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  • Survival or Prophecy?

    The Letters of Thomas Merton & Jean LeClercq

    by Thomas Merton, Jean Leclercq ...
    Introduction by Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland.Two monks in conversation about the meaning of life and the nature of solitude.Thomas Merton, the American Trappist monk who wrote The Seven Storey Mountain, spent his entire literary career (1948- 68) in a cloistered monastery in Kentucky. His great counterpart, the French Benedictine monk Jean Leclercq, spent those years traveling relentlessly to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Love of Learning and The Desire for God

    A Study of Monastic Culture

    by Jean Leclercq, O.S.B. ...
    Available in a new digital edition with reflowable text suitable for e-readersThe Love of Learning and the Desire for God is composed of a series of lectures given to young monks at the Institute of Monastic Studies at Sant'Anselmo in Rome during the winter of 1955-56. ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

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  • Spiritual Friendship

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    Spiritual Friendship is today the best known and perhaps most influential of the thirteen surviving works of Aelred, abbot of the great English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 '1167. During his abbacy he built Rievaulx into a place of spiritual welcome and physical prosperity, desiring to make it a mother of mercy" to those in need. In a three-book Ciceronian dialogue Aelred defines human ... Read more

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  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture.What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Giorgio Agamben's new ... Read more

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  • The Ransom of the Soul

    Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity

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    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearA Tablet Book of the YearMarking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome’s fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Church’s institutional relationship to ... Read more

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  • Writings and Conversations on the Practice of the Presence of God

    by Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection OCD, Conrad De Meester OCD, Salvatore Sciurba OCD ...
    The only English translation of the French critical edition, this volume includes a general introduction, bibliography, and testimonies about Brother Lawrence by those who knew him. With 5 photos and illustrations.MORE INFORMATION:The third centenary of the death of Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection inspired the Belgian Discalced Carmelite Conrad De Meester to present this new critical edition ... Read more

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  • The Once and Future Roman Rite

    Returning to the Traditional Latin Liturgy after Seventy Years of Exile

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