Cistercian Spirituality
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Cistercian Spirituality
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Author : Francis Acharya
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Cistercian Spirituality written by Francis Acharya and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Religion categories.
Cistercian Spirituality: An Ashram Perspective is a spiritual directory written by Fr. Francis Acharya for the monastic community that he founded at Kurisumala (Kerala, India). As the editor, Fr. Michael Casey, relates in the introduction: This book is offered to a wider world in the hope that it will serve as a means of making and deepening contact with the spirit of the Cistercian tradition not so much as it is written but as it has been lived for over six decades by a deeply spiritual man. To those who know of Kurisumala Ashram or who have read the biography of Fr. Francis, it will provide a gateway to an understanding of the interior life of this remarkable monk. In particular, his description of the stages of the experience of prayer will certainly be helpful to many who, like him, are lifelong seekers of the unseen God." Francis Acharya, OCSO, left the Belgian monastery of Scourmont in 1955, after twenty years as a Trappist, to live his monastic life in India. His experiences put him in contact with such other pioneering spirits as Henri Le Saux (Abishiktananda), Jules Monchanin (In Quest of the Absolute), and Bede Griffiths (Return to the Centre, The Golden String), and led to an uncommonly successful inculturation of Christian monasticism within Indian culture and spirituality at Kurisumala, where he served as Acharya, teacher, until his death in 2001. His biography, Kurisumala: Francis Mahieu Acharya, A Pioneer of Christian Monasticism in India, is also published by Cistercian Publications. "
Befriending Silence
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Author : Carl McColman
language : en
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Release Date : 2015-11-20
Befriending Silence written by Carl McColman and has been published by Ave Maria Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-20 with Religion categories.
Winner of the 2016 Georgia Author of the Year: Inspirational-religious books. Respected speaker, author, and Patheos blogger Carl McColman introduces Cistercian spirituality as "the hidden jewel of the Church," presenting a surprisingly contemporary path grounded in monastic tradition. This accessible and comprehensive guide highlights a unique focus on simplicity, living close to the earth, and contemplative prayer, all of which make Cistercian spirituality relevant today. Steeped in chant and silence, grounded in down-to-earth work and service, and immersed in the mystical wisdom of teachers ancient (Bernard of Clairvaux) and modern (Thomas Merton), Cistercian spirituality's beautifully humble path has for centuries made monasteries places of rest, retreat, and renewal. Now, Carl McColman offers the first practical introduction to this ancient, contemplative spirituality for all people. Hailed by reviewers of his many books as playful, and profound, McColman draws on his experience as a lay Cistercian to provide insight into the relevance of the tradition to contemporary issues and spiritual practice. He explains how silence, simplicity, stability, stewardship of the earth, contemplation, ongoing conversion, and devotion to Mary combine to offer a rich and unique path to discipleship and intimacy with God.
The First Cistercian Spiritual Writers
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Author : Marie-André Fracheboud
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2000
The First Cistercian Spiritual Writers written by Marie-André Fracheboud and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Religion categories.
The Spirit Of Simplicity
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Author : Jean-Baptiste Chautard
language : en
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Release Date : 2017-11-10
The Spirit Of Simplicity written by Jean-Baptiste Chautard and has been published by Ave Maria Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-10 with Religion categories.
