'Monastic Spirituality'

 

1.      All books written by or about Thomas Merton (TM)/Patrick Hart, OCSO/Carthusian Publications ~ I began in earnest reading TM while my mother (d. 2000) was taking chemo at CHRISTUS St. Patrick Hospital. I would walk over to the Sister’s convent (CCVI’s) and by invitation, go up to the second floor library and check out TM books; the following week return them and check out more! He was the perfect author for me at that time and a beautiful relationship was born during the dying process. I have thanked the Sisters many times over for their generosity and hospitality! Bro. Patrick Hart is a friend of my friend, Father Donald Pelous when he was a Brother before being ordained! Fr. Donald taught me in elementary and high school and we have talked of going to the Abbey of Gethsemane Monastery in KY where TM lived…made it to ‘Gethsemane’ November 2010! Printed above the arched way, “God Alone”!

2.      Ascent to Truth  

3.      An Introduction  Thomas Merton   William H. Shannon

4.      A Merton Celebration  Tributes from friends of the poet-monk  edited by Deba Patnaik

5.      A Search for Solitude   Pursuing the Monks True Life

6.      A Seven Day Journey with Thomas Merton  Esther de Waal

7.      A Thomas Merton Reader  Edited by Thomas P. McDonnell

8.      An Introduction  Thomas Merton  William Shannon

9.      Contemplative Prayer

10.  Dialogues with Silence

11.  Echoing Silence

12.  Life and Holiness

13.  Meditations with Merton  Nicki Verploegen Vandergrift

14.  Merton  A Biography Monica Furlong

15.  Merton’s Palace of Nowhere James Finley      

16.  New Seeds of Contemplation

17.  No Man Is An Island

18.  Opening the Bible

19.  Seasons of Celebration

20.  Seeds

21.  Seeds of Contemplation

22.  Seeds of Destruction

23.  Seeking God in All Things   Lenten Prayer with Thomas Merton

24.  The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton   Michael Mott

25.  Silent Lamp  The Thomas Merton Story   William H. Shannon

26.  Soul Searching  The Journey of Thomas Merton

27.  Survival or Prophecy  Thomas Merton Jean Leclercq

28.  The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton      

ed. Naomi Burton, Brother Patrick Hart and James Laughlin

29.  The Hidden Ground of Love   The Letters of Thomas Merton

30.  The Intimate Merton

31.  The Last of the Fathers

32.  The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton

33.  The Man in the Sycamore Tree  The good times and hard life of Thomas Merton    Photographs by Edward Rice

34.  The Seven Story Mountain

35.  The Silent Life

36.  Thomas Merton  M. Basil Pennington

37.  Thomas Merton’s Paradise Journey William H. Shannon

38.  Thoughts in Solitude

39.  The Waters of Siloe

40.  The Way of the Dreamcatcher  Spirit Lessons with Robert Lax, Poet, Peacemaker, Sage ~ S.T. Georgiou (Lax was one of TM’s closest friends!) My son handed me this jewel!

41.  The Wisdom of the Desert

 

A Guide to Monastic Guest Houses ~ Robert J. Regalbuto!!!!

  1. 2.The Rule of St. Benedict ~ Translated with Introduction and Notes by Anthony C. Meiseland M.L. del Mastro
  2. 3Essential Monastic Wisdom  Writings on the Contemplative Life ~ Hugh Feiss, OSB
  3. The Music of Silence   Entering the Sacred Space of Monastic Experience ~ David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B with Sharon Lebell I received this book as gift prior to five days and nights in the hospital. This author along with Gregorian Chant in my ear gave me complete solace, centering and strength! Thank you, Renee!
  4. Benedict’s Way  An Ancient Monk’s Insights for a Balanced Life ~ Lonni Collins Pratt and Father Daniel Homan, OSB
  5. The Rule of St. Benedict  Insight for the Ages ~ Joan Chittister, OSB
  6. Wisdom Distilled From The Daily  Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today ~ Joan Chittister, OSB
  7. In A High Spiritual Season ~ Joan Chittister, OSB
  8. Introduction to the Devout Life ~ St. Francis de Sales
  9. Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict, A Life-Giving Way ~ Esther de Waal
  10. Living With Contradiction  Reflections on The Rule of St. Benedict ~ Esther de Waal
  11. The Way of Simplicity  The Cistercian Tradition ~ Esther de Waal
  12. 13. The Ordinary Way   A Family Spirituality ~ Dolores Leckey
  13. The Monks of New Skete  In The Spirit of Happiness        
  14. The Cloister Walk ~ Kathleen Norris
  15. Amazing Grace  A Vocabulary of Faith ~  Kathleen Norris
  16. The Quotidian Mysteries   Laundry, Liturgy and ‘Women’s Work”    Kathleen Norris

Mom read this book in my home while resting from chemo treatments. She loved it; would giggle aloud!

