Category: Desert Tradition

The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (NYRB Classics)

By: Leigh Fermor, Patrick

Price: $17.95

Publisher: NYRB Classics : January 2015

Seller ID: 217191

ISBN-13: 9781590177792

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts the last leg of his epic walk across Europe as he makes his way through Bulgaria, Romania, and finally Greece. In the winter of 1933, eighteen-year-old Patrick ("Paddy") Leigh Fermor set out on a walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople. Decades later, Leigh Fermor told the story of that life-changing journey in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, works now celebrated as among the most vivid, absorbing, and beautifully written travel books of all time. The Broken Road is the account of the final leg of his journey, cat...
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The Last Monk of the Strofades: Memories from an Unknown Greek Island

By: Lymperopoulou, Katerina,McCabe, Robert A.

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Abbeville Press : September 2019

Seller ID: 187781

ISBN-13: 9780789213358

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The Strofades: two small, flat, windswept islands rising out of the Ionian Sea, known to the ancient Greeks as the home of the terrible Harpies, and to most modern Greeks simply unknown. On the larger of the two islets, Stamfani, stands a massive fortified monastery, founded as early as the thirteenth century, for centuries a refuge for honest seafarers and a target for pirates and Turkish raiders. In its heyday, this imposing compound was home to some forty farmer-monks, who kept the entire island under cultivation; by 1976, it was home to just one, Father Gregory Kladis (1937-2017), who alo...
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Christ, the Ideal of the Monk: Spiritual Conferences on the Monastic and Religious Life (Voices from the Monastery)

By: Marmion,Columba

Price: $16.99

Publisher: Paraclete Press : November 2014

Seller ID: 187450

ISBN-13: 9781612615738

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This is not a book about spirituality for monks and nuns only. Columba Marmion believes that Christian discipleship means imitating Christ the Monk no matter your form of life. Christ is the sublime ideal of all holiness, the divine model presented by God himself. By faith, we accept this holiness into our lives - but we can also (in fact we must) allow Christ Jesus to become what Marmion calls "the very life of our souls." This powerful book explores a spirituality that is possible by examining the light of the Gospels and the writings of St. Paul and St. John, offering joy and spiritual unde...
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Singing God's Praises: The First 60 years of St. Gregory's Abbey

By: Marr, Andrew & Abraham Newsom

Price: $10.00

Publisher: St. Gregory's Abbey : January 1998

Seller ID: 112955

ISBN: B000DT7AR4

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

Near perfect.
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Befriending Silence: Discovering the Gifts of Cistercian Spirituality

By: McColman, Carl

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Ave Maria Press : November 2015

Seller ID: 214187

ISBN-13: 9781594716157

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Very lightly handled, text pristine, firm binding.
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Three Treatises On Man: A Cistercian Anthropology

By: McGinn, Bernard

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : January 1977

Seller ID: 181935

ISBN-13: 9780879079246

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Three treatises by twelfth-century Cistercians, who reflect on the human person as the image of God and capax Dei, capable of God, of being reformed to the divine Image. Of the three-Isaac of Stella, an anonymous Cistercian, and William of Saint Thierry- only the last discusses the nature ('the physics') of the body as well as of the soul, giving us an insight into medieval medical theory as well as to theological anthrology.
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Book of Mystical Chapters : Meditations on the Souls Ascent, from the Desert Fathers and Other Early Christian Contemplatives

By: MCGUCKIN, JOHN ANTHONY

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Random House Inc : July 2003

Seller ID: 211777

ISBN-13: 9781590300077

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A beautiful instruction. Simple, and at the same time difficult, each page a poetry to live through. Every line given (and subsequently written) by a desert father to his fellow monks with the intention of it being ''learned by heart and meditated on over and over again for a day or even a week until the paragraph [has] broken like a fruit on the tongue... and revealed its inner flavor to the searching mind.'' Patristic scholar John McGuckin has edited and translated these sayings into three ''centuries,'' or books - Praktikos, Theoretikos and Gnostikos - following the tradition of monastic sp...
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Useful Servanthood: A Study of Spiritual Formation in the Writings of Abba Ammonas (Cistercian Studies - Cistercian Publications) (Cistercian Studies Series)

By: McNary-Zak, Bernadette

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Liturgical Press : November 2010

Seller ID: 92019

ISBN-13: 9780879072247

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Useful Servanthood introduces English-speaking readers to Abba Ammonas, disciple and successor of Saint Antony of the Desert and a prominent figure of fourth-century Egyptian monasticism. As a director of souls, Ammonas's approach to spiritual formation was a creative example of the spiritual gift of discernment. By examining Ammonas's writings and his ecclesial and political milieus, Dr. McNary-Zak shows how discernment functioned both in the abba-disciple relationship of the desert monks and in the life of the wider Christian community. Thus, Ammonas serves as a model for spiritual directors...
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The Rule of Saint Benedict (An Image Book Original)

By: MEISEL, ANTHONY C.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Image : September 1975

Seller ID: 203196

ISBN-13: 9780385009485

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Light corner bump, crisp binding, a very nice unmarked copy.
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The Rule of Saint Benedict (An Image Book Original)

By: MEISEL, ANTHONY C.

