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The Rule of Saint Benedict (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 8,509 ratings — published 530
The Seven Storey Mountain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 21,228 ratings — published 1948
The Cloister Walk (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,978 ratings — published 1996
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)
by (shelved 15 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,562 ratings — published 1975
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.31 — 267 ratings — published 1960
John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,089 ratings — published 600
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,296 ratings — published 2008
New Seeds of Contemplation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,400 ratings — published 1962
Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 691 ratings — published 1984
The Practice of the Presence of God (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 60,795 ratings — published 1692
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,653 ratings — published 2017
In This House of Brede (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,003 ratings — published 1969
The Life of St. Anthony (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,757 ratings — published 357
Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 180 ratings — published 1984
Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 646 ratings — published 357
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 401,553 ratings — published 1980
The Story of Monasticism: Retrieving an Ancient Tradition for Contemporary Spirituality (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 60 ratings — published 2015
John Cassian: Conferences (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 301 ratings — published 1950
Thoughts in Solitude (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,480 ratings — published 1956
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,525 ratings — published 1993
Desert Christians: An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.42 — 78 ratings — published 2004
The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,499 ratings — published 1976
Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 388 ratings — published 2007
Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.30 — 366 ratings — published 1996
The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.31 — 855 ratings — published 1992
A Time to Keep Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,988 ratings — published 1953
The Sign of Jonas (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 756 ratings — published 1953
An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 501 ratings — published 2006
A Time to Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.45 — 397 ratings — published 2018
Talking Back: A Monastic Handbook for Combating Demons (Volume 229) (Cistercian Studies Series)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 211 ratings — published 2009
The Monkhood of All Believers: The Monastic Foundation of Christian Spirituality (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 56 ratings — published
Domestic Monastery: Creating Spiritual Life at Home (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,498 ratings — published
In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 297 ratings — published 2018
No Man Is an Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,318 ratings — published 1955
Strangers to the City: Reflections on the Beliefs and Values of the Rule of St. Benedict (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.28 — 148 ratings — published 2005
Silence: A Christian History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.71 — 378 ratings — published 2013
The Benedictines in the Middle Ages (Monastic Orders, 3)
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avg rating 3.58 — 12 ratings — published 2011
The Monastery of the Heart: An Invitation to a Meaningful Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 371 ratings — published 2011
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 47,247 ratings — published 1995
The Lives of the Desert Fathers: The Historia Monachorum in Aegypto (Cistercian Studies No. 34)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 95 ratings — published 1980
The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.28 — 391 ratings — published 2011
The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,783 ratings — published 2001
How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life (Voices from the Monastery)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 244 ratings — published 2006
Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 668 ratings — published 2006
Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,264 ratings — published 1981
School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism (New Monastic Library: Resources for Radical Discipleship)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 147 ratings — published 2005
New Monasticism: What It Has to Say to Today's Church (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.74 — 382 ratings — published 2008
The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 433 ratings — published 1988
To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.23 — 60 ratings — published 1993
Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.42 — 11,733 ratings — published 2022
“[T]o the man who beseeches the Lord all things are given, not because we are worthy but because the Lord is merciful and loves us.”
― A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes
― A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes
“To practice as monks is to train ourselves in mindfulness and awakening, to first free ourselves from suffering and then to help others do the same.”
― My Master's Robe: Memories of a Novice Monk
― My Master's Robe: Memories of a Novice Monk
