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Monastic


Monastic Books

The Rule of Saint Benedict
The Name of the Rose
The Seven Storey Mountain
The Cloister Walk
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century (Penguin Classics)
How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life (Voices from the Monastery)
The Ladder of Monks
In This House of Brede
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)
Spiritual Friendship (Cistercian Fathers 5)
Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants
St. Benedict's Toolbox: The Nuts and Bolts of Everyday Benedictine Living
Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today
Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict
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A Time for Swords by Matthew HarffyIsland by David AlmondNaturalist on Lindisfarne by Richard PerryGrace Darling by Christine BellThe Magic of Holy Island by Henry Tegner
Lindisfarne, the Farne Islands, Northumbria (Northumberland, UK)
35 books — 4 voters
Mere by Danielle GilesNicked by M.T. AndersonAn Excellent Mystery by Ellis PetersThe Monk and the Banished Prince by Jaberona B.L.Road to Rome by Marina Pacheco
Queer Monastic Books
39 books — 1 voter

The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas MertonLiving For Higher Purpose by Peter G. VuThe American Pope by John CooneyEdmund Campion by Evelyn WaughA Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church by Rembert G. Weakland
Catholic Priests (nonfiction)
5 books — 2 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettWorld Without End by Ken FollettSacred Hearts by Sarah DunantPope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Monasteries and Convents
228 books — 65 voters

Quotes Tagged “Monastic”

“ My body kills me, so I kill it. ”
― Dorotheus the Theban
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Thomas Merton
“ By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ”
― Thomas Merton
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