Category: Desert Tradition

Words to Live by: Journeys in Ancient And Modern Egyptian Monasticism (Coleccion Semillas)

By: VIVIAN, TIM, ATHANASSAKIS, APOSTOLOS N., A., MAGAD S. MIKHAIL, PEARSON, BIRGER A., A., MAGED S. MIKHAIL

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : September 2004

Seller ID: 181943

ISBN-13: 9780879076573

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Give me a word, Father. From the time of Saint Antony 'at least 'younger monks would ask older, experienced monks, abbas or ammas ( 'fathers ' or 'mothers '), for a saving word, for advice, for wise counsel on how to live. In this book, Coptic scholar and priest Tim Vivian shares personal accounts of journeys to present-day monasteries in Egypt, and translations of ancient texts exemplifying the 'words, ' the insights that have guided desert monks for nearly two millennia. Those who study the monastic tradition professionally and those who search it spiritually will find matter for reflection ...
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The Lives of the Jura Fathers : The Life and Rule of the Holy Fathers Romanus, Lupicinus, and Eugendus, Abbots of the Monasteries in the Jura Mountains

By: VIVIAN, TIM, VIVIAN, KIM, RUSSELL, JEFFREY BURTON, CUMMINGS, CHARLES, KARDONG, TERRENCE, DE VOGUE, ADALBERT

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Cistercian Abbey of Spencer Inc : October 1999

Seller ID: 191587

ISBN-13: 9780879077785

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

These newly-translated texts tell us about a time (ca. 435) and a place (the Jura Mountains in eastern France) far off the beaten path of most of what we know of early monasticism. Fifty years before the birth of St. Benedict, we have evidence of a Western monastic life and rule that mentions early Egyptian sources, the rule of St. Basil, the writings of John Cassian, and the influence of the Fathers at Lerins, one of the earliest monastic communities in France. Attached as an appendix is a winsome letter dating to 412 A.D. by a certain Eucherius, bishop of Lyon, entitled ''In Praise of the De...
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Community and Abbot in the Rule of st Benedict, Volume Two (Cistercian Studies Series)

By: VOGUE, ADALBERT DE

Price: $31.95

Publisher: Cistercian Pubns : June 1988

Seller ID: 20080725145247

ISBN-13: 9780879073053

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The abbot, the community, and obedience in the Rule of Saint Benedict as compared to its source, The Rule of the Master, to see Saint Benedict's originality.

Desert of the Heart: Daily Readings with the Desert Fathers

By: Ward, Benedicta

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Fairacres Publications SLG Press : January 2016

Seller ID: 184678

ISBN-13: 9780728302907

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Harlots of the Desert: A Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources (Cistercian Studies Series, 106)

By: WARD, BENEDICTA

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : December 1987

Seller ID: 218536

ISBN-13: 9780879076061

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A collection of five short tales of the sinful person who repents. Included are the Biblical Mary Magdalen and later elaborations of her tradition, St. Mary of Egypt, an image of repentance in the Lenten liturgical tradition, and three stories of penitent harlots from the Vita Patrum. Sister Benedicta Ward provides introductions and critical notes for these stories, which together form a thoughtful study of early Christian metanoia.
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The Monastic Hours of Prayer

By: Ward, Benedicta

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Fairacres Publications SLG Press : January 2016

Seller ID: 184697

ISBN-13: 9780728302839

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers

By: WARD, BENEDICTA, BLOOM, ANTHONY

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : June 1986

Seller ID: 221788

ISBN-13: 9780728301092

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

''It is not the desert that makes a desert father anymore than it is the lion that makes the martyr,'' says Metropolitan Anthony Bloom in the introduction to this slim volume of sayings first collected in the fifth century. The sytematic sayings are organized by topics such as compunction, self-control, obedience, mercy, and long-suffering. Far from romantic, mystified visions of the spiritual life, here is hard-headed advice to fellow monks about the actions necessary to take in pursuit of humility and love. As one old man puts it: ''Spiritual work is essential, it is for this we have come to...
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Lives of the Desert Fathers: The Historia Monachorum in Aegypto (Cistercian Studies No. 34)

By: WARD, BENEDICTA, RUSSELL, NORMAN

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Andrew Mowbray Incorporated, Publishers : June 1981