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Image : September 1975

Seller ID: 212001

ISBN-13: 9780385009485

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

1975 stated first edition. Cover varies from image shown. Light general shelfwear, firm binding, unmarked text.
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The World of Medieval Monasticism: Its History and Forms of Life (Cistercian Studies)

By: Melville, Gert

Price: $44.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : March 2016

Seller ID: 218512

ISBN-13: 9780879072636

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt and the Frankish monasteries of early medieval Europe to the religious ruptures of the eleventh and twelfth centuries and the reforms of the later Middle Ages. Throughout that story the book balances a rich sense of detail with a broader synthetic view. It presents the history of religious life and its orders as a complex braid woven from multiple strands: individual and community, spirit and institution, rule and custom, church and world. The result is a synthesis that places re...
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Mena of Nikiou : The Life of Isaac of Alexandria and the Martyrdom of Saint Macrobius

By: Mena of Nikiou, Bell,David N.

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : November 1988

Seller ID: 20101005178957

ISBN-13: 9780879074074

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Mena of Nikiou : The Life of Isaac of Alexandria and the Martyrdom of Saint Macrobius (Cistercian Studies Series No. 107)

By: Mena of Nikiou, Bell,David N.

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : June 1988

Seller ID: 218519

ISBN-13: 9780879076078

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Separated by schism from greek and latin Christians and surviving under arab-islamic suzerainty, the Church of Egypt produced insightful saints and heroic martyrs in a chapter in church history now opened to readers of English for the first time.

Christian Hermit in an Islamic World : A Muslims View of Charles De Foucauld

By: MERAD, ALI

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Paulist Pr : December 1999

Seller ID: 208865

ISBN-13: 9780809139033

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

As new.
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Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 7 (Monastic Wisdom Series)

By: Merton OCSO, Thomas

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Cistercian : April 2015

Seller ID: 167284

ISBN-13: 9780879070410

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

New copy, but has suffered rough handling in Publisher warehouse. Light cover wear and creasing to rear cover, binding firm, text pristine. Remainder marked on bottom textblock edge.
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Cassian and the Fathers: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition

By: MERTON, THOMAS

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : May 2005

Seller ID: 189369

ISBN-13: 9780879070014

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Given John Cassian for Lenten reading during the course of his novitiate, Thomas Merton wrote, ''Through Cassian I am getting back to everything.'' Historically and spiritually, Cassian has long been seen as the bridge between the early desert fathers and Western monasticism. Merton's immersion in Cassian-and his later journeys into the thought of Evagrius and the later Byzantine fathers-eventually led him to be among the first American Roman Catholics to connect his own monastic experience with the recovery of early eastern monastic traditions. In October of 1955, Merton was appointed master ...
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Cassian and the Fathers: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition

By: MERTON, THOMAS

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : May 2005

Seller ID: 191586

ISBN-13: 9780879070014

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Given John Cassian for Lenten reading during the course of his novitiate, Thomas Merton wrote, ''Through Cassian I am getting back to everything.'' Historically and spiritually, Cassian has long been seen as the bridge between the early desert fathers and Western monasticism. Merton's immersion in Cassian-and his later journeys into the thought of Evagrius and the later Byzantine fathers-eventually led him to be among the first American Roman Catholics to connect his own monastic experience with the recovery of early eastern monastic traditions. In October of 1955, Merton was appointed master ...
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Cistercian Fathers and Forefathers, Essays and Conferences

By: Merton, Thomas

Price: $34.95

Publisher: New City Press : August 2018

Seller ID: 185132

ISBN-13: 9781565486713

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Perhaps the most significant American Catholic spiritual writer of the twentieth century, this volume includes pieces on eleventh- and twelfth-century monastics by Thomas Merton. This volume of previously uncollected studies makes a notable contribution to Merton's extensive and influential legacy.
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Exile Ends in Glory

By: Merton, Thomas

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Paulist Press : January 2015

Seller ID: 122091

ISBN-13: 9780809149094

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Here is Thomas Merton's biography of Mother Berchmans (1876-1915), a French Trappistine. He had been inspired by her strength of spirit that enabled her to leave behind beloved home in France in order to help grow the struggling Our Lady of the Angels Abbey in Hakodate, Japan.
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Pre-Benedictine Monasticism: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 2 (Monastic Wisdom)

By: MERTON, THOMAS

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications : December 2006

Seller ID: 205941

ISBN-13: 9780879070731

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

As Sydney Griffith, a professor at the Catholic University of America, notes in his preface, one of Thomas Merton's most enduring gifts sprang from his ability to read deeply the Church's vast and often difficult literature and render the wisdom he found there in perceptive, modern American English. This is no small task, considering most translations of the French, Italian, and Spanish texts available during Merton's time were stodgy and impenetrable, hardly in keeping with the illuminating spirit of the authors. Pre-Benedictine Monasticism is supplement and sequel to Cassian and the Fathers-...
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Category: Desert Tradition