality through our material world, according to the circumstances and happenstance in which they are encountered. Angels and Visitors is an inspired collection with personae coming from all walks of life set at the intersect...

6,367円 Thousands and Thousands of Lovers examines the spiritual significance of community to the Cistercian nuns of Helftaーa concern that lies at the heart of the monastery’s literature. Focusing on a woefully understudied resource and the largest body of female-authored writings in the thirteenth cent...

1,200円 El comentario a la Regla de san Benito del P. Guillaume nos enseña la importancia de saber entrar en nosotros mismos, del habitare secum, para descubrir en nuestra interioridad, en la reflexión, el camino de retorno a la Casa del Padre. De forma gradual, a través de las reflexiones para cada jorn...

1,408円 It unsettles me that Jesus never specified on the second time he said it. The verse fills us with dread in general: where have we overlooked the hungry, the sick, the undocumented refugee or person experiencing homelessness, the naked, the prisoner? When have we neglected to quench, feed, heal, h...

6,367円 Gertrud the Great (1256–1302) entered the monastery of Helfta in eastern Germany as a child oblate. At the age of twenty-five she underwent a conversion that led to a series of visionary experiences, some of which she recorded in Latin “with her own hand,” in what became Book Two of The Herald of...

9,450円 This is a book about the tensions between Christian ideals of love and the concrete realities of everyday monastic life. Based on a study of Cistercian monasteries in France, it develops a novel conceptualization of fraternal relations and addresses how monks and nuns strive to accomplish such re...

10,359円 What expectations did the women and men living in early monastic communities carry into relationships of obedience and advice? What did they hope to achieve through confession and discipline? To explore these questions, this study shows how several early Christian writers applied the logic, knowl...