- This book is an invitation to joy, an invitation to discover the little-known daily lives of monks of Fontgombault, the mother house of Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey, to help us understand the peace that dwells within them.
- ISBN: 9781639661848
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 275 pages.
- Written in French in 2020, this is the first edition translated into English (2024).
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- In honor of their silver jubilee, the Monks of Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey present this booklet commemorating the founding of the monastery back in 1999, complete with many historic photos.
- Preview the book here!
- ISBN: 9798988731139
- Softcover, 32 pages, full color, 8 x 10"
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- While Dom Gueranger published many liturgical and spiritual works, this highly personal account of his early life and events surrounding the foundation of Solesmes in 1833 was never intended for publication, and indeed was never completed. It is now available in English, published in 2009.
- Softcover, 255 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
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- Dom Justin McCann's translation of the Rule of St. Benedict was first published in 1937, and has long been admired for its happy combination of elegance of style and accuracy. Having fallen out of print for decades, it is here finally republished in a newly typeset edition with historically correct monastic typeface in 2024.
- The dates on the margins mark the passages traditionally read at the Chapter Office after Prime that ensure the Rule is read in full three times a year.
- Softcover, pocket sized (4 x 6 inches)
- ISBN: 9798218383961
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- Calm and spirituality the true hallmarks of Carthusian writings distinguish this book, The Prayer of Love and Silence. The first part sets out the principles of the interior life; the second works out a method of prayer.
- ISBN: 9780879077730
- Softcover, 145 pages, 4.75 x 7.5"
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- In his Sermons on Conversion, St. Bernard of Clairvaux draws a picture of the perfect frontier bishop, and holds him up as a model for bishops everywhere.
- Translated and published in 1981, this volume includes:
- On Conversion: A Sermon to Clerics
- Lenten Sermons on the psalm "He who dwells."
- ISBN: 9780879079253
- Softcover, 282 pages, 5.5 x 8.5"
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- Mediations on St. Benedict's Twelve Degrees of Humility by Dom Pius Mary Noonan, OSB.
- ISBN: 9780648868828
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8"
- 83 pages.
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- Encouraging humility, patience, prayer, introspection, and love, the Desert Fathers and Mothers have influenced centuries of believers, showing how contemplative practice can reveal the true meaning of everyday life.
- ISBN: 9781557257802
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8"
- 129 pages.
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- Previously available only in fragments, these Sayings of the Desert Fathers are now accessible in its entirety in English for the first time. First published in 1975.
- ISBN: 9780879079598
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5"
- 269 pages.
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- Classic translation of the letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux. This 2003 edition takes into account much modern scholarship on the 469 letters included.
- ISBN: 9780879071622
- softcover, 6.25 x 9.25"
- 562 pages.
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- St. Bernard of Clarivaux's masterful work on The Steps of Humility and Pride shows the uncompromising vehemence of his love for God which drew him to embrace the discipline and to learn the humility which monastic tradition taught.
- ISBN: 9780879071158
- Softcover, 89 pages
- 5.5 x 8.5"
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- Mother Mary Francis sets out to correct the record with the truth and beauty of the vocation to the contemplative life by toppling the “strange gods” that have assumed majesty and power in the post-modern age.
- ISBN: 9781685952495
- First published in 1965. New edition 2023.
- Softcover, 192 pages, 5.5 x 8.5"
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- In writing this work, Mother Mary Francis, P.C.C., carefully and prayerfully examined the decree on religious life promulgated by Vatican II and uncovered its noble meaning and purpose.
- ISBN: 9781586171193
- softcover, 118 pages, 5.25 x 8"
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- ISBN: 9781685950217
- Paperback, 5 x 8", 106 pages.
- But I Have Called You Friends: Reflections on the Art of Christian Friendship by Mother Mary Francis. Succinct and inspiring, this book is ideal reading for those living or discerning the vocations of marriage, priesthood, or religious life, as well as for all who have heard Christ’s invitation to friendship with him.
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- ISBN: 978-1887593236
- Softcover, 6 x 9
- 384 pages.
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- ISBN: 9781649990594
- Published in 2020, soon after the death of Sister Mary Wilhelmina, foundress of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles.
- 235 pages, with many color illustrations and photographs.
- Paperback, 6 x 9"
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- ISBN: 9781915544179
- Christ the Life of the Monk is a classic work on Benedictine Spirituality by the Blessed Abbot Columba Marmion
- Hardcover, 6x9 inches, 498pages
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- This high-quality photo book published by the Abbey of Solesmes in 2016, gives an account of the history of that venerable abbey and the day-to-day life of the monks.
- ISBN: 9782852742864
- Softcover, 63 pages, full-color photographs.
- French and English.
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- ISBN: 9780809105229
- Hardcover, 287 pages.
- 5.75 x 8.5 inches.
- The Institutes is the first work of the great master of monastic spirituality, John Cassian.
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- ISBN: 9781472971326
- Softcover, 189 pages.
- 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
- The Joy of God contains the collected writings of Sister Mary David Totah, a Benedictine nun of the Solesmes Congregation, on Benedictine spirituality.
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- ISBN: 9780809104840
- Hardcover
- 5.75 x 8.5"
- 886 pages
- Complete Conferences of the great master of monastic spirituality, John Cassian
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- The Voyage of the Pax, by Dom Bede Camm, OSB
- ISBN: 9781936639441
- paperback
- 5.5 x 8.5 inches
- 61 pages
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- ISBN: 9780898708240
- Softcover
- 4.75 x 7.75 inches
- 232 pages
- A delightful and humorous introduction to religious life in a Poor Clare monastery!
