bookstore: vocational reading list

A list of recommended books about monastic life

Br. Isaac

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Bianco, Frank
Voices of Silence: Lives of Trappists Today (Bantam, Doubleday, 1992)

Casey, OCSO, Michael
A Guide to Living in the Truth (Liguori Press, 2001)
Sacred Reading (Liguori Press, 1996)
Toward God (Liguori Press, 1996)

Cummings, OCSO, Charles
Monastic Practices (Cistercian Publications, 1986)

Fry, OSB, Timothy, (ed)
RB 1980 (Liturgical Press, 1981)

Kardong, OSB, Terrence
Benedict's Rule (Liturgical Press, 1996)

Kline, OCSO, Francis
Lovers of the Place (Liturgical Press, 1997)

Latourrette, Br. Victor-Antoine D'Avila
A Monastic Year (Taylor Publishing Co., 1997)

Leclercq, OSB, Jean
Aspects of Monasticism (Cistercian Publications, 1978)
Bernard of Clairvaux and the Cistercian Spirit (ibid., 1976)
Cistercian Life (ibid., 1978)
Contemplative Life (ibid, 1978)

Lekai, SOC, Louis
The Cistercians (Kent State U.P., 1976)

Louf, OCSO, Andre
The Cistercian Way (Cistercian Publications, 1983)

Merton, OCSO, Thomas
Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality (Templegate, 1996)
Monastic Journey (Doubleday, 1978)
The Silent Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985)
The Waters of Siloe (Harcourt, 1979)

Nouwen, Henri
Genesee Diary (Doubleday, 1976)
Henri Nouwen : Writings Selected With an Introduction by Robert A. Jonas (Modern Spiritual Masters Series) (Orbis, 1998)

Pennington, OCSO, Basil
Cistercian Spirit (Cistercian Publications, 1970)
The Cistercians (Michael Glazier, 1992)
Rule and Life (Cistercian Publications, 1971)
St. Bernard of Clairvaux (ib., 1977)

Roberts, OCSO, Augustine
Centered On Christ (St. Bede's Publications, 1977)

Smith, OSB, Cyprian
The Path of Life (Morehouse Publishers, 1996)

Vandenbroucke, OSB, Francois
Why Monks? (Cistercian Publications, 1972)

Cistercian Publications publishes texts and studies in the monastic tradition. You may find many of these texts helpful to you in your understanding and appreciation of Cistercian history and spirituality.