After sixty years of living in a Cistercian community, Michael Casey combines his down-to-earth o...
These eighty-six sermons are among the most famous and most beautiful examples of medieval script...
The Irish temperament--individualistic, poetic, and deeply loyal to family--produced great and le...
Sebastian Brock is Reader in Syriac Studies in the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fello...
Thousands and Thousands of Lovers examines the spiritual significance of community to the Cisterc...
This practical guide to the spiritual life, cherished by monks, beguines, and lay folk for eight ...
'Pray continually,' Scripture exhorts. 'Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus.' Striving to...
The Bible is the monk's book.The thought and teaching of St Bernard of Clairvaux was so saturat...
In these homilies Matthew Kelty speaks to his brothers in community, challenging them 'to remove ...
The desert stood in stark opposition to the oikoumene, the inhabited world of the fourth century....
'Prayer is a journey, sometimes a combat.There are trials, purifications, passages.It is at o...
The living link through whom the ascetic principles of hellenistic philosophers passed into monas...