Monastic


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
My body kills me, so I kill it.
Dorotheus the Theban

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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