  1. Illuminated Life: Monastic Wisdom for Seekers of Light ~ Joan Chittister, OSB
  2. The Rule of St. Benedict: Insights for the Ages ~ Joan Chittister, OSB
  3. The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture –Jean Leclercq
  1. Seasons of Grace Wisdom from the Cloister ~ Mother Gail Fitzpatrick, OSB
  2. A Listening Heart The Art of Contemplative Living ~ David Steindl-Rast
  3. Light from the Cloister    A Practical Spirituality for Practical Christians Inspired by Monastic Practice ~ M.Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O.
  4. Meditations  On the Monk who Dwells in Daily Life ~ Thomas Moore
  5. Fifty Days of Solitude ~ Doris Grumbach
  6. Trappist   Living in the Land of Desire ~ Michael Downey
  7. Sabbath   Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest ~ Wayne Muller
  8. The View From A Monastery ~ Br. Benet Tvedten
  9. National Geographic December 1936…an article entitled WHERE EARLY CHRISTIANS LIVED IN CONES OF ROCK  A Journey to Cappadocia in Turkey

Where Strange Volcanic Pinnacles are Honey combed with Hermit Cells and Monasteries. My sister, Constance Victoria, gave this fascinating treasure to me as a Christmas present!

  1. Alone in Community   Journeys into Monastic Life Around the World ~William Claassen
  2. Spiritual Journey  The Monastic Way ~ Jean-Marie Howe, OCSO
  3. Hermitage A Place of Prayer and Spiritual Renewal   Its Heritage and Challenge for the Future ~ John Michael Talbot (JMT).

My mom and I journeyed with Sr. Yvonne Lerner, OSB to More Mountain, home of JMTs’ Little Portion Hermitage east of Eureka Springs, AR. Sister was a retreat facilitator one weekend in 1999 in this beautiful part of God’s green earth in the mountains and we were given a wonderful tour of this peaceful place. Mom was fascinated as this was her first visit to a hermitage. She stopped and visited with the nuns who were humming amidst their work in the kitchen! Made sense to me!

 

  1. A Place Apart   Monastic Prayer and Practice for Everyone ~M. Basil Pennington, OCSO
  2. A Monk in the World  Cultivating a Spiritual Life ~ Wayne Teasdale
  3. Making A Heart for God  A Week Inside a Catholic Monastery ~ Dianne Aprile
  4. The Monastic Hours  Directory for the Celebration of the Work of God and Directive Norms for the Celebration of the Monastic Liturgy of the Hours ~ Anne M, Field, Editor
  5. The Inner Room  A Journey into Lay Monasticism ~ Mark Plaiss
  6. The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
  7. In A Monastery Garden ~ Peplows
  8. Finding Grace at the Center ~ Abbot Thomas Keating, OCSO, M. Basil Pennington, OCSO, Thomas E. Clarke, OCSO
  9. Spirituality for Everyday Living  An Adaptation of the Rule of St. Benedict ~Brian C. Taylor
  1. In This House of Brede ~ Rumer Godden
  2. The Benedictine Way A Novena ~ Joan D. Chittister, OSB
  3. Wisdom of the Benedictine Elders   Thirty of America’s Oldest Monks and Nuns Share Their Lives’ Greatest Lessons ~ Mark W. McGinnis
  4. With Christ  The Gospel Under the Guidance of St. Benedict ~ Jean-Francis Baudoz
  5. Ward, Benedicta ~ The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
  6. Wheeler, Eric P. ~ Dorotheas of Gaza   Discourses and Sayings
  7. Radical Hospitality  Benedict’s Way of Love ~ Fr. Daniel Homan, O.S.B. and Lonni Collins Pratt

I recently returned from a visit with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur at Trinity College in Washington, D.C. A trip to Trinity is never complete without sitting in on an EPS class, Holy Mass at high noon with the day students, Evening Prayer in the Sisters chapel, dinner and wonderful conversation in the refectory ending the visit with a trip to Newman Bookstore across from Catholic University!!! This is D.C. at its best! While there purchased # 48-53 as well as the 2007 Liturgical Desk Calendar and Guide for Christian Prayer/The Liturgy of the Hours!

