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Author : Eugene L. Romano
Publisher : Saint Pauls/Alba House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Monasticism and religious orders
ISBN : 0818908211
This book will inspire many to a closer walk with the Lord in a spirit of unceasing prayer and love.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814684986
2020 Association of Catholic Publishers first place award in spirituality Thomas Merton’s sessions with the young monks at the Abbey of Gethsemani showcase Merton’s brilliant ability to survey the key figures and synthesize their writings, inspiring his listeners and readers with what it means for the spiritual life. Like its companion volume, A Course in Christian Mysticism, this book is a collection of fifteen lectures that get to the heart of Merton’s belief that monastic wisdom and spirituality are applicable for everyone. This compact volume allows anyone to learn from one of the twentieth century's greatest Catholic spiritual teachers. The study materials at the back of the book, including additional primary source readings and thoughtful questions for reflection and discussion, make this an essential text for any student of Christian desert spirituality.
Author : Henri J. M. Nouwen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1985-07-12
Category : Apophthegmata Patrum
ISBN : 0345329597
The wisdom of Henri J.M. Nouwen: SOLITUDE "In solitude we become compassionate people, deeply aware of our solidarity in brokenness with all of humanity and ready to reach out to anyone in need . . ." SILENCE "Silence first makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us how to speak . . ." PRAYER "Prayer, when we are faithful to it and practice it at regular times, slowly leads us to an experience of rest and opens us to God's active presence . . ."
Author : Joan Chittister, OSB
Publisher : Franciscan Media
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781616368326
The Desert Monastics, thousands of monks and nuns who lived in the Egyptian wastelands between the third and fifth centuries, have come to be seen as the Olympians of the spiritual life. Renowned spiritual writer Joan Chittister explores the sayings of the Desert Mothers and Fathers, finding wisdom from that ancient tradition that speaks to your life today. This popular introduction to a powerful source of Christian wisdom can be a companion to your own spiritual journey.
Author : Henri J. M. Nouwen
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037369746
Illuminating four spiritual disciplines, the distinguished theologian shares his inspiring wisdom in this handsome new gift-sized volume.
Author : Eugene L. Romano
Publisher : Saint Pauls/Alba House
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0818906618
This book will inspire many to a closer walk with the Lord in a spirit of unceasing prayer and love.
Author : Christine Valters Paintner
Publisher : SkyLight Paths Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594733734
Timeless and contemplative sayings from the earliest Christian sages of desert spirituality can be a companion on your own spiritual journey. The desert fathers and mothers were ordinary Christians living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Arabia who chose to renounce the world in order to deliberately and individually follow God's call. They embraced lives of celibacy, labor, fasting, prayer and poverty, believing that denouncing material goods and practicing stoic self-discipline would lead to unity with the Divine. Their spiritual practice formed the basis of Western monasticism and greatly influenced both Western and Eastern Christianity. Their writings, first recorded in the fourth century, consist of spiritual advice, parables and anecdotes emphasizing the primacy of love and the purity of heart. Focusing on key themes of charity, fortitude, lust, patience, prayer and self-control, the Sayings influenced the rule of St. Benedict and have inspired centuries of opera, poetry and art. This probing and personal SkyLight Illuminations edition opens up their wisdom for readers with no previous knowledge of Western monasticism and early Christianity. It provides insightful yet unobtrusive commentary that describes historical background, explains the practice of asceticism and illustrates how you can use their wisdom to energize your spiritual quest.
Author : John Chryssavgis
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781933316567
Father John's inspiring introduction to the spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers brings their words to life for the modern reader. These key figures of the early church chose lives of hardship and solitude, where they could point their hearts away from the outward world and toward an introspective path of God's calling in a deliberate and individual way. Contains a Foreword by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, the second highest ranking Orthodox Bishop in England.
