From The Monastery To The City

Author : Richard Carter
Publisher : Paraclete Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781640605831

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The City is My Monastery by Richard Carter Pdf

In the midst of an established monastic life, Richard Carter answered a new call, leaving his life of 15 years in the Melanesian Brotherhood to answer a need in a busy church in the heart of London, Saint Martin-in-the-Fields. There Carter founded the Nazareth Community. Its diverse members—in Samuel Wells’ words from the foreword, “a community of faith and forsaken, wondrous and woolly”—gather from everyday life to seek God in contemplation, to acknowledge their dependence on God's grace, and to learn to live openly and generously with all. With wit, wisdom, and generosity, Richard Carter tells the story of the Nazareth Community, and offers spiritual insight for daily Gospel life rooted in these seven spiritual pillars: Silence, Service, Scripture, Sacrament, Sharing, Sabbath Time and Staying.

Author : Michael Casey
Publisher : Paraclete Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781557259509

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Strangers to the City by Michael Casey Pdf

Michael Casey, a monk and scholar who has been publishing his wise teachings on the Rule of St. Benedict for decades, turns to the particular Benedictine values that he considers most urgent for Christians to incorporate into their lives today. Eloquent and incisive, Casey invites readers to accept that gospel living - seen in the light of the Rule - involves accepting the challenge of being different from the secular culture around us. He encourages readers to set clear goals and objectives, to be honest about the practical ways in which priorities may have to change to meet these goals, and to have the courage to implement these changes both daily and for the future. Casey presents thoughtful reflections on the beliefs and values of asceticism, silence, leisure, reading, chastity, and poverty - putting these traditional Benedictine values into the context of modern life and the spiritual aspirations of people today. Strangers to the City is a book for all who are interested in learning more about the dynamics of spiritual growth from the monastic experience.

Author : Roger Haight,Alfred Pach,Amanda Avila Kaminski
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781531506032

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From the Monastery to the City by Roger Haight,Alfred Pach,Amanda Avila Kaminski Pdf

This volume brings together texts of the twelfth-century Hildegard of Bingen and the early-thir­teenth-century Francis of Assisi to represent religious spirituality after the Gregorian Reform and just prior to or simultaneous with the formation of universities in Western Europe. In an extraordinary way, Hildegard embodies monastic theology and spirituality and provides a contrast to the new thing that would be created with the study of theology in the new Aristotelian idiom of the universities. But equally in contrast to the Benedictine Hildegard, the thirteenth century witnessed a renewed enthusiasm for a more literal following of Christ in a life of penitence and poverty. This is a life of dependence, not on a superior and enclosed community but on the compassion of society at large. Francis would join this movement on his own terms, attract a following, and gradually formulate a spirituality that sent signals of the need to reform individual lives and the institutions of the Church. These two authors, then, are not joined here because of any shared similarity but to help illustrate two quite different spiritualities that animated the lively European twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Author : Michael Patrick O'Brien
Publisher : Paraclete Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781640606500

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Monastery Mornings by Michael Patrick O'Brien Pdf

A love letter to a community of Trappist monks who provided family when it was needed the most. This warmhearted memoir describes how a small, insecure boy with a vibrant imagination found an unlikely family in the company of monks at Holy Trinity Abbey, in the mountains of rural Latter-day Saint Utah. Struggling with his parents' recent divorce, Michael O'Brien discovered a community filled with warmth, humor, idiosyncrasies, and most of all, listening ears. Filled with anecdotes and delightful "behind the scenes" descriptions of his experiences living alongside the monks as they farmed, prayed, buried their dead, ate, and shared the joys of life, Monastery Mornings speaks to the value of spiritual fatherhood, the lasting impact of positive mentoring, and the stability that the spiritual life can offer to people of all ages and walks of life.

Author : Bruce Kirkby
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781643135694

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Blue Sky Kingdom by Bruce Kirkby Pdf

A warm and unforgettable portrait of a family letting go of the known world to encounter an unfamiliar one filled with rich possibilities and new understandings. Bruce Kirkby had fallen into a pattern of looking mindlessly at his phone for hours, flipping between emails and social media, ignoring his children and wife and everything alive in his world, when a thought struck him. This wasn't living; this wasn't him. This moment of clarity started a chain reaction which ended with a grand plan: he was going to take his wife and two young sons, jump on a freighter and head for the Himalaya. In Blue Sky Kingdom, we follow Bruce and his family's remarkable three months journey, where they would end up living amongst the Lamas of Zanskar Valley, a forgotten appendage of the ancient Tibetan empire, and one of the last places on earth where Himalayan Buddhism is still practiced freely in its original setting. Richly evocative, Blue Sky Kingdom explores the themes of modern distraction and the loss of ancient wisdom coupled with Bruce coming to terms with his elder son's diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum. Despite the natural wonders all around them at times, Bruce's experience will strike a chord with any parent—from rushing to catch a train with the whole family to the wonderment and beauty that comes with experience the world anew with your children.

Author : Denise Roy
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0829416870

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My Monastery Is a Minivan by Denise Roy Pdf

Thirty-five entertaining and touching stories that show how family moments can bring the greatest spiritual rewards. We find everything we need for spiritual growth as we picnic with the children, go to the grocery store, and pick up the morning paper. The author's intimate approach invites us to recognize the grace that exists within our own lives. We needn't pull over and look for enlightenment; the divine is always present, even in the carpool lane.

