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Book Synopsis This Monastic Moment by : John De Gruchy
Download or read book This Monastic Moment written by John De Gruchy and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kairos is used in the New Testament to signify a pivotal moment in history: a critical time of judgement and opportunity where chaos must be faced and one must change their ways before it becomes irreparable. Confronted by the Covid-19 pandemic and mandatory isolation, John de Gruchy felt a similar need to adapt and respond. In doing so, he found a deepening in his desire for authentic humanity, genuine community, and the opportunity affirm his conviction that true humanity is rooted in God, wisdom, and the struggle for justice.
Book Synopsis This Monastic Moment by : John W. de Gruchy
Download or read book This Monastic Moment written by John W. de Gruchy and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kairos refers to moments in chronological time when all hell is breaking loose and we are called to change our ways before we are dragged into the abyss. Kairos is apocalyptic time, and it is here and now. Such is the time in which we need to listen again to . . . St Benedict of Nursia. “Far too many of us Christians have either been seduced by the false values of the age and the spirit of Christian triumphalism, or else have been attracted to gnostic forms of spirituality that provide a means of escape from reality and responsibility. Any delay in responding to this kairos moment increases the danger that we fail to change our ways and grasp the opportunity God gives us to receive the coming kingdom in greater fullness now. So, St Benedict, __een hundred years a_er he wrote his Rule, continues to tell us to ‘listen,’ ‘wake up,’ and ‘run’ while there is still light. . . . _is is a time for both contemplation and action, prayer and doing justice, a time for mystics and prophets to join hands and hearts for the sake of the world.” —From the Prologue
Book Synopsis The Monastic Heart by : Joan Chittister
Download or read book The Monastic Heart written by Joan Chittister and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The activist, nun, and esteemed spiritual voice who has twice appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul Sunday sounds the call to create a monastery within ourselves—to cultivate wisdom and resilience so that we may join God in the work of renewal, restoration, and justice right where we are. “Essential reading for anyone wishing to find the compass of their heart and the wellspring from which to live fully.”—Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries and New York Times bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart “In every beating heart is a silent undercurrent that calls each of us to a place unknown, to the vision of a wiser life, to become what I feel I must be—but cannot name.” So begins Sister Joan Chittister’s words on monasticism, offering a way of living and seeing life that brings deep human satisfaction. Amid the astounding disruptions of normalcy that have unfolded in our world, Sister Joan calls all of us to cultivate the spiritual seeker within, however that may look across our diverse journeys: “We can depend only on the depth of the spiritual well in us. The well is the only thing that can save us from the fear of our own frailty.” This book carries the weight and wisdom of the monastic spiritual tradition into the twenty-first century. Sister Joan leans into Saint Benedict, who, as a young man in the sixth century, sought moral integrity in the face of an empire not by conquering or overpowering the empire but by simply living an ordinary life extraordinarily well. This same monastic mindset can help us grow in wisdom, equanimity, and strength of soul as we seek restoration and renewal both at home and in the world. At a time when people around the world are bearing witness to human frailty—and, simultaneously, the endurance of the human spirit—The Monastic Heart invites readers of all walks to welcome this end of certainty and embrace a new beginning of our faith. Without stepping foot in a monastery, we can become, like those before us, a deeper, freer self, a richer soul—and, as a result, a true monastic, so “that in all things God may be glorified.”
Book Synopsis Stepping into Freedom by : Thich Nhat Hanh
Download or read book Stepping into Freedom written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are practice poems, novice precepts, and "Mindful Manners" on how to be a Buddhist monk and nun in the Plum Village tradition. With inspiration for every step in the monastic timetable from "Waking Up" and "Taking the First Steps of the Day" to "Lighting a Candle" in the evening, this book was originally compiled for novices who are still learning how to practice mindfulness in daily life. Thus it is perfect for beginners in mindfulness who wish to make progress in their practice at home, for young people considering a life in a spiritual community, and especially for followers of Thich Nhat Hanh who wish to deepen their understanding of the monastic way of life today.
Book Synopsis The Hermits of Big Sur by : Paula Huston
Download or read book The Hermits of Big Sur written by Paula Huston and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between World War II and Vatican II, as Italy struggled to rebuild after decades of Mussolini’s fascism, an eleventh-century order of contemplative monks in the Apennines were urged by Thomas Merton to found a daughter house on the rugged coast of California. A brilliant but world-weary ex-Jesuit, who had recently withdrawn from a high-intensity public life to go into reclusion at the ancient Sacro Eremo of Camaldoli, was tapped for the job. Based on notes kept for over sixty years by an early American novice at New Camaldoli Hermitage, The Hermits of Big Sur tells the compelling story of what unfolds within this small and idealistic community when medievalism must finally come to terms with modernism. It traces the call toward fuga mundi in the young seekers who arrive to try their vocations, only to discover that the monastic life requires much more of them than a bare desire for solitude. And it describes the miraculous transformation that sometimes occurs in individual monks after decades of lectio divina, silent meditation, liturgical faithfulness, and the communal bonds they have formed through the practice of the “privilege of love.”