Few people have ever seen or heard of The Spirit of Simplicity: it has been hidden for almost seventy years after quietly being published by the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1948. Anonymously translated and annotated by a young monk named Thomas Merton, the book’s author—who also is not mentioned by name in the original edition—is Jean-Baptiste Chautard, the famous French Cistercian whose only other book, The Soul of the Apostolate, has been a favorite of modern saints and popes, including Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Every generation struggles with the question of simplicity. In the history of our faith, there have been no more eloquent voices calling us back to simplicity than the monks of the Cistercian Order, from Bernard of Clairvaux to Chautard to Merton—all of whom contribute to this powerful book. Merton surrounds Chautard’s text with his own remarks on simplicity, translations of classic texts by St. Bernard of Clairvaux, and commentary that allows readers to pursue the themes of simplicity in their own lives. "Only a very inadequate idea of exterior simplicity can be arrived at if we do not trace it back to its true source: interior simplicity. Without this, our resolution to practice exterior simplicity would be without light, without love …," Chautard wrote at the beginning of the book. He is writing to his fellow Cistercians, but he might as well be speaking to twenty-first century Christians. He goes on to lay out the best disciplines that a monk—or anyone—might practice to find the elusive simplicity, with quotations from St. Benedict, St. Bernard, and other pillars of monastic life and spirituality. A dozen photographs of Cistercian architecture illustrate how principles of simplicity are incorporated into Cistercian daily life. In Part 2, Merton opens up the teachings of St. Bernard, a great mystic and doctor of the Church, offering excerpts from St. Bernard’s writings on the original simplicity in the Garden of Eden, the difficulty of intellectual simplicity, the simplicity of the will (obedience), and other kindred topics. Merton also offers personal reflections from the perspective of one who had recently exchanged an active life in pursuit of worldly things for the solitude of a monk.
The Way Of Simplicity
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Author : Esther De Waal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Way Of Simplicity written by Esther De Waal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Religion categories.
A School Of Love
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Author : M. Basil Pennington
language : en
Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
Release Date : 2001-01-01
A School Of Love written by M. Basil Pennington and has been published by Morehouse Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Religion categories.
The author, a Cistercian monk, introduces readers to the prayer, study, silence, friendship, and silence that characterizes life in a Cistercian monastery. Original.
The Hermitage Within
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2023-10-15
The Hermitage Within written by and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-15 with Religion categories.
Not everyone can, or should, live as a hermit. Yet all Christians need an inner hermitage, a place apart where we come face-to-face with our true selves, and listen to the still small voice of God. It is a place of silence, of fear and fascination, of anguish and grace. The writer of this profound yet simple volume encourages us to find our own inner hermitage—a place of calm and contemplation, apart from the demands of the modern world, a place so silent that we can hear God. The desert, the mountain, and the temple provide the focus of the anonymous author's reflections. He meditates on the wilderness experiences of such biblical persons as Jesus, John the Baptist, and Mary Magdalen. He considers the place held in the Christian story by Mount Sinai, the Mount of Olives, and Calvary. He ponders the idea of temples, using such images as our inner temple and Christ the temple, the foundation of the Church.
Passing From Self To God
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Author : Robert Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Cistercian Publications Books
Release Date : 2006
Passing From Self To God written by Robert Thomas and has been published by Cistercian Publications Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"In this book an experienced spiritual master, a monk of Sept-Fons abbey in France, provides an intensive directed retreat which relies heavily on the rich Cistercian spiritual tradition. Readers are at liberty to read and digest at their own pace, while savoring the author's contagious enthusiasm for the values and attitudes he learned from the monastic way and the Cistercian Fathers he studied throughout his long life."--BOOK JACKET.
The Cistercian World
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-04-27
The Cistercian World written by and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-27 with Religion categories.
The Cistercian Order was born in Burgundy at the start of the twelfth century as a movement of radical renewal - an Order that survives to this day with the greater part of its written heritage preserved. This volume brings together a selection of its finest works, which speak powerfully across the centuries to modern readers. Writings by St Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090-1153) - including his letters, The Life of Malachy the Irishman, sermons on the Song of Songs and the sharply satirical Apologia for Abbot William - reveal him to be a highly individual and influential writer of the Middle Ages. Also included here are a charming description of Clairvaux, biographies of abbots and a series of exemplary stories, all drawing on the Scriptures to express intensely personal forms of monastic theology.
The Spiritual Teachings Of Bernard Of Clairvaux
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Author : John R. Sommerfeldt
language : en
Publisher: Cistercian Studies
Release Date : 1991
The Spiritual Teachings Of Bernard Of Clairvaux written by John R. Sommerfeldt and has been published by Cistercian Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Religion categories.
A thematic and carefully documented introduction to the theology of Saint Bernard and to pastoral application. Readers will gain insights not only into Bernard's influence within twelfth-century monasteries and the church at large, but also into his continuing importance to the spiritual journey today.