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From Assumption Abbey
AT HOME WITH SAINT BENEDICT
Monastery Talks
This book is a door to the chapter room of Assumption Abbey. Readers are invited to open the door, sit down with the monks and their abbot, and feel at home with Saint Benedict.
At Home with Saint Benedict is a selection of the author's conferences on Saint Benedict's Rule for Monasteries delivered to the monks of Assumption Abbey of Ava, Missouri, when he was abbot there. The author's intention was simply to share with his brother monks what Saint Benedict through his sixth-century Rule might have to offer monks of the early twenty-first century. It is hoped that these conferences, published here, will now speak to men and women outside the monastic cloister. 336 pages, paperback.
Mark A. Scott, OCSO, is a monk of the Trappist-Cistercian Abbey of New Clairvaux, Vina, California, which he entered in 1978. From 2000 to 2008 he served as appointed superior and then abbot of Assumption Abbey, Ava, Missouri.
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WISDOM FROM THE MONASTERY
A Program of Spiritual Healing
For almost two millennia, Christian men and women have banded together to live in devotion to God and humanity.
Wisdom from the Monastery, written by three very modern seekers who visited Benedictine, Franciscan and Cistercian monastic communities in Germany to explore facets of the contemplative life, reveals what these lay practitioners found so rewarding and deeply relevant to their lives today. The book's warm, engaging tone presents millennia-tested practices of contemplative Christianity: fasting, healing and meditation. One need not be Catholic, nor even Christian, to benefit from fasting, herbal and other natural remedies, and profound approaches to prayer, meditation, and silence.
Featuring over 100 photographs, daily exercises, personal anecdotes, and fascinating snippets on monastic experience through the ages, Wisdom from the Monastery introduces readers to a cast of remarkable monks and nuns who have chosen lives of renunciation and simplicity. Within these pages, monastic wisdom demonstrates its relevance across millennia and beyond monastery walls. Paperback, 381 pages.
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From Mepkin Abbey
BEYOND THE WALLS
Monastic Wisdom for Everyday Life
in 1999 Paul Wilkes published one of the seminal works on the value lessons that monastic life holds for modern, secular life: Beyond the Walls. Over the course of one year, he made monthly trips to the brothers at Mepkin Abbey. During each visit he focused on a particular aspect of monastic life, and each month's visit comprises a chapter of this book.
In this 10th anniversary edition of the classic work, Wilkes has added his own original, full-color photography and a new Introduction. Each chapter opens with a description of Wilkes' physical visit to the monastery, which he uses to lead into difficult explorations of issues such as faith, prayer, community, and discernment.
Each chapter closes as Wilkes searches for the proper ways to integrate what he learned during his time at the Abbey into his life as a father, husband, teacher, writer, and lay minister. He uses monastic wisdom to speak to the journey of faith itself, letting readers discover their own path "beyond the walls." Paperback, 342 pages.
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From Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey
INSIDE THE SCHOOL OF CHARITY
Lessons from the Monastery
Drawing on her journals from living inside the enclosure of Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey (a community of twenty Trappist nuns) for three months in 2003, her reflections on the unexpected challenges and insights that emerged during that time, and on her own experience as a professional woman, wife, daughter, and mother, Trisha Day delves into the questions of how the centuries-old wisdom of monastic life can challenge, inspire, and guide those living outside the monastery. Filled with stories from her own life and fascinating details of daily life in the monastery, her book is sure to strike a spark with all those seeking to live in a fully human and Christ-centered way. 242 pages, paperback
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From New Melleray Abbey
COME AND SEE
The Monastic Way for Today
A look inside the mind of a Trappist monk. The monastic vision of Abbot Brendan Freeman (New Melleray Abbey in Peosta, Iowa) is rooted in the 4th century Desert Fathers but filled with modern relevance. As you read this book you will meet great themes of monastic life such as silence, solitude, community life and prayer. You will search for your most authentic self -- the self Thomas Merton saw as the center of our being and a point of pure truth. There is also a subtheme running through ancient monasticism that conceives of the monastery as a hospital -- a place for healing the soul, the spirit and the heart. Paperback 202 pages.
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From Gethsemani Abbey
SPIRITUAL SECRETS OF A
TRAPPIST MONK (paperback)
Long years of prayer and contemplation disclosed to a holy Trappist monk of Gethsemani Abbey (Kentucky) many long-forgotten secrets about God and man. In spellbinding detail filled with holy fire, Fr. M. Raymond shows that the reality of who you are in Christ is much greater than you think. His electrifying message will revolutionize your view of yourself and the meaning of your daily life. It will fill your soul with a new sense of dignity in Christ and delightful excitement for the things of God. Paperback, 395 pages.
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From St. Meinrad Archabbey
CONVERSATIONS IN THE ABBEY
Senior Monks Reflect on Their Lives
Ranging in age from 76 to 106, these Benedictine monks provide more than a glimpse into their personal vocation and daily life in a monastery in rural Indiana. Collectively, they provide an oral history of a period of great changes at St. Meinrad Archabbey and in the Church as a whole. Each monk's story is presented in a conversational question-and-answer format which reveals his childhood, his early life in the monastic community, career, spiritual life and other reflections. Includes B&W photos and (according the monks' best recollection) a recipe for "Nonsense" bread. Paperback, 369 pages.
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Imported from Norway
TAUTRA MARIAKLOSTER
You will rebuild ancient ruins and raise up the foundations of the past. -- Isaiah 58:12
This booklet, lavishly illustrated throughout with full-color photographs, tells the story of Tautra Mariakloster -- in Norwegian and English! Full of details about the rebuilding of the monastery, its daily life, the Cistercian order, and their soap and body care production.
Paperback, 48 pages.
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BROTHERS OF THE DESERT
The Story of the Monastery of Christ in the Desert
Located in the spectacular Chama River Canyon of northern New Mexico, the Monastery of Christ in the Desert has both struggled for survival and flourished with plenty since its founding in 1964. Throughout the years, the monastery has offered men a spiritual life of work and prayer in the Benedictine tradition of the "primitive observance," and has welcomed guests of all faiths to join the brothers in chanting the prayers of the Divine Office. As Abbot Philip Lawrence notes in his foreword, this book is the story of "the joys and sorrows, agonies and ecstasies, setbacks and accomplishments of our monastery."
Paperback, 164 pages
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NOW IN PAPERBACK!
AN INFINITY OF LITTLE HOURS
Lives in a Carthusian Monastery
In 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of England's Parkminster, the largest Carthusian monastery in the Western world. This is the story of their five-year journey into the most rigorous and austere of monastic orders -- virtually unchanged since its foundation in 1084. This is also a drama of the men's struggle as they leave behind the turbulent 1960s and enter an entirely different world. After five years, each must choose: stay for a lifetime or leave the Carthusian path. A remarkable investigative work with 16 pages of B & W photos. Paperback, 264 pages.
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