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Monastic Life titles

Books on Monastic Life

Monastic Life titles
Jesus the Living Lord

Jesus the Living Lord

Michael Ramsey
This clear and simple exploration of the life, death and resurrection of Christ remains one of the most succinct expressions of the heart of the Christian faith.

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£2.00

Abhishiktananda

Abhishiktananda

A Memoir of Dom Henri Le Saux

Murray Rogers, David Barton
Dom Henri Le Saux (1910-1973) was a French Benedictine monk who pioneered relations between East and West when he was sent to India to found a Benedictine community. This is his story.

Paperback

£4.50

Hidden Joy

Hidden Joy

Sister Jane, Dorothy Sutherland
These profound meditations remind us gently and amusingly that every day we are faced with the choice between true and false religion.

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£4.50

Shepherd and Servant

Shepherd and Servant

The Spiritual Legacy of St.Dunstan

Douglas Dales
A portrait of the scholar, artist and musician who was England's spiritual leader for almost 30 years and regarded as a saint in his own lifetime.

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£2.50

Saint John Cassian on Prayer

Saint John Cassian on Prayer

John Cassian, A.M.C. Casiday
The fourth century European saint, John Cassian, has been honoured for over 1600 years by the universal church as one of the greatest of early monastic writers. His two great works, the Institutes and the Conferences, set out a vision for western...

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£6.50

Solitude and Communion

Solitude and Communion

Papers on the Hermit Life

A.M. Allchin
These essays were first published to mark the revival of the hermit life in the Church. Prepared for a meeting of solitaries at St David’s in Wales in 1975, both their historical and contemporary content continue to speak to and encourage those...

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£10.00

Prayers of Jacob of Serugh

Prayers of Jacob of Serugh

Mary Hansbury
Jacob of Serugh (451–521) is one of the great poets of the early Syriac tradition. His meditations, prefaces to his homilies, focus us on the centrality of divine love in the context of scripture. These are some of the richest, theologically...

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£8.00

Shem`on the Graceful

Shem`on the Graceful

Mary Hansbury
The late seventh century in the Syrian Church saw the flourishing of several noted monastic writers, amongst them Shem`on, a monk of an abbey in south-west Iran. Few of his writings remain, but this homily has been preserved as a model of...

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£5.00

Monastic Hours of Prayer

Monastic Hours of Prayer

Benedicta Ward, SLG
The heart of monastic prayer is based in the psalms. In these essays, Sister Benedicta Ward examines the origin and development of the use of the Psalter in the daily worship of monks. She demonstrates that the traditional description of this...

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£5.00

Monastic Vocation

Monastic Vocation

Sisters of the Love of God
Within a Christian context, we truly follow a vocation when we hear the call of God in our lives and follow it. This book describes the answer to that call in the words of those who seek their spiritual home within a convent.

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£7.00

Letters of Saint Antony the Great

Letters of Saint Antony the Great

Derwas Chitty
The late Derwas J. Chitty translated into English seven letters addressed by Saint Antony the Solitary to his disciples. They centre our attention on those things which are essential in the spiritual life. As the reader ponders the text the dominant...

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£6.00

Reflections of Abba Zosimas

Reflections of Abba Zosimas

Monk of the Palestinian Desert 3rd Edn

John Chryssavgis
A presentation of the teaching and example of Abba Zosimas, a sixth-century Palestinian hermit, based in obedience to the gospel and love of neighbour.

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£5.00

Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich

Four Studies to Commemorate the Sixth Centenary of the Revelations of Divine Love

A M Allchin, Benedicta Ward, SLG, Sister Eileen Mary
This book provides an introduction and companion to the study of the fourteenth-century Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The meaning of the Revelations for those who are living a contemplative life today is explored through...

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£5.50

Letters of Ammonas, Successor of St Antony

Letters of Ammonas, Successor of St Antony

2nd Edition

Derwas Chitty
The fourteen surviving letters of Ammonas, disciple of St Antony, on the gifts of the Spirit, spiritual direction and discernment of the will of God

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£5.50

Wisdom of Saint Isaac the Syrian

Wisdom of Saint Isaac the Syrian

2nd Edn

Sebastian Brock
In recent decades there has been a notable renewal of interest in St Isaac the Syrian, a seventh-century master of the ascetic life. This selection of short sayings is part of Dr Brock’s work on a fuller, long-neglected manuscript which he is making...

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£5.00

Monastic Letters of St Athanasius the Great

Monastic Letters of St Athanasius the Great

3rd Edn

Leslie William Barnard
Six letters addressed to monks, revealing St Athanasius as a wise spiritual guide and loving pastor, concerned that the monks avoid heresies and extreme behaviour.

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£6.00

Gregory of Nyssa and the Sins of Asia Minor

Gregory of Nyssa and the Sins of Asia Minor

Jonathan Farrugia
St Gregory of Nyssa is known to theologians as one of the three great Cappadocian Fathers who are credited with the final clarification of the doctrine of the Trinity in the late fourth century. Few have ventured to study his role as a bishop who...

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£8.00

‘In the image of the Image’

‘In the image of the Image’

Adam Couchman
Gregory of Nyssa is the most important author of the fourth century in relation to theological anthropology, and was one of the most outspoken of the early Church Fathers on the subject of slavery. Gregory’s theology is built upon his perception...

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£6.00

Saint Gregory Nazianzen

Saint Gregory Nazianzen

2nd Edn

John McGuckin
This selection of twenty poems by the fourth-century Greek theologian, St Gregory Nazianzen, represents his Christological writing. It includes the poems ‘On the Son’ and ‘On the Incarnation’, written to defend the orthodoxy of the Council of Nicea....

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£2.25

In the Footsteps of the Lord

In the Footsteps of the Lord

The Teaching of Abba Isaiah of Scetis 2nd Edition

John Chryssavgis, Luke Penkett
The Discourses of Abba Isaiah of Scetis are grounded in Scripture and the teaching of the earliest Christian monks. Abba Isaiah was one of the first of the Desert Fathers to examine the relationship between abba and disciple, the monastery and the...

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£5.50

Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich

This book contains four papers read at a conference held on 2–3 February 2023 to mark 650 years of the Revelations of Divine Love. They show the breadth and reach of Julian’s inspiration in today’s world, from personal issues such as impatience and...

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£7.00

Prayers of Saint Isaac of Nineveh

Prayers of Saint Isaac of Nineveh

Sebastian Brock
The scholarly investigations and translations of Prof. Sebastian Brock have been largely responsible for bringing Saint Isaac of Nineveh, also known as Isaac the Syrian, to public attention. Isaac was a seventh-century Syriac Christian bishop and...

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£7.50

Encountering the Depths

Encountering the Depths

Mother Mary Clare
Accepting the problems of the spiritual life in the modern world as a challenge Mother Mary Clare, a leading spiritual director of the Anglican Church, discusses the nature and practice of prayer for the serious Christian, lay and clerical.

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£8.00

Prayer Too Deep for Words

Prayer Too Deep for Words

Sister Edmee SLG
In this short book Sister Edmée examines the importance of silence in a prayerful life, not only outward silence, but the need to achieve stillness within, and what this means in terms of our approach to God in prayer. She also examines a more...

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£5.50

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