A Benedictine Reader, 530-1530, has been more than twenty years in the making. A collaboration of a dozen scholars, this project gives as broad and deep a sense of the reality of the first one thousand years of Benedictine monasticism as can be done in one volume, using primary sources in English translation. The texts included are drawn from many different genres and from several languages and areas of Europe. The introduction to each of the thirty-two chapters aims to situate each author and text and to make connections with other texts and studies within and outside the Reader. The general ... View More...
English-speaking Christians owe Paulist Press an enormous debt of gratitude for their continuing efforts to help us gain a deeper appreciation of our spiritual heritage. Spiritual Life In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish and Islamic traditions have been critically selected, translated and introduced by internationally recognized scholars and spiritual leaders. ANCHORITIC SPIRITUALITY-ANCRENE WISSE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS translated and introduced by Anne Savage and Nicholas Watson preface by Benedicta ... View More...
The saintly austerities of Mary of Egypt so impressed early monks that they recorded her life to edify their brethren. Many versions circulated and the tale traveled from Palestine to Europe, from Greek to Latin to French to Spanish, from prose to poetry, from hagiography to literature, and from the monastery into the world outside. Here we see Mary through the eyes of three medieval poets: Flodoard, a canon of Reims (+ 966), Hildebert of Lavardin, a bishop, (+ 1134), and an Anonymous Spaniard.
The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers offers a new translation of the Greek alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers. For the first time in an English translation, this volume provides: extensive background and contextual notessignificant variant readings in the alphabetical manuscripts and textual differences vis- -vis the systematic and anonymous Apophthegmatareference notes to both quotations from Scriptures and the many allusions to Scripture in the sayings and stories.In addition, there is an extensive glossary that offers information and fu... View More...
New copies, NOT STAPLEBOUND. Our copies are beautiful trade paperbacks with gatefold covers. Holy Hesychaserion of St. John the Theologian, Thessaloniki, new Third Edition, 2021, 283 pages. View More...
Open this small compendium to any page and you'll find the Desert Fathers at their finest - humble, generous, surprisingly flexible with their brothers, and willing themselves to assume blame rather than hinder any man. Known respectively as the ''Great Old Man'' and the ''Other Old Man,'' Barsanuphius and John lived as hermits near Gaza in the early sixth century. They did not entertain visitors and maintained a practice of strict seclusion (in neighboring caves), conveying their spiritual wisdom through letters to those who sought counsel. John offers practical advice while Barsanuphius resp... View More...
This special edition of The Rule of Saint Benedict was published for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of Liturgical Press. Leonard Doyle's translation of St. Benedict's Rule for Monasteries appeared in 1948 and has remained in print ever since.Generations of monastics, oblates and others whose lives are influenced by monastic spirituality, have encountered the Rule by means of Doyle's work, which remains by far the most widely known and used English version of the Rule. The traditional dates for the thrice-yearly reading of the Rule are included in this edition.Simple, clear text ... View More...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. View More...
"Seek for meetings with holy men and women." These words from fifth-century bishop Palladius ring as true today as they did 1600 years ago. Palladius wrote of his visit to the deserts of Egypt where he spent a decade in conversation with some of the many men and women who lived in caves, huts and monasteries, seeking solitude for prayer and a life "alone with God alone." And now you can visit those same holy mystics and hermit. Through their own words, you will learn: how they were able to make a complete offering of themselves to Godacquire great wisdom and insight into the spiritual life... View More...
A tantalizing glimpse into the little-known world of the Syriac tradition, which, alongside the Greek and Latin traditions, constitutes Christendom. This intensely Semitic and Biblical tradition, while informed by Greek patristic thought, retains a strange, poetic beauty, a unique and pristine perception of the Christian life as purity of heart and clarity of vision: the image of the ''luminous eye'' unites and conveys the essence of it. Included in this book are selections from writers such as Aphrahat, Ephrem the Syrian, Evagrius, John the Solitary, Isaac of Ninevah, and others who deserve t... View More...
