Monastery Without Walls

Author : Bruce L. Davis, PhD
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475920202
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monastery Without Walls written by Bruce L. Davis, PhD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-06-21 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Laurence Freeman
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1848254180
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monastery without Walls written by Laurence Freeman and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume of remarkable spiritual wisdom and insight, as fresh and relevant for today as when they were first written.

Author : Bruce Davis
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595190553
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monastery Without Walls written by Bruce Davis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-06-21 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 monasteries--yet 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 life--in 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 world--as 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.How 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 : John Main (O.S.B.)
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1853117374
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monastery Without Walls written by John Main (O.S.B.) and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Benedictine monk John Main was one of the most profoundly influential spiritual teachers of recent times. His belief that the desert tradition of meditative prayer practised by the earliest monastic communities had an immediate and contemporary relevance gave rise to the vision of a totally new kind of community, one made up of men and women scattered throughout the world yet united in their daily practice of Christian meditation. It was to be, literally, a monastery without walls.

Author : Common Worship
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 0715122436
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Worship: Times and Seasons President's Edition written by Common Worship and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Main
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1848253699
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Word into Silence written by John Main and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the practice of Christian meditation, this book offers a twelve step programme in learning meditative prayer.

Author : Paul Wilkes
Publisher : ACTA Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780879464295
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Walls written by Paul Wilkes and published by ACTA Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Wilkes believes that monastic spiritual wisdom can and should be accessible to all. Over the course of one year, he made monthly trips to the brothers at Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist Monastery. During each visit he focused on a particular aspect of monastic life, and each month's visit comprises a chapter of this book. Each chapter opens with a description of Wilkes' physical visit to the monastery, which he uses to lead into difficult explorations of issues such as faith, prayer, community, and discernment. Each chapter closes as Wilkes searches for the proper ways to integrate what he has learned during his time at the Abbey into his life as a father, husband, teach, writer, and lay minister. He uses monastic wisdom to speak to the journey of faith itself, letting readers discover their own path "beyond the walls."

Author : Laurence Freeman
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1848253648
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus the Teacher Within written by Laurence Freeman and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spiritual classic for our times from a bestselling Benedictine writer.

Author : Greg Peters
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493415565
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monkhood of All Believers written by Greg Peters and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Elizabeth S. Bolman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300092245
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monastic Visions written by Elizabeth S. Bolman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.