 

  1. Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living ~ John McQuiston, III
  2. The Forgotten Desert Mothers  Sayings, lives and stories of early Christian women ~  Laura Swan
  3. Seeking His Mind  40 Meetings with Christ ~ M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O.
  4. How To Be A Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job (!!!)  An Invitation to Oblate Life  Brother Benet Tvedten
  5. Strangers to the City Reflections on the Beliefs and Values of the Rule of St. Benedict ~  Michael Casey, Monk of Tarrawarra
  6. Perspectives on the Rule of Saint Benedict  Expanding Our Hearts in Christ ~  Aquinata Bockmann
  1. The Age of the Cloister  The Story of Monastic Life in the Middle Ages ~Christopher Brooke
  1. The Benedictine Handbook   The RED BOOK!
  2. Sacred Reading  The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina ~ Michael Casey
  3. Finding Sanctuary   Monastic Steps for Everyday Life ~ Abbot Christopher Jamison
  4. Mother Benedict   Foundress of The Abbey of Regina Laudis  A Memoir ~Antoinette Bosco
  1. Voices of Silence   Lives of the Trappists Today ~ Frank Bianco
  2. The Convent Cookbook   Divine Meals for Families Large and Small ~ Maria Tisdall
  3. Silence, Solitude, Simplicity   A Hermit’s Love Affair with a Noisy, Crowded and       Complicated World ~ Sister Jeremy Hall, OSB
  4. Making A Heart for God   A Week Inside a Catholic Monastery ~ Dianne Aprile   
  5. From a Monastery Kitchen! ~ Br. Victor-Antoine D’Avila-Latourrette
  6. Passing From Self to God! A Cistercian Retreat ~ Robert Thomas, OCSO
  7. Conversations in the Abbey! Senior Monks of Saint Meinrad reflect on their lives ~ Ruth Clifford Engs, Editor
  1. Finding the Monk Within   Great Monastics Values for Today ~ Edward C. Sellner  
  2. Beyond the Walls   Monastic Wisdom for Everyday Life ~ Paul Wilkes
  3. The Oblate Life ~ Edited by Gervase Holdaway, O.S.B.  
  4. A Monk’s Alphabet ~ Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B.
  5. Resources for Oblates: List of Selected Monasteries with Oblate Programmes and Websites listed to include Benedictine Distance Learning www.idahomonks.org
  1. The Monastic Way   Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Living ~Edited by Hannah Ward and Jennifer Wild
  1. Life Lessons from the Monastery   Wisdom on Love, Prayer, Calling, and Commitment ~Jerome Kodell, OSB
  1. A Blessed Life   Benedictine Guidelines for Those Who Long for Good Days ~Wil Derkse
  1. Dom Gabriel Sortais  An Amazing Abbot in Turbulent Times ~ Guy Oury, OSB
  2. Wisdom from the Monastery ~ Peter Seewald
  3. Inside the School of Charity ~ Trisha Day
  4. Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks   One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and AuthenticityAugust Turak
  1. I n Good Company   The Fast Track from the Corporate World to Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience ~ James Martin, S.J.
  2. Lovers of This Place:  Monasticism Loose in the Church (Monastic Wisdom) ~ Francis Kline OCSO
  1. Benedict in the World:  Portraits of Monastic Oblates ~ Linda Kulzer and Roberta Bondi
  2. Kodell, Abbot Jerome   Don’t Trust the Abbot Musings From the Monastery
  3. Barry, William A., S.J. and Robert G. Doherty, S.J. ~ Contemplatives in Action The Jesuit Way  
  4. Bodo, Murray, O.F.M. ~ A Voice From The Monastery The Place We Call Home Spiritual Pilgrimage As A Path To God   
  5. Buchanan, Janet ~ Dissertation/1999:  Monks Beyond Monastery Walls: Benedictine Oblation and the Future of Benedictine Spirituality
  6. Casey, Michael, Monk of Tarrawarra ~ A Guide to Living in the Truth  Saint Benedict’s Teaching on Humility
  7.  Casey, Michael, Monk of Tarrawarra ~ Sacred Reading  The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina
  8. Casey, Michael, Monk of Tarrawarra ~ A Voice From the Monastery
  9. D’Avila-Latourrette, Brother Victor-Antoine ~ Monastery Journey to Christmas Meditations Begin November 15
  10. De Waal, Esther ~ A Life-Giving Way   A Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict
  11. Feiss, Hugh ~ Order of St. Benedict Essential Monastic Wisdom   Writings on the Contemplative Life
  12. Field, Anne M., Editor ~ The Monastic Hours Directory for the Celebration of the Work of God and Directive Norms for the Celebration of the Monastic Liturgy of the Hours
  13. Freeman, Brendan, OCSO ~ Come and See
  14. Fry, Timothy, OSB ~ The Rule of St. Benedict in English
  15. Gebuhr, Ann K. ~ Hildegard!
  16. Gregory, Pope St. ~ Life and Miracles of St. Benedict
  17. Groning, Philip ~ A Film          Into Great Silence   Inside the Famed Carthusian Monastery
  18. Godden, Rumer ~ In This House of Brede
  19. Hahn, Scott ~ Ordinary Work, Extraordinary Grace    My Spiritual Journey in Opus Dei
  20. Harmless, William S.J. ~ Desert Christians  An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism
  21. Hamma, Robert M. ~ Along Your Desert Journey
  22. Hume, Cardinal Basil, OSB ~ The Intentional Life      The Making of a Spiritual Vocation
  23. Belden C. Lane ~ The Solace of Fierce Landscapes   Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality 
  24. Le Mee, Katharine ~ Chant The Origins, Form, Practice, and Healing Power of Gregorian Chant
  25. Luther, Anne M. ~ Taste and See   A Collection of Favorite Recipes from Retreat Centers        Cooking for Groups
  26. Monaco, Frank ~ Brothers and Sisters   [glimpses of the cloistered life]
  27. Nugent, Madeline Pecora ~ The Divine Office for Dodos   A Step-by-Step Guide to Praying the Liturgy of the Hours
  28. Okholm, Dennis ~ Monk habits for Everyday People   Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants
  29. Pennington, M. Basil, O.C.S.O. ~ Listen With Your Heart   Spiritual Living with the Rule of St. Benedict
  30. Richardson, Cyril C. Edited by ~ Early Christian Fathers
  31. Rippinger, Joel, O.S.B. ~ The Benedictine Order in the United States   An Interpretive History
  32. Saulnier, Dom Daniel, OSB ~ Gregorian Chant  A Guide to the History and Liturgy
  33. Shannon, William H. ~ Silent Lamp   The Thomas Merton Story
  34. Shannon, William H. ~ An Introduction    Thomas Merton
  35. Steidle  ~ The Reverend Basilius & The Rule of St. Benedict
  36. Tvedten, Brother Benet ~ View from a Monastery
  37. Tracts for Benedictine Oblates, St. Meinrad Archabbey, St. Meinrad, IN:

v  Learning the Language of Benedictine Monasticism   Thomas Rillo, Author/Oblate

v  The Ecological Trend according to St. Benedict   Fr. Harold Camacho, OSB

v  Ancient Monks Speak to Oblates   Thomas Rillo, Author/Oblate  

v  The Oblate Home:  That in All Things God May be Glorified   Rev Denis Robinson, OSB/Monk

v  St. Scholastica:  Finding Meaning in Her Story…Ruth Clifford Engs, PhD/Oblate

v  Sacraments and Sacramentals Living in Benedictine SpiritualitymmmFr. Raymond Studzinski, OSB

v  ‘Tis a Gift to be Simple…Rev. Noel Mueller, OSB/Monk

v  Blessed Marmion:  A 21st Century Appreciation   Rev. Bernard

Head/Oblate

v  St. Benedict:  Hidden Meanings in His Story   Ruth Clifford Engs, PhD/Oblate

v  Listening   Rev. Noah Casey, OSB/Monk

v  Sharing the Mind of St. Benedict   Archabbot Justin DeVall, OSB/Monk

v  A Point to Ponder From The Rule   Thomas J. Rillo, Oblate and Editor

v  Hearts Burning with the Presence of God   Spiritual Direction and The Discernment of the Spirits   Rev. Adrian Burke, OSB/Monk

  1. Van Zeller, Dom Hubert ~ Holiness for Housewives (and other working women)
  2. Van Zeller, Dom Hubert ~ The Holy Rule   Notes on St. Benedict’s Legislation for Monks…gift from my sister, Constance Victoria.
  3. Waddell, Helen ~ The Desert Fathers
  4. Befriending Silence  Discovering The Gifts of Cistercian Spirituality    Carl McColman
  5. Living in the House of God  Monastic Essays   Margaret Malone, SGS

 www.osb.org  for all things Benedictine! Resources Galore! Wonderful!

