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  • The Rule of Benedict

    An Invitation to the Christian Life

    by Georg Holzherr OSB ...
    Translated by Mark Thamert OSB ...
    Series Book 256 - Cistercian Studies Series
    In his introduction to this commentary on the Rule of Benedict, Abbot Georg Holzherr offers this analogy: “The Rule is comparable to an old heavy red wine that is enjoyed in small sips. . . . Head and heart, soul and mind should taste the words of the Rule, just as the eye enjoys the color of the wine while tongue, nose, and mouth take in the delightful gift of God each in their own way.”In this ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD

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  • The Desert Fathers

    Sayings of the Early Christian Monks

    Edited by Benedicta Ward ...
    The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalised and official theology of the "founding fathers" of the church, the Desert Fathers were ordinary Christians who chose to renounce the world and live lives of celibacy, fasting, vigil, prayer and poverty in direct and simple response to the gospel. Their ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Liturgical Sermons

    The Second Clairvaux Collection; Christmas through All Saints

    by Aelred of Rievaulx ...
    Translated by Marie Anne Mayeski ...
    Series Book 77 - Cistercian Fathers Series
    Aelred, abbot of the Yorkshire Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 to 1167, wrote six spiritual treatises, seven historical treatises, and 182 liturgical sermons, most of which he delivered as chapter talks to his monks. Translations of the first twenty-eight of these sermons appeared in The First Clairvaux Collection, Advent-All Saints, published in 2001. The current volume contains eighteen ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • The Mother of the Lord

    Volume 1: The Lady in the Temple

    by Margaret Barker ...
    Are there Old Testament roots of the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary? Margaret Barker traces the roots of the devotion to Mary as Mother of the Lord back to the Old Testament and the first temple in Jerusalem. The evidence is consistent over more than a millennium: there had been a female deity in Israel, the Mother figure in the Royal cult, who had been abandoned about 600BCE. She was ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Council in Question

    A Dialogue with Catholic Traditionalism

    by Aidan Nichols O.P. ...
    The ideal TAN book! The resurgence of tradition is rekindling devotion, zeal and, we pray, sanctity. But do some place traditionalism before Mother Church herself? This is the issue of our time a unique time, 50 years after Vatican II when much (though not all) of the misapplication of the Council s teaching and the liturgical aberrations have settled. In The Council in Question: A Dialogue With ... Read more

    $10.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saint Bernard's Three Course Banquet

    Humility, Charity, and Contemplation in the De Gradibus

    by Bernard Bonowitz ...
    Series Book 39 - Monastic Wisdom Series
    Saint Bernard’s famous work, The Steps of Humility and Pride (in Latin, De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae), is a short book consisting of a mere fifty-seven paragraphs. In it, the Abbot of Clairvaux unpacks the doctrine of the very crucial chapter 7 of Saint Benedict’s sixth-century Rule for Monks, which explores the dynamic “steps” or “degrees” of both humility and pride. This chapter by ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • A Saint in the Sun

    Praising Saint Bernard in the France of Louis XIV

    by David N. Bell ...
    Series Book 271 - Cistercian Studies Series
    This volume contains translations or summaries of the most important panegyrics in praise of Saint Bernard that were preached during the reign of Louis XIV. Some of the preachers were and are regarded as the greatest orators ever to grace the French pulpit. All the translations are extensively annotated, and there are three introductory chapters providing a necessary background for appreciating ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Aelred the Peacemaker

    The Public Life of a Cistercian Abbot

    by Jean Truax ...
    Series Book 251 - Cistercian Studies Series
    In addition to being a prolific spiritual writer and the abbot of the premier Cistercian monastery in northern England, Aelred of Rievaulx somehow found the time and the stamina to travel extensively throughout the Anglo-Norman realm, acting as a mediator, a problem solver, and an adviser to kings. His career spanned the troubled years of the civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Matilda ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • From the Tools of Good Works to the Heart of Humility

    A Commentary on Chapters 4-7 of Benedict's Rule

    by Aquinata Böckmann OSB, PhD, Marianne Burkhard OSB ...
    Translated by Andrea Westkamp OSB ...
    In a new volume of her exegetical commentary, Sr. Aquinata Böckmann explores chapters 4–7 of the Rule of St. Benedict. They contain Benedict’s instruction of how to learn and live the spiritual art of monastic life that is focused on Christ. In her close reading of the text and its sources she pursues questions such as the following: How do general Christian rules help us to live in community? How ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Saints for the Sick

    Heavenly Help for Those Who Suffer

    by Joan Carroll Cruz ...
    In this intriguing new book, bestselling author Joan Carroll Cruz presents 76 mini-biographies highlighting saintly Catholics who faced intense, long-term suffering and disability with sweetness, peace and love for Jesus Christ. These stories show the triumph of God s grace where the world finds only ugliness and approaching death. They describe some lives so recent that the saint s family members ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bernard of Clairvaux

    Theologian of the Cross

    by Anthony N.S. Lane ...
    Series Book 248 - Cistercian Studies Series
    This book offers a complete study of the doctrine of the cross in the writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Until now, this theologically rich topic has not received the attention it calls for. Anthony Lane analyzes and expounds the doctrine of the cross based on the nearly seven hundred references to the cross in Bernard's writings. Among the important topics the author explores are:* Bernard's ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Monastic Sermons

    Translated by Daniel Griggs ...
    by Bernard of Clairvaux ...
    Series Book 68 - Cistercian Fathers Series
    Saint Bernard was born in 1090 near Dijon, France. He joined the fifteen-year-old monastery of Cîteaux in 1113. In 1115 he became the founding abbot of Clairvaux Abbey, whence his name, Bernard of Clairvaux. Saint Bernard was a gifted and prolific writer of theological treatises, Scriptural commentaries, letters, and many sermons. The sermons in the collection published here, styled Sermones de ... Read more

    $41.79 CAD