After sixty years of living in a Cistercian community, Michael Casey combines his down-to-earth o...

This second volume on Eastern Christian spirituality amplifies in depth the final two chapters of...

Scripture brings the Word of God to us when we read and welcome it in faith as the Word which com...

The narrow stretch of desert between the Jordan Valley and the hill country of Judea drew great b...

Saint Bernard was born in 1090 near Dijon, France. He joined the fifteen-year-old monastery of Ci...

The sayings of the desert monks of the fifth and sixth centuries amaze, and startle, readers by t...

A commonly held impression is that Pope Francis is a compassionate shepherd and determined leader...

The psalms are at the very heart of monastic prayer. Recited seven times a day in the liturgy and...

Sebastian Brock is Reader in Syriac Studies in the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fello...

The distinctive prophetic quality of Thomas Merton's spirituality, shaped byfigures ranging from ...

Educated at the abbeys of Bonnevaux and Cluny and at the court of his kinsman, Conrad of Hohensta...

In completing the sermon-commentary begun by Bernard and continued by Gilbert of Hoyland, John 'e...