Author : Rachel Wheeler
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814685006
In Desert Daughters, Desert Sons, professor Rachel Wheeler argues that a new reading of the texts of the Christian desert tradition is needed to present the (often) anonymous women who inhabit the texts. Though these women may have been included by storytellers to provide a foil to the exemplary men in the stories' foreground, Wheeler demonstrates how women's persistence in places they were not welcome witnesses to truths about where wisdom may be sought and found. In this book, Wheeler allows these women's stories to critique the desert impulse that can create a spiritual life devoid of social relationships and responsibility.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780141907000
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 sayings were first recorded in the 4th century and consist of spiritual advice, anecdotes and parables. The Desert Fathers' teachings and lives have inspired poetry, opera and art, as well as providing spiritual nourishment and a template for monastic life.
Author : Belden Lane
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532656965
“The wholeness of the life we seek is one that we are seldom able to envision in advance. It takes a shape that only the desert knows.” Desert Spirituality and Cultural Resistance: From Ancient Monks to Mountain Refugees is a passionate exploration of the theme of wilderness in the spiritual life. These three lectures by accomplished storyteller and theologian Belden Lane are inspirational in a way that lectures rarely are. Lane urges us to think courageously about the place of wilderness in Christian life. He contemplates the radical lives of the fourth-century Desert Fathers and Mothers, as well as the courageous example of sixteenth-century Anabaptists. He speaks of the ways in which wilderness can relate to the practice of a counter-cultural spirituality today, and he asks: Can desert and mountain gift us with a language to understand the experiences in our lives when we are taken to the edge, finding ourselves isolated and alone, both spiritually and culturally? “The wilderness is a place of suffering, out on the edge. It is a place of letting go, a place for dying, and yet also a place for coming alive. The desert is where things fall apart and where things may come together for us in an unanticipated way.”
Author : Rowan Williams
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780745951706
Rowan Williams goes back to the 4th century desert fathers and mothers for inspiration and insight, discovering that their spirituality resonates strongly with aspects of the modern spiritual search. He uses examination of their stories and sayings as a starting point for his own reflections on topics such as: living in relationship with others; discovering the truth about ourselves; reassessing our priorities; silence and the importance of language; living in a fearless community; living within our limitations; life and death; staying and leaving.
Author : Belden C. Lane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199760428
In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference. Interweaving a memoir of his mother's long struggle with Alzheimer's and cancer, meditations on his own wilderness experience, and illuminating commentary on the Christian via negativa--a mystical tradition that seeks God in the silence beyond language--Lane rejects the easy affirmations of pop spirituality for the harsher but more profound truths that wilderness can teach us. "There is an unaccountable solace that fierce landscapes offer to the soul. They heal, as well as mirror, the brokeness we find within." It is this apparent paradox that lies at the heart of this remarkable book: that inhuman landscapes should be the source of spiritual comfort. Lane shows that the very indifference of the wilderness can release us from the demands of the endlessly anxious ego, teach us to ignore the inessential in our own lives, and enable us to transcend the "false self" that is ever-obsessed with managing impressions. Drawing upon the wisdom of St. John of the Cross, Meister Eckhardt, Simone Weil, Edward Abbey, and many other Christian and non-Christian writers, Lane also demonstrates how those of us cut off from the wilderness might "make some desert" in our lives. Written with vivid intelligence, narrative ease, and a gracefulness that is itself a comfort, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes gives us not only a description but a "performance" of an ancient and increasingly relevant spiritual tradition.
Author : Mary Forman
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814615228
"Introduces the reader to the lives, sayings, and stories of the fourth- and fifth-century women who were foundational members of the early Christian community in the Mediterranean region; invites readers to explore their own spiritual journeys"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1970-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780811220132
The Wisdom of the Desert was one of Thomas Merton's favorites among his own books—surely because he had hoped to spend his last years as a hermit. The personal tones of the translations, the blend of reverence and humor so characteristic of him, show how deeply Merton identified with the legendary authors of these sayings and parables, the fourth-century Christian Fathers who sought solitude and contemplation in the deserts of the Near East. The hermits of Screte who turned their backs on a corrupt society remarkably like our own had much in common with the Zen masters of China and Japan, and Father Merton made his selection from them with an eye to the kind of impact produced by the Zen mondo.