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George Herbert's total dedication provides inspiration and encouragement to priests who desire to experience more deeply the holiness of their own priesthood.

'Across a seemingly unbridgeable culture gap these very human saints of the Egyptian wilderness speak to our condition in the new demon-filled deserts of the urban west' (Martin Smith SSJE).

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...

An Orthodox Christian and scholar shows how the great Protestant theologian and Karl Barth opens up an illuminating and fruitful approach to the unique role of Mary in becoming the Mother of God.

St Anselm (1033-1109) was the abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Bec in France before becoming Archbishop of Canterbury. This study discusses the relationship between his scholarship and life as a monk, showing how one flowed naturally from the...

Foreword By Donald Allchin This relatively recent Russian saint was born Prokhor Mochnin in 1759 in Kursk, on the northernmost Russian steppes. At 19, he entered a remote monastery and was given the name Seraphim (Hebrew for...

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.