Recommended Books About Monastic Life

Recommended Books About Monastic Life

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Bianco, Frank

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

Casey, OCSO, Michael

• The Road To Eternal Life (Litrugical Press, 2010)
  Line by line commentary on the Prologue of the Rule of St. Benedict
• Strangers to the City (Paraclete Press, 2005)
• 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)

Derkse, Wil, Oblate of St. Benedict

• A Blessed Life: Benedictine Guidelines for Those Who Long for Good Days (Liturgical Publications 2009)

Fry, OSB, Timothy, (ed)

• RB 1980(Liturgical Press, 1981)

Kardong, OSB, Terrence

• Benedict’s Rule (Liturgical Press, 1996)
• Conversation With St. Benedict  (Liturgical Press, 2012)

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)

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)

Roberts, OCSO, Augustine

• Centered On Christ(St. Bede’s Publications, 1977)