Seller ID: 187738

ISBN-13: 9780879079345

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Eyewitness accounts of the lives and teachings of the fourth-century Desert Fathers from the Historia monachorum in Aegypto.
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The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks (Penguin Classics)

By: WARD, TRANS., BENEDICTA

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : August 2003

Seller ID: 181696

ISBN-13: 9780140447316

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This translation of the Vitae Patrum has it all: comical stories, thwarted demons, sagacious aphorisms, and hard truths. Open the book at random and you'll find a pearl some fourth century monk sold all for and spent a lifetime seeking. Take Bessarion here, who on his deathbed said, ''A monk ought to be like the Cherubim and Seraphim, all eye.'' The pervasive and lasting influence these bands of men and women who forsook the world in the deserts of Egypt and the Middle East have had on Christianity and Christians would be difficult to overstate. Whether you come out agreeing with their methods...
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The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Cistercian studies 59)

By: WARD, TRANS., BENEDICTA

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : June 1987

Seller ID: 218544

ISBN-13: 9780879079598

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This classic Western translation of the sayings of the Desert Fathers has played a crucial role in the formation of Christian spirituality and has led countless men and women into the desert questing for a truer knowledge of God and themselves. Unlike the anonymous, or Systematic Collection, these sayings are attributed and arranged alphabetically, rather than topically. You'll find familiar voices here, such as Gregory the Theologian, Anthony the Great, and John Cassian alongside lesser known, but no less helpful hermits such as John the Dwarf, Paul the Simple, or the hermitess Sarah. These a...
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Early Christian Lives

By: WHITE, CAROLINNE

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Penguin USA : July 1998

Seller ID: 206756

ISBN-13: 9780140435269

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Here in one compact edition are several of the most celebrated and influential Lives from the era that witnessed the origins of the whole genre. Included are Athanasius' Life of Antony, Jerome's Lives of Paul of Thebes, Hilarion, and Malchus; Sulpicius Severus' Life of Martin of Tours, and Gregory the Great's Life of Benedict. The erudite and useful introductory material is an added bonus in this Penguin Classic.
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Early Christian Lives

By: WHITE, CAROLINNE

Price: $6.75

Publisher: Penguin USA : July 1998

Seller ID: 223551

ISBN-13: 9780140435269

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Here in one compact edition are several of the most celebrated and influential Lives from the era that witnessed the origins of the whole genre. Included are Athanasius' Life of Antony, Jerome's Lives of Paul of Thebes, Hilarion, and Malchus; Sulpicius Severus' Life of Martin of Tours, and Gregory the Great's Life of Benedict. The erudite and useful introductory material is an added bonus in this Penguin Classic. Moderate cover wear, firm binding, aged text showing a few instances of underlining.
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The Lives of the Great Desert Fathers

By: Work, Collective

Price: $27.00

Publisher: SAGOM Press : January 2019

Seller ID: 208601

ISBN-13: 9781945699337

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Palladius of Aspuna: The Lausiac History (Cistercian Studies)

By: Wortley, John

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : November 2015

Seller ID: 205939

ISBN-13: 9780879072520

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Born in Galatia in the 360s, Palladius enrolled as a monk on the Mount of Olives in his early twenties. As a monk, he traveled to Alexandria, the desert of Nitria, the Cells, Palestine, Rome, and the Thebaid. During his travels he encountered Rufinus of Aquileia, Melania the Elder, the hermit Dorotheos, Macarius of Alexandria, Evagrius of Pontus, Jerome of Bethlehem, and John Chrysostom. He wrote this elegant account of his visits to various monastic sites in Egypt toward the end of the fourth century AD for the imperial chamberlain Lausus. It is both the most sophisticated and the most inform...
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The Book of the Elders: Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Systematic Collection (Cistercian Studies)

By: Wortley, John

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : October 2018

Seller ID: 205940

ISBN-13: 9780879076900

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In the early part of the fourth century, a few Christians, mostly men and some women, began to withdraw from "the world" to retreat into the desert, there to practice their new religion more seriously. The person who aspired to "renounce the world" first had to find an "elder," a person who would accept him as a disciple and apprentice. To his elder (whom he would address as abba--father) the neophyte owed complete obedience; from his abba, he would receive provisions (as it were) for the road to virtue. In addition to the abba's own example of living, there was the verbal teaching of the elde...
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