Monastery Without Walls
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Author | : Laurence Freeman |
Publisher | : Canterbury Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2006-08-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1848254180 |
A volume of remarkable spiritual wisdom and insight, as fresh and relevant for today as when they were first written.
Author | : Bruce L. Davis, PhD |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2001-06-21 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1475920202 |
There is a part of each of us that is a monk or a mystic. We yearn for perfect peace yet live our lives far removed from traditional monasteriesyet most of us would not want to give up our personal and spiritual freedom to join monastic life. We seek wholeness but realize that wholeness is not possible without sacredness. Sacred life takes root in solitude, in the time we take to develop a relationship with our inner lifein the kind of setting a monastery would offer. This book speaks to the monk or mystic within us. It affirms our place in the sacred silence of solitude and inner reflection, showing how even everyday life is filled with opportunities to live fully in the worldas if it were a holy monastery. Here we learn to live within the limits as well as the spirit of everyday life, how to appreciate our most human self as the path to explore the divine. Here we encounter a world that is clearly available to us, a world filled with nothing less than the gift of sacred silence within the monastery without walls.
Author | : Common Worship |
Publisher | : Canterbury Press |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2013-07-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0715122436 |
This revised, expanded edition of the Common Worship President’s Edition contains everything to celebrate Holy Communion Order One throughout the church year. It combines relevant material from the original President’s Edition with Eucharistic material from Times and Seasons, Festivals and Pastoral Services, and the Additional Collects.
Author | : Greg Peters |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1493415565 |
Although the institution of monasticism has existed in the Christian church since the first century, it is often misunderstood. Greg Peters, an expert in monastic studies, reintroduces historic monasticism to the Protestant church, articulating a monastic spirituality for all believers. As Peters explains, what we have known as monasticism for the past 1,500 years is actually a modified version of the earliest monastic life, which was not necessarily characterized by poverty, chastity, and obedience but rather by one's single-minded focus on God--a single-mindedness rooted in one's baptismal vows and the priesthood of all believers. Peters argues that all monks are Christians, but all Christians are also monks. To be a monk, one must first and foremost be singled-minded toward God. This book presents a theology of monasticism for the whole church, offering a vision of Christian spirituality that brings together important elements of history and practice. The author connects monasticism to movements in contemporary spiritual formation, helping readers understand how monastic practices can be a resource for exploring a robust spiritual life.
Author | : John Main |
Publisher | : Canterbury Press |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2013-01-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1848253699 |
An introduction to the practice of Christian meditation, this book offers a twelve step programme in learning meditative prayer.
Author | : Paul Wilkes |
Publisher | : Doubleday Religion |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780385494359 |
In this searingly personal spiritual exploration, Wilkes treads a pilgrim's path that takes him behind the walls of a monastery and back into the everyday world as a changed man.
Author | : Elizabeth S. Bolman |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300092245 |
The book reproduces the cleaned paintings for the first time. It also describes and analyzes their amalgam of Coptic (Egyptian Christian), Byzantine, and Arab styles and motifs as well as the religious culture to which they belong. In 1996, funded by the United States Agency for International Development and at the request of the Monastery of St. Antony, the Antiquities Development Project of the American Research Center in Egypt began the conservation of the paintings in the church. The paintings revealed by the conservators are of extremely high quality, both stylistically and conceptually. While rooted in the Christian tradition of Egypt, they also reveal explicit connections with Byzantine and Islamic art of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Some newly discovered paintings can even be dated back to the sixth or seventh century.
Author | : Mary Jo Weaver |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780253341846 |
Cloister and Community is both a history of the Carmelite monastery of Indianapolis and an introduction to the Carmelites, a contemplative order of Roman Catholicism, founded in the 13th century and rededicated as a reform movement for women religious in the 16th century by Teresa of Avila. A key element of the order is that its nuns live an ascetic, cloistered life, but as Mary Jo Weaver demonstrates, the view that one must "leave the world" to find sacred space apart from it has evolved to embrace the notion that the world itself is a sacred space.Weaver focuses on a modern Indianapolis community and describes how the sisters incorporate Carmelite belief and practice into their daily lives. Cloister and Community is a beautifully written and handsomely produced book that offers readers a privileged view of the world of present-day contemplative spirituality.ALSO OF INTEREST Being RightConservative Catholics in AmericaEdited by Mary Jo Weaver and R. Scott Appleby0-253-32922-1 HB £34.500-253-20999-4 PB £15.50What's LeftLiberal American CatholicsEdited by Mary Jo Weaver0-253-21332-0 HB £30.500-253-21332-0 PB £14.50
Author | : Esther de Waal |
Publisher | : Canterbury Press |
Total Pages | : 69 |
Release | : 2021-11-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1786224011 |
Esther de Waal is one of today’s most beloved spiritual writers. In The White Stone, she reflects on the changes and losses that come with growing older. Esther reflects on solitude and, following a period of illness, saying goodbye to a family home and the Welsh border landscape she had known for decades which inspired some of her greatest writing, and adjusting to a new city environment. In her characteristic style, she sees everything as a portal into a deeper spiritual understanding. She draws on the wealth of the Christian tradition, especially scripture and the monastic and Celtic spiritualities she knows so well, to help her navigate her way through not only the inevitable sense of loss that accompanies such change, but also to embrace the new possibilities it brings. The white stone of the title refers to a small pebble from the river that ran through her garden that she keeps in her pocket, but also strikes a note of hope referring to the new identity promised by God (Revelation 2.17). This is a book of simple, profound wisdom that will speak to many coping with change in their own lives.
Author | : Bruce Davis |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2022-11-16 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1663247633 |
Underneath the waves of daily thought is our ocean of being. As the world pulls on our attention, occupying our awareness, there is the ocean of our awareness without busy thought to explore and receive. There is the great silence within our heart. This is the contemplative path. The pilgrimage into the heart is found in all religions, enjoyed by mystics in all cultures. We let go. We let be. Our attention comes deeper within. Underneath the thinking world we discover another world, the world of quiet, connectedness, oneness, infinite heart. As the waves of so much thinking become less, our knowing of the ocean of our awareness grows. Our heart, our beingness is present, brilliant, and loving. We realize we are on the journey of awakening. We are coming home.