Book Synopsis In Praise of the Useless Life by : Paul Quenon
Download or read book In Praise of the Useless Life written by Paul Quenon and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of two 2019 Catholic Press Association Awards: Memoir (First Place) and Cover Design (Second Place). Monastic life and its counter-cultural wisdom come alive in the stories and lessons of Br. Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O., during his more than five decades as a Trappist at the Abbey of Gethsemani. He served as a novice under Thomas Merton and he also welcomed some of the monastery's more well-known visitors, including Sr. Helen Prejean and Seamus Heaney, to Merton's hermitage. In Praise of the Useless Life includes Quenon's quiet reflections on what it means to live each day with careful attentiveness. The humble peace and simplicity of the monastery and of Quenon's daily life are beautifully portrayed in this memoir. Whether it be through the daily routine of the monastery, his love of the outdoors no matter the season, or his lively and interesting conversations with visitors (reciting Emily Dickinson with Pico Iyer, discussing Merton and poetry with Czeslaw Milosz), Quenon's gentle musings display his love for the beauty in his vocation and the people he’s encountered along the way. Inspired by his novice master Merton, the poet and photographer’s stories remind us that the beauty of life can best be seen in the "uselessness" of daily life—having a quiet chat with a friend, spending time in contemplation—in our vocations, and in the memories we make along the way.
Book Synopsis The Complete Concordance to Shakspere Being a Verbal Index to All the Passages in the Dramatic Works of the Poet by Mrs. Cowden Clarke by : Mary Cowden Clarke
Download or read book The Complete Concordance to Shakspere Being a Verbal Index to All the Passages in the Dramatic Works of the Poet by Mrs. Cowden Clarke written by Mary Cowden Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Complete Concordance to Shakspere by : Mary Cowden Clarke
Download or read book The Complete Concordance to Shakspere written by Mary Cowden Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chamber's English Dictionary, Pronouncing, Explanatory, and Etymological by : Chambers
Download or read book Chamber's English Dictionary, Pronouncing, Explanatory, and Etymological written by Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chambers's English Dictionary, Pronouncing, Explanatory and Etymological, with Vocab. of Scottish Words and Phrases, Americanisms, Etc by : W. & R. Chambers Ltd
Download or read book Chambers's English Dictionary, Pronouncing, Explanatory and Etymological, with Vocab. of Scottish Words and Phrases, Americanisms, Etc written by W. & R. Chambers Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chambers's English Dictionary by : James Donald
Download or read book Chambers's English Dictionary written by James Donald and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Architecture and Building by : Russell Sturgis
Download or read book A Dictionary of Architecture and Building written by Russell Sturgis and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Globe Dictionary of the English Language by : English language
Download or read book The Globe Dictionary of the English Language written by English language and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chambers's etymological dictionary of the English language, ed. by J. Donald by : Chambers W. and R., ltd
Download or read book Chambers's etymological dictionary of the English language, ed. by J. Donald written by Chambers W. and R., ltd and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis School(s) for Conversion by : Rutba House
Download or read book School(s) for Conversion written by Rutba House and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-01-14 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of the church, monastic movements have emerged to explore new ways of life in the abandoned places of society. School(s) for Conversion is a communal attempt to discern the marks of a new monasticism in the inner-cities and forgotten landscapes of the Empire that is called America.
Book Synopsis Monastery Mornings by : Michael Patrick O'Brien
Download or read book Monastery Mornings written by Michael Patrick O'Brien and published by Paraclete Press (MA). This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monastery Mornings is a memoir of a young boy from a broken home growing up with a colorful community of Trappist monks in the mountains of rural Latter-day Saint Utah. Michael O'Brien was raised in the 1970s by a single mother...and by monks. He wrote down his memories of the monastery when it closed in 2017, intending to memorialize his Trappist friends. What he really did, however, was document his own formation, specifically how a childhood spent with Trappists revealed a path on which the author learned to live a life as a man of faith, hope, and love.
Book Synopsis This Monastic Moment by : John W. de Gruchy
Download or read book This Monastic Moment written by John W. de Gruchy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kairos refers to moments in chronological time when all hell is breaking loose and we are called to change our ways before we are dragged into the abyss. Kairos is apocalyptic time, and it is here and now. "Such is the time in which we need to listen again to . . . St Benedict of Nursia. "Far too many of us Christians have either been seduced by the false values of the age and the spirit of Christian triumphalism, or else have been attracted to gnostic forms of spirituality that provide a means of escape from reality and responsibility. Any delay in responding to this kairos moment increases the danger that we fail to change our ways and grasp the opportunity God gives us to receive the coming kingdom in greater fullness now. So, St Benedict, fifteen hundred years after he wrote his Rule, continues to tell us to 'listen,' 'wake up,' and 'run' while there is still light. . . . This is a time for both contemplation and action, prayer and doing justice, a time for mystics and prophets to join hands and hearts for the sake of the world." --From the Prologue
