The Life of St. Benedict: The Great Patriarch of the Western Monks (480-547 A.D.), Paperback

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Reducere. A translation of the biography written by Pope Gregory the Great, this "official biography" is also known as the Second Book of Dialogues. It is th...

Reducere. Multitudes flocked to Father Paul of Moll, a Benedictine monk in Belgium in the 1800s, to benefit from his astounding gifts, including miraculous h...

A timeless source of wisdom for people looking to lead a life of simplicity, purpose, and serenityThe Rule of St. Benedict has governed monastic co...

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Reducere. OUR LORD revealed that the place on earth where He most delighted to be, after the Blessed Sacrament, was ``in the heart and soul of Gertrude, My b...

Reducere. St. Alphonsus writes: "a single bad book will be sufficient to cause the destruction of a monastery." Pope Pius XII wrote in 1947 at the beatificat...

Reducere. DescriptionPraise for Man of Blessing "The difference with Butcher's book... is the exploration of Benedict's unusual life; his relationship with h...

Contributor(s): Author: Apolonio Martinez y. OrtizThe Working Life of an Hispano Patriarch, 1890 - 1976, is a rare glimpse into the life of a coura...

Reducere. In this short but comprehensive guide, Father Gabriel describes in clear terms the means and methods of mental prayer. Set out in question-and-answ...

DescriptionRowan Williams explores the importance and influence of Benedict's Rule in the modern era.With typical eloquence and wisdom, in The Way ...

Reducere. Modestly described by its author as ``a little rule for beginners, `` this masterpiece of spiritual wisdom dates from the sixth century. It was ori...

Reducere. The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila is one of the most remarkable life stories ever written. For here, in a scrupulously accurate translation ...

Reducere. Benedictine monks and nuns pray the psalms seven times a day, seven days a week. Every week they pray each of the psalms at least once. They do thi...

'Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their win...

Reducere. In his classic Second Book of Dialogues, Pope Gregory the Great lionizes Saint Benedict as hero and casts him predominantly in the role of miracle ...

Reducere. The Holy Mountain of Athos is a self-governing monastic republic on a peninsula in Northern Greece. Standing on the shores of the Aegean Sea is one...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Drawing on rediscovered source material, as well as on extensive familiarity with the Western spiritual tradition, Javier Melloni casts an importan...

Reducere. Wise and enduring spiritual guidelines for everyday living -- as relevant today as when The Rule was originally conceived by St. Benedict in fifth ...

Reducere. This is the classic life of St Catherine by her spiritual director. He tells of her only what he experienced firsthand, or of what he learned first...

Reducere. Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a "philosopher for everyman." In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all...

Reducere. The Commentary on the Rule takes into account the long history of commentary on St. Benedict's rule and discusses this history at length in the int...

Reducere. There are few biographies of St. Dominic that exist in English, but this is by far the best. For Augusta Theodoria Drane gives here a rendition of ...

Reducere. A classic work of Christian literature commissioned by the Franciscan Order in the year 1250, The Life of St. Francis by St. Bonaventure--the Tusca...

Reducere. The term Hexameron (Greek: Ἡ Ἑξαήμερος Δημιουργία Hē Hexaēmeros Dēmiourgia) refers either to the genre of theological treatise that describes God's...

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Philip Neri, Il santo amabile, the loveable saint, lived in the most important century for the history of the Catholic faith, and even the modern w...

Reducere. Every great religious order runs into difficulties, and God provides a saint to redress them. Where would the Benedictines be without St. Maurus, t...

Reducere. An anthology of sermons on the great feasts of the Lord, taken from a 19th century multi-volume collection of St Philaret's homilies, and translate...

Reducere. Recovers Coleman's life and literary legacyOne of the most distinctive and prolific writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Anita Scott Coleman (1890-19...