Author : Merav Mack,Benjamin Balint
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300245219

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Jerusalem by Merav Mack,Benjamin Balint Pdf

A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem’s libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world over, are not usually thought of as a distinct school; their stories as Jerusalemites have never before been woven into a single narrative. Nor have the stories of the custodians, past and present, who safeguard Jerusalem’s literary legacies. By showing how Jerusalem has been imagined by its writers and shelved by its librarians, Mack and Balint tell the untold history of how the peoples of the book have populated the city with texts. In their hands, Jerusalem itself—perched between East and West, antiquity and modernity, violence and piety—comes alive as a kind of labyrinthine library.

Author : Brother Benet Tvedten
Publisher : Paraclete Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781612610771

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How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job by Brother Benet Tvedten Pdf

You don't have to live in a monastery in order to live like a monk. Oblates are everyday people with jobs, families, and other responsibilities. Sometimes they are Catholic, sometimes not. In today's hectic, changing world, being an oblate offers a rich spiritual connection to the stability and wisdom of an established monastic community.

Author : Gil Fronsdal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0984509216

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A Monastery Within by Gil Fronsdal Pdf

Inspired by his years of Buddhist monastic life, Gil Fronsdal has written these warm-hearted stories as part of the tradition of teaching through storytelling. These are tales of transformation and spiritual growth. They delight and challenge as they express different facets of the Buddhist path to liberation in familiar, yet fresh and engaging, ways. These stories can be reread often, each time supporting new reflec- tions on the spiritual life and the possibility of each person awakening to the kindness, clarity and insight available to all of us. A Monastery Within points to how each person can build an inner home for the awakened life.

Author : Faith Erin Hicks
Publisher : First Second
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781626726529

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The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks Pdf

Every nation that invades the City gives it a new name. But before long, new invaders arrive and the City changes hands once again. The natives don't let themselves get caught up in the unending wars. To them, their home is the Nameless City, and those who try to name it are forever outsiders. Kaidu is one such outsider. He's a Dao born and bred--a member of the latest occupying nation. Rat is a native of the Nameless City. At first, she hates Kai for everything he stands for, but his love of his new home may be the one thing that can bring these two unlikely friends together. Let's hope so, because the fate of the Nameless City rests in their hands.

Author : Walter M. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Fiction in English
ISBN : PSU:000028922933

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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Pdf

Author : Dominique Fortier
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770564718

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The Island of Books by Dominique Fortier Pdf

A fifteenth-century portrait painter, grieving the untimely death of his unrequited love, takes refuge at the monastery at Mont Saint-Michel, an island off the coast of France. He haunts the halls until the monks assign him the task of copying manuscripts – though he is illiterate. His work heals him and grows the monastery's library into a beautiful city of books, all under the shadow of the invention of the printing press. Dominique Fortier is an editor and translator living in Montreal. She is the author of five books, including On the Proper Use of Stars and Wonder. Rhonda Mullins is an award-winning translator and writer living in Montreal, Quebec.

Author : Paulist Press
Publisher : Hidden Spring
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1587680629

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Beds and Blessings in Italy by Paulist Press Pdf

Helps readers to reflect on the role of gratitude in their lives and to cultivate this virtue for their own benefit. The first author to offer a critique of gratitude through an explanation of various types of gratitude, Charles Shelton uses his skills as a clinical psychologist to present insights into the human experience of gratitude based on his own research. The exercises, strategies, and reflection questions threaded throughout the book give it a practical dimension that facilitates the reader's growth. Shelton's highly original reflection on Jesus as a grateful person lends a spiritual dimension to his work. This book will benefit individual readers as well as serve as a resource for spiritual direction workshops, spiritual formation courses, or ministry formation programs.--From publisher description.

Author : Faith Erin Hicks
Publisher : First Second Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781626721586

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The Nameless City: The Stone Heart by Faith Erin Hicks Pdf

Every time it is invaded the City gets a new name, but to the natives in is the Nameless City, and they survive by not letting themselves get involved--but now the fate of the City rests in the hands of Rat, a native, and Kaidu, one of the Dao, the latest occupiers, and the two must somehow work together if the City is to survive.

Author : Bahaa' Taher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520916336

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Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery by Bahaa' Taher Pdf

This brief, beautifically crafted novel introduces one of the finest contemporary Arab novelists to English-speaking audiences. In it, Bahaa' Taher, one of a group of Egyptian writers—including the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz—noted for their revealing portraits of Egyptian life and society, tells the dramatic story of a young Muslim who, when his life is threatened, finds sanctuary in a community of Coptic monks. It is a tale of honor and of the terrible demands of blood vengeance; it probes the question of how a people or nation can become divided against itself. Taher has a magical gift for evoking the village life of Upper Egypt—a vastly different setting than urban Cairo and a landscape that tourists usually glimpse only from the windows of trains and buses taking them to the Pharaonic sites. Here, where Christians and Muslims have coexisted peacefully for centuries, where the traditions of the Coptic Church are as powerful as those of the Muslims, Taher crafts an intricate and compelling tale of far-reaching implications. With a powerful narrative voice and a genius for capturing the complex nuances of human interaction, Taher brilliantly depicts the poignant drama of a traditional society caught up in the process of change.