Coenobium: Reflections on Monastic Community (Volume 64)

by Michael Casey Ocso

After sixty years of living in a Cistercian community, Michael Casey combines his down-to-earth observations about the joys and challenges of living in community with an appreciation of the deeper meanings of cenobitic life, taking into account the changes in both theory and practice that have occurred in his lifetime. He invites his readers, especially monks and nuns, to reflect on their own experiences of community as a means of seeing a path forward into the future.

Many of the key components of monastic community have kept the same names for more than a millennium. In an age of paradigm shift, Michael Casey invites readers to examine these essential practices of community life and to ask how they might be envisioned in a way that speaks to our contemporaries.

224 pages, Paperback

Published November 8, 2021

Reviews

[Ephrem Arcement · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fine work filled with monastic wisdom which comes only from living monastic life with great intention and thoughtfulness over many years...expressed in Casey's unique verve and insight.