 

Gregorian Chant is definitely my music of choice for every day is spent in imagining, focusing and tracking ministries! Favorite CD ~ Saint Benedict Gregorian Chant Monastic Choir of the Abbey of Notre Dame de Fontgombault

 

www.cistercianpublications.org  for Texts and Studies in the Monastic Tradition. Cistercian Studies Quarterly is an international review of the Christian monastic and contemplative spiritual tradition.

 

 Further Reading:  Monastic Spirituality

The resources for this list are the bibliographies found in Abbot Francis Kline’s book, Lovers of the Place, and in Michael Downey’s Trappist: Living in the Land of Desire.

 

Ancient Authors:

Apophthegmata Patrum

The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection. Trans. Benedicta Ward, SLG. London: Mowbrays, 1975.

The Desert Fathers.Trans. Helen Waddell. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1936.

 

Athanasius

The Life of Anthony and the Letter to Marcellinus.Trans. Robert C. Gregg. Classics of Western Spirituality (CWS). New York: Paulist Press, 1980

 

Ascetical Works.Trans. M. Monica Wagner. Fathers of the Church 9. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America (CUA) Press, 1950.

Benedict of Nursia

RB 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict. Ed. Timothy Fry, OSB. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1981.

Cassian

The Institutes and Conferences. Trans. Edgar C.S.Gibson. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, vol. 11. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1964.

Conferences. Trans. Colm Luibheid. Classics of Western Spirituality (CWS). New York: Paulist

Press, 1985.

·  Evagrius Ponticus

o    Evagrius Ponticus: The Praktikos: Chapters on Prayer. Trans. John Eudes Bamberger. Cistercian Studies 4. Spencer, MA: Cistercian Publications, 1972.

o    The "Ad Monachos" of Evagrius Ponticus: Its Structure and a Select Commentary. Driscoll, Jeremy, OSB. Rome: Studia Anselmiana 104 (1991).

o    The Mind’s Long Journey to the Holy Trinity: The Ad Monachos of Evagrius Ponticus. Trans. and intro. Jeremy Driscoll, OSB. Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1993.

·  Gregory the Great

o    Dialogues. Trans. Odo J. Zimmerman. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of American (CUA) Press, 1959.

o    The Life and Miracles of St. Benedict: Book Two of the Dialogues. Trans. Odo J. Zimmerman and Benedict Avery. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1949.

o    The Life of Saint Benedict. Trans. Hilary Costello and Eoin de Bhaldraithe. Commentary by Adalbert de Vogüé. Petersham, MA: St. Bede Publications, 1993.

o    Pastoral Care. Trans. and annotated Henry Davis, SJ. Ancient Christian Writers (ACW)

·  John Climacus

o    The Ladder of Divine Ascent. Trans. Colm Luibheid and Norman Russell. Classics of Western Spirituality (CWS). New York: Paulist Press, 1957.

·  Origen

o    The Song of Songs: Commentary and Homilies. Trans. and annotated R.P.Lawson. Ancient Christian Writers (ACW) 26. Westminster, MD: Newman Press, 1957.

 

·  Pachomius

o    Pachomian Koinonia. Vol. I: The Life of St. Pachomius and His Disciples. Trans. Armand Veilleux, OCSO. Cistercian Studies 45. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1980.

o    Pachomian Koinonia. Vol. II: Pachomian Chronicles and Rules. Trans. Armand Veilleux, OCSO. Cistercian Studies 46. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1981.

o    Pachomian Koinonia. Vol. III: Instructions, Letters, and Other Writings of St. Pachomius and His Disciples. Trans. Armand Veilleux, OCSO. Cistercian Studies 47. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1982.

Cistercian Authors

·  Aelred of Rievaulx

o    Mirror of Charity. Trans. Elizabeth Connor, OCSO. Cistercian Fathers Series 17. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1990.

o    Spiritual Friendship. Trans. Mary Eugenia Laker, SSND. Cistercian Fathers Series 5. Washington, DC: Cistercian Publications, 1974.

·  Bernard of Clairvaux

o    On Loving God. Trans. Robert Walton, OSB. Cistercian Fathers Series 13B. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1994.

o    On Precept and Dispensation.(Treatises I) Trans. Conrad Greenia, OCSO. Cistercian Fathers Series 1. Spencer, MA: Cistercian Publications, 1970.

o    On the Song of Songs I. (Sermons 1-20) Trans. Kilian Walsh, OCSO. Cistercian Fathers Series 4. Spencer, MA: Cistercian Publications, 1971.

o    On the Song of Songs II. (Sermons 21-46) Trans. Kilian Walsh, OCSO. Cistercian Fathers Series 7. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1976.

o    On the Song of Songs III. (Sermons 47-66) Trans. Kilian Walsh, OCSO, and Irene M. Edmonds. Cistercian Fathers Series 31. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1979.

o    On the Song of Songs IV. (Sermons 67-86) Trans. Irene M. Edmonds. Cistercian Fathers Series 40. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1980.

o    The Steps of Humility and Pride. Trans. M. Ambrose Conway, OCSO. Cistercian Fathers Series 13A. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1989.

·  Guerric of Igny

o    The Liturgical Sermons: Vol. I. Trans. Hilary Costello, OCSO, and John Morson, OCSO. Cistercian Fathers Series 8. Spencer, MA: Cistercian Publications, 1971.

o    The Liturgical Sermons: Vol. II. Trans. Hilary Costello, OCSO, and John Morson, OCSO. Cistercian Fathers Series 32. Spencer, MA: Cistercian Publications, 1971.

·  William of St. Thierry

o    The Golden Epistle: A Letter to the Brethren at Mont Dieu. Trans. Theodore Berkeley, OCSO. Cistercian Fathers Series 12. Spencer, MA: Cistercian Publications, 1971.

Contemporary Authors

·  Bouyer, Louis.

o    The Cistercian Heritage. Westminster, MD: Newman Press, 1958. 

Desert a City: Introduction to Egyptian and Palestinian Monasticism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1966.

·  De Vogüé, Aldalbert, OSB.

o    The Rule of Saint Benedict: A Doctrinal and Spiritual Commentary. Cistercian Studies 54. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1983.

o    Reading Saint Benedict. Cistercian Studies 151. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1994.

·  Downey, Michael.

o    Trappist: Living in the Land of Desire. Photographs by Michael Mauney. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1997.

 

·  Gilson, Etienne.

o    The Mystical Theology of St. Bernard. Cistercian Studies 120. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1990.

·  Hausherr, Iréneé, SJ.

o    Penthos: The Doctrine of Compunction in the Christian East. Trans. Anselm Hufstader, OSB. Cistercian Studies Series 53. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1982.

·  Kelty, Matthew, OCSO.

o    Aspects of the Monastic Calling. Abbey of Gethsemani, 1975.

·  Kline, Francis, OCSO.

o    Lovers of the Place: Monasticism Loose in the Church. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1997.

·  Knowles, David.

o    Christian Monasticism. World University Library. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969.

·  Leclercq, Jean, OSB.

o    Bernard of Clairvaux and the Cistercian Spirit. Cistercian Studies 16. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1976.

o    The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture. Trans. Catharine Misrahi. New York: Fordham University Press, 1961.

·  Lekai, Louis.

o    The Cistercians: Ideals and Reality. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1977.

 

 

 

 ·  Louf, André, OCSO.

o    Teach Us to Pray: Learning a Little about God. Trans. Hubert Hoskins. Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1975.

o    The Cistercian Way. Trans. Nivard Kinsella, OCSO. Cistercian Studies 76. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1989.

·  Marmion, Columba, OSB.

o    Christ, the Ideal of the Monk. St Louis: Herder, 1929.

o    Christ, the Ideal of the Priest. St. Louis: Herder, 1952.

o    Christ, the Life of the Soul. St. Louis: Herder, 1925.

o    The English Letters. Baltimore, MD: Helicon, 1962.

 

 

 

·  McGinn, Bernard.

o    The Growth of Mysticism: Gregory the Great through the 12th Century. New York: Crossroad, 1994.

·  Merton, Thomas.

o    The Monastic Journey. Ed. Patrick Hart. Cistercian Studies 133. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1992. [Much of Merton’s vast output is still in print and readily available. All of it is recommended.]

o    SEE